Arts, culture, and humanities organizations

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There are 130,644arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in the United States. Combined, these arts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsemploy 580,095 people, earn more than $42 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $156 billion.

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Subcategories within arts, culture, and humanities organizations:

Organizations supporting an arts, culture, or humanities nonprofit(3,392)
Organizations supporting multiple arts, culture, or humanities nonprofits(2,790)
Arts and culture promoters(28,738)
- Cultural awareness organizations(11,203)
- Arts education nonprofits(5,237)
- Arts councils(1,796)
Media organizations(7,994)
- Film production organizations(2,166)
- Television broadcasters(901)
- Nonprofit publishers(2,962)
- Radio broadcasters(1,014)
Visual arts nonprofits(3,015)

Museums(9,043)
- Art museums(910)
- Children's museums(405)
- History museums(4,378)
- Natural history museums(430)
- Science museums(351)
Performing arts organizations(34,235)
- Performing arts centers(1,428)
- Dance organizations(3,567)
- Ballet companies(793)
- Theaters(7,745)
- Music festivals and events(8,047)
- Symphony orchestras(1,799)
- Operas(294)
- Performing arts schools(378)
Humanities organizations(2,587)
Historical societies(20,510)
Arts services organizations(1,093)

Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Performing arts organizations	34,235	285,011	$13,131,721,929	$33,457,967,534
Arts and culture promoting and producing organizations	28,738	62,491	$4,434,233,872	$11,445,220,320
Historical societies and organizations	20,512	24,867	$1,994,974,798	$9,522,259,750
Cultural and ethnic awareness organizations	11,203	18,781	$1,506,445,617	$4,386,546,651
Museums	9,043	130,637	$11,609,753,453	$71,976,268,002
Music festival and event organizations	8,047	18,954	$1,515,454,549	$3,330,742,934
Media production and publishing organizations	7,994	46,852	$7,103,414,654	$11,172,397,514
Theaters	7,745	90,929	$3,271,969,895	$6,397,327,013
Arts education organizations	5,237	27,870	$1,443,667,039	$4,173,626,881
History museums	4,378	40,117	$3,145,535,603	$17,657,679,121

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Job trends for Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	11,662
1-10	9,335
11-25	3,183
26-100	2,613
101 to 1,000	1,250
1,000+	38

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits is driven by large organizations like Smithsonian Institution (SI), 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, history museums, and art museums.

Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	33,039
$250k to $1M	9,028
$1M to $5M	3,796
$5M to $25M	1,011
$25M to $100M	193
$100M+	34

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Smithsonian Institution (SI), Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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 16.4% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits with more than $100 million account for 19.5% 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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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Joe's Pub

Joe's Pub, one of the six performance spaces within The Public Theater, is a music venue and restaurant that hosts live performances across genres and arts, ranging from cabaret to modern dance to world music.

Revenue

$88.7m

Assets

$115.5m

Employees

1,566

EIN

13-1844852

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Democracy Now Productions

DEMOCRACY NOW! PRODUCTIONS, INC PRODUCES A DAILY, NATIONAL, LISTENER-SPONSORED / o ooo e NON-COMMERCIAL PUBLIC RADIO AND TELEVISION NEWS SHOW DEMOCRACY NOW! PRODUCTIONS, ING 2s "FULFILLS ITS MISSION BY TRAINING JOURNALIST INTERNS AND COMMUNITY VIDEO PR...

Revenue

$10.8m

Assets

$32.4m

Employees

EIN

01-0708733

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)

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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. 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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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art

Carnegie Hall / The Carnegie Hall Corporation

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF)

Brooklyn Museum

Whyy

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Joe's Pub

Democracy Now Productions

Media Matters for America

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