Arts, culture, and humanities organizations

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There are 139,087 arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in the United States. Combined, these arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits employ 1 million people, earn more than $63 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $219 billion.

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Subcategories within arts, culture, and humanities organizations:

Organizations supporting an arts, culture, or humanities nonprofit (1,408)
Organizations supporting multiple arts, culture, or humanities nonprofits (2,771)
Arts and culture promoters (35,415)
- Cultural awareness organizations (13,460)
- Arts education nonprofits (5,516)
- Arts councils (2,475)
Media organizations (8,906)
- Film production organizations (2,794)
- Television broadcasters (851)
- Nonprofit publishers (2,367)
- Radio broadcasters (1,152)
Visual arts nonprofits (3,894)

Museums (11,251)
- Art museums (1,161)
- Children's museums (513)
- History museums (5,167)
- Natural history museums (370)
- Science museums (469)
Performing arts organizations (40,479)
- Performing arts centers (1,771)
- Dance organizations (4,377)
- Ballet companies (1,340)
- Theaters (8,336)
- Music festivals and events (9,425)
- Symphony orchestras (2,524)
- Operas (600)
- Performing arts schools (641)
Humanities organizations (3,286)
Historical societies (18,275)
Arts services organizations (1,480)

Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Performing arts organizations	40,479	566,693	$19,189,473,402	$50,724,473,318
Arts and culture promoting and producing organizations	35,415	180,606	$6,475,685,149	$15,702,737,404
Historical societies and organizations	18,275	24,905	$3,583,902,735	$14,377,944,870
Cultural and ethnic awareness organizations	13,460	131,673	$2,028,441,985	$4,906,061,957
Museums	11,251	137,148	$18,420,033,268	$104,323,926,627
Music festival and event organizations	9,425	23,363	$2,258,100,076	$4,403,384,163
Media production and publishing organizations	8,906	59,742	$9,139,390,181	$16,622,873,968
Theaters	8,336	112,412	$4,172,725,465	$8,030,842,174
Arts education organizations	5,516	24,578	$1,516,874,817	$3,346,445,928
History museums	5,167	31,499	$3,557,436,441	$17,880,028,488

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Job trends for Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	14,867
1-10	10,820
11-25	3,799
26-100	3,085
101 to 1,000	1,346
1,000+	41

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits is driven by large organizations like Center for Youth Development Dance with Us America, Polish Teachers Association in America, MashUp Contemporary Dance Company, Evansville Civic Theatre, and Creative China Center.
The largest employers tend to be ballet companies, cultural awareness organizations, theaters, dance organizations, and performing arts centers.

Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	35,335
$250k to $1M	11,736
$1M to $5M	5,433
$5M to $25M	1,488
$25M to $100M	317
$100M+	57

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Smithsonian Institution (SI), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and Creative Testing Solutions (CTS) earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 13.9% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits with more than $100 million account for 21.4% of nonprofit earnings.
The highest earning organizations tend to be art museums, performing arts centers, theaters, historical societies, and history museums.

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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

$68.3m

Assets

$392.1m

Employees

621

EIN

11-1672743

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Whyy

WHYY is the Philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and all of Delaware.

Revenue

$48.5m

Assets

$95.4m

Employees

312

EIN

23-1438083

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media (CSM) is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that provides education and advocacy to families to promote safe technology and media for children.

Revenue

$38.0m

Assets

$37.4m

Employees

159

EIN

41-2024986

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Museum of Modern Art

MoMA: Leading modern and contemporary art museum in NYC. Catalyst for experimentation, learning, and creativity. Home for artists and their ideas.

Revenue

$324.7m

Assets

$2.6b

Employees

1,209

EIN

13-1624100

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

$697.6m

Assets

$6.0b

Employees

2,307

EIN

13-1624086

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Carnegie Hall Corporation

Carnegie Hall presents music to wide audiences, with education programs and a Weill Music Institute for accessible musical interaction.

Revenue

$90.5m

Assets

$629.5m

Employees

948

EIN

13-1923626

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is an encyclopedic art museum located in Chicago's Grant Park. It features a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent collection.

Revenue

$493.8m

Assets

$2.1b

Employees

3,590

EIN

36-2167725

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Obama Foundation

The Obama Foundation is a historical societies or organization in Chicago, IL whose mission is: Obama Foundation's mission is to inspire and empower people to change their world.

Revenue

$209.8m

Assets

$1.1b

Employees

337

EIN

46-4950751

IRS type

501(c)(3)

GiGi's Playhouse

To change the way the world views Down syndrome through national campaigns, educational programs, and by empowering individuals with Down syndrome, their families and the community.

Revenue

$7.7m

Assets

$6.8m

Employees

EIN

20-0058563

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center sustains performing arts, educates the public, and maintains a complex with multiple venues in New York.

Revenue

$171.7m

Assets

$1.2b

Employees

1,819

EIN

13-1847137

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

$88.2m

Assets

$230.2m

Employees

588

EIN

13-5562233

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

$89.4m

Assets

$782.1m

Employees

704

EIN

94-1156258

IRS type

501(c)(3)

WGBH Educational Foundation

The WGBH Educational Foundation creates inspiring media content, engages audiences through diverse programs, and supports equitable learning for children and youth.

Revenue

$225.0m

Assets

$928.3m

Employees

1,379

EIN

04-2104397

IRS type

501(c)(3)

New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet engages audiences with a diverse repertory and new works, promoting accessibility and fostering a love for dance in the community.

Revenue

$89.3m

Assets

$329.2m

Employees

1,414

EIN

13-2947386

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

$61.1m

Assets

$175.0m

Employees

1,323

EIN

13-1844852

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

$211.9m

Assets

$512.8m

Employees

525

EIN

04-2103916

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Democracy Now Productions

Democracy Now Productions delivers independent news, amplifies marginalized voices, and trains journalists, fostering democracy through listener-supported public media.

Revenue

$10.4m

Assets

$38.1m

Employees

EIN

01-0708733

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Robert W Woodruff Arts Center

Robert W Woodruff Arts Center transforms lives through arts, fostering community connections and access while providing diverse educational programs in a collaborative environment.

Revenue

$131.5m

Assets

$731.5m

Employees

1,469

EIN

58-0633971

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

$170.3m

Assets

$578.0m

Employees

777

EIN

13-2655731

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Association of Public Television Stations (APTS)

APTS is a nonprofit membership organization ensuring a strong and financially sound public television system and helping member stations provide essential public services in education, public safety, and civic leadership to the American people.

Revenue

$5.0m

Assets

$4.6m

Employees

EIN

52-1170071

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.

This category corresponds to the "A00: Arts, Culture, and Humanities: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.

Arts, culture, and humanities organizations

Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Job trends for Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Directory of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Brooklyn Museum

Whyy

Common Sense Media

Museum of Modern Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Carnegie Hall Corporation

Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)

The Obama Foundation

GiGi's Playhouse

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF)

California Academy of Sciences

WGBH Educational Foundation

New York City Ballet

Joe's Pub

Museum of Science

Democracy Now Productions

Robert W Woodruff Arts Center

Sesame Workshop (SW)

Association of Public Television Stations (APTS)

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