third sector, record entries in the single register

The North-East holds the record for the highest number of organisations registered in the Single National Register of the Third Sector (Runts) per 100,000 inhabitants. According to the latest data made available by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, as at 31 May 2024 the North-East macro-area (including the regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia) ranks - with a value of 232.9 organisations per 100,000 inhabitants - above Lombardy (168.1), the South (201.1), the North-West (214.1) and the Peninsula as a whole (214.4). Driving the results of the breakdown upwards is Trentino-Alto Adige, which, with a ratio of 402.6, ranks first among the Italian regions. Among the provinces, Bolzano (437.4) and Trento (368.3) occupy, respectively, the first and third position (of the provincial ranking on a national scale) for the number of institutions per 100,000 inhabitants (the second place is held by Rieti, with a value of 389.1). Moreover, at the end of May, the number of Third Sector organisations registered with Runts in the North-East in absolute terms amounted to 16,604, corresponding to 13.1% of the total number of organisations in the country. On the opposite side, if we look at the birth rate, i.e. the number of registrations in May 2024 compared to the stock at the end of December 2023, the ranking changes significantly. In this sense, the North-East is the area with the smallest increase in the last five months (reaching a birth rate of just 6.0% compared to the beginning of the year), especially when compared to the South and the country average (7.1% and 7.0%, respectively). Among the regions, Veneto ranks 11th in Italy in terms of births of new bodies (+6.9% from December to May), with Venice (+9.9%) boasting its presence in the provincial top 10 (the only one in the breakdown), while Friuli-Venezia Giulia (+5.5%) and Trentino-Alto Adige (+4.4%) rank 13th and 18th respectively.

The Runts is the official registry of Third Sector Organisations (Ets), an IT platform established at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies that allows registered organisations to obtain, among other things, important tax benefits. In addition to the precise location of the Ets, one of the most interesting pieces of information in the Register is the section to which an organisation belongs, as well as its 5x1000 accreditation. In the North-East, if we take the total number of Ets registered with Runts to one hundred, 37 are voluntary organisations (56 in Trentino-Alto Adige), 48 are Associations for Social Promotion and 11 are Social Enterprises, while the remainder is divided between Mutual Aid Societies, Philanthropic Organisations, Associative Networks and Other Third Sector Bodies. Moreover, the share of organisations accredited to the 5x1000 in the distribution is 47.6% (higher than the 40.4% in the country, but below Lombardy, 49.1%), with two peaks in Trentino-Alto Adige (49.8%, third in the national ranking) and Friuli-Venezia Giulia (48.7%, fifth).