1. Directory of nonprofits
  2. Locations
  3. Kentucky
  4. Lexington
  5. Lexington arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Lexington arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

There are 268arts, culture, and humanities organizations in the greater Lexingtonmetro area, including the cities of Lexington and Lexington-Fayette. Combined, these Lexington metro arts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsemploy 670 people, earn more than $50 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $166 million.
Skip to:
Related directory pages:

Types of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Lexington

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Performing arts organizations
78
$10,847,848
Arts and culture promoting and producing organizations
47
$5,229,675
Historical societies and organizations
43
$2,905,163
Museums
24
$4,406,172
Media production and publishing organizations
19
$19,305,405
Music festival and event organizations
16
$775,034
Theaters
16
$3,089,849
History museums
14
$2,530,360
Visual arts nonprofit organizations
13
$1,347,528
Humanities nonprofit organizations
12
$3,320,656
Showing 10 of 32categories

Job trends for Lexington arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
25
1-10
33
11-25
12
26-100
2
101 to 1,000
2
1,000+
0
Key takeaways for employment stats:

Sizes of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Lexington

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
66
$250k to $1M
38
$1M to $5M
4
$5M to $25M
2
$25M to $100M
0
$100M+
0
Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Directory of arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Lexington

Want to add filters to this list, or drill down on results in detail? Open in the Cause IQ search interface
1-20 of 268

Kentucky Educational Television (KET)

KET's mission is to make Kentucky a better place and strengthen its communities by educating, inspiring, informing, and connecting its citizens through the power of public media.
Revenue
$10.6m
Assets
$11.5m
Employees
110
EIN
61-0722558
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lexarts

Lexarts promotes quality arts experiences through funding and advocacy, supporting over 20 arts organizations in Central Kentucky.
Revenue
$2.7m
Assets
$4.0m
Employees
16
EIN
61-1163184
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Kentucky Humanities Council

Kentucky Humanities Council tells Kentucky's story and supports local programs, including the annual Kentucky Book Fair.
Revenue
$2.6m
Assets
$6.2m
Employees
8
EIN
31-0981031
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lexington Children's Theatre (LCT)

To provide professional theatre experiences for young audiences. To provide quality theatre education for young people annually. LCT provides quality theatre experiences and theatre arts education for as many as 150,000 children's.
Revenue
$1.4m
Assets
$2.6m
Employees
19
EIN
61-0929277
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Henry Clay Memorial Foundation

Preserves The Henry Clay Estate, operates it as a museum and educational center for 19th century history, and honors Henry Clay.
Revenue
$844.4k
Assets
$5.5m
Employees
18
EIN
61-0461732
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Lex

The Lex creates professional theatre productions and trains the next generation of theatre artists, allowing the community to share in masterful storytelling.
Revenue
$899.2k
Assets
$711.1k
Employees
57
EIN
46-4867178
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Commonwealth Fund For KET

The organization's mission is to support and further the educational, charitable and public purposes and activities of the Kentucky authority for educational television (authority) and the related Kentucky educational television foundation, Inc. (foundati....
Revenue
$7.1m
Assets
$38.6m
Employees
0
EIN
61-1285473
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Friends of the Kentucky Theatre

Nonprofit overseeing restoration and maintenance of historic Kentucky Theatre. Celebrated theater's 100th anniversary in 2022 as independent art-house cinema.
Revenue
$1.2m
Assets
$171.5k
Employees
6
EIN
87-2882616
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lexington Children's Museum

Explorium of Lexington inspires learning and curiosity with hands-on programs for 20,000+ visitors annually and positively impacts another 2,500 children.
Revenue
$911.0k
Assets
$610.9k
Employees
13
EIN
61-1183278
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lexington Philharmonic Society

To enrich the lives of our diverse citizenry, to educate current and future audiences and to bring distinction to our community through the orchestra's presence and standing.
Revenue
$928.5k
Assets
$108.7k
Employees
156
EIN
61-6033529
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Grand Theatre-Frankfort

Grand Theatre-Frankfort's purpose is to renovate and restore a historic movie theatre into a venue for art and education programs for the community. The organization raises funds from charitable, private, and public sources.
Revenue
$789.2k
Assets
$5.0m
Employees
3
EIN
03-0405779
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Alliance for Women in Media Foundation

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation supports women in media through education, awards, and scholarships.
Revenue
$935.5k
Assets
$1.1m
Employees
0
EIN
52-1193933
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Bluegrass Families First

Bluegrass Families First is a music festival or event organization in Lexington, KY that was founded in 2013.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
46-3082463
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Fayette County Master Gardner Association

Fayette County Master Gardner Association is an arts or culture promoting or producing organization in Lexington, KY that was founded in 1998.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
61-1324676
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Jerameys Journey

Jerameys Journey is an organization supporting multiple arts, culture, or humanities nonprofit in Lexington, KY that was founded in 2019.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
83-2718969
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Les Mccann School for the Arts

Les Mccann School for the Arts is an arts education organization in Lexington, KY that was founded in 2017.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
81-3466106
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Northern Auroras Your Front Porch

Northern Auroras Your Front Porch is a humanities nonprofit organization in Frankfort, KY that was founded in 2019.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
83-1728520
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Kentucky Museum of Natural History

Kentucky Museum of Natural History is a natural history or sciences museum in Lexington, KY that was founded in 1991.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
61-1196366
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Central Kentucky Homemakers Quilt Guild

Central Kentucky Homemakers Quilt Guild is an arts or culture promoting or producing organization in Frankfort, KY that was founded in 1996.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
61-1307694
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Jessamine County Historical Society

Jessamine County Historical Society is a historical societies or organization in Nicholasville, KY that was founded in 2004.
Revenue
N/A
Assets
N/A
Employees
N/A
EIN
05-0582505
IRS type
501(c)(3)
Want more insights on arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits in Lexington?
There's a whole lot more to Cause IQ than what you see here. Additional filters, personnel information, peer benchmarking, Salesforce integration, vendor lists, etc. Access all the information your company needs in one place, already collected.
Schedule a demo
Over 200 customers use Cause IQ to grow, maintain, and serve their nonprofit clients.
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.
Cause IQ is a website that helps companies grow, maintain, and serve their nonprofit clients, and helps nonprofits find additional foundation funding. Our data and tools help professionals prospect for nonprofits, research opportunities, benchmark their clients, and enrich existing information.
Nonprofits
Product
Customers
About

© 2024 Nonprofit Metrics LLC
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy