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Re:$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year by Retric on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:57PM (#47292756)
> Why are hospitals and universities lumped in with the food bank in the first place for instance?

Ask the IRS / congress, this isn’t some arbitrary grouping it’s what charity means in the US.

I do think it’s worth asking that question, but ask it of the people who can do something about it.

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Re:$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year by bilbo0s on Saturday March 07, 2026 @08:16PM (#47293316)
The people claiming to be making sense of charities are the people who are supposed to be teasing that data out.
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Re:$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year by Retric on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:07AM (#47294965)
If you’re making sense of something you need to include everything in that category.

It’s perfectly reasonable to create different subdivisions / buckets based your own definitions or NTEE code etc, but all those sub categories combined must add up to the same thing as how charities are defined.

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