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Visual arts nonprofit organizations

There are 3,654 visual arts nonprofits in the United States. Combined, these visual arts nonprofits employ 13,078 people, earn more than $2 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $5 billion.
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Job trends for Visual arts nonprofits

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
487
1-10
 
543
11-25
 
168
26-100
 
74
101 to 1,000
 
6
1,000+
 
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Sizes of visual arts nonprofits

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
1,305
$250k to $1M
 
503
$1M to $5M
 
218
$5M to $25M
 
18
$25M to $100M
 
3
$100M+
 
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Directory of visual arts nonprofits

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1-20 of 3,654

College Art Association (CAA)

CAA, as the preeminent international leadership organization in the visual arts, promotes these arts and their understanding through advocacy, intellectual engagement, and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners.
Revenue
$3.7m
Assets
$12.2m
Employees
12
EIN
13-1671148
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Center for Curatorial Leadership

Center for Curatorial Leadership trains curators as visionary leaders, providing essential skills and mentorship to navigate the evolving challenges of modern art museums.
Revenue
$5.7m
Assets
$12.4m
Employees
6
EIN
46-2027985
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Calder Foundation

The Calder Foundation works to preserve the integrity of the artist Alexander Calder's life and work through exhibitions, publications, archives, and research.
Revenue
$14.1m
Assets
$358.0m
Employees
5
EIN
13-3466986
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Joan Mitchell Foundation

Established in 1993, the Joan Mitchell Foundation is an artist-endowed non-profit organization. The Joan Mitchell Foundation is both a model for how resources can be offered to artists, and an advocate for the value of artists.
Revenue
$20.9m
Assets
$181.9m
Employees
23
EIN
11-3161054
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Self Help Graphics and Art

Self Help Graphics promotes Latino artists in printmaking, advances culture through the arts, and offers community and youth programs.
Revenue
$5.9m
Assets
$16.8m
Employees
32
EIN
23-7311837
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Canyon Ny Foundation

The Vision Factory Foundation is a private foundation located in New York, NY. Its main purpose is to foster appreciation of the visual arts through experiential art installations and visual exhibitions.
Revenue
$11.7m
Assets
$6.2m
Employees
0
EIN
05-0539914
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Gordon Parks Foundation

The Gordon Parks Foundation preserves Parks' legacy, offers public access through exhibitions and publications, and supports artists focused on social justice themes.
Revenue
$5.1m
Assets
$25.9m
Employees
5
EIN
20-2412662
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Shunpike

Shunpike provides independent artists in Washington State with the services, resources and opportunities they need to forge their own paths to sustainable success.
Revenue
$5.9m
Assets
$3.1m
Employees
15
EIN
91-2138554
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Strong-Cuevas Sculpture Foundation

The Strong-Cuevas Sculpture Foundation, a private foundation in Lynbrook, NY, funds sculpture and supports education in the visual arts.
Revenue
$89.9m
Assets
$90.6m
Employees
0
EIN
99-1576597
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Mural Arts Philadelphia

For over 30 years, Mural Arts Philadelphia has united artists and communities through a collaborative process, rooted in the traditions of mural-making, to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives.
Revenue
$17.0m
Assets
$16.1m
Employees
252
EIN
23-2876470
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Clay Studio

The Clay Studio is a educational and arts organization dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary and traditional ceramic arts and the work of New Clay Artists.
Revenue
$6.9m
Assets
$28.9m
Employees
38
EIN
23-7380408
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Dedalus Foundation

The Dedalus Foundation was founded in 1981 by the artist Robert Motherwell to support public understanding and appreciation of the principles of modern art and modernism.
Revenue
$6.9m
Assets
$63.0m
Employees
9
EIN
13-3091704
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Alex Katz Foundation

The Alex Katz Foundation is a New York-based nonprofit that supports artwork contributions and exhibitions at the Colby College Museum of Art.
Revenue
$36.8m
Assets
$110.9m
Employees
2
EIN
51-0529249
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Public Art Fund

Public Art Fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in New York City by mounting ambitious free exhibitions of international scope and impact that offer the public powerful experiences with art and the urban environment.
Revenue
$5.6m
Assets
$9.7m
Employees
36
EIN
13-2898805
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Salmagundi Club

Salmagundi Club: Art club in NYC that encourages originality among members and offers educational programs, located in New York.
Revenue
$2.1m
Assets
$5.1m
Employees
0
EIN
13-5365520
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Potters Studio

A studio in Berkeley, CA nurturing and inspiring ceramic artists of diverse backgrounds with space, tools and community connections.
Revenue
$2.5m
Assets
$4.4m
Employees
33
EIN
94-2435892
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Artshack Brooklyn

Artshack Brooklyn fosters creativity through ceramics, offering accessible classes for all ages while promoting anti-racism and queer affirmation in a supportive community.
Revenue
$2.2m
Assets
$1.4m
Employees
35
EIN
81-1692702
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Laundromat Project

The Laundromat Project advances artists and neighbors through community engagement, artist residencies, and fellowships in Central Brooklyn.
Revenue
$2.4m
Assets
$9.2m
Employees
16
EIN
87-0753479
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Wildenstein Plattner Institute

The Wildenstein Plattner Institute is a New York-based non-profit committed to art history research and digitizing archival materials for public access.
Revenue
$3.7m
Assets
$3.1m
Employees
6
EIN
81-2756135
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Art Omi

Art Omi fosters diversity, community and creativity through global artist residencies and contemporary sculpture/architecture exhibits on sprawling Hudson Valley grounds.
Revenue
$9.6m
Assets
$48.2m
Employees
72
EIN
13-3641616
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 "A40: Visual Art Organizations, Services" 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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