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Arts, culture, and humanities organizations

There are 123,745arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in the United States. Combined, these arts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsemploy 546,569 people, earn more than $40 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $158 billion.
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Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Performing arts organizations
32,194
$11,968,999,374
Arts and culture promoting and producing organizations
27,176
$4,297,455,403
Historical societies and organizations
19,528
$1,886,859,931
Cultural and ethnic awareness organizations
10,518
$1,385,205,493
Museums
8,759
$11,231,359,359
Music festival and event organizations
7,536
$1,380,319,912
Media production and publishing organizations
7,530
$6,910,910,977
Theaters
7,221
$2,921,008,482
Arts education organizations
4,934
$1,385,898,461
History museums
4,197
$2,967,520,587
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Job trends for Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
10,842
1-10
9,180
11-25
3,135
26-100
2,524
101 to 1,000
1,165
1,000+
35
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Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
29,553
$250k to $1M
8,580
$1M to $5M
3,652
$5M to $25M
954
$25M to $100M
185
$100M+
33
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Whyy

WHYY is the Philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and all of Delaware.
Revenue
$39.0m
Assets
$57.8m
Employees
346
EIN
23-1438083
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City. The museum is New York City's third largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.
Revenue
$40.6m
Assets
$323.3m
Employees
574
EIN
11-1672743
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Carnegie Hall / The Carnegie Hall Corporation

TO PRESENT MUSIC & MUSICIANS, BRING THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF MUSIC TO THE PUBLIC, PROVIDE EDUCATION PROGRAMS, and provide new works, artists & audiences. To present music & musicians, bring The transformative power of music to The public, provide edu...
Revenue
$67.7m
Assets
$655.4m
Employees
827
EIN
13-1923626
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF)

Committed to innovation, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation collects, preserves, and interprets modern and contemporary art, and explores ideas across cultures through dynamic curatorial and educational initiatives and collaborations.
Revenue
$52.8m
Assets
$236.3m
Employees
504
EIN
13-5562233
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art establishes, preserves, and documents a permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, presents exhibitions and educational programs, sustains a library, archives, and conservation laboratory and supports scholarship and pub...
Revenue
$262.1m
Assets
$2.3b
Employees
1,365
EIN
13-1624100
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

To sustain, encourage, and promote the Performing Arts. See sch. O for continuation.and part iii, line 1, description of organization mission:to sustain, encourage, and promote the Performing Arts and to educate the public with relation thereto. In additi...
Revenue
$207.7m
Assets
$838.8m
Employees
1,671
EIN
13-1847137
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The mission of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and stimulate appreciation for and advance knowledge of works of Art that collectively represent the broadest spectrum of human achievement at the highest level of qual...
Revenue
$414.7m
Assets
$4.5b
Employees
2,458
EIN
13-1624086
IRS type
501(c)(3)

New York City Ballet

Perform the ballets and preserve the dance aesthetic and standards of excellence created and established by its founders; and to develop New work that draws on the creative talents of contemporary choreographers and composers, and speaks to the time in ...
Revenue
$67.5m
Assets
$301.3m
Employees
1,451
EIN
13-2947386
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Robert W Woodruff Arts Center

Charitable Arts organization to inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned Arts and education for diverse audiences through our unique model of divisions and collaborations, in an institutionally sustainable manner. Charitable Arts organization to...
Revenue
$83.4m
Assets
$653.9m
Employees
1,316
EIN
58-0633971
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Museum of Science

We believe that everyone has a role to play in the world of science and technology - as learners, as future scientists or engineers, as citizens of our nation, as community leaders and members of the workforce, as consumers, and as stewards of our planet.
Revenue
$50.0m
Assets
$308.6m
Employees
840
EIN
04-2103916
IRS type
501(c)(3)

92nd Street Y (92Y)

92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association is a world-class cultural and community center where people all over the world connect through culture, arts, entertainment and conversation.
Revenue
$88.4m
Assets
$131.0m
Employees
1,616
EIN
13-1624229
IRS type
501(c)(3)

WGBH Educational Foundation

WGBH enriches people's lives through programs and services that educate, inspire, and entertain, fostering citizenship and culture, the joy of learning, and the power of diverse perspectives.
Revenue
$198.4m
Assets
$841.8m
Employees
1,515
EIN
04-2104397
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Democracy Now Productions

DEMOCRACY NOW! PRODUCTIONS, INC PRODUCES A DAILY, NATIONAL, LISTENER-SPONSORED / o ooo e NON-COMMERCIAL PUBLIC RADIO AND TELEVISION NEWS SHOW DEMOCRACY NOW! PRODUCTIONS, ING 2s "FULFILLS ITS MISSION BY TRAINING JOURNALIST INTERNS AND COMMUNITY VIDEO PR...
Revenue
$10.8m
Assets
$32.4m
Employees
66
EIN
01-0708733
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Media Matters for America

Dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the u.s. Media. Media Matters for America is a web-based not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring...
Revenue
$14.2m
Assets
$6.4m
Employees
100
EIN
47-0928008
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Joe's Pub

Joe's Pub, one of the six performance spaces within The Public Theater, is a music venue and restaurant that hosts live performances across genres and arts, ranging from cabaret to modern dance to world music.
Revenue
$88.7m
Assets
$115.5m
Employees
1,566
EIN
13-1844852
IRS type
501(c)(3)

California Academy of Sciences

California Academy of Sciences is a natural history or sciences museum in San Francisco, CA whose mission is: The mission of the California Academy of Sciences is to explore, explain, and sustain life.
Revenue
$95.2m
Assets
$832.2m
Employees
641
EIN
94-1156258
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Sesame Workshop (SW)

Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street and so much more. Sesame Workshop's mission is to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder.
Revenue
$246.1m
Assets
$433.6m
Employees
1,268
EIN
13-2655731
IRS type
501(c)(3)

SoundExchange

SoundExchange works at the center of digital music, developing business solutions to benefit the entire music industry. We collect & distribute digital performance royalties on behalf of more than 130,000 recording artists & master rights owners.
Revenue
$66.8m
Assets
$696.9m
Employees
194
EIN
76-0742496
IRS type
501(c)(6)

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) brings together collections of art, history and natural sciences under one roof to tell the extraordinary stories of California and its people.
Revenue
$21.7m
Assets
$69.6m
Employees
189
EIN
45-3138892
IRS type
501(c)(3)

American Museum of Natural History

The Museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the Natural world, and the universe.". Nat History Museum, exhibitions, library, collections, conse...
Revenue
$198.1m
Assets
$1.5b
Employees
1,547
EIN
13-6162659
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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