Nonprofit Organization Management North America July 2025
~700k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~90
Organizations
These insights represent ~700k questions answered from ~90 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
Reported gender breakdown
Female
60%
Male
39%
Non-Binary
0.9%
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.
70% of Nonprofit Organization Management North America employees are engaged
This is in the top 49% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 11 and is in the bottom 40% compared with the overall average.
How does Nonprofit Organization Management North America compare?
People in Nonprofit Organization Management North America were much more positive than average regarding Diversity and Social Connection.
On the lower side, people in Nonprofit Organization Management North America had much lower favorable scores than average in Decision Making, Equity, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Nonprofit Organization Management North America are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Nonprofit Organization Management North America are less engaged than Biotechnology & Medical Devices, Individual & Family Services, Creative & Media (0-100), and Insurance.
The highest scoring question for Nonprofit Organization Management North America had 94% of people agreeing that they understand how their work contributes to %[Company]%'s mission (+4% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Nonprofit Organization Management North America 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 26% 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 Nonprofit Organization Management North America organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 Day-to-day decisions here demonstrate that quality and improvement are top priorities | Service & Quality Focus |
3 I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me | Alignment & Involvement |
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, 10% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+0% 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
8%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
27%
4 to less than 6 years
9%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
16%