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Nonprofits in Missouri

The IRS recognises 44,007 tax-exempt organizations with a Missouri address, rank 15 of 51. 3,468 of them have a Form 990 on record.

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At a glance

44,007
Organizations recognised
Registration, not activity.
35,065
Recognised under 501(c)(3)
The charitable subsection.
3,468
With a Form 990 on record
The only organizations with financial figures here.
704.6
Per 100,000 residents
Census resident population as the denominator.
$116,359,587,575
Revenue reported
Summed across filings, each for a different year.
2.2%
Share of all US organizations
Of 1,964,958 recognised nationally.

Taken from the IRS on September 19, 2026. Address of record, which is not necessarily where an organization operates.

Largest by revenue

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Organizations in Missouri by total revenue on their most recent Form 990
RankOrganizationRevenue
1BJC HEALTH SYSTEM$11,251,316,536
2GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC$6,100,727,459
3WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$5,086,312,965
4ASCENSION SETON$3,006,403,037
5CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL$2,340,991,656
6SSM HEALTH CARE ST LOUIS$2,192,307,272
7ASCENSION HEALTH ALLIANCE$2,174,612,908
8BJC HEALTH SYSTEM$2,042,365,571
9MERCY HOSPITALS EAST COMMUNITIES$1,974,869,337
10LESTER E COX MEDICAL CENTER$1,960,936,555
11ST VINCENT HOSPITAL & HEALTH CARE$1,655,182,680
12MHM SUPPORT SERVICES$1,540,453,031
13SACRED HEART HEALTH SYSTEM INC$1,503,789,808
14MERCY HOSPITAL SPRINGFIELD$1,453,548,711
15SSM HEALTH CARE CORPORATION$1,391,036,296

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 Missouri by assets
RankOrganizationAssets
1ASCENSION HEALTH ALLIANCE$25,494,056,258
2WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$19,792,327,000
3BJC HEALTH SYSTEM$7,979,787,501
4BJC HEALTH SYSTEM$7,792,451,740
5SSM HEALTH CARE CORPORATION$7,018,706,101
6CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL$3,795,083,283
7ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY$3,052,408,787
8ASCENSION SETON$2,796,248,403
9GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC$2,549,548,290
10EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION$2,451,963,935

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

Highest reported compensation

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Organizations in Missouri by reported compensation
RankOrganizationReported compensation
1BJC HEALTH SYSTEM$28,652,435
2ASCENSION CARE MANAGEMENT INSURANCE HOLDINGS$14,086,474
3ASCENSION HEALTH-IS INC$12,281,151
4ASCENSION HEALTH ALLIANCE$9,118,708
5MERCY HOSPITALS EAST COMMUNITIES$8,335,401
6SSM HEALTH CARE CORPORATION$7,886,813
7SSM HEALTH CARE ST LOUIS$7,886,813
8ST LUKES HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY$7,812,283
9WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$7,138,082
10MHM SUPPORT SERVICES$5,580,954

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

What they do

Organizations in Missouri by NTEE major group
CategoryOrganizations
Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations482
Human Services383
Health Care339
Education287
Arts, Culture and Humanities106
Community Improvement and Capacity Building93
Religion-Related74
Employment70
Housing and Shelter70
Recreation and Sports59

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

States either side of Missouri by number of organizations
RankStateOrganizations
14Massachusetts44,035
16Maryland43,659

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

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

  • Payments to doctorsHealth

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

  • The Missouri Factbook entryAcross 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 hub has no page for a state: CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography, so assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.

Compared with Maryland.

Full rankings: largest by revenue, largest by assets, and largest grantmakers, and highest reported officer compensation. 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

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