1. Directory of nonprofits
  2. Locations
  3. Kentucky
  4. Louisville
  5. Louisville arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Louisville arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

There are 450 arts, culture, and humanities organizations in the greater Louisville metro area. Combined, these Louisville metro arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits employ 1,667 people, earn more than $142 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $517 million.
Skip to:
Related directory pages:

Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Louisville

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Performing arts organizations
 
123
 
$52,921,987
Historical societies and organizations
 
93
 
$9,727,957
Arts and culture promoting and producing organizations
 
86
 
$11,007,987
Museums
 
37
 
$47,800,042
Media production and publishing organizations
 
33
 
$7,885,487
Cultural and ethnic awareness organizations
 
32
 
$1,143,601
Theaters
 
32
 
$24,222,329
Music festival and event organizations
 
28
 
$1,558,751
History museums
 
18
 
$14,583,258
Visual arts nonprofit organizations
 
15
 
$2,393,251
Showing 10 of 32 categories

Job trends for Louisville arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
56
1-10
 
30
11-25
 
8
26-100
 
9
101 to 1,000
 
5
1,000+
 
0
Key takeaways for employment stats:

Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Louisville

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
113
$250k to $1M
 
35
$1M to $5M
 
11
$5M to $25M
 
11
$25M to $100M
 
0
$100M+
 
0
Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Directory of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Louisville

Want to add filters to this list, or drill down on results in detail? Open in the Cause IQ search interface
1-20 of 450

Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation

Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation engages and educates visitors by preserving the history and culture of the Kentucky Derby through interactive exhibits and outreach programs.
Revenue
$9.2m
Assets
$41.1m
Employees
138
EIN
31-1023459
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Actors Theatre of Louisville

Actors Theatre of Louisville engages people in theatre that unlocks human potential, builds community, uplifts regional stories, and connects audiences to vital support resources.
Revenue
$6.3m
Assets
$25.4m
Employees
136
EIN
61-0645030
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Speed Art Museum

The Speed Art Museum, originally known as the J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, is Kentucky's oldest and largest art museum. It was founded in 1925 by Hattie Bishop Speed as a memorial to her husband, James Breckinridge Speed.
Revenue
$17.1m
Assets
$143.5m
Employees
111
EIN
61-0444823
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Muhammad Ali Center

To preserve and share the legacy and ideals of Muhammad Ali, to promote respect, hope, and understanding, and to inspire adults and children everywhere to be as great as they can be.
Revenue
$6.0m
Assets
$29.7m
Employees
82
EIN
61-1323046
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Louisville Ballet

Louisville Ballet, the State Ballet of Kentucky, offers dance to an audience of more than 43,000 people each year with over 70 world premiere ballets and 150 works to its credit.
Revenue
$7.2m
Assets
$4.7m
Employees
94
EIN
61-6033779
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Kentucky Science Center

We exude a do Science philosophy. Our message is simple: play, tinker, collaboratee, test, experiment, goof up, and try again. We don't care if you get The right answers - The first time or ever.
Revenue
$6.2m
Assets
$7.1m
Employees
192
EIN
31-1005850
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Adventurous Minds Produce Extraordinary Dreams

Music education for youth with a mission to cultivate kindness, guidance, and support that encourages community-focused citizenship in Louisville, KY.
Revenue
$6.0m
Assets
$11.6m
Employees
17
EIN
47-1113120
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Fund for the Arts

At the Fund for the Arts, we believe that art is a right, not a privilege because art is a fundamental expression of the human condition.
Revenue
$6.5m
Assets
$8.3m
Employees
21
EIN
61-0479626
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Louisville Orchestra

The Louisville Orchestra innovates classical music, enriching the community through engaging performances, education, and accessible programs that bring joy to all.
Revenue
$9.6m
Assets
$7.8m
Employees
270
EIN
61-6000384
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Louisville Public Media

LPM provides independent news, music, and culture. Three public radio stations, an investigative unit, podcasts and community events serve the Louisville, KY area.
Revenue
$7.0m
Assets
$6.0m
Employees
73
EIN
61-1259787
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Filson Historical Society

To collect, preserve, and tell the significant stories of Kentucky and Ohio Valley history and culture.
Revenue
$2.9m
Assets
$48.1m
Employees
42
EIN
61-0444690
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Frazier History Museum

The Frazier History Museum is a museum in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown. It provides an unforgettable journey through more than 1,000 years of history with live performances every day.
Revenue
$4.3m
Assets
$37.2m
Employees
81
EIN
61-1378343
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Embroiderers' Guild of America

The Embroiderers' Guild of America promotes and preserves needle arts through education, cooperation, and opportunities for members to showcase their work globally.
Revenue
$890.8k
Assets
$3.6m
Employees
5
EIN
13-1914577
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Portland Museum

Portland Museum is an educational resource that collects, preserves, exhibits, interprets, and enhances the culture and heritage of Portland, a neighborhood in louisville, Kentucky that was once a thriving independent town.at Portland Museum, we interpret....
Revenue
$828.3k
Assets
$3.7m
Employees
3
EIN
23-7422794
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Louisville Visual Art

Engaging artists in Louisville, KY through education, outreach and support with programming like mural art, artebella, open studio weekend and calls for artists.
Revenue
$944.7k
Assets
$3.0m
Employees
0
EIN
61-0492348
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Stage One

Stage One engages children and their communities through theatre productions and educational programs, fostering empathy, imagination and appreciation for the arts.
Revenue
$1.1m
Assets
$1.1m
Employees
78
EIN
61-0466715
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Kentucky Performing Arts Foundation

KPAF solicits and receives gifts to finance Kentucky Center for the Arts Corporation. It also supports education program and manages Brown Theatre.
Revenue
$2.8m
Assets
$30.7m
Employees
0
EIN
31-0999046
IRS type
501(c)(3)

IDEAS xLAB

IDEAS xLAB unearths and honors community stories through creative action, activating hope for population health improvement.
Revenue
$822.1k
Assets
$878.7k
Employees
3
EIN
46-3469821
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Louisville Theatrical Association

Louisville Theatrical Association produces and presents performances, expanding arts education for future artists with its Broadway Series Education Program.
Revenue
$12.9m
Assets
$15.8m
Employees
0
EIN
61-6000383
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Historic Homes Foundation

The Historic Homes Foundation preserves Kentucky's historical properties, offering public access and educational programming that promotes culture, history, and the arts.
Revenue
$1.2m
Assets
$6.4m
Employees
13
EIN
61-0549274
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Want more insights on arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Louisville?
There's a whole lot more to Cause IQ than what you see here. Additional filters, personnel information, peer benchmarking, Salesforce integration, vendor lists, etc. Access all the information your company needs in one place, already collected.
Schedule a demo
Over 200 customers use Cause IQ to grow, maintain, and serve their nonprofit clients.
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.
Cause IQ is a website that helps companies grow, maintain, and serve their nonprofit clients, and helps nonprofits find additional foundation funding. Our data and tools help professionals prospect for nonprofits, research opportunities, benchmark their clients, and enrich existing information.
Nonprofits
Product
Customers
About

© 2026 Nonprofit Metrics LLC
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy