NAICS 813Subsector · 3-digitlocal market6 market records

Religious, grant-making, civic, and professional and similar organizations

This subsector comprises establishments primarily engaged in organizing and promoting religious activities, supporting various causes through grant-making, advocating (promoting) various social and political causes, and promoting and defending the interests of their members. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA
37,577
with employees
Under 10 employeesA
79%
most common size: 1–4
01

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–421,99959%
5–97,63120%
10–194,15811%
20–492,6237%
50–997432%
100–1992791%
200–4991270%
500+170%

Of 37,577 Canadian establishments with employees, 79% have fewer than ten — an industry of very small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario13,26835%
Quebec8,31222%
British Columbia5,22114%
Alberta3,95011%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA
Other Services (except Public Administration), US · opened 2020
85.2%
1 year
71.8%
3 years
60%
5 years
42.1%
10 years
opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

02

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 813, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

local competitionlow capitalUNVERIFIED

Non-profit membership bodies. They are customers rather than entry markets; association management and fundraising services are the businesses built around them.

Who sets the price
Members and donors, voluntarily.
The software it runs on
Membership, donor and congregation management.
03

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 8133
Social Advocacy OrganizationExecution decides
binding constraint: willingness to pay

An advocacy organisation exists to change a policy or a public attitude, and is funded by people who want that outcome — members, donors and foundations. There is no customer and no price: nobody buys advocacy, they give to it. That makes this a buyer of services rather than a market to enter, and the record exists to say so. The field is sizeable — 2,688 Canadian establishments, 67% with fewer than ten employees [A], and 20,255 in the US employing 204,147 on a payroll of about $62,500 each [A], noticeably higher than the civic and social clubs at 8134 because advocacy employs professional policy, legal and communications staff. What an entrant can sell to it is what those staff use: fundraising and donor software (8132), association management (8139), campaign and digital services. Both of those records found the same constraint from the other side — a budget set once a year by a board, out of money that was given rather than earned. An organisation funded by conviction is a loyal client and a poor one at the same time.

NAICS 81334 vendors named10 sourced figuresOpen →
Operating businessScreenedfiled at 8134
Service Club & Community HallExecution decides
binding constraint: willingness to pay

Legions, Rotary and Lions clubs, fraternal lodges, ethnic community centres and alumni associations: member-funded bodies that often own a hall and run a bar, bingo or rentals to pay for it. There are many — 7,240 Canadian establishments, 71% with fewer than ten employees [A] — which makes this one of the larger groups in the sector by count, and nearly all of them are non-profits an entrant cannot buy. The US figures show the economics: 24,832 establishments, 203,796 employees and a payroll of about $30,500 per employee [A], roughly half what advocacy organisations at 8133 pay. That is part-time bar, kitchen and caretaking work — hospitality run largely by volunteers on behalf of a membership. And that is the cut. The hall is funded at cost by the people who use it: dues are set by a membership that owns the building, and bar and rental prices are set to cover the roof rather than to earn a return. A commercial banquet hall or bar opening in the same town competes with a member-subsidised venue that is not trying to make money, and the members are not a customer base anyone can price to. The familiar story that these clubs are dying was not confirmed here: Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Command membership fee revenue rose to $6.21M in 2024 from $5.91M in 2023 [A], and the Legion said in November 2024 that overall membership is growing [B]. Neither is a member count, and no membership series was found.

NAICS 81344 vendors named8 sourced figuresOpen →
Operating businessScreenedfiled at 8139
Association ManagementExecution decides
binding constraint: willingness to pay

Running an association's operations — membership, dues, events, the database — is a real recurring-revenue business sold to the bodies filed under this code, and it is reachable without capital. It cuts on the customer's budget mechanics. An association's revenue is dues plus one annual conference, set by a volunteer board that must justify every cost to the members paying it; a management fee or a software subscription is approved once a year by a committee, against a membership base that is aging in most professional bodies. Meanwhile the software layer is consolidating into private-equity hands — Personify acquired Wild Apricot in June 2024, Valsoft acquired UnionWare and MemberTrak in April 2025 [C] — which is what a market looks like when buyers are being aggregated for renewal revenue rather than won on product. A second finding: the published sizing for association management software disagrees with itself, at $3B in 2025 growing to $9.2B by 2034 in one source and $2.61B in 2025 reaching $2.97B in 2026 in another [C]. Both cannot describe the same market.

NAICS 81395 vendors named6 sourced figuresOpen →
04

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 8131
Church & Congregation Management SoftwareOne thing must be true
binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability
Incumbent Ministry Brands (Insight Partners) and Pushpay

Giving is the product. Ministry Brands and Pushpay both earn on donation processing and can price the management software at zero, and Planning Center holds the mid-market on goodwill and a decade of switching inertia. The same payments-attach economics as the nonprofit record at 8132, against a buyer with a smaller budget. Nothing is disclosed here. Every vendor named on this record is private, or sits inside a parent that does not break the line out, so no revenue floor can be built and the market size is genuinely unknown rather than estimated.

