SA’s top 50 non-profit community service organisations

InDaily’s South Australian Enterprise Index, which ranks the highest 100 native firms, explicitly excludes the non-profit sector.

Nevertheless, non-profits are such a big and important a part of the local people – and economic system – that we’ve labored with the Centre for Social Influence at Flinders College to analyse the info.

As with our first try at analysing the sector final 12 months, we’ve made some selections about which organisations we’ve included within the record.

Our focus is on neighborhood companies – primarily aged care, neighborhood companies, neighborhood housing and the incapacity companies sector – utilizing information from the Australian Charity and Nonprofit Fee register.

Now we have excluded the colleges and personal faculties, together with the publicly-funded main well being care networks. For the aim of this examine we’ve additionally excluded organisations which are primarily targeted on analysis, spiritual actions and training companies that are irrelevant to social companies. That’s to not say that these organisations aren’t offering wonderful companies and worth to the neighborhood – lots of them are – however our focus is on social companies for this train. (Scroll to the underside for extra element on our methodology).

The sector

On the finish of 2021, there have been not less than 3278 charities and nonprofit organisations in South Australia registered with the ACNC.

Within the ACNC information, about 7000 nonprofits didn’t both point out which state they had been situated or present their enterprise tackle. It’s subsequently tough to find out which state these nonprofits belong to. In accordance with the proportion of SA nonprofits in Australia’s nonprofit sector, amongst these unidentified 7000 nonprofits round 500 nonprofits needs to be labeled as SA nonprofits.

The next evaluation is of the entire sector – not simply the 50 high non-profits (scroll all the way down to see the total desk).

Financial impression

In 2021, the annual financial output of SA was $245.9 billion. The whole gross revenue generated within the SA nonprofit sector was $9.3 billion. In different phrases, the nonprofit sector accounts for 3.8% of the financial output of SA.

“3.8% could sound not important, but when in contrast with the contributions of different sectors to the financial output of SA, the financial impression of the nonprofit sector is substantial,” says Ian Goodwin-Smith, the Matthew Flinders Professor of Social Influence and Director of the Centre for Social Influence at Flinders College.

Throughout all financial output-generating sectors, the nonprofit sector is just barely smaller than the retail commerce sector ($9.3 billion), however bigger than eight different sectors together with “electrical energy, gasoline, water & waste companies”, “training & coaching”, “wholesale commerce”, “data media & telecommunications”, “lodging & meals companies”, “different companies”, and “arts & recreation companies”.

Jobs and salaries

The nonprofit sector punches above its weight on employment, accounting for 7.37% of whole jobs in SA.

The nonprofit sector in South Australia is the sixth largest using sector. It’s a considerably greater employer than any main business sector. The variety of jobs within the nonprofit sector was barely smaller than that within the development sector, however bigger than these in 14 different sectors.

Salaries are additionally stable. In 2021, the full wages and salaries paid within the nonprofit sector accounted for 9.1% of the full wages & salaries in SA.

The common wage per worker is $93,121.4 within the sector. This locations the nonprofit sector because the ninth most remunerative amongst all 20 sectors.

Social impression

Along with 54,728 paid full-time employees, the SA nonprofit sector had 157,597 common volunteers in 2021 who made important contributions to SA.

The nonprofit sector additionally created important different social impacts by its intervention within the damaging social, financial and private prices of a broad vary of social points, bettering the lives of South Australians whereas boosting the economic system and producing financial savings for the general public purse.

None of those impacts had been calculated in any of the measures above.

Nevertheless, we intend to fill this hole by rating the social impression of Australian nonprofit organisations from 2023.

The record

“We may have sliced this pie in some ways, however our concentrate on neighborhood companies is a deliberate try to dwelling in on a sector that’s geared in direction of producing social impression, however which is nonetheless an vital a part of our financial story,” says Goodwin-Smith.

“We’ve developed a rating of the state’s high 50 nonprofits by turnover.

“Coming in at primary and two are Southern Cross Care and Anglicare SA.

“These high two – together with the remainder of the highest 50 record – symbolize organisations offering aged care and neighborhood companies that are crucial to the efficient functioning of our neighborhood.

“However these organisations aren’t simply giants by way of their social impression: the entire high 5 non-profits have turnovers in extra – typically nicely in extra – of $100 million every year, which might put them comfortably within the high 100 companies general if turnover was the one criterion.”

Step 2: solely SA nonprofits chosen

Step 3: all SA nonprofits are ranked by their whole revenue, high 150 are chosen

Step 4: following the methodology utilized in 2021, (1) universities, (2) personal faculties, and (3) publicly-funded native well being networks are excluded from the record of 150, high 96 stays

Step 5: as the aim of this examine is to establish high SA nonprofits focusing totally on social & neighborhood companies, among the many 96 nonprofits, these with major exercise in (1) analysis, (2) spiritual actions, (3) larger training irrelevant to social companies, and (4) different training irrelevant to social companies are excluded.

Step 6: within the remaining record, two kinds of nonprofits with major exercise in “Different well being service supply” and “Employment and coaching” are nonetheless ambiguous. The exclusion or inclusion willpower is predicated on “Different well being service supply” or “Employment & coaching” being social & neighborhood service, e.g., offering different well being companies or employment & coaching companies for individuals with incapacity, marginalized teams, and so on., then such a corporation is included within the record. If a corporation is just to offer “basic” well being service supply or employment & coaching service however and not using a social & neighborhood service nature, then such a corporation is excluded.

Evaluation by Zhibin Zhang, Centre for Social Influence, Flinders College