2022 NAICS industry in sector 81 Other Services (except Public Administration)
81331 Social Advocacy Organizations
NAICS 81331 is the US industry code for social advocacy organizations. It covers establishments primarily engaged in promoting a particular cause or working for the realization of a specific social or political goal to benefit a broad or specific constituency.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in promoting a particular cause or working for the realization of a specific social or political goal to benefit a broad or specific constituency. These organizations may solicit contributions and offer memberships to support these goals.
Examples Census gives
- Community action advocacy organizations
- Firearms advocacy organizations
- Conservation advocacy organizations
- Human rights advocacy organizations
- Environmental advocacy organizations
- Wildlife preservation organizations
When to use a different code
Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:
- Establishments primarily engaged in promoting the civic and social interests of their members are classified in Industry 81341, Civic and Social Organizations.
- Establishments primarily engaged in promoting the interests of organized labor and union employees are classified in Industry 81393, Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations.
- Establishments primarily engaged in operating animal shelters are classified in Industry 81291, Pet Care (except Veterinary) Services.
- Establishments primarily engaged in providing legal services for social advocacy organizations are classified in Industry Group 5411, Legal Services.
- Establishments primarily engaged in providing community action services, such as community action services agencies, are classified in Industry 62419, Other Individual and Family Services.
- Nature preserves or conservation areas are classified in Industry 71219, Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions.
- Government establishments primarily engaged in administering, overseeing, and managing governmental ecological restoration programs are classified in Industry 92411, Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs.
- Government establishments primarily engaged in administering conservation programs are classified in Industry 92412, Administration of Conservation Programs.
Codes in 81331
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