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Non Profits (200-500) July 2025

  • ~770k

    Questions answered
    over 12 months

  • ~95

    Organizations

These insights represent ~770k questions answered from ~95 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, Philanthropy, Public Safety, Libraries, Public Policy

Most represented regions in this benchmark

  • Northern America

    45%

  • Oceania

    38%

  • Europe

    7%

  • Asia

    6%

  • MEA

    3%

Reported gender breakdown

  • Female

    69%

  • Male

    31%

  • Non-Binary

    0.24%

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.

68% of Non Profits (200-500) employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 47% compared with other industries.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 12 and is in the bottom 27% compared with other industries.

How does Non Profits (200-500) compare?

People in Non Profits (200-500) were much more positive than average regarding Social Connection.


On the lower side, people in Non Profits (200-500) had much lower favorable scores than average in Overall Industries (Global) Wellbeing, Equity, and Feedback & Recognition.

People working in Non Profits (200-500) are more engaged than Government Administration and Higher Education. People working in Non Profits (200-500) are less engaged than Architecture & Planning, Renewables & Environment, Finance, and Legal.

The highest scoring question for Non Profits (200-500) had 91% of people agreeing that they understand how their work contributes to %[Company]%'s mission (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.


People in Non Profits (200-500) 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 23% of people disagreeing (+7% 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 (200-500) organizations.

1

The products and services %[Company]% provides are as good as, or better than, our main competitors

Company Performance
2

%[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development

Learning & Development
3

The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me

Leadership

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, 11% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+1% 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

    10%

  • 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%

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