1. Directory of nonprofits
  2. Categories
  3. Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits
  4. Museums

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.
Skip to:
Related directory pages:

Types of museums

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Museums
 
8,411
 
$13,435,152,946
History museums
 
4,109
 
$3,247,317,632
Art museums
 
880
 
$7,057,622,870
Children's museums
 
408
 
$629,168,708
Science and technology museums
 
331
 
$978,950,070
Natural history and sciences museums
 
236
 
$1,039,540,760
Showing 6 of 6 categories

Job trends for Museums

Employees per organizationNumber 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:

Sizes of museums

Revenues per organizationNumber 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:

Directory of museums

Search within these nonprofits
1-10 of 8,411

Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City. The museum is New York City's third largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.
Revenue
$43.8m
Assets
$317.5m
Employees
503
EIN
11-1672743
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is an encyclopedic art museum located in Chicago's Grant Park. It features a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent collection.
Revenue
$376.4m
Assets
$1.7b
Employees
4,128
EIN
36-2167725
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The mission of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and stimulate appreciation for and advance knowledge of works of Art that collectively represent the broadest spectrum of human achievement at the highest level of qu...
Revenue
$515.1m
Assets
$4.5b
Employees
2,564
EIN
13-1624086
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (SRGF)

Committed to innovation, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation collects, preserves, and interprets modern and contemporary art, and explores ideas across cultures through dynamic curatorial and educational initiatives and collaborations.
Revenue
$77.2m
Assets
$166.9m
Employees
642
EIN
13-5562233
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art establishes, preserves, and documents a permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, presents exhibitions and educational programs, sustains a library, archives, and conservation laboratory and supports scholarship and p...
Revenue
$444.0m
Assets
$2.4b
Employees
1,284
EIN
13-1624100
IRS type
501(c)(3)

California Academy of Sciences

California Academy of Sciences is a natural history, natural science museum in San Francisco, CA whose mission is: The mission of the California Academy of Sciences is to explore, explain, and sustain life.
Revenue
$85.8m
Assets
$820.5m
Employees
735
EIN
94-1156258
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Museum of Science

We believe that everyone has a role to play in the world of science and technology - as learners, as future scientists or engineers, as citizens of our nation, as community leaders and members of the workforce, as consumers, and as stewards of our planet.
Revenue
$84.5m
Assets
$313.3m
Employees
822
EIN
04-2103916
IRS type
501(c)(3)

American Museum of Natural History

The Museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the Natural world, and the universe.". Nat History Museum, exhibitions, library, collections, conse...
Revenue
$219.1m
Assets
$1.5b
Employees
1,616
EIN
13-6162659
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) brings together collections of art, history and natural sciences under one roof to tell the extraordinary stories of California and its people.
Revenue
$18.9m
Assets
$50.9m
Employees
170
EIN
45-3138892
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Henry Ford

The Henry Ford provides unique educational experiences based on authentic objects, stories, and lives from America's traditions of ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation.
Revenue
$88.5m
Assets
$480.0m
Employees
2,118
EIN
38-1359513
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Want more insights on museums?
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 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.
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
Email newsletter

© 2021 Nonprofit Metrics LLC
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy