Non Profits January 2026
~4m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~400
Organizations
These insights represent ~4m questions answered from ~400 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 2025.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Nonprofit Organization Management, Civic & Social Organization, Philanthropy, Fund-Raising, Public Safety
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
40%
Oceania
31%
Europe
23%
MEA
3%
Asia
3%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
67%
Male
32%
Non-Binary
0.65%
Are employees committed to their organizations?
Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.
69% of Non Profits employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 50% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 13 and is in the bottom 34% compared with other industries.
How does Non Profits compare?
People in Non Profits were much more positive than average regarding Social Connection, Support Resources, and Coaching.
On the lower side, people in Non Profits had much lower favorable scores than average in Decision Making, Wellbeing Culture, and Managing Energy.
People working in Non Profits are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Non Profits are less engaged than Biotechnology, Renewables & Environment, Financial Services, and Legal.
The highest scoring question for Non Profits had 98% of people agreeing that The work that they do at %[Company]% is important (+5% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Non Profits were generally least favourable about Decision Making, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 22% of people disagreeing (+5% above average).
Which questions matter the most?
Different things are important to different cultures. If you want to make more of your people engaged then you need to know what is important your people. These questions are most important to keeping people engaged in Non Profits organizations.
1 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
2 The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me | Leadership |
3 Day-to-day decisions here demonstrate that quality and improvement are top priorities | Service & Quality Focus |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 23% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+3% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 12% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+2% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
3%
3 months to 6 months
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
24%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
16%