Nonprofit Organization Management July 2025
~3m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~200
Organizations
These insights represent ~3m questions answered from ~200 organizations, collected between January 2024 and December 2024.
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
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
33%
Oceania
29%
Europe
25%
Asia
9%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
66%
Male
33%
Non-Binary
0.54%
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 Nonprofit Organization Management employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 48% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 12 and is in the bottom 24% compared with other industries.
How does Nonprofit Organization Management compare?
People in Nonprofit Organization Management were much more positive than average regarding Support Resources, Social Connection, and Purpose.
On the lower side, people in Nonprofit Organization Management had much lower favorable scores than average in Decision Making, Work Pressure, and Equity.
People working in Nonprofit Organization Management are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, and Government. People working in Nonprofit Organization Management are less engaged than Architecture & Planning, Renewables & Environment, Finance, and Legal.
The highest scoring question for Nonprofit Organization Management 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 Nonprofit Organization Management 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 Nonprofit Organization Management organizations.
1 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
2 The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me | Leadership |
3 %[Company]%'s commitment to social responsibility (e.g. community support, sustainability, etc.) is genuine | Social Connection |
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
4%
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
17%