April 17, 2003
Tax-Exempt Organizations Registered With the IRS
More than 900,000 charities and private foundations were registered with the Internal Revenue Service as of September 30, 2002, according to figures just released by the tax agency. That is a 76-percent increase in the number of charities in a decade. In 1992, 516,554 charitable organizations were registered with the IRS.
The growth in recent years has been fairly consistent.
In 2002, 909,574 charitable organizations, including 93,853 private foundations, were registered with
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