Non Profits United States July 2025
~1m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~200
Organizations
These insights represent ~1m questions answered from ~200 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 Policy, Public Safety, Fund-Raising
Reported gender breakdown
Female
63%
Male
36%
Non-Binary
0.82%
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 Non Profits United States employees are engaged
This is in the top 50% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 10 and is in the bottom 38% compared with the overall average.
How does Non Profits United States compare?
People in Non Profits United States were much more positive than average regarding Social Connection and Contribution To Broader Purpose.
On the lower side, people in Non Profits United States had much lower favorable scores than average in Decision Making, Equity, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Non Profits United States are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Non Profits United States are less engaged than New Tech Middle East, New Tech (0-100), Southeast Asia, and Middle East & Africa.
The highest scoring question for Non Profits United States had 97% of people agreeing that The work that they do at %[Company]% is important (+4% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Non Profits United States 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 27% of people disagreeing (+10% 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 United States organizations.
1 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
2 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
3 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 25% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+5% 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
3%
3 months to 6 months
7%
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
10%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
18%