Benchmarks

Benchmarks for the Chicago metro nonprofit sector — registered organizations, sector revenue, MacArthur and Joyce Foundation concentrations, IL Attorney General registration counts, audit thresholds, and gala fundraising patterns drawn from IRS BMF, NCCS, and IL AG data.

Benchmarks for the Houston metro nonprofit sector — registered organizations, sector revenue, oil and gas corporate giving, disaster recovery funding flow, United Way of Greater Houston as anchor, and Houston Endowment's outsized role.

Benchmarks for the Los Angeles County nonprofit sector — registered organizations, sector revenue, homelessness service spending growth, Measure H allocation, foundation density, RRF-1 compliance, and entertainment philanthropy patterns.

Benchmarks for the New York City nonprofit sector — registered organizations, total revenue, employment, government contract dependency, audit thresholds, and donor retention drawn from IRS BMF, NCCS, NY Charities Bureau, and city budget documents.

Benchmarks for the Washington DC metro nonprofit sector — registered organizations, federal pass-through dependency, policy and advocacy nonprofit concentration, Combined Federal Campaign giving, and per-capita nonprofit density drawn from IRS BMF, NCCS, and DC government sources.

Donor retention benchmarks from AFP Fundraising Effectiveness Project data — overall rates, first-year vs. multi-year retention, retention by gift size, recapture rates, and the financial health implications.

Grant compliance benchmarks from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse and sector research — finding frequencies, disallowance amounts, repeat rates, and the correlation between compliance staffing and audit outcomes.

Benchmarks for grant revenue composition in 2026 — government vs. foundation vs. corporate grant mix, concentration risk thresholds, average grant sizes, renewal rates, and win rates by funder type.

Adoption rates, median costs, switching triggers, and audit outcomes for nonprofit accounting software — drawn from sector research and Federal Audit Clearinghouse data.

Single Audit and Yellow Book audit benchmarks from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse — findings rates, most common finding categories, remediation costs, and repeat finding rates for nonprofits.

CRM adoption rates, satisfaction scores, switching patterns, and data quality benchmarks for nonprofits — from NTEN Technology Survey and sector research.

Data-backed benchmarks for nonprofit financial health in 2026 — operating reserve levels, days cash on hand, structural deficit rates, and unrestricted net asset ratios by budget size.

Overhead rate benchmarks for nonprofits in 2026 — sector averages, what charity watchdog thresholds actually measure, the 2 CFR 200.414 de minimis 10% indirect cost rate, and why very low overhead often signals compliance risk.