Arts, culture, and humanities organizations

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There are 122,087 arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in the United States. Combined, these arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits employ 580,537 people, earn more than $41 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $152 billion.

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Subcategories within arts, culture, and humanities organizations:

Organizations supporting an arts, culture, or humanities nonprofit(3,212)
Organizations supporting multiple arts, culture, or humanities nonprofits(2,364)
Arts and culture promoters(25,815)
- Cultural awareness organizations (10,269)
- Arts education nonprofits (4,862)
- Arts councils (1,675)
Media organizations(7,367)
- Film production organizations (1,992)
- Television broadcasters (875)
- Nonprofit publishers (2,825)
- Radio broadcasters (958)
Visual arts nonprofits(2,914)

Museums(8,619)
- Art museums (880)
- Children's museums (384)
- History museums (4,221)
- Natural history museums (394)
- Science museums (341)
Performing arts organizations(32,391)
- Performing arts centers (1,363)
- Dance organizations (3,336)
- Ballet companies (757)
- Theaters (7,420)
- Music festivals and events (7,602)
- Symphony orchestras (1,755)
- Operas (276)
- Performing arts schools (367)
Humanities organizations(2,413)
Historical societies(19,844)
Arts services organizations(921)

Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Performing arts organizations	32,391	286,283	$13,381,719,303	$33,425,705,704
Arts and culture promoting and producing organizations	25,815	63,225	$4,483,108,052	$11,452,508,351
Historical societies and organizations	19,846	24,716	$1,988,958,726	$9,424,400,269
Cultural and ethnic awareness organizations	10,269	19,326	$1,546,007,115	$4,395,793,819
Museums	8,619	128,056	$10,509,139,193	$68,286,041,978
Music festival and event organizations	7,602	18,685	$1,511,190,828	$3,315,626,496
Theaters	7,420	90,613	$3,383,753,957	$6,525,885,903
Media production and publishing organizations	7,367	45,982	$7,059,940,814	$11,013,463,649
Arts education organizations	4,862	28,109	$1,465,857,010	$4,179,196,028
History museums	4,221	40,241	$3,243,882,055	$17,800,581,424

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Job trends for Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	11,563
1-10	9,249
11-25	3,154
26-100	2,630
101 to 1,000	1,267
1,000+	38

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits is driven by large organizations like Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (LAP), After School Matters, and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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	32,289
$250k to $1M	9,035
$1M to $5M	3,834
$5M to $25M	1,017
$25M to $100M	203
$100M+	34

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), and John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 16.6% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits with more than $100 million account for 16.8% 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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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)

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)

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

$84.6m

Assets

$211.3m

Employees

613

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 p...

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 addi...

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 qu...

Revenue

$414.7m

Assets

$4.5b

Employees

2,458

EIN

13-1624086

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

$351.8m

Assets

$1.7b

Employees

4,119

EIN

36-2167725

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)

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)

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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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990 or 990PF with the IRS. We exclude Form 990EZ and Postcard filers, which are high in number but very small in size. 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

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Brooklyn Museum

Whyy

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF)

Museum of Modern Art

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)

Carnegie Hall / The Carnegie Hall Corporation

Media Matters for America

Robert W Woodruff Arts Center

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