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Non Profits Europe January 2026

  • ~615k

    Questions answered
    over 12 months

  • ~60

    Organizations

These insights represent ~615k questions answered from ~60 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

Reported gender breakdown

  • Female

    59%

  • Male

    40%

  • Non-Binary

    0.66%

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.

64% of Non Profits Europe employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 35% compared with the overall average.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 0 and is in the bottom 12% compared with the overall average.

How does Non Profits Europe compare?

People in Non Profits Europe were much more positive than average regarding Social Connection.


On the lower side, people in Non Profits Europe had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Feedback & Recognition, and Action.

People working in Non Profits Europe are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Non Profits Europe are less engaged than Technology, Science, Research Europe, New Tech Ireland, Creative & Media Oceania, and New Tech Japan.

The highest scoring question for Non Profits Europe had 89% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.


People in Non Profits Europe were generally least favourable about Equity, 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 Europe organizations.

1

The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success

Leadership
2

%[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals

Company Performance
3

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

Learning & Development

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 32% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+12% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 18% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+8% 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

    0.83%

  • 3 months to 6 months

    2%

  • 6 months to less than 1 year

    4%

  • 1 to less than 2 years

    14%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    24%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    11%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    17%

  • Greater than 10 years

    27%

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