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San Francisco performing arts organizations

There are 964performing arts organizations in the greater San Franciscometro area, including the cities of San Francisco, Berkeley, Livermore, Oakland, Pleasanton, Redwood City, San Mateo, San Rafael, San Ramon, South San Francisco, and Walnut Creek. Combined, these San Francisco metro performing arts organizationsemploy 13,791 people, earn more than $607 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $2 billion.
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Types of performing arts organizations in San Francisco

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Performing arts organizations
964
$607,161,347
Music festival and event organizations
244
$78,565,072
Theaters
180
$87,826,804
Dance organizations
143
$44,462,017
Symphony orchestras
54
$91,391,853
Ballet companies
36
$80,417,091
Performing arts centers
32
$48,299,348
Operas
19
$95,105,806
Performing arts schools
15
$24,643,496
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Job trends for San Francisco performing arts organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
131
1-10
99
11-25
49
26-100
72
101 to 1,000
34
1,000+
0
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Sizes of performing arts organizations in San Francisco

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
319
$250k to $1M
157
$1M to $5M
70
$5M to $25M
15
$25M to $100M
3
$100M+
0
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Directory of performing arts organizations in San Francisco

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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
$85.3m
Assets
$346.9m
Employees
913
EIN
94-0836240
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Stern Grove Festival Association

The Stern Grove Festival Association provides free live music and educational programs in San Francisco, uniting the community through accessible musical experiences.
Revenue
$3.5m
Assets
$16.2m
Employees
175
EIN
94-6064356
IRS type
501(c)(3)

San Francisco Ballet

San Francisco Ballet's mission is to share their joy of dance with the widest possible audience in their community and around the globe and to provide the highest caliber of dance training in their School.
Revenue
$59.8m
Assets
$38.4m
Employees
780
EIN
94-1415298
IRS type
501(c)(3)

San Francisco Symphony (SFS)

SFS's mission is to maintain financial stability and gains public recognition as a means of ensuring its ability to fulfill its mission.
Revenue
$71.1m
Assets
$397.2m
Employees
941
EIN
94-1156284
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Berkeley Music Group

Berkeley Music Group renovates and operates UC Theatre, a 1,400-capacity non-profit music venue in Berkeley with a youth education program.
Revenue
$5.6m
Assets
$5.8m
Employees
231
EIN
46-1517597
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Berkeley Repertory Theatre creates ambitious theatre that entertains and challenges its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people to experience the world in new and surprising ways.
Revenue
$15.4m
Assets
$76.5m
Employees
457
EIN
94-1679756
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Alonzo King Lines Ballet (AKLB)

The mission of Alonzo King LINES Ballet (AKLB) is to nurture dynamic artistry and the development of authentic, creative expression in dance, through collaboration, performance, and education.
Revenue
$6.0m
Assets
$10.8m
Employees
112
EIN
94-2933309
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Golden Gate Performing Arts (SFGMC)

The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC) is the world's first openly gay chorus, one of its largest and the group most often credited with creating the LGBT choral movement.
Revenue
$5.4m
Assets
$17.0m
Employees
10
EIN
94-2576101
IRS type
501(c)(3)

San Francisco Jazz Organization

As a 501c3 non-profit organization, SFJAZZ works to develop the audience for jazz in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. SFJAZZ celebrates jazz as a living art form, built on a constantly evolving tradition.
Revenue
$16.6m
Assets
$70.4m
Employees
212
EIN
94-2990335
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse

Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse promotes traditional music with an inclusive gathering space, presenting 350+ performances and reaching 68,000 attendees annually.
Revenue
$5.2m
Assets
$18.2m
Employees
73
EIN
94-2887073
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Merola Opera Program

San Francisco-based program for young opera singers, pianists, conductors, and directors. Offers training in musical style and interpretation, stage technique, and career coaching.
Revenue
$5.3m
Assets
$39.3m
Employees
11
EIN
94-6084831
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Blue Devils (BD)

The Blue Devil share the mission of BD Performing Arts: to permanently enrich the lives of young people through a commitment to youth development and performance excellence while providing enjoyment for our local community and audiences worldwide.
Revenue
$10.7m
Assets
$8.5m
Employees
276
EIN
94-2216542
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts supports artists and generates culture that moves people in downtown San Francisco.
Revenue
$15.8m
Assets
$24.7m
Employees
495
EIN
94-3042571
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Dancers Group

Dancers Group supports and promotes dance through innovative programs and fiscal sponsorship, with a unifying membership network.
Revenue
$6.1m
Assets
$8.1m
Employees
7
EIN
94-2879185
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Community Music Center (CMC)

Community Music Center (CMC) is the Bay Area's oldest community arts organization and San Francisco's largest provider of low-cost, high quality music education, serving over 2,300 students and 19,500 concertgoers each year.
Revenue
$8.4m
Assets
$16.9m
Employees
142
EIN
94-1156270
IRS type
501(c)(3)

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley produces innovative theatrical productions, provides instruction, and engages the diverse community with education programs.
Revenue
$5.3m
Assets
$6.2m
Employees
285
EIN
94-2831245
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Oberlin Dance Collective (ODC)

ODC is a San Francisco-based contemporary dance center that inspires, engages, and fosters diversity and inclusion through dance.
Revenue
$9.6m
Assets
$22.7m
Employees
250
EIN
34-1191163
IRS type
501(c)(3)

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts engages youth and young adults in imagining and creating new worlds for themselves and new visions for their communities through the inspiration and discipline of rigorous training in world performance traditions.
Revenue
$6.4m
Assets
$23.1m
Employees
80
EIN
94-1692171
IRS type
501(c)(3)

San Francisco Opera (SFO)

San Francisco Opera is known for commissioning numerous world premieres, training some of opera's greatest young artists and being one of the world's leading opera companies.
Revenue
$2.1m
Assets
$6.8m
Employees
9
EIN
94-1189846
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Marin Theatre Company

Marin Theatre Company produces world-class theater for the Marin County and Bay Area communities. We strive to set a national standard for intimate theater experiences of the highest quality, featuring provocative plays by passionate playwrights.
Revenue
$2.0m
Assets
$3.1m
Employees
81
EIN
23-7018125
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. 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 "A60: Performing Arts Organizations, Activities" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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