NAICS 81313 vendors namedOpen →
Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 8132
Nonprofit & Fundraising SoftwareOne thing must be true
binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability
Incumbent Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB)

Blackbaud holds roughly half of mid-to-large deployments and monetises payments on $31B of donation flow — the same payments-attach model that makes the restaurant and salon markets hard. Salesforce serves the long tail free through Power of Us, so the SMB end has a zero price floor and the enterprise end has a payments-subsidised incumbent. Note a data-quality problem: one published source puts the entire 'nonprofit software market' at $0.35B in 2026, which is a third of Blackbaud's own revenue. That forecast is unusable and is recorded here only as a caution about the category's market-sizing literature.

NAICS 81324 vendors named7 sourced figuresOpen →
Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 813990
HOA, Condo & Strata Management SoftwareOne thing must be true
binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability
Incumbent CINC Systems and Vantaca (management-company tier); AppFolio and Buildium where general property managers also run associations

This is not property management with a different label: the client is a volunteer board, not a landlord. The 531310 record covers owners and managers who collect rent from tenants, so rent payments are what the software monetises. Here the association owns nothing for profit. Its elected board levies dues and special assessments on its own members, enforces covenants (violations, architectural requests), runs elections and votes, and must fund reserves for roofs, elevators and roads. Most boards hire a management company to do that work, and the management company, not the board, buys the software and runs dozens or hundreds of associations on it. Associations are also managed by general property managers under 531310, which is why AppFolio and Buildium appear here too. The market is large and documented. The Foundation for Community Association Research counts 373,000 US associations housing 78.1 million residents in 2025, collecting $124.2 billion in assessments, $31.1 billion of it into reserve funds. It counts 9,000–10,000 management companies and says 30–40% of associations manage themselves [A]. The management-company tier is held by two well-funded specialists. CINC Systems (Duluth, Georgia, since 2005) says it serves nearly 50,000 associations and has 38 direct bank integrations. It is backed by Spectrum Equity (2020) and Hg (December 2023), and it bought HOAst (e-voting) and ONR (resident app) [B/C]. Vantaca (Wilmington, North Carolina) raised more than $300 million led by Cove Hill Partners at a $1.25 billion valuation in October 2025, on top of a 2022 JMI Equity minority stake, and claims 50,000+ associations and six million households [B/C]. Behind them are PE-backed roll-ups: FrontSteps (AtHomeNet, AssociationVoice, Caliber, Capsure, DwellingLive, Evercondo; CIP Capital), Enumerate (formerly TOPS, rebranded 2023 under Great Hill Partners), and BuildingLink (Bregal Sagemount, 2022), plus Buildium (RealPage, $580M in 2019) and AppFolio's association edition [A/B/C]. The board-as-buyer wedge is the obvious one, and it is taken. Self-managed associations buy their own software, and PayHOA raised a $27.5M Series A led by Elephant in 2024 to serve exactly them [B]; Enumerate and Condo Control sell to them too. Canada is the same picture at a smaller size. Condo Control (Toronto, Klass Capital) claims 3.5 million residents and is marketing BC strata. In BC, the Strata Property Act sets the record-keeping and disclosure duties (minutes and books for six years, depreciation reports permanently, records to owners within two weeks [A, government]). That creates the Form B/F document-sale business StrataPress already runs for 1,900+ strata corporations, with StrataStation a newer BC/Alberta platform [C]. Incumbent vulnerability decides it: the two leaders are freshly capitalised, the lock-in is the association's general ledger and its bank integration, and the board-direct and BC-strata gaps both have funded or established occupants.

NAICS 81399011 vendors named6 sourced figuresOpen →
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Companies in this industry · 36

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

CompanyFiled underRevenueRank
BuildiumPrivateOther membership organizations813990—1/10
Advanced Solutions International (ASI)PrivateBusiness, professional, labour and other membership organizations8139—1/5
BloomerangPrivateGrant-making and giving services8132—1/7
BonterraPrivateSocial advocacy organizations8133—1/4
BreezePrivateReligious organizations8131—1/5
BuildingLinkPrivateOther membership organizations813990—2/10
CINC SystemsPrivateOther membership organizations813990—3/10
Commercial banquet halls and event venuesPrivateCivic and social organizations8134—1/5
Community BrandsPrivateBusiness, professional, labour and other membership organizations8139—2/5
Condo ControlPrivateOther membership organizations813990—4/10
CventPrivateBusiness, professional, labour and other membership organizations8139—3/5
EnumeratePrivateOther membership organizations813990—5/10
Foundations funding programmes directlyPrivateSocial advocacy organizations8133—2/4
FrontStepsPrivateOther membership organizations813990—6/10
GiveffectPrivateGrant-making and giving services8132—2/7

And 21 more on the companies page.

06

Who works here

The occupations employed in Other services (except public administration), most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Tagged to this industry

Concentrated in this sectorA

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. But note the shape of this industry: 79% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.

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07

Inside this industry

5 rows sit directly beneath 813, and 23 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

Alongside it, under 81 Other services (except public administration)