Non Profits 1000+ July 2025
~2m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~40
Organizations
These insights represent ~2m questions answered from ~40 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 Safety, Public Policy
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Europe
31%
Northern America
28%
Oceania
27%
Asia
10%
Latin America
2%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
64%
Male
35%
Non-Binary
0.59%
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+ employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 40% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 9 and is in the bottom 13% compared with other industries.
How does Non Profits 1000+ compare?
On the lower side, people in Non Profits 1000+ had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Leadership.
People working in Non Profits 1000+ are less engaged than B Corp, Farming, Healthcare, and Hospital & Health Care.
The highest scoring question for Non Profits 1000+ had 86% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (-1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Non Profits 1000+ 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 25% of people disagreeing (+9% 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+ organizations.
1 I believe there are good career opportunities for me at %[Company]% | Learning & Development |
2 We have enough autonomy to perform our jobs effectively | Enablement |
3 Workloads are divided fairly among people where I work | Teamwork & Ownership |
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
9%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
19%