Index Specific Drivers - Unrestricted Contributed Revenue
What Drives Unrestricted Contributed Revenue?
Arts & Culture Organization Characteristics
Positive Effect
- Size, Sector
- In a capital campaign
- Has a parent organization
Negative Effect
- Targets Asians Americans
- Targets African Americans
- Targets kids
Community Arts and Leisure Characteristics
Positive Effect
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Number of artists and arts providers
Negative Effect
- Market Arts & Culture dollar activity
- Number of art museums
- Number of community organizations, music organizations
- Number of other museums, orchestras, PACs
- Number of general performing arts organizations, theatre companies
- Public radio and TV station activity
Community Socio-demographic Characteristics
Positive Effect
- High percentage of young adults
- High percentage of African American
- High percentage of Hispanic/Latino
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Socioeconomic level
Negative Effect
- Total population
Public Funding Characteristics
Positive Effect
- Revenue and number of Federal and State Arts grants
Unrestricted Contributed Revenue
What organizational characteristics affect this performance?
•Unrestricted contributions increase with budget size for organizations in each sector. Unrestricted contributed revenue is higher for organizations that have a parent/sheltering organization or are in the midst of a capital campaign.
•When organizations target kids, African Americans or Asian-Americans, unrestricted contributed revenue tends to be lower.
How do community arts and leisure characteristics affect performance?
•Unrestricted contributed revenue tends to be higher for organizations in communities with higher levels of total number of artists and arts providers, but lower for organizations in communities with higher levels of total arts dollar activity.
•With the exception of arts education organizations, dance and opera companies, having more organizations that compete in each arts and cultural sector drives down unrestricted contributed revenue for all organizations in the sector. This is also the case when there is more public broadcast activity.
How do socio-demographic characteristics of the community affect performance?
•Unrestricted contributed revenue is higher for organizations in communities with higher socioeconomic levels, and where the percentage of the population that is 18-25, Hispanic/Latino or African American is higher.
•As the population size increases unrestricted contributed revenue goes down.
What impact does cultural policy have on performance?
•Overall state and federal grant activity in the larger local marketplace has a positive effect on an individual organization’s unrestricted contributed revenue.
What impact does cultural policy have on performance?
• Higher levels of state and federal government grant activity in the local market boost unrestricted contributed revenue.
What Drives Total Expenses (before depreciation)?
Arts & Culture Organization Characteristics
Positive Effect
- Age, Size, Sector
- Higher local funding, state funding
- Number of offerings
- Targets young adults
- Targets Asian Americans
Negative Effect
- Has a parent organization
- Local premieres
