Chicago arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

There are 3,697arts, culture, and humanities organizations in the greater Chicagometro area, including the cities of Chicago, Bolingbrook, Des Plaines, Elgin, Evanston, Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Schaumburg, Skokie, and Gary within the states of Illinois and Indiana. Combined, these Chicago metro arts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsemploy 63,468 people, earn more than $2 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $8 billion.

Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Chicago

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
1,299
$599,351,365
1,014
$215,327,682
438
$81,575,461
352
$134,081,969
304
$178,541,948
277
$102,054,639
232
$189,695,108
198
$767,348,977
172
$64,168,070
171
$31,132,123
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Job trends for Chicago arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
393
1-10
293
11-25
103
26-100
75
101 to 1,000
47
1,000+
4
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Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Chicago

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
1,104
$250k to $1M
318
$1M to $5M
141
$5M to $25M
39
$25M to $100M
12
$100M+
2
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Directory of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Chicago


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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 "A00: Arts, Culture, and Humanities: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.