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INDEPENDENT SECTOR: SOURCES AND DISPOSITION OF ANNUAL FUNDS BY SUBSECTOR: 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992 AND 1996
(Billions of Constant (1992) Dollars)
                               
  Annual sources of funds   Disposition
  Private Contributions   Payments   Other receipts          
Subsector Total   Private sector Government sector Total   Endowment, investment income Church Other Total Total funds (a)   Current operating expenditures (b) Construction and capital improvements Other, including change in holding of funds (c)
  -1   -2 -3 -4   -5 -6 -7 -8 -9   -10 -11 -12
                               
1996 (p)                              
Health Services 10.2   134.6 115.2 249.7   6.2 4.6 10.3 21.1 280.9   260.3 11.2 9.5
Education/research 13.6   60.5 21.0 81.5   6.4 2.5 3.2 12.0 107.1   87.2 7.4 12.5
Religious organizations (d) 60.2   4.6 --- 4.6   1.9 -7.6 3.3 -2.5 62.3   43.9 6.3 12.2
Social and legal services 13.5   12.2 36.2 48.4   1.6 0.4 3.9 5.9 67.8   59.2 0.9 7.7
Civic, social and fraternal organizations 5.7   3.4 4.9 8.3   1.0 0.1 1.2 2.3 16.2   14.8 0.2 1.3
Arts and culture 3.8   2.3 1.4 3.6   0.9 0.1 1.1 2.1 9.5   9.0 0.2 0.4
Foundations (e) -9.6   9.3 --- 9.3   10.6 0.0 9.7 20.3 20.0   3.1 0.2 16.7
                               
Total 106.6   217.5 178.6 396.1   28.6 0.0 32.6 61.2 563.9   477.4 26.2 60.3
Percentage   38.6% 31.7% 70.2%   5.1% 0.0% 5.8% 10.8% 100.0%   84.7% 4.7% 10.7%
                               
1992                              
Health Services 9.3   126.2 106.4 232.6   6.5 5.0 7.9 19.4 261.3   237.6 13.3 10.4
Education/research 12.0   53.8 18.9 72.7   5.0 2.5 2.3 9.8 94.5   84.5 6.4 3.6
Religious organizations (d) 55.1   3.9 ---- 3.9   1.3 -8.0 6.0 -0.7 58.3   41.1 6.0 11.2
Social and legal services 11.2   9.8 28.0 37.8   1.5 0.3 5.1 6.9 55.9   48.3 1.0 6.6
Civic, social and fraternal organizations 4.6   3.0 4.9 7.9   0.3 0.1 1.8 2.2 14.7   13.6 0.2 0.9
Arts and culture 3.3   2.0 1.2 3.2   0.8 0.1 0.8 1.7 8.2   7.7 0.1 0.4
Foundations (e) -8.9   7.1 ---- 7.1   7.9 0.1 9.5 17.5 15.7   3.0 0.2 12.4
                               
Total 93.7   198.7 159.4 358.1   23.3 0.1 33.4 56.8 508.6   435.8 27.2 45.5
Percentage 18.4%   39.1% 31.3% 70.4%   4.6% 0.0% 6.6% 11.2% 100.0%   85.7% 5.3% 8.9%
::                              
                               
1987                              
Health Services 9.7   94.2 65.9 160.2   2.0 6.6 3.4 12.0 181.9   165.1 9.5 7.3
Education/research 11.0   46.6 15.4 62.0   4.8 4.2 2.3 11.3 84.2   75.0 5.9 3.4
Religious organizations (d) 52.5   3.7 ---- 3.7   1.1 -11.4 4.6 -5.8 50.4   36.0 5.8 8.7
Social and legal services 9.6   7.3 18.7 26.0   1.4 0.4 1.3 3.1 38.7   33.1 0.7 4.9
Civic, social and fraternal organizations 3.7   1.4 5.4 6.9   0.1 0.1 0.5 0.7 11.3   10.3 0.1 0.8
Arts and culture 2.9   2.2 1.1 3.2   0.5 0.1 0.5 1.1 7.2   6.3 0.1 0.8
Foundations (e) -6.6   4.6 ---- 4.6   9.3 ---- --- 9.3 7.2   2.4 ---- 4.8
                               
Total 87.4   155.5 106.5 262.0   19.3 0.0 12.5 31.8 381.1   328.2 22.1 30.8
Percentage 22.9%   40.8% 27.9% 68.7%   5.1% 0.0% 3.3% 8.3% 100.0%   86.1% 5.8% 8.1%
                               
