This paper aims to present a wide range of examining the research concerning Non-Profit Organizations in Hungary. Starting with a review of the civic society’s theories relevant to this field, encountering various essential definitions to clear the concept, exploring through the phenomena among the European Union in general defining their mission, motives and tools , in addition to shedding light on the Hungarian Non-Profit Organizations in depth by performing trend analysis to reveal the time series changes using M-K test as a non-parametric approach as well as applying the Sen’s slop method to encounter the trend magnitude. This study examines the financial sustainability of NPOs by calculating the differences between their income and expenditure, provides an overview of multiple variables related to these organizations such as Number of NPO, Expenditure, Revenues, Employees in NPO sector and Number of volunteers. This paper also highlights the emergence of NPOs sector in Hungary between 2003-2023, as well as evaluating their performance on a county scale with providing a spatial distribution and clearing the average revenue of NPOs in Hungary.
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DOI: 10.24387/CI.SI.2025.1.7
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