Arts, culture, and humanities organizations
There are 25,960 arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in the United States. Combined, these arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits employ 565,446 people, earn more than $46 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $164 billion.
Subcategories within arts, culture, and humanities organizations:
- Organizations supporting an arts, culture, or humanities nonprofit(837)
- Organizations supporting multiple arts, culture, or humanities nonprofits(180)
- Arts and culture promoters(3,989)
- Cultural awareness organizations (1,588)
- Arts education nonprofits (791)
- Arts councils (816)
- Media organizations(2,890)
- Film production organizations (591)
- Television broadcasters (583)
- Nonprofit publishers (1,175)
- Radio broadcasters (185)
- Visual arts nonprofits(738)
- Museums(3,367)
- Art museums (592)
- Children's museums (330)
- History museums (1,436)
- Natural history museums (89)
- Science museums (103)
- Performing arts organizations(7,063)
- Performing arts centers (712)
- Dance organizations (604)
- Ballet companies (251)
- Theaters (2,202)
- Music festivals and events (1,232)
- Symphony orchestras (766)
- Operas (167)
- Performing arts schools (422)
- Humanities organizations(389)
- Historical societies(2,123)
- Arts services organizations(115)
Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits
| Nonprofit type | Number | Revenues |
|---|---|---|
7,529 | $13,441,754,387 | |
4,248 | $2,578,911,128 | |
4,004 | $3,697,190,934 | |
3,381 | $12,163,243,089 | |
2,890 | $11,119,572,947 | |
2,202 | $3,387,883,785 | |
1,588 | $944,408,264 | |
1,436 | $2,233,690,034 | |
1,232 | $1,312,109,627 | |
1,175 | $4,284,410,032 |
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Job trends for Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits
| Employees per organization | Number of organizations |
|---|---|
| 0 | 8,202 |
| 1-10 | 8,147 |
| 11-25 | 3,099 |
| 26-100 | 2,577 |
| 101 to 1,000 | 1,237 |
| 1,000+ | 36 |
Key takeaways for employment stats:
- Employment in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits is driven by large organizations like Smithsonian Institution (SI), Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Milwaukee World Festival.
- The largest employers tend to be theaters, symphony orchestras, performing arts centers, art museums, and history museums.
Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits
| Revenues per organization | Number of organizations |
|---|---|
| < $250k | 11,034 |
| $250k to $1M | 9,240 |
| $1M to $5M | 3,865 |
| $5M to $25M | 1,044 |
| $25M to $100M | 223 |
| $100M+ | 37 |
Key takeaways for revenue stats:
- Large organizations like University of Cambridge, Smithsonian Institution (SI), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and Corporation for Public Broadcasting earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits.
- Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 12.6% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits with more than $100 million account for 24.0% of nonprofit earnings.
- The highest earning organizations tend to be art museums, nonprofit publishers, theaters, performing arts centers, and television broadcasters.
Directory of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits
Search within these nonprofits
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Democracy Now!
Revenue
$8.2m
Assets
$20.4m
Employees
55
EIN
01-0708733
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Revenue
$56.1m
Assets
$140.3m
Employees
1,085
EIN
11-2201344
IRS type
501(c)(3)
92nd Street Y (92Y)
Revenue
$70.0m
Assets
$118.5m
Employees
1,559
EIN
13-1624229
IRS type
501(c)(3)
New York Philharmonic
Revenue
$94.2m
Assets
$316.4m
Employees
837
EIN
13-1664054
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)
Revenue
$18.9m
Assets
$50.9m
Employees
170
EIN
45-3138892
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Revenue
$59.4m
Assets
$144.9m
Employees
534
EIN
25-1469002
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Revenue
$45.4m
Assets
$22.1m
Employees
561
EIN
84-0518447
IRS type
501(c)(3)
New York City Ballet
Revenue
$84.6m
Assets
$243.5m
Employees
842
EIN
13-2947386
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Window To the World Communications (WTTW)
Revenue
$44.6m
Assets
$72.4m
Employees
305
EIN
36-2246703
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Carnegie Hall / The Carnegie Hall Corporation
Revenue
$103.4m
Assets
$676.7m
Employees
765
EIN
13-1923626
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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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.