Non Profits (1000-5000) July 2025
~1.1m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~35
Organizations
These insights represent ~1.1m questions answered from ~35 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 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, Fund-Raising, Public Policy, Public Safety
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Oceania
48%
Europe
26%
Northern America
25%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
69%
Male
31%
Non-Binary
0.62%
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.
67% of Non Profits (1000-5000) employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 43% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 9 and is in the bottom 14% compared with other industries.
How does Non Profits (1000-5000) compare?
On the lower side, people in Non Profits (1000-5000) had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Leadership.
People working in Non Profits (1000-5000) are less engaged than Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, Construction & Heavy Industry, Medical Devices, and Tech: Manufacturing & Research.
The highest scoring question for Non Profits (1000-5000) had 86% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Non Profits (1000-5000) were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 24% of people disagreeing (+8% 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 (1000-5000) organizations.
1 %[Company]%'s commitment to social responsibility (e.g. community support, sustainability, etc.) is genuine | Social Connection |
2 Workloads are divided fairly among people where I work | Teamwork & Ownership |
3 I believe there are good career opportunities for me at %[Company]% | Learning & Development |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 24% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+4% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 13% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+3% 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
6%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
21%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
21%