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Across the United States, nonprofit cultural heritage organizations serve communities by helping people to remember their shared experiences and aspirations, building and sustaining a sense of community through fairs, folklife programs, public celebrations of music, food, and holidays. This brief uses NCCS Form 990 data to examine the finances and programs of these organizations. It finds that cultural heritage organizations tend to be small, to blend program areas, to make cultural difference central to their work, and they show important program and organizational variation across ethnic groups. These key characteristics should be taken into account when supporting cultural heritage organizations.

This brief highlights key findings from the Nonprofit Almanac 2007, prepared by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. The Almanac is the latest in our series of statistical profiles of the nonprofit sector.

While the nation's gross domestic product grew by an inflation-adjusted 36.6 percent from 1994 to 2004, the nonprofit sector's revenues increased 61.5 percent, according to a new compendium of nonprofit facts from the Urban Institute's National Center for Charitable Statistics. The sector's expenses and assets grew at even faster pace: 62.6 and 90.7 percent, respectively.

About 2.5 million New Yorkers were uninsured in 2005, and medical providers that serve them incurred some $2.8 billion in uncompensated care. Two separate analyses in this report agreed on this estimate, one using provider cost reports and the other household survey data. Budgetary and other sources showed that state, local, and federal governments supplied about $3.5 billion in revenues that offset these costs, through a complex mix of programs. If these uninsured people had all had insurance for the full year, their projected medical spending would have been higher by about $4.1 billion. Any insurance expansion program would incur these and additional costs as well.

New York State's medical providers spent an estimated $2.8 billion last year providing care to 2.5 million uninsured New Yorkers, says a new analysis from the Urban Institute.