Arts, culture, and humanities organizations
There are 114,346 arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in the United States. Combined, these arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits employ 572,559 people, earn more than $44 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $151 billion.
Subcategories within arts, culture, and humanities organizations:
- Organizations supporting an arts, culture, or humanities nonprofit(2,993)
- Organizations supporting multiple arts, culture, or humanities nonprofits(1,767)
- Arts and culture promoters(23,362)
- Cultural awareness organizations (9,061)
- Arts education nonprofits (4,761)
- Arts councils (1,633)
- Media organizations(7,032)
- Film production organizations (1,844)
- Television broadcasters (844)
- Nonprofit publishers (2,839)
- Radio broadcasters (886)
- Visual arts nonprofits(2,616)
- Museums(8,137)
- Art museums (858)
- Children's museums (390)
- History museums (3,970)
- Natural history museums (250)
- Science museums (319)
- Performing arts organizations(30,807)
- Performing arts centers (1,425)
- Dance organizations (3,066)
- Ballet companies (721)
- Theaters (7,136)
- Music festivals and events (7,106)
- Symphony orchestras (1,651)
- Operas (245)
- Performing arts schools (418)
- Humanities organizations(2,238)
- Historical societies(19,164)
- Arts services organizations(789)
Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits
| Nonprofit type | Number | Revenues |
|---|---|---|
30,807 | $14,314,180,713 | |
23,362 | $4,097,663,591 | |
19,241 | $2,253,824,155 | |
9,061 | $1,287,549,762 | |
8,137 | $12,326,269,249 | |
7,136 | $3,490,274,641 | |
7,106 | $1,910,345,140 | |
7,032 | $7,120,520,762 | |
4,761 | $1,509,874,821 | |
3,970 | $3,070,701,334 |
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Job trends for Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits
| Employees per organization | Number of organizations |
|---|---|
| 0 | 10,305 |
| 1-10 | 8,601 |
| 11-25 | 3,075 |
| 26-100 | 2,528 |
| 101 to 1,000 | 1,234 |
| 1,000+ | 39 |
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 | 29,770 |
| $250k to $1M | 8,831 |
| $1M to $5M | 3,728 |
| $5M to $25M | 1,040 |
| $25M to $100M | 228 |
| $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 19.6% of nonprofit earnings.
- The highest earning organizations tend to be art museums, performing arts centers, theaters, history museums, and television broadcasters.
Directory of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits
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Whyy
Revenue
$37.8m
Assets
$48.9m
Employees
263
EIN
23-1438083
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)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Revenue
$574.8m
Assets
$4.4b
Employees
2,547
EIN
13-1624086
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Brooklyn Museum
Revenue
$43.8m
Assets
$317.5m
Employees
503
EIN
11-1672743
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF)
Revenue
$61.8m
Assets
$171.4m
Employees
661
EIN
13-5562233
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)
Revenue
$347.4m
Assets
$1.6b
Employees
4,011
EIN
36-2167725
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Museum of Modern Art
Revenue
$283.3m
Assets
$2.2b
Employees
1,269
EIN
13-1624100
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Revenue
$144.6m
Assets
$736.7m
Employees
1,990
EIN
13-1847137
IRS type
501(c)(3)
American Boat and Yacht Council
Revenue
$2.4m
Assets
$1.0m
Employees
20
EIN
13-1939929
IRS type
501(c)(3)
New York City Ballet
Revenue
$99.8m
Assets
$332.6m
Employees
1,330
EIN
13-2947386
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.