Performing arts organizations

There are 30,871 performing arts organizations in the United States. Combined, these performing arts organizations employ 281,902 people, earn more than $14 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $33 billion.

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Types of performing arts organizations

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Performing arts organizations	30,871	281,902	$14,365,687,230	$32,531,858,606
Music festival and event organizations	7,145	20,246	$1,896,137,641	$4,195,948,467
Theaters	7,140	87,705	$3,500,540,929	$5,907,642,958
Dance organizations	3,096	9,893	$522,429,723	$853,545,970
Symphony orchestras	1,662	55,329	$2,129,774,208	$5,405,722,838
Performing arts centers	1,433	57,668	$3,842,892,288	$11,190,141,978
Ballet companies	727	14,733	$793,618,456	$1,201,765,893
Performing arts schools	426	16,054	$615,422,654	$1,791,366,982
Operas	245	15,832	$666,716,092	$1,503,379,022

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Job trends for Performing arts organizations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	2,669
1-10	2,502
11-25	978
26-100	988
101 to 1,000	709
1,000+	20

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Performing arts organizations is driven by large organizations like John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (LAP), San Jose Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee World Festival, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
The largest employers tend to be theaters, performing arts centers, symphony orchestras, music festivals and events, and performing arts schools.

Sizes of performing arts organizations

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	9,067
$250k to $1M	3,128
$1M to $5M	1,270
$5M to $25M	366
$25M to $100M	94
$100M+	8

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (LAP), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Royal National Theatre, and Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Performing arts organizations.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 16.3% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Performing arts organizations with more than $100 million account for 8.6% of nonprofit earnings.
The highest earning organizations tend to be performing arts centers, theaters, symphony orchestras, music festivals and events, and ballet companies.

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Carnegie Hall / The Carnegie Hall Corporation

TO PRESENT MUSIC & MUSICIANS, BRING THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF MUSIC TO THE PUBLIC, PROVIDE EDUCATION PROGRAMS, and provide new works, artists & audiences. To present music & musicians, bring the transformative power of music to the public, provide edu...

Revenue

$103.4m

Assets

$676.7m

Employees

765

EIN

13-1923626

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

To sustain, encourage, and promote the performing arts. See sch. O for continuation.and part iii, line 1, description of organization mission:to sustain, encourage, and promote the performing arts and to educate the public with relation thereto. In addi...

Revenue

$144.6m

Assets

$736.7m

Employees

1,990

EIN

13-1847137

IRS type

501(c)(3)

New York City Ballet

Perform the ballets and preserve the dance aesthetic and standards of excellence created and established by its founders; and to develop new work that draws on the creative talents of contemporary choreographers and composers, and speaks to the time in ...

Revenue

$99.8m

Assets

$332.6m

Employees

1,330

EIN

13-2947386

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Joe's Pub

Joe's Pub, one of the six performance spaces within The Public Theater, is a music venue and restaurant that hosts live performances across genres and arts, ranging from cabaret to modern dance to world music.

Revenue

$68.1m

Assets

$85.1m

Employees

1,287

EIN

13-1844852

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Robert W Woodruff Arts Center

Charitable arts organization to inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through our unique model of divisions and collaborations, in an institutionally sustainable manner. Charitable arts organization to...

Revenue

$87.6m

Assets

$713.1m

Employees

1,154

EIN

58-0633971

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has helped to transform a downtrodden section of Downtown into a world-class Cultural District that stands as a national model of urban revitalization through the arts.

Revenue

$59.4m

Assets

$144.9m

Employees

534

EIN

25-1469002

IRS type

501(c)(3)

SoundExchange

SoundExchange works at the center of digital music, developing business solutions to benefit the entire music industry. We collect & distribute digital performance royalties on behalf of more than 130,000 recording artists & master rights owners.

Revenue

$63.6m

Assets

$566.0m

Employees

198

EIN

76-0742496

IRS type

501(c)(6)

San Francisco Opera Association

San Francisco Opera is committed to being the most exciting force in the opera world. To present opera performances of the highest international quality available to the widest possible audiences.

Revenue

$85.7m

Assets

$272.3m

Employees

938

EIN

94-0836240

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Minnesota Opera

The Minnesota opera combines a culture of creativity and fiscal responsibility to produce opera and opera education programs that expand the art form, nurture artists, enrich audiences and contribute to the vitality of the community. To produce opera an...

Revenue

$11.1m

Assets

$25.1m

Employees

258

EIN

41-0946789

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Bam's mission is to be the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas. Bam is the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas.

Revenue

$56.1m

Assets

$140.3m

Employees

1,085

EIN

11-2201344

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.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

New York City Ballet

Joe's Pub

Robert W Woodruff Arts Center

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

SoundExchange

San Francisco Opera Association

The Minnesota Opera

Brooklyn Academy of Music

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