Museums
There are 8,759museums in the United States. Combined, these museumsemploy 124,583 people, earn more than $11 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $73 billion.
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Types of museums
Nonprofit type | Number | Revenues |
---|---|---|
8,759 | $11,231,359,359 | |
4,197 | $2,967,520,587 | |
878 | $4,405,298,613 | |
526 | $742,967,760 | |
387 | $448,858,824 | |
326 | $855,168,754 |
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Job trends for Museums
Employees per organization | Number of organizations |
---|---|
0 | 802 |
1-10 | 1,073 |
11-25 | 554 |
26-100 | 536 |
101 to 1,000 | 273 |
1,000+ | 7 |
Key takeaways for employment stats:
- Employment in Museums is driven by large organizations like Smithsonian Institution (SI), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry Ford, American Museum of Natural History, and Museum of Modern Art.
- The largest employers tend to be art museums, history museums, science museums, children's museums, and museums.
Sizes of museums
Revenues per organization | Number of organizations |
---|---|
< $250k | 2,101 |
$250k to $1M | 1,004 |
$1M to $5M | 615 |
$5M to $25M | 261 |
$25M to $100M | 55 |
$100M+ | 13 |
Key takeaways for revenue stats:
- Large organizations like Smithsonian Institution (SI), Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art (NGA), Museum of Modern Art, and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Museums.
- Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 6.2% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Museums with more than $100 million account for 34.4% of nonprofit earnings.
- The highest earning organizations tend to be art museums, history museums, museums, science museums, and natural history museums.
Directory of museums
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1-20 of 8,759
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Revenue
$414.7m
Assets
$4.5b
Employees
2,458
EIN
13-1624086
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Museum of Modern Art
Revenue
$262.1m
Assets
$2.3b
Employees
1,365
EIN
13-1624100
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Brooklyn Museum
Revenue
$40.6m
Assets
$323.3m
Employees
574
EIN
11-1672743
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF)
Revenue
$52.8m
Assets
$236.3m
Employees
504
EIN
13-5562233
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Museum of Science
Revenue
$50.0m
Assets
$308.6m
Employees
840
EIN
04-2103916
IRS type
501(c)(3)
California Academy of Sciences
Revenue
$95.2m
Assets
$832.2m
Employees
641
EIN
94-1156258
IRS type
501(c)(3)
American Museum of Natural History
Revenue
$198.1m
Assets
$1.5b
Employees
1,547
EIN
13-6162659
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)
Revenue
$21.7m
Assets
$69.6m
Employees
189
EIN
45-3138892
IRS type
501(c)(3)
National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS)
Revenue
$5.4m
Assets
$48.3m
Employees
31
EIN
53-0184296
IRS type
501(c)(19)
Henry Ford
Revenue
$82.4m
Assets
$500.5m
Employees
2,036
EIN
38-1359513
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Portland Art Museum
Revenue
$27.5m
Assets
$150.1m
Employees
281
EIN
93-0391604
IRS type
501(c)(3)
National Gallery of Art (NGA)
Revenue
$274.2m
Assets
$1.6b
Employees
1,060
EIN
53-6001666
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Revenue
$41.4m
Assets
$33.9m
Employees
565
EIN
84-0518447
IRS type
501(c)(3)
The Morgan Library & Museum
Revenue
$30.7m
Assets
$345.6m
Employees
269
EIN
13-1624146
IRS type
501(c)(3)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Revenue
$60.8m
Assets
$782.5m
Employees
591
EIN
94-1156300
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Newseum
Revenue
$1.1m
Assets
$4.5m
Employees
107
EIN
20-3985447
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Baltimore Museum of Art
Revenue
$31.3m
Assets
$169.3m
Employees
253
EIN
52-6000162
IRS type
501(c)(3)
The Exploratorium
Revenue
$48.6m
Assets
$264.8m
Employees
811
EIN
94-1696494
IRS type
501(c)(3)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
Revenue
$126.5m
Assets
$745.8m
Employees
505
EIN
52-1309391
IRS type
501(c)(3)
National Museum of the United States Army (NMUSA)
Revenue
$11.0m
Assets
$9.5m
Employees
29
EIN
52-1367225
IRS type
501(c)(3)