Bars over time
Revenue and Spending of U.S. Public Charities
Total revenue and expenses of 501(c)(3) charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ, by tax year, $
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Palanor calculation from IRS Form 990 and 990-EZ e-file returns (public domain). Money passed from one charity to another counts at each step; hospitals and universities are a large part of the total. Tax year 2021 is left out: a large share of its returns is missing from the IRS's public e-file release.
The size of America's nonprofit economy, from the returns charities file with the IRS.
What this chart reads
- Public Charity Revenue (U.S., Annual)as “Revenue”latest 2024-12-31
- Public Charity Expenses (U.S., Annual)as “Expenses”latest 2024-12-31
Sources
Public Charity Revenue (U.S., Annual). Source: IRS Form 990 series e-file returns (Forms 990 and 990-EZ) and the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File (NTEE codes), tax years 2020 on, read and totalled by Palanor. U.S. Government work, public domain. Source: Internal Revenue Service.
Public Charity Expenses (U.S., Annual). Source: IRS Form 990 series e-file returns (Forms 990 and 990-EZ) and the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File (NTEE codes), tax years 2020 on, read and totalled by Palanor. U.S. Government work, public domain. Source: Internal Revenue Service.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.