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		<title>Frederick Swarts at 18:19, 12 November 2010</title>
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		<updated>2010-11-12T18:19:50Z</updated>

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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;← Older revision&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 18:19, 12 November 2010&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot; &gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the United States there are over 2 million NGOs active. Figures released by the US Internal Revenue Service in 2010 show that 1,238,201 organizations were classified as 501(c)(3) charitable organizations and foundations in 2009, while 1,772,485 organizations were classified into all of section 501 of the tax code.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;US Internal Revenue. 2009. [http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/09databk.pdf Internal Revenue Data Book, 2009]. Published March 2009. Retrieved November 12, 2009.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The number of charities registered with the IRS for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) has nearly doubled since 1996. Many of these might be inactive, but there also are many NGOs that do apply for tax-exempt status.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the United States there are over 2 million NGOs active. Figures released by the US Internal Revenue Service in 2010 show that 1,238,201 organizations were classified as 501(c)(3) charitable organizations and foundations in 2009, while 1,772,485 organizations were classified into all of section 501 of the tax code.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;US Internal Revenue. 2009. [http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/09databk.pdf Internal Revenue Data Book, 2009]. Published March 2009. Retrieved November 12, 2009.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The number of charities registered with the IRS for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) has nearly doubled since 1996. Many of these might be inactive, but there also are many &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;active &lt;/ins&gt;NGOs that do apply for tax-exempt status.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Frederick Swarts</name></author>
		
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		<title>Frederick Swarts at 18:18, 12 November 2010</title>
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		<updated>2010-11-12T18:18:46Z</updated>

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		<author><name>Frederick Swarts</name></author>
		
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		<id>https://www.wangohandbook.org/index.php?title=Overview&amp;diff=1462&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Frederick Swarts: New page: In the United States there are over 2 million NGOs active. Figures released by the US Internal Revenue Service in 2010 show that 1,238,201 organizations were classified as 501(c)(3) charit...</title>
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		<updated>2010-11-12T18:18:36Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;New page: In the United States there are over 2 million NGOs active. Figures released by the US Internal Revenue Service in 2010 show that 1,238,201 organizations were classified as 501(c)(3) charit...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the United States there are over 2 million NGOs active. Figures released by the US Internal Revenue Service in 2010 show that 1,238,201 organizations were classified as 501(c)(3) charitable organizations and foundations in 2009, while 1,772,485 organizations were classified into all of section 501 of the tax code.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;US Internal Revenue. 2009. [http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/09databk.pdf Internal Revenue Data Book, 2009]. Published March 2009. Retrieved November 12, 2009.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The number of charities registered with the IRS for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) has nearly doubled since 1996. Many of these might be inactive, but there also are many NGOs that do apply for tax-exempt status.&lt;br /&gt;
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