Nonprofitist.org

A recent comment to my previous post by abenamer made me realize that the words “international nonprofit organization” or “international NGO” might mean different things to different people. He wrote:
I tend to define international NGOs in a developed world/undeveloped world relationship. I tend to think of it as the facilitation of resources from the West elsewhere. I [...]

Short answer, more than 40000.
Long answer, 40000 is just the tip of the iceberg. Wikipedia says that ”The number of internationally operating NGOs is estimated at 40,000″: the source is ‘Global Civil Society 2001′ (Anheimer et al., 2001), containing info about international organizations and the location of their secretariats (together with other useful stats like links between international organizations, nationality and [...]