Arts, culture, and humanities organizations

There are 114,529 arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in the United States. Combined, these arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits employ 571,260 people, earn more than $45 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $151 billion.

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Subcategories within arts, culture, and humanities organizations:

Organizations supporting an arts, culture, or humanities nonprofit(3,045)
Organizations supporting multiple arts, culture, or humanities nonprofits(1,764)
Arts and culture promoters(23,457)
- Cultural awareness organizations (9,121)
- Arts education nonprofits (4,829)
- Arts councils (1,630)
Media organizations(7,051)
- Film production organizations (1,851)
- Television broadcasters (848)
- Nonprofit publishers (2,860)
- Radio broadcasters (881)
Visual arts nonprofits(2,616)

Museums(8,160)
- Art museums (854)
- Children's museums (391)
- History museums (4,014)
- Natural history museums (247)
- Science museums (318)
Performing arts organizations(30,872)
- Performing arts centers (1,433)
- Dance organizations (3,096)
- Ballet companies (727)
- Theaters (7,141)
- Music festivals and events (7,145)
- Symphony orchestras (1,662)
- Operas (245)
- Performing arts schools (426)
Humanities organizations(2,235)
Historical societies(19,180)
Arts services organizations(788)

Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Performing arts organizations	30,872	281,902	$14,365,584,959	$32,531,784,170
Arts and culture promoting and producing organizations	23,457	59,899	$4,142,323,722	$8,913,330,428
Historical societies and organizations	19,249	23,961	$2,250,852,401	$10,550,385,890
Cultural and ethnic awareness organizations	9,121	14,736	$1,279,377,745	$2,900,813,497
Museums	8,160	130,869	$12,567,597,065	$68,402,850,948
Music festival and event organizations	7,145	20,246	$1,896,127,894	$4,195,946,762
Theaters	7,141	87,705	$3,500,534,564	$5,907,606,998
Media production and publishing organizations	7,051	44,071	$7,186,184,460	$11,871,337,505
Arts education organizations	4,829	30,120	$1,551,137,561	$3,487,600,158
History museums	4,014	34,820	$3,106,232,404	$15,012,411,956

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Job trends for Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	10,615
1-10	8,562
11-25	3,052
26-100	2,517
101 to 1,000	1,244
1,000+	38

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), Metropolitan Museum of Art, John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (LAP).
The largest employers tend to be theaters, performing arts centers, symphony orchestras, art museums, and history museums.

Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	30,095
$250k to $1M	8,894
$1M to $5M	3,765
$5M to $25M	1,040
$25M to $100M	234
$100M+	36

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Smithsonian Institution (SI), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 15.2% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits with more than $100 million account for 19.3% of nonprofit earnings.
The highest earning organizations tend to be art museums, performing arts centers, theaters, history museums, and television broadcasters.

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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

$103.4m

Assets

$676.7m

Employees

765

EIN

13-1923626

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 p...

Revenue

$283.3m

Assets

$2.2b

Employees

1,269

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 addi...

Revenue

$144.6m

Assets

$736.7m

Employees

1,990

EIN

13-1847137

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

$37.8m

Assets

$48.9m

Employees

263

EIN

23-1438083

IRS type

501(c)(3)

American Boat and Yacht Council

American Boat and Yacht Council is a printing, publishing organization in Annapolis, MD whose mission is: Promote boating safety.

Revenue

$2.5m

Assets

$1.2m

Employees

EIN

13-1939929

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

$43.8m

Assets

$317.5m

Employees

503

EIN

11-1672743

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

$347.4m

Assets

$1.6b

Employees

4,011

EIN

36-2167725

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 qu...

Revenue

$574.8m

Assets

$4.4b

Employees

2,547

EIN

13-1624086

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

$77.2m

Assets

$166.9m

Employees

642

EIN

13-5562233

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is a weekday, independent global news hour anchored by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.

Revenue

$11.4m

Assets

$27.3m

Employees

EIN

01-0708733

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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Arts, culture, and humanities organizations

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Carnegie Hall / The Carnegie Hall Corporation

Museum of Modern Art

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Whyy

American Boat and Yacht Council

Brooklyn Museum

Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF)

Democracy Now!

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