New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, and Minneapolis are the top five cities in the US ranked by nonprofit assets. The larger cities and adjacent towns/suburbs often contain a majority of the nonprofits and nonprofit assets within an entire state as is the case with New York, Seattle, and Boston.
The table below lists the top twenty-five cities in the US ranked by nonprofit assets. You can click on the column headers to sort the data or use the filter box to quickly find a city. Click on any row to view and download the list of nonprofit organizations located in that city.
City searches are a quick way to focus in on a local community, if you are interested in volunteering, giving or receiving charitable aid, fundraising, searching for nonprofit jobs, or doing any kind of nonprofit research at the local level. This can be a good starting point and then if needed broaden your search out to the county, metro, or state level.
| Rank # | City | State | Total Assets | Total Income | Organization Count | Highest Asset Amount | Highest Income Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | New York | $543,194,331,727 | $312,529,946,723 | 41,392 | $23,551,142,933 | $14,309,564,091 |
| 2 | Boston | Massachusetts | $221,563,096,866 | $96,794,718,370 | 11,527 | $56,657,940,564 | $26,954,052,170 |
| 3 | Seattle | Washington | $204,252,507,638 | $323,183,019,151 | 12,570 | $68,907,954,709 | $269,229,808,035 |
| 4 | Chicago | Illinois | $185,414,097,940 | $188,866,382,908 | 37,436 | $18,739,008,483 | $90,720,805,501 |
| 5 | Minneapolis | Minnesota | $175,570,547,868 | $84,676,673,296 | 13,955 | $107,958,225,885 | $23,562,679,701 |
| 6 | Washington | District Of Columbia | $161,228,921,000 | $130,462,848,564 | 27,199 | $11,345,377,448 | $32,853,758,689 |
| 7 | San Diego | California | $133,603,664,821 | $80,916,210,033 | 12,037 | $70,169,024,068 | $50,091,105,952 |
| 8 | Los Angeles | California | $131,784,106,742 | $58,990,716,022 | 24,951 | $13,778,469,076 | $5,122,950,810 |
| 9 | Saint Louis | Missouri | $125,540,467,108 | $81,896,039,393 | 15,744 | $25,494,056,258 | $12,288,114,373 |
| 10 | Indianapolis | Indiana | $125,416,118,570 | $48,915,796,209 | 13,651 | $62,180,012,552 | $8,249,915,957 |
| 11 | San Francisco | California | $122,983,658,568 | $81,704,848,455 | 12,479 | $17,260,368,108 | $18,809,592,615 |
| 12 | Cambridge | Massachusetts | $122,523,915,333 | $28,920,847,968 | 2,473 | $70,647,595,000 | $13,028,302,424 |
| 13 | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | $122,254,340,848 | $80,578,355,125 | 17,221 | $32,928,091,000 | $26,414,058,536 |
| 14 | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | $115,503,998,044 | $80,123,454,705 | 16,743 | $12,455,585,375 | $23,555,022,899 |
| 15 | Dallas | Texas | $105,642,863,352 | $56,065,290,614 | 20,349 | $8,993,803,535 | $5,774,669,616 |
| 16 | Houston | Texas | $102,037,418,085 | $53,214,603,379 | 26,710 | $12,081,212,202 | $7,581,409,425 |
| 17 | Atlanta | Georgia | $98,720,236,904 | $54,692,683,302 | 18,313 | $7,940,918,104 | $6,841,156,789 |
| 18 | Detroit | Michigan | $85,467,569,332 | $29,192,471,854 | 9,382 | $62,366,524,500 | $4,549,856,745 |
| 19 | Omaha | Nebraska | $80,075,187,574 | $20,440,728,195 | 5,738 | $37,595,660,513 | $2,547,367,021 |
| 20 | Stanford | California | $72,846,788,798 | $30,967,528,621 | 157 | $61,810,855,396 | $23,780,883,880 |
| 21 | Raleigh | North Carolina | $69,358,886,501 | $14,225,409,515 | 7,006 | $49,625,413,489 | $2,319,573,931 |
| 22 | New Haven | Connecticut | $68,585,861,397 | $22,238,350,382 | 2,008 | $54,308,947,172 | $12,451,528,538 |
| 23 | Cincinnati | Ohio | $67,584,001,388 | $36,645,529,782 | 10,485 | $12,142,776,094 | $8,211,838,521 |
| 24 | Princeton | New Jersey | $65,040,083,516 | $16,768,606,181 | 1,900 | $41,548,353,000 | $5,127,663,093 |
| 25 | Baltimore | Maryland | $64,632,730,477 | $45,370,687,715 | 8,943 | $20,221,981,000 | $20,653,821,000 |