The top cities for charitable sector rankings are generated from a list of Fidelity Charitable’s top 30 metropolitan areas, by number of Giving Accounts whose Primary Account Holder’s address is in the area. These areas align with U.S. Census metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). This analysis is for the 2016 calendar year and uses data from Fidelity Charitable’s internal reporting database. The cities are ranked by percentage of Giving Accounts supporting a given sector in a region. For example, 3,790 out of the 6,747 Giving Accounts located in Boston support charities classified by the NTEE as being in the health sector, which is more than any other city in the top 30 MSAs.
Sector codes as defined by the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE).