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Organizations that are part of a larger company are excluded, such as holding companies. The entries are ordered by the size of the organization's financial endowment . [ 1 ] The endowment value is a rounded estimate measured in United States dollars , based on the exchange rates on [update] December 31, 2020. [ 2 ]
This is a list of the world's largest non-governmental privately held companies by revenue. This list does not include state-owned enterprises like Sinopec, State Grid, China National Petroleum, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Pemex, Petrobras, PDVSA and others. These corporations have revenues of at least US$10 billion.
GreatNonprofits is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit organization based in the United States with a website where donors, volunteers, and clients review and share their personal experiences with charitable organizations, essentially providing crowdsourced information about the reputability of these organizations.
BRAC is the largest non-governmental development Organisation in the world, in terms of the number of employees as of September 2016. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 after the independence of Bangladesh , BRAC is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh as well as 16 other countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts; World Literacy Foundation; World Medical Relief; World Scout Foundation; World Transformation Movement; World Vision International; World Wide Fund for Nature; Wounded Warrior Project; Wyoming Wildlife Federation
It has also donated to the two largest national teachers' unions. [178] The foundation was the biggest early backer of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [178] In October 2017 it was announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would spend more than $1.7 billion over five years to pay for new initiatives in public education. [179]
[2] [3] Prior to 2015, United Way was the largest nonprofit organization in the United States by donations from the public. [4] Individual United Ways mobilize a single fundraising campaign to raise money for various nonprofits, with most donations coming through payroll deductions.
With the onset of World War II, headquarters were moved to New York City, New York. With an annual international budget of over $47 million, [ 1 ] AGBU preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through educational , cultural and humanitarian programs, annually serving some 500,000 Armenians in over 30 countries.