1982                              
Health Services 8.8   73.5 52.1 125.5   1.7 8.0 5.4 15.1 149.5   126.4 11.0 12.1
Education/research 5.7   36.1 11.6 47.6   4.0 4.3 6.4 14.7 68.0   57.8 5.4 4.9
Religious organizations (d) 40.1   ---- ---- 0.0   1.4 -12.7 3.1 -8.1 32.0   22.8 1.1 8.0
Social and legal services 7.3   4.4 16.0 20.4   0.7 0.3 0.4 1.4 29.1   24.1 0.9 4.1
Civic, social and fraternal organizations 2.4   1.1 4.1 5.3   0.1 0.1 0.3 0.6 8.3   8.0 0.1 0.1
Arts and culture 2.7   2.0 1.1 3.1   0.4 ---- 0.6 1.0 6.8   4.7 0.1 2.0
Foundations (e) -4.3   3.1 ---- 3.1   9.7 ---- --- 9.7 8.6   2.0 ---- 6.6
                               
Total 65.9   117.1 84.9 202.0   18.1 0.0 16.3 34.4 302.3   245.8 18.7 37.8
Percentage 21.8%   38.7% 28.1% 66.8%   6.0% 0.0% 5.4% 11.4% 100.0%   81.3% 6.2% 12.5%
::                              
                               
1977                              
Health Services 8.4   53.2 35.0 88.2   1.3 7.2 3.2 11.6 108.2   91.4 9.3 7.6
Education/research 5.1   30.6 10.5 41.1   3.2 3.6 4.9 11.6 57.8   50.0 4.4 3.4
Religious organizations (d) 35.9   ---- ---- 0.0   1.3 -11.2 2.7 -7.2 28.7   20.3 1.1 7.4
Social and legal services 7.0   2.1 11.8 13.9   0.4 0.2 0.2 0.8 21.7   17.9 0.6 3.2
Civic, social and fraternal organizations 2.5   1.1 4.4 5.5   0.2 0.2 0.4 0.8 8.9   8.4 0.2 0.2
Arts and culture 1.5   1.1 0.4 1.5   0.2 ---- 0.4 0.6 3.6   3.2 0.2 0.2
Foundations (e) -4.0   5.3 ---- 5.3   4.2 ---- --- 4.2 5.5   1.1 ---- 4.4
                               
Total 61.6   88.0 62.2 150.2   10.8 0.0 11.8 22.6 234.4   192.2 15.8 26.4
Percentage 26.3%   37.5% 26.6% 64.1%   4.6% 0.0% 5.0% 9.6% 100.0%   82.0% 6.8% 11.3%

Sources: 
Based on a distillation of information contained in published and unpublished sources and authors estimates. See for example Hodgkinson and Weitzman, DIMENSIONS OF THE INDEPENDENT SECTOR, Third Edition 1989, Table 8.1, pp. 177-179. (Copyright and published by INDEPENDENT SECTOR, Washington, D.C. 1989.) 

* Percentages may not add to 100 because of rounding.
---- = Less than $50 million or no entry is made because it does not apply to this subsector.

(a) Columns (1)+(4)+(8) or (10)+(11)+(12).

(b) Specific estimates for wages and salaries, the major component of current operating expenditures, are shown inTable 3.6.

(c) "Other, including change in holding of funds," is a residual item representing the difference between total funds and the sum of current operating expenditures and capital construction and improvements. This residual item serves to balance the total support and the total support and the total disposition of this support for each subsector of the independent sector.

(d) Religious organizations both receive contributions and provide them to other organizations of the independent sector. To present net estimates for the independent sector and to estimate the sacerdotal activities of religious organizations., adjustments are made in the receipts for the religious organizations that show the estimated amount of money subtracted for use on nonsacerdotal activities.

(e) Foundation contributions to the various subsectors of the independent sector are included in the rows in the private contributions column,which is why these contributions show up as a negative estimate for foundations. Estimates placed in the cells for payments from the private sector represent contributions to foundations. Such estimates are not included in column totals for private payments but are added to the totals for the private contributions column. Foundations essentially are tax-exempt financial institutions engaged in receiving, investing, and distributing funds to organizations of the independent sector, to government institutions such as public universities, and to individuals. In order to avoid counting both the receipt and the distribution of foundation funds in the overall assessment of the total funds for the independent sector, the net contributions of foundations to the independent sector is estimated by adding contribution of foundations to endowment and subtracting the grants of foundations to the independent sector from the total receipts of foundations. 

(P) = Preliminary


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