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The aim of the paper is to analyse some of the results from Istat second survey on voluntary organizations, focusing on the analysis of the association between geographical location of the organizations and their behavioural patterns. The data show that Italian voluntary organizations are not homogeneously distributed within the whole country and rely on a large variety of structural forms and organizational sizes. The majority of them work in the North of Italy and more than 50 % are settled in four regions only. Regarding structural and behavioural patterns, about 50 percent are members of larger groups, a half are rather young, and most work with few volunteers and small income. The majority of Italian voluntary organizations operate in Health and Social Welfare and tend to be specialized in one field of activity while supplying more than one social service to their clients. In order to evaluate the degree of geographical similarities among voluntary organizations the descriptive analysis is enriched by a cluster analysis. By means of this statistical method two groups of regions showing some relevant degree of association between territorial and organizational attributes are obtained.