Most studies of NPOs by activity fields make use of twenty legal classifications. To better grasp the reality, however, the activity fields should be further divided. And so, this study has used more detailed classifications for the revenue structures analysis and also the activities of the small-scale NPOs. The business reports of more than 14,000 NPOs in Tokyo and six other prefectures in Japan have been used. As a result, the following three points have been clarified. First, one of the

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... ngs contrary to general impressions has been this: the major source of revenues in the health, medical and welfare fields is the benefit from the disability welfare system, of which the benefit of the long-term care insurance law accounts for only 41.5%. Second, many small-scale NPOs earn mediocre amounts of business revenues (quite a little, if any), and yet they are working hard to accomplish their missions. This fact indicates that, when discussing the NPO matters at large, due attention should be paid to not only large-scale corporations but also small-scale ones. Third, if all corporations are classified by percentage of business revenues over ordinary revenues, high business type earns over 80% and low business type less than 10%.