B2: EASTERN REGION
OVERVIEW o As a predominately rural area, the Eastern Region does not include any of the state’s largest urban centers. o The region accounts for just two percent of the state’s nonprofit organizations. In 2010, the largest nonprofits in the region included four health-‐ focused organizations— Chesapeake Hospital, Rappahannock West-‐ minster Canterbury, Eastern Shore Rural Health System, and Shore Life Care—and the TABLE B2.1). social service provider, Bay Aging ( REGIONAL SNAPSHOT: NONPROFIT EMPLOYMENT o With 3,639 nonprofit employees, the region accounted for just 1.5 percent of Virginia’s non-‐ profit employment in 2011. This is marginally below the region’s share of the state popula-‐ tion (1.5 percent vs. 1.8 percent, respectively) (TABLE B2.2). o However, nonprofit employment in the Eastern Region accounted for 7.5 percent of the re-‐ gion’s total employment, ranking it above the state average of 6.6 percent. o Between 2000 and 2011, nonprofit employment grew faster in the Eastern Region than in any other region of the state. Although Eastern nonprofits’ average annual rate of employ-‐ ment growth was more than three times the state average (6.2 vs. 2.0 percent, respective-‐ ly), it dwarfed the region’s for-‐ profit annual average growth rate of 9.5 percent. REGIONAL SNAPSHOT: NONPROFIT FINANCES o Eastern Region nonprofits generated nearly $158.9 million in revenues (less than one per-‐ cent of the state’s total nonprofit revenues) and held over $342.3 million in assets (less than one percent of the state’s total nonprofit assets) in 2010 (TABLE B2.3). o Roughly a fourth (24 percent) of these revenues were generated by the region’s hospitals. Other fields generating a significant portion of the region’s total revenues include nursing and residential care (19 percent), social assistance (19 percent), and ambulatory health (16 percent). o The bulk of the region’s assets, however, were held by its religious, grantmaking, and civic associations (24 percent). Other fields holding substantial shares of the region’s total assets include social assistance (17 percent); arts, entertainment and recreation (16 percent); and nursing and residential care (15 percent) (TABLE B2.4). o Eastern nonprofits expended nearly $150.6 million (less than one percent of the state’s total nonprofit expenditures) in 2010. This translates into $1,061 of expenditures per capita, which falls 78 percent below the state average.
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