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Hispanic Business released their list of the top 25 Latino non-profit organizations in the United States in this month’s issue. The first thing that stood out to me was the size of the organizations on the list. Their number one Latino non-profit in America was Altamed Health Services Corp. which had a budget last year of $94 million. Many others on the list were similarly as large. The Aspira Association in D.C. had a budget of about $65 million. The Mexican American Opportunity Foundation in Montebello, California spent $63 million last year. Incidentally, the rankings went pretty much from largest budget to smallest, so I’d be interested in hearing a little more about Hispanic Business’ criteria.
The other thing I noticed was that as you’d expect the organizations were concentrated in California, the Southwest states like Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and larger cities like New York, Chicago and Washington D.C. Since those are the areas in the States with the highest Latino populations, it makes sense they would have some of the largest Latino non-profits.
HB says they conducted their research of non-profits from online databases. The best I could find was that about 1.6 million non-profits exist in the United States today. But I could find no breakdown into categories (health, education, economic growth, etc.) or populations served (Latino, African American, Native American, etc.) That would afford someone some interesting research.
