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West Virginia and New Mexico

West Virginia has 865 tax-exempt organizations recognized by the IRS and New Mexico has 902. Side by side, with a per-resident figure for the measures where population is the thing that differs.

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Tax-exempt organizations in West Virginia and New Mexico
MeasureWest VirginiaNew Mexico
Organizations recognized865902
Recognized under 501(c)(3)732751
With a Form 990 on record848885
Private foundations9077
Organizations per 100,000 residents48.942.3
Revenue reported$19,769,293,314$10,515,646,378
Revenue per resident$11,169$4,936
Grants paid$435,718,160$476,850,714

Neither column is better. A state with more organizations per resident has more registered nonprofits per head, which may reflect population size, the presence of a large city, or how many small organizations bothered to register — the data cannot separate those.

What makes these two hard to compare

  • The state is an organization’s address of record. A national charity headquartered in one state operates in all of them, and its revenue is counted where its mail goes.
  • Revenue totals sum filings from different years, because organizations report on their own fiscal years. A state total is not a figure for any one year.
  • 2024 Census resident population is the denominator for the per-resident rows. It counts people who live there, not people the organizations serve.
  • Churches need not apply for recognition, so states differ partly in how many churches chose to apply.

These states elsewhere

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