Bakersfield arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

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There are 166 arts, culture, and humanities organizations in the greater Bakersfield metro area. Combined, these Bakersfield metro arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits employ 389 people, earn more than $18 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $36 million.

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Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Bakersfield

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Arts and culture promoting and producing organizations	47	9	$3,237,399	$4,249,558
Performing arts organizations	40	269	$5,533,439	$6,203,892
Museums	26	81	$6,386,559	$20,423,589
Cultural and ethnic awareness organizations	22	0	$1,087,461	$3,142,602
Historical societies and organizations	19	6	$268,085	$1,372,449
History museums	10	7	$1,958,196	$9,122,201
Media production and publishing organizations	10	19	$2,106,575	$3,189,546
Theaters	8	0	$646,121	$683,729
Arts education organizations	7	0	$84,325	$20,868
Symphony orchestras	6	186	$1,169,477	$3,288,859

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Job trends for Bakersfield arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	17
1-10	7
11-25	2
26-100	4
101 to 1,000	1
1,000+	0

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Bakersfield arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits is driven by large organizations like Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, Bakersfield Music Theatre (BMT), Fox Theater Foundation, Kern County Museum Foundation, and Bakersfield Museum of Art.

Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Bakersfield

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	47
$250k to $1M	13
$1M to $5M	5
$5M to $25M	0
$25M to $100M	0
$100M+	0

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like The Arts Council of Kern, Fox Theater Foundation, Kern County Museum Foundation, Bakersfield Museum of Art, and Skyride Unlimited Incorporated earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Bakersfield arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 60.5% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Bakersfield arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits with more than $100 million account for 0.0% of nonprofit earnings.

Directory of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Bakersfield

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Kern County Museum Foundation

Operational support for Kern County Museum through staffing, gathering funds and managing day-to-day operations, managing educational programs.

Revenue

$1.3m

Assets

$3.0m

Employees

EIN

77-0272697

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Bakersfield Museum of Art

Art museum inspiring diverse audiences with exhibits, educational programs, community outreach, and special events in Bakersfield, CA.

Revenue

$1.1m

Assets

$2.7m

Employees

EIN

77-0125694

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The American General Media Foundation

The American General Media Foundation promotes the performing arts in New Mexico through classical music streaming and over-the-air FM radio.

Revenue

$779.8k

Assets

$2.4m

Employees

EIN

26-1295261

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Fox Theater Foundation

Restores and operates the historic Fox Theater in Bakersfield, CA for performing arts through contributions and grants.

Revenue

$1.7m

Assets

$1.7m

Employees

EIN

77-0306813

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Bakersfield Music Theatre (BMT)

Bakersfield Music Theatre (BMT) was founded in 1969 by a group of educators and citizens interested in the performing arts. In 1974, it received non-profit status, and began operating as the Bakersfield Civic Light Opera at Harvey Auditorium.

Revenue

$904.1k

Assets

$313.0k

Employees

EIN

23-7351668

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra

Provide art and culture in the form of Symphony music to the county of kern. To develop an appreciation for the benefits classical music can have on a community.

Revenue

$897.6k

Assets

$485.5k

Employees

186

EIN

95-6001765

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Arts Council of Kern

Kern County's designated arts agency providing access, advocacy, education & outreach. Art-assisted education for young people using Young Audiences Arts for Learning curriculum.

Revenue

$1.9m

Assets

$1.1m

Employees

EIN

95-3098602

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Skyride Unlimited Incorporated

Skyride Unlimited provides commercial-free educational programming in Bakersfield, CA to advance educational programs and enhance values and mores.

Revenue

$1.1m

Assets

$630.7k

Employees

EIN

77-0303104

IRS type

501(c)(3)

China Lake Museum Foundation

The Museum and its associated educational activities will provide the history of the development of armament by the naval aviation community including the technological developments in the lineage of the organizations at China Lake naval air weapons stati....

Revenue

$951.6k

Assets

$2.8m

Employees

EIN

77-0340083

IRS type

501(c)(3)

California Living Museum Foundation

The California Living Museum Foundation forms to benefit California Living Museum, a native California plant and animal zoo and botanical garden. It develops programs to improve the museum.

Revenue

$992.3k

Assets

$2.1m

Employees

EIN

77-0420446

IRS type

501(c)(3)

African Association of Kern County

Provided educational supplies to school children; Reading and mentorship of school children. Cultural Education.

Revenue

N/A

Assets

N/A

Employees

N/A

EIN

80-0800053

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Route 91 Kern County Victims Memorial

Route 91 Kern County Victims Memorial is a historical societies or organization in Bakersfield, CA that was founded in 2018.

Revenue

N/A

Assets

N/A

Employees

N/A

EIN

82-5250785

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Well Music and Arts Foundation

Well Music and Arts Foundation is a performing arts school in Tehachapi, CA that was founded in 2023.

Revenue

N/A

Assets

N/A

Employees

N/A

EIN

92-3959869

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Micheal King Foundation

Micheal King Foundation is a humanities nonprofit organization in Bakersfield, CA that was founded in 2022.

Revenue

N/A

Assets

N/A

Employees

N/A

EIN

84-4273400

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Somewhere That S Green

Somewhere That S Green is a theater in Bakersfield, CA that was founded in 2025.

Revenue

N/A

Assets

N/A

Employees

N/A

EIN

99-1461518

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Pen Twist

Pen Twist is an arts education organization in Bakersfield, CA that was founded in 2023.

Revenue

N/A

Assets

N/A

Employees

N/A

EIN

93-1487926

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Endowment Foundation

The Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Endowment Foundation promotes musical awareness through the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra by assisting them to raise awareness to classical music.

Revenue

$191.4k

Assets

$2.7m

Employees

EIN

77-0329309

IRS type

501(c)(3)

West Kern Oil Museum

West Kern Oil Museum preserves a historical monument and upgrades the Oil Museum to extend knowledge of early oil exploration and production to the population of Kern County. The museum is open to the public and located in Taft, CA.

Revenue

$127.1k

Assets

$1.1m

Employees

EIN

23-7366570

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Fort Preservation Society

Fort Preservation Society maintains & improves Taft's Fort. They preserve this landmark, increase awareness of its heritage & offer cultural enrichment.

Revenue

$75.3k

Assets

$27.9k

Employees

EIN

77-0328337

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Family Del Rio

Family Del Rio is a cultural or ethnic awareness organization in Bakersfield, CA that was founded in 2022.

Revenue

N/A

Assets

N/A

Employees

N/A

EIN

88-3504090

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.

Bakersfield arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Bakersfield

Job trends for Bakersfield arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Bakersfield

Directory of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Bakersfield

Kern County Museum Foundation

Bakersfield Museum of Art

The American General Media Foundation

Fox Theater Foundation

Bakersfield Music Theatre (BMT)

Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra

The Arts Council of Kern

Skyride Unlimited Incorporated

China Lake Museum Foundation

California Living Museum Foundation

African Association of Kern County

Route 91 Kern County Victims Memorial

Well Music and Arts Foundation

Micheal King Foundation

Somewhere That S Green

Pen Twist

The Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Endowment Foundation

West Kern Oil Museum

Fort Preservation Society

Family Del Rio

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