Home › United States Education and training: charities in United States Registered 183,963 charities
Total income $499.25bn latest returns
Median income $161k per charity
Top-10 share 15% of income
Overview United States has 183,963 registered charities working on education and training on the current register extract, of which 66,972 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported $499.25bn of income. The median charity took in $161k, while the largest tenth reported $5.7m or more, so a typical donation goes to a far smaller organisation than the household names at the top of this list.
Income is concentrated: the ten largest charities working on education and training account for 15% of the total. Across the whole group, 2,519 charities have a note from the register, such as overdue accounts or three years of spending above income, and those notes are shown on each charity's page.
26,237 of the charities with reported income (39%) took in under $100k a year. Pages for the 42,620 charities with several years of accounts include their full income history, a comparison with similar-sized peers and a breakdown of where the money comes from.
Largest by income # Charity Location Income 1 New York University New York, NY $10.48bn 2 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD $10.23bn 3 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA $9.93bn 4 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Redwood City, CA $8.47bn 5 Trustees of Columbia University New York, NY $6.65bn 6 Yale University New Haven, CT $6.32bn 7 Emory University Atlanta, GA $6.31bn 8 President and Fellows of Harvard College Cambridge, MA $6.05bn 9 University of Miami Coral Gables, FL $5.92bn 10 Cornell University Ithaca, NY $5.88bn 11 University of Rochester Rochester, NY $5.42bn 12 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA $5.12bn 13 Washington University St Louis, MO $5.09bn 14 Ecmc Group Inc Minneapolis, MN $5.04bn 15 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA $4.95bn 16 University of Chicago Chicago, IL $4.66bn 17 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY $4.16bn 18 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA $3.93bn 19 Duke University Durham, NC $3.75bn 20 Princeton University Princeton, NJ $3.61bn 21 Emory Atlanta, GA $3.51bn 22 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA $3.14bn 23 University of British Columbia Canada $2.60bn 24 University of Notre Dame du Lac Notre Dame, IN $2.59bn 25 Northeastern University Boston, MA $2.59bn 26 Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX $2.55bn 27 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN $2.27bn 28 Harvard Management Private Equity Corporation Boston, MA $2.02bn 29 Georgetown University Washington, DC $1.92bn 30 George Washington University Ashburn, VA $1.80bn 31 Syracuse University Syracuse, NY $1.74bn 32 Gothic Corporation Durham, NC $1.72bn 33 Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ $1.69bn 34 The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund New Orleans, LA $1.67bn 35 Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA $1.67bn 36 Trustees of Dartmouth College Hanover, NH $1.60bn 37 Liberty University Inc Lynchburg, VA $1.57bn 38 Temple University-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ Philadelphia, PA $1.54bn 39 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH $1.53bn 40 The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc Milwaukee, WI $1.49bn 41 Baylor University Waco, TX $1.45bn 42 Drexel University Philadelphia, PA $1.41bn 43 Research Foundation for the State University of New York Albany, NY $1.40bn 44 Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH $1.37bn 45 Boston College Trustees Chestnut Hill, MA $1.34bn 46 Trustees of Tufts College Medford, MA $1.34bn 47 City University Construction Fund New York, NY $1.31bn 48 Universite de Montreal Succursale a Quebec Canada $1.30bn 49 Howard University Washington, DC $1.27bn 50 Wake Forest University Health Sciences Winstonsalem, NC $1.22bn 51 St Louis University Saint Louis, MO $1.13bn 52 William Marsh Rice University Houston, TX $1.13bn 53 Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX $1.10bn 54 University of California San Francisco Foundation San Francisco, CA $1.09bn 55 Educational Testing Service Princeton, NJ $1.06bn 56 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY $1.04bn 57 Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX $1.04bn 58 Ohio State University Physicians Inc Columbus, OH $1.03bn 59 College Board New York, NY $1.02bn 60 Fordham University Bronx, NY $1.02bn
Charities by income band $under 10k 17th pct
4,168 charities
$10k-100k 91st pct
22,069 charities
$100k-1m 100th pct
24,335 charities
$1m-10m 49th pct
11,876 charities
$10m-100m 16th pct
3,866 charities
$100m+ 3rd pct
658 charities
Registrations by year 0 3,871 7,742 12k 15k 00 New registrations: $2,456 00 01 New registrations: $2,670 01 02 New registrations: $2,750 02 03 New registrations: $2,790 03 04 New registrations: $2,723 04 05 New registrations: $7,122 05 06 New registrations: $2,990 06 07 New registrations: $3,173 07 08 New registrations: $2,805 08 09 New registrations: $4,166 09 10 New registrations: $3,654 10 11 New registrations: $3,502 11 12 New registrations: $3,316 12 13 New registrations: $2,988 13 14 New registrations: $8,811 14 15 New registrations: $5,973 15 16 New registrations: $5,804 16 17 New registrations: $5,737 17 18 New registrations: $5,889 18 19 New registrations: $7,364 19 20 New registrations: $5,610 20 21 New registrations: $6,136 21 22 New registrations: $9,312 22 23 New registrations: $9,978 23 24 New registrations: $14,002 24 25 New registrations: $15,483 25 26 New registrations: $12,205 26 New registrations