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Source: Center for Effective Philanthropy, State of Nonprofits 2026: What Funders Need to Know.

Method: I recreated the report's fiscal-year budget-status trend as a simplified chart for Reddit. The chart shows the share of surveyed nonprofits reporting a budget deficit for fiscal years 2022 through 2025. CEP's 2026 report is based on survey responses from 380 U.S. nonprofit CEOs in its Nonprofit Voice Project, a panel of nonprofits receiving at least some foundation funding.

Context: Crowded Banking has a financial platform for nonprofits, subaccount & compliance platform, and this is the kind of pressure nonprofit treasurers and leaders are dealing with: tighter funding, harder reporting, and less room for messy financial systems. No Crowded customer data was used.

Privacy note: No personal data, customer data, Crowded Banking product data, or Reddit user data was used.

Tools: HTML, CSS, Python, and Playwright.

Full methodology and source notes:

https://cep.org/report-backpacks/state-of-nonprofits-2026/

Related nonprofit finance discussion w/Crowded Banking:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonProfitFinance/

Source: IRS 2024 SOI extracts for Form 990, 990-EZ, and 990-PF filers, matched to IRS BMF state records.

Method: I grouped filers by IRS record state, ranked organizations in each state by reported revenue, and calculated what share of that state's total reported nonprofit revenue came from the 10 largest filers.

Important limitation: State means the organization's IRS record state, not necessarily where all services happen. Revenue also does not mean profit, cash on hand, or charitable spending.

Why I made it: I work on nonprofit finance at Crowded, and we were looking at how different the nonprofit sector can look from state to state. People often picture small local charities, but in some states the reported revenue is heavily concentrated in a few large hospitals, universities, foundations, or health systems.

Crowded: bankingcrowded.com

Related subreddit: r/NonProfitFinance

No Crowded customer or product data was used for this chart.