Nonprofit Arts Organizations

	Relationship to the Blueprint Video Highlights: Select the quality at which to view the movie: High (13.3 MB) Low (8.2 MB) To view this video, you will need Quicktime. Nonprofit arts and cultural organizations are a critical component of the State of the Arts Report. They are the foundation of cultural life in Ohio's communities. The budgets, staffs, boards, partnerships and planning of nonprofit arts organizations were studied to give a financial picture of the arts in Ohio. Financial data from the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) (Urban Institute, Washington, DC) 1998 Return Transaction File database was used for two purposes: to develop a sample for the State of the Arts Report and to supplement the data collected by the State of the Arts Report mail survey: nonprofitsurveyinstrument/SOAR (PDF Document) There are many nonprofit arts organizations in Ohio that do not apply to the Ohio Arts Council, and some, based on responses to the State of the Arts Report stakeholder survey, have never heard of the OAC. With this in mind, the NCCS's database was used to generate a sample of arts organizations with budgets greater than $25,000. A sample of 686 nonprofit arts organizations was created. Nonprofit organizations listed in the NCCS's database are classified by the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) coding system. The Arts, Culture, and Humanities category was the category used to compile the sample. Only those organizations that were arts organizations were included eliminating those categories that were humanities-based since those organizations would be studied in the Libraries, Universities, Festivals and Cultural Organizations chapter. The following are some of the classifications: A31 Film, Video A42 Photography A52 Children's Museums A48 Art Conservation A6B Singing, Choral A43 Sculpture (Please note that these codes have changed, please refer to the NCCS website for a complete guide to the database and the new NTEE coding system) The NCCS's database, used to supplement data collected by the mail survey, has detailed financial information and comparative data from other states. This information, along with a mail survey developed by the State of the Arts Report advisory committee with assistance from the Ohio State University's Center for Research, were the methods for data collection on nonprofit arts organizations in Ohio. Survey question topics include: Staff Salaries Makeup of the board Planning practices Budget Partnerships and collaborations Programming Audience Tools