Number of Active 501(c)(3) Charitable Organizations in Florida
(excluding most religious congregations), Circa 1992
Number Percent
Total Active 501(c)(3) Charitable Organizations (a) 20,088 100.0
Public Charities (b) 18,026 89.7
Nonreporting (c) 8,439 42.0
Reporting without financial data ("zero filers") (d) 3,384 16.8
Reporting with financial data (e) 6,203 30.9
Out of scope organizations (f) 6 0.0
* Reporting Public Charities 6,197 30.8
Operating 5,599 27.9
Mutual Benefit 15 0.1
Supporting 583 2.9
Private Foundations 2,062 10.3
Reporting without financial data (g) 69 0.3
* Reporting with financial data (e) 1,993 9.9
Grantmaking (h) 1,694 8.4
Zero Grants (h) 299 1.5
*Reporting Charitable Organizations (8190 organizations), referenced in Tables 3.10.2 and 3.10.3 of the State Nonprofit Almanac, equals Reporting Public Charities (6197) plus Private Foundations reporting with financial data (1993).

Sources: Stevenson, D., et al., State Nonprofit Almanac 1997: Profiles of Charitable Organizations, based on data from U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Annual Report and IRS Databooks, various editions.
U.S. Internal Revenue Service Exempt Organizations/Business Master File (EO/BMF), 1993 and Return Transaction File, 1993 (returns received in that calendar year) as classified according to the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) by the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) at INDEPENDENT SECTOR and the Urban Institute, and adjusted by NCCS. See Appendix A of the State Nonprofit Almanac for details.
Note: Reporting public charities include only organizations that both reported (filed IRS Form 990) and were required to do so. Organizations not required to report include religious congregations and organizations with less than $25,000 in gross receipts. The sum of the percentages may not equal due to rounding.
(a) State totals based on the total numbers of active 501(c)(3) organizations in the EO/BMF in 1993. See Appendix A of the State Nonprofit Almanac for details.
(b) Public charities are calculated by subtracting the numbers of private foundations from the estimated numbers of 501(c)(3) organizations.
(c) Nonreporting organizations are calculated by subtracting the reporting private foundations and public charities from the total numbers of active 501(c)(3) organizations.
(d) Returns of organizations that are not required to file. The IRS does not electronically input the financial information from these groups.
(e) Returns of organizations that are required to file and report positive dollar amounts for either public support, total expenses, or total assets.
(f) Foreign and government-associated organizations, and organizations without state identifiers.
(g) Form 990-PF returns of organizations that have zero or missing values for contributions, total expenses and total assets.
(h) Grantmaking private foundations include operating foundations that give grants; "zero grants" include private foundations that reported no grants in the 1993 processing year.