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- Approximately 1.4 million nonprofit organizations are registered with the Internal Revenue Service. The nonprofit sector mainly comprises small organizations, with 61 percent reporting less than $250,000 in revenues.
Read more factsNonprofits—including public charities, private foundations, and other organizations accounted for 5.2 percent of GDP and 8.3 percent of the wages and salaries paid in the United States. - Seventy percent of nonprofit employees are women.
Read more facts - Although 40 percent of nonprofits focus on economically disadvantaged people (who represent at least half their clients), few nonprofits serve that proportion of ethnic and racial populations.
Read more facts - In many small rural communities, healthcare and social services are major economic engines. On average, between 10 and 15 percent of the jobs (and income) in a community of 15,000 people depend on the healthcare sector. In fact, in 2006, community health centers generated more than $12 billion in economic benefits for local communities.
Read more facts - More than 92 percent of community health center patients are low-income individuals—meaning their incomes are below 200 percent of the poverty line—and 64 percent of patients are from minority communities.
Read more facts - Nearly 13 million American children live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level, which is $20,650 a year for a family of four. The number of children living in poverty increased by 11 percent between 2000 and 2006.
Read more facts - Two-thirds of working poor families headed by single mothers spent at least 40 percent of their cash income on child care.
Read more facts - Families receiving government child care subsidies were significantly less likely to return to welfare than were families without subsidized child care; about 15 percent with subsidies returned to welfare compared with about 25 percent without subsidies.
Read more facts - High-quality early care and education programs save more than seven dollars for every one dollar invested in future costs on welfare, juvenile justice, and special education.
Read more facts - Since 1997, the number of charter schools in the U.S. has increased almost six fold and the number of charter students has more than doubled since 1999, to more than 4,000 schools serving more than 1.2 million students nationwide.
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