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Arts, culture, and humanities organizations

There are 123,995arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in the United States. Combined, these arts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsemploy 554,879 people, earn more than $41 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
32,272
$12,238,051,953
Arts and culture promoting and producing organizations
27,253
$4,357,592,541
Historical societies and organizations
19,554
$1,900,646,477
Cultural and ethnic awareness organizations
10,561
$1,412,490,730
Museums
8,763
$11,276,375,103
Music festival and event organizations
7,576
$1,439,733,249
Media production and publishing organizations
7,574
$7,003,183,021
Theaters
7,243
$3,032,799,190
Arts education organizations
4,957
$1,398,011,003
History museums
4,211
$2,983,851,845
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Job trends for Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
10,976
1-10
9,212
11-25
3,148
26-100
2,518
101 to 1,000
1,190
1,000+
36
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Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
30,298
$250k to $1M
8,604
$1M to $5M
3,689
$5M to $25M
964
$25M to $100M
185
$100M+
34
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Directory of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)
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