Museums
There are 8,316 museums in the United States. Combined, these museums employ 131,278 people, earn more than $12 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $68 billion.
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Types of museums
| Nonprofit type | Number | Revenues |
|---|---|---|
8,316 | $12,398,392,873 | |
3,718 | $2,962,895,896 | |
919 | $6,392,369,244 | |
414 | $624,298,163 | |
326 | $896,626,129 | |
266 | $1,044,358,760 |
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Job trends for Museums
| Employees per organization | Number of organizations |
|---|---|
| 0 | 837 |
| 1-10 | 1,000 |
| 11-25 | 551 |
| 26-100 | 542 |
| 101 to 1,000 | 279 |
| 1,000+ | 8 |
Key takeaways for employment stats:
- Employment in Museums is driven by large organizations like Smithsonian Institution (SI), Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry Ford, and American Museum of Natural History.
- The largest employers tend to be art museums, history museums, science museums, natural history museums, and children's museums.
Sizes of museums
| Revenues per organization | Number of organizations |
|---|---|
| < $250k | 2,349 |
| $250k to $1M | 972 |
| $1M to $5M | 620 |
| $5M to $25M | 262 |
| $25M to $100M | 76 |
| $100M+ | 12 |
Key takeaways for revenue stats:
- Large organizations like Smithsonian Institution (SI), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), Museum of Modern Art, and National Gallery of Art (NGA) earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Museums.
- Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 5.6% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Museums with more than $100 million account for 32.0% of nonprofit earnings.
- The highest earning organizations tend to be art museums, history museums, natural history museums, science museums, and children's museums.
Directory of museums
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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)
Museum of Modern Art
Revenue
$283.3m
Assets
$2.2b
Employees
1,269
EIN
13-1624100
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)
California Academy of Sciences
Revenue
$85.8m
Assets
$820.5m
Employees
735
EIN
94-1156258
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Museum of Science
Revenue
$80.5m
Assets
$290.7m
Employees
786
EIN
04-2103916
IRS type
501(c)(3)
American Museum of Natural History
Revenue
$205.4m
Assets
$1.5b
Employees
1,641
EIN
13-6162659
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)
Revenue
$18.9m
Assets
$50.9m
Employees
170
EIN
45-3138892
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Henry Ford
Revenue
$73.1m
Assets
$496.0m
Employees
2,046
EIN
38-1359513
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 "A50: Museums" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.