Despite a rich literature on nonprofit density, the founding and dissolution of nonprofit organizations remains poorly understood. This study explores the founding and dissolution in nonprofit populations including density dependence, resource concentration, government size, and hypothesizes that dissolution creates an entrepreneurial opportunity. The hypotheses are tested using county level data covering the continental US from 2010 to 2016 (N = 21,756). The results show government size, competition, and resource concentration are important for understanding founding and dissolution, and establishes strong support for a link between the events: a one standard deviation increase in the number of dissolutions in a county predicts an increase of 1.5% (CI: .72–2.31) in the nonprofit founding rate. The study highlights ways for public officials to support nonprofit entrepreneurship and calls for renewed interest in ecological applications in contemporary nonprofit populations.

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连接成立和解散：美国非营利部门的人口统计研究

尽管关于非营利组织密度的文献非常丰富，但人们对非营利组织的成立和解散仍然知之甚少。本研究探讨了非营利群体的成立和解散，包括密度依赖、资源集中、政府规模，并假设解散创造了创业机会。使用 2010 年至 2016 年覆盖美国大陆的县级数据对这些假设进行了检验（氮= 21,756）。结果表明，政府规模、竞争和资源集中度对于理解成立和解散非常重要，并为事件之间的联系提供了强有力的支持：一个县解散数量每增加一个标准差，预计会增加 1.5%（ CI：0.72–2.31）非营利组织创始率。该研究强调了公职人员支持非营利创业的方式，并呼吁人们重新对当代非营利人群的生态应用产生兴趣。