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Nonprofits in California

The IRS recognizes 203,805 tax-exempt organizations with a California address, rank 1 of 51. 80,977 of them have a Form 990 on record.

California · 203,805Alaska · 5,878

California is 1 of 51 by tax-exempt organizations, at 203,805. Highest on the left.

The 51 figures behind this strip
Every jurisdiction by tax-exempt organizations, highest first, with California marked
RankNameTax-exempt organizations
1California203,805
2Texas155,577
3New York125,130
4Florida114,851
5Pennsylvania82,237
6Ohio77,494
7Illinois75,114
8Georgia62,701
9North Carolina59,487
10Michigan56,832
11Virginia54,568
12New Jersey53,855
13Indiana44,650
14Missouri44,280
15Massachusetts44,202
16Maryland43,818
17Washington42,812
18Minnesota40,399
19Wisconsin39,461
20Tennessee39,235
21Colorado36,502
22South Carolina32,575
23Arizona31,700
24Iowa30,339
25Oregon27,028
26Alabama26,440
27Louisiana24,098
28Connecticut23,749
29Kentucky22,861
30Oklahoma22,534
31Kansas18,568
32Arkansas16,404
33Mississippi15,898
34Nebraska14,915
35District of Columbia14,200
36Nevada13,586
37Utah13,160
38Montana12,397
39West Virginia11,851
40New Mexico11,324
41Idaho10,569
42Delaware10,529
43Maine10,385
44Hawaii9,679
45New Hampshire9,562
46South Dakota7,469
47North Dakota6,823
48Rhode Island6,675
49Vermont6,606
50Wyoming6,159
51Alaska5,878

At a glance

203,805
Organizations recognized
Registration, not activity.
178,431
Recognized under 501(c)(3)
The charitable subsection.
80,977
With a Form 990 on record
The only organizations with financial figures here.
517.9
Per 100,000 residents
Census resident population as the denominator.
$597.0 billion
Revenue reported
$596,993,547,118
Summed across filings, each for a different year.
10.3%
Share of all US organizations
Of 1,975,975 recognized nationally.

Taken from the IRS on October 14, 2026. Address of record, which is not necessarily where an organization operates.

Largest by revenue

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Organizations in California by total revenue on their most recent Form 990
RankOrganizationRevenue
1Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc$82.5 billion
2Kaiser Foundation Hospitals$38.2 billion
3Dignity Health$11.6 billion
4The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University$10.2 billion
5Stanford Health Care 227$8.7 billion
6Delta Dental of California$6.3 billion
7Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid Atlantic States Inc$6.0 billion
8JEN-HSUN & Lori Huang Foundation$5.9 billion
9University of Southern California$5.9 billion
10Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$5.9 billion
11Sutter Bay Hospitals$5.6 billion
12Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest$5.4 billion
13Sutter Valley Hospitals$5.1 billion
14Scripps Health$5.1 billion
15Scan Health Plan$5.0 billion

The fifteen largest with a filing on record. Organizations without one are counted above but have no figures to rank.

Largest by assets

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Organizations in California by assets
RankOrganizationAssets
1Kaiser Foundation Hospitals$87.4 billion
2The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University$68.7 billion
3Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc$33.5 billion
4Dignity Health$22.8 billion
5The Golden 1 Credit Union$19.6 billion
6University of Southern California$17.0 billion
7William & Flora Hewlett Foundation$14.2 billion
8J Paul Getty Trust$13.9 billion
9Stanford Health Care 227$13.6 billion
10Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$13.2 billion

Book value at the end of the year, which is what all three forms report.

Highest reported compensation

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Organizations in California by reported compensation
RankOrganizationReported compensation
1San Diego County Credit Union$18.9 million
2KP Medical Foundation$14.3 million
3Dignity Health$14.2 million
4Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc$13.0 million
5Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado$13.0 million
6Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid Atlantic States Inc$13.0 million
7Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest$13.0 million
8Kaiser Foundation Hospitals$13.0 million
9Sutter Health$11.9 million
10University of Southern California$11.8 million

The largest amount an organization here reported paying one person, as reported.

What they do

Organizations the IRS never classified do not appear here. A code is assigned at registration and rarely updated, so it describes what an organization said it would do.

Nearest by count

California and the states either side of it by number of organizations
RankStateOrganizations
1California203,805
2Texas155,577

California elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crime Crime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Most dangerous cities in California Crime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison population Crime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and age Crime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crime Crime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligations Federal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Payments to doctors Health

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Immigration courts Immigration and the border

    The EOIR courts sitting in the state, what they completed and still have pending, and how far apart their asylum grant rates are. The courts, not the state’s residents: a detention court hears cases from far outside it.

  • Farm program payments Farm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loans PPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • Population, age, income and origin Demographics

    The Census Bureau's population estimates year by year, with births, deaths and migration, and age, income, poverty, housing and origin from the American Community Survey, each with its margin of error.

  • Public schools Schools

    Pupils, schools and teachers, the largest districts, what districts spend per pupil and where the money comes from, and the colleges that take federal student aid.

  • Banks and credit unions Banks and credit unions

    The FDIC-insured banks headquartered in the state and their offices, and the credit unions based there and their sites, each per resident and against every other state.

  • Housing Housing

    The homes under HUD’s rental assistance programs in the state, by program and county, and its tax-credit housing, each per resident and against every other state.

  • Mortgage lending Mortgage lending

    The mortgage applications, loans and denials lenders reported in the state under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, and its largest lenders and counties.

  • Cost of living Cost of living

    BEA’s price level for the state against the nation, for goods, rents, utilities and other services, and its metro areas beside it.

  • County health County health

    CDC’s model-based estimates of adult health, risk behaviors and prevention for every county in the state, each with its 95% interval.

  • College athletics Sports

    Every college in the state that reported to the Equity in Athletics survey, ranked by its athletics revenue, with its expenses, athletes and athletic aid.

  • Federal civilian workforce Federal salaries

    Federal civilian employees stationed in the state by agency and occupation, with the pay OPM publishes and the share it withholds.

  • The California Factbook entry Across the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.

Compared with Texas.

Full rankings: largest by revenue, largest by assets, largest grantmakers, and highest reported nonprofit pay. All organizations: nonprofits.

What this page cannot show

  • The state is the organization’s address of record with the IRS. A national charity registered here operates elsewhere too.
  • Churches need not apply for recognition, so they are under-represented, and the ones here are those that chose to apply.
  • Financial figures exist only for organizations with a Form 990 on record, and each describes whichever year that organization last reported.

Full method at methodology.

Sources

Compiled automatically from Exempt Organizations Business Master File and Form 990 series e-file data by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved