Data on How the Pandemic and Economic Crises Are Affecting Nonprofits

Many state-level surveys and polls have been conducted, and in some cases, reports written, providing data from the field on how COVID-19 and the related economic crisis are affecting nonprofits. In addition, there are some nationwide and regional surveys and reports that provide insights. We have gathered the state and national data here and will update this page when we discover new data of interest. (Page updated September, 2021.)

State-specific surveys and data on how the pandemic and economic crises are affecting nonprofits

Alaska

• Foraker Group survey report (March 2020)
• Foraker Group survey report (August 2021)

Arizona

• Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits ​
  • Arizona pulse poll results (June 2020)
  • Arizona survey results (October 2020)
  • A Year Later: COVID-19's Impact on Arizona's Nonprofit Sector (March 2021)

Arkansas

• University of Arkansas/Arkansas Community Foundation survey report (June 2020)

California

• California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits) survey results

Colorado

• Nonprofit Workforce Impact (August 2021)
• Philanthropy Colorado survey results (with Colorado Nonprofit Association) (March 2020)

Connecticut

• CT Community Nonprofit Alliance survey report (September 2020)

Delaware

• Delaware Alliance for Nonprofits Advancement (DANA):
  • DANA Covid-19 Flash Survey results (March 2020)
  • DE Covid-19 Flash2 Survey results (April 2020)
  • COVID-19 Nonprofit Survey 3 (June 2020)
  • DE Covid-19 Flash 4 Survey results (January 2021)

Florida

• Florida Nonprofit Alliance:
  • Florida survey report: Effects of COVID-19 on Florida Nonprofits (April 2020)
  • Florida survey report: Looking Forward: How COVID-19 Will Affect Florida Nonprofits (July 2020)
  • Florida survey report: Closing Out the Year: COVID-19 Effects on Nonprofits in 2020 (December 2020)

Hawai`i

• Hawaiʻi Sector Pulse: Nonprofit & Social Enterprise Report (December 2020)

Illinois

• Forefront Illinois survey report (April 2020)
• Forefront Illinois survey report (January 2021)

Indiana

• Indiana United Ways, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy survey report (July 2020)

Iowa

• University of Northern Iowa Business & Community Services survey report (April 2020)
• University of Northern Iowa Business & Community Services survey report (July 2020)
• University of Northern Iowa Business & Community Services survey report (May 2021)

Kentucky

• Kentucky Nonprofit Network:
  • Initial Kentucky Survey report (March 2020)
  • Follow-up Kentucky Survey report (April 2020)
  • Check-in Kentucky Survey report (August 2020)

Maine

• Maine Association of Nonprofits 
  • Maine flash poll results (March 2020)
  • Maine flash poll results (July 2020)

Massachusetts

• Massachusetts Nonprofit Network survey report (June 2020)
• Ongoing Impacts of COVID-19 on Massachusetts Nonprofits (April 2021)

Minnesota

• Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Nonprofit Economy Report, First Edition (May 2020)
• Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Nonprofit Economy Report, Second Edition (July 2020)
• Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Nonprofit Economy Report, Third Edition (December 2020)
• Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Nonprofit Economy Report, Fourth Edition (May 2021)

Missouri

• Nonprofit Connect (Kansas City) survey report  (March 2020)

Montana

• Montana Nonprofit Association:
  • Montana flash poll results (March 2020)
  • Montana second flash poll results (April 2020)
  • Montana third flash poll results (September 2020)
  • COVID & the Economy: A perspective from the Montana Nonprofit Association (December 1, 2020)

Nebraska

• Nonprofit Association of the Midlands:
  • Nebraska pulse poll results (March 2020)
  • Second Nebraska pulse poll results (April 2020)
  • Third Nebraska pulse poll results (October 2020)

New Hampshire

• New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits:
  • Second New Hampshire pulse poll results (April 2020)
  • New Hampshire survey results (March 2020)
  • New Hampshire survey results (May 2021)

New Jersey

• Center for Non-Profits: 
  • New Jersey Rapid Response Survey report (March 2020)
  • New Jersey Rapid Response Survey report (April 2020)
  • New Jersey Rapid Response Survey report (July 2020)
  • New Jersey Non-Profits Trends and Outlook (February 2021)

New Mexico

• New Mexico Thrives survey report (June 2020)

New York

• Nonprofit New York (New York City) pulse polls report (April/May, 2020)
• Hudson Valley Funders Collaborative / New York Council of Nonprofits: Hudson Valley Nonprofits Amidst COVID-19 (September 2020)
• Essential or Expendable? How Human Services Supported Communities Through COVID-19 and Recommendations to Support an Equitable Recovery (June 2021)

North Carolina

• The North Carolina Office of Strategic Partnerships, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, & The Policy Lab at Brown University, North Carolina nonprofit organizations and the impact of COVID-19: Insights from a statewide survey and creation of a publicly available dataset (October 2020) (includes reference/link to earlier survey conducted in March)

Ohio

• Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Philanthropy Ohio, and Ohio State University survey report (May 2020)

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits survey report (July 2020)

Oregon

• Nonprofit Association of Oregon survey report (August 2020)
• Oregon Nonprofits: A Year Into The Pandemic (April 2021)

Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations:
  • Pennsylvania survey reports and interactive data dashboard (October 2020) (includes links to earlier survey and emerging needs)

Rhode Island

• Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island and Fio Partners survey (September 2020) 

South Carolina

• Together SC and partners survey report (September 2020)
• Together SC follow-up survey report (April 2021)

Tennessee

• Momentum Nonprofit Partners' 2020 State of the Mid-South Nonprofit Sector Report (January 2021)

Texas

• Texas Nonprofit Leaders’ COVID-19 Impact Report (December 2020)

Utah

• Utah Nonprofits Association:
  • Utah survey results (March 2020)
  • Utah second survey results (April 2020)
  • Utah third survey results (August 2020)
  • Utah fourth survey results (May 2021)

Virginia

• Center for Nonprofit Excellence survey results (most responses from Charlottesville area) (May 2020)
• Center for Nonprofit Excellence Nonprofit Needs survey results (February 2021)

Washington

• University of Washington Evans School survey report (August 2020)
• Washington Nonprofits page on regional Washington State surveys on the impact of COVID on nonprofits (September 2020)

West Virginia

• West Virginia Nonprofit Association flash poll results and slide decks (March and May/June 2020)

Wisconsin

• Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management survey report (May 2020)

Wyoming

• Wyoming Nonprofit Network
  • Wyoming survey report (March 2020)
  • Wyoming survey report (April 2020)

National and regional surveys and data on how the pandemic and economic crisis are affecting nonprofits

Several reports have been issued (most based on surveys) that may be of interest on a geographical or subsector basis. We have posted the best we have discovered below.

National

Building Movement Project: On the Frontlines: Nonprofits Led by People of Color Confront COVID-19 and Structural Racism

Center for Effective Philanthropy: Persevering through Crisis: The State of Nonprofits, June 2021. A survey of 163 nonprofit leaders from CEP’s Grantee Voice panel about the impacts of COVID-19 on their organization and the actions of their funders. CEP cautions that their panel somewhat overrepresents larger, more financially secure nonprofits than average.

Geographical

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (October 2020), COVID-19’s Impact on the Human and Social Services Sector (focusing on FEMA Region 3: DC, DE, MD, PA, VA, WV)

Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve System has fielded a series of surveys entitled, “Perspectives from Main Street: The Impact of COVID-19 on Low- to Moderate-Income Communities and the Entities Serving Them.” The Fed surveyed nonprofit organizations, financial institutions, government agencies, and other community organizations, with nearly 4,000 respondents in April (64 percent of which were nonprofits), 1,869 in June (45 percent nonprofits), 1,465 in August (57 percent nonprofits), and 1,127 in October (53 percent nonprofits).

Because results were not broken out by organization type, these have limited nonprofit-specific data; yet because they were done every two months, they provide useful snapshots over time of both the needs in communities and the resilience of organizations responding to those needs. The surveys and other insights from the Fed can be found on the FedCommunities page.

Subsector

Arts & Culture

• Americans for the Arts: The Economic Impact of Coronavirus on the Arts And Culture Sector
• American Alliance of Museums: National Snapshot of COVID-19 Impact on United States Museums (October 2020)
• Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings: Lost Art: Measuring COVID-19’s devastating impact on America’s creative economy (August 2020)
• Nonprofit Organization Research Panel (NORP): “COVID-19 and Nonprofits,” human services (70 percent) and arts & culture organizations (30 percent) (Spring 2020)
• Nonprofit Organization Research Panel (NORP): “COVID-19 and Nonprofits Part II,” human services (65 percent) and arts & culture organizations (35 percent) (Winter 2020)

Human Services Organizations

• Nonprofit Organization Research Panel (NORP): “COVID-19 and Nonprofits,” human services (70 percent) and arts & culture organizations (30 percent) (Spring 2020)
• Nonprofit Organization Research Panel (NORP): “COVID-19 and Nonprofits Part II,” human services (65 percent) and arts & culture organizations (35 percent) (Winter 2020)

Immigrant-Serving Organizations

• Urban Institute: Immigrant-Serving Organizations' Perspectives on the COVID-19 Crisis (August 2020)
   

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