Non-profit institutions serving households

Separate legal entities that provide goods and services to natural persons or groups of natural persons and that derive resources mainly from voluntary contributions in cash or kind from payments made by general governments and from property income, e.g., trade unions, professional or educational associations, consumer associations, political parties, churches, religious communities, culture, recreation and sports clubs, charity, support and aid organisations.
The definition of the concept is consistent with Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union.