Arts, Culture & Humanities Charities

Arts, Culture & Humanities is a well-populated category on the site, with 289 organizations whose IRS Form 990 filings we have processed. The category lands close to the site-wide median on the Efficiency Score.

Arts, Culture & Humanities is one of 16 IRS NTEE-coded categories we track. The 289 organizations in this category together represent a substantial share of the U.S. tax-exempt sector.

The 289 arts, culture & humanities nonprofits in this view together report $22.0B in combined annual revenue on their most recent IRS Form 990 filings. Median revenue is $45.0M, and the simple average is $76.0M — a gap that reflects the long-tail distribution typical of the nonprofit sector, where a handful of large organizations account for most aggregate dollars.

Across the 289 arts, culture & humanities nonprofits we track, 25 earn an A and 158 earn a B on the Efficiency Score (combined 63% in the top two tiers, with A-grade organizations alone at 9%). Another 106 land at C, 0 at D, and 0 at F — a combined 0% in the bottom two tiers based on program ratio, reserves, growth consistency, and CEO-comp ratio drawn from each organization's most recent Form 990.

Executive compensation detail is reported on Schedule J of the Form 990 and is not always present for every organization in this list — particularly the smaller filers using Form 990-EZ.

The most useful side-by-side reads come from comparing organizations of similar revenue scale within the same NTEE category. A $200M university foundation has a fundamentally different cost structure than a $2M scholarship fund, even though both file as education nonprofits. Sort the table by revenue first, narrow to a single revenue tier, then sort by Efficiency Score within that tier.

The NonprofitTruth Efficiency Score is a 0–100 composite that summarizes four signals from the Form 990: program-spending ratio (50% of the score), revenue-growth consistency over multiple years (20%), months of fund reserves on the balance sheet (20%), and CEO compensation as a share of revenue (10%). The grade A–F mapping is purely descriptive — it summarizes the financial structure that the 990 reveals, not the social impact, program quality, or outcomes of the work the organization does. Donors evaluating impact should pair these financial signals with program-level evaluations from sources like Charity Navigator, GiveWell, or the organization's own audited reports.

For deeper detail than the summary cards above show, click through to any organization’s profile page — each profile lists the source filing year, the full Form 990 line items behind the score, and a multi-year revenue history.

All financials on this page come from each organization's IRS Form 990 — the federal information return that 501(c)(3) public charities, private foundations, and most other tax-exempt organizations must file annually. The Form 990 is a public document. We ingest it primarily through the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer feed, which mirrors the IRS Tax-Exempt Organization Search dataset. Original e-file XML and PDF copies of any return can be looked up directly at the IRS, ProPublica, or the Candid (formerly GuideStar) directory.

To verify any individual organization in the Arts, Culture & Humanities category, the most authoritative sources are the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search, the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, and the Candid (GuideStar) directory. ProPublica is the fastest way to see multi-year filings; Candid hosts the organization-supplied mission and program profiles.