I think for the purposes of this comparison, non-profit and charity are probably not interchangeable, in the sense that a marginal donor with 5K to spend is almost certainly not going to donate that to Kaiser Permanente (although $1M does get you naming rights at a smaller chain!). So I guess whatever we’re defining the average charity as, the distribution should probably exclude these big institutions that are nonprofit for a bunch of tax code reasons but in reality are just providing goods and services to clients in exchange for money.
Most nonprofit revenue isn’t from charitable giving (think healthcare, education, etc):
https://​​taxfoundation.org/​​blog/​​501c3-nonprofit-revenue/​​
https://​​projects.propublica.org/​​nonprofits/​​search
Most American charitable giving was across hundreds of thousands of religious organizations:
https://​​www.philanthropyroundtable.org/​​magazine/​​less-god-less-giving/​​
But these organizations receive the most donations:
https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​posts/​​BpEt8DqrcAhKJbtfJ/​​america-s-100-charities-receiving-most-donations
I think for the purposes of this comparison, non-profit and charity are probably not interchangeable, in the sense that a marginal donor with 5K to spend is almost certainly not going to donate that to Kaiser Permanente (although $1M does get you naming rights at a smaller chain!). So I guess whatever we’re defining the average charity as, the distribution should probably exclude these big institutions that are nonprofit for a bunch of tax code reasons but in reality are just providing goods and services to clients in exchange for money.
(colleges are an edge case here)