U.S. reporting public charities: expenses 2016

This statistic displays the expenses of reporting public charities in the United States from 1998 to 2016. In 2016, the expenses of reporting public charities amounted to about 1.94 trillion U.S. dollars.

Expenses of reporting public charities in the U.S. from 1998 to 2016 (in trillion U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Expenses in trillion U.S. dollars
2016	1.94
2015	1.84
2014	1.74
2013	1.62
2012	1.56
2011	1.5
2010	1.45
2009	1.4
2008	1.34
2007	1.25
2006	1.17
2005	1.08
2004	1
2003	0.94
2002	0.88
2001	0.81
2000	0.75
1999	0.73
1998	0.7

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Release date

June 2020

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Region

United States

Survey time period

1998 to 2016

Supplementary notes

Data for previous years can be found here.

Reporting public charities include only organizations that both reported (filed IRS Forms 990) and were required to do so. The following were excluded: foreign organizations, government-associated organizations, and organizations without state identifiers.

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