Museums
There are 8,411 museums in the United States. Combined, these museums employ 135,231 people, earn more than $13 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $72 billion.
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Types of museums
Nonprofit type | Number | Revenues |
---|---|---|
8,411 | $13,435,152,946 | |
4,109 | $3,247,317,632 | |
880 | $7,057,622,870 | |
408 | $629,168,708 | |
331 | $978,950,070 | |
236 | $1,039,540,760 |
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Job trends for Museums
Employees per organization | Number of organizations |
---|---|
0 | 885 |
1-10 | 1,035 |
11-25 | 552 |
26-100 | 553 |
101 to 1,000 | 295 |
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 | 2,311 |
$250k to $1M | 1,023 |
$1M to $5M | 641 |
$5M to $25M | 274 |
$25M to $100M | 72 |
$100M+ | 13 |
Key takeaways for revenue stats:
- Large organizations like Smithsonian Institution (SI), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), 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 5.4% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Museums with more than $100 million account for 34.0% 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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Brooklyn Museum
Revenue
$43.8m
Assets
$317.5m
Employees
503
EIN
11-1672743
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)
Revenue
$376.4m
Assets
$1.7b
Employees
4,128
EIN
36-2167725
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Revenue
$515.1m
Assets
$4.5b
Employees
2,564
EIN
13-1624086
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF)
Revenue
$77.2m
Assets
$166.9m
Employees
642
EIN
13-5562233
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Museum of Modern Art
Revenue
$444.0m
Assets
$2.4b
Employees
1,284
EIN
13-1624100
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
$84.5m
Assets
$313.3m
Employees
822
EIN
04-2103916
IRS type
501(c)(3)
American Museum of Natural History
Revenue
$219.1m
Assets
$1.5b
Employees
1,616
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
$88.5m
Assets
$480.0m
Employees
2,118
EIN
38-1359513
IRS type
501(c)(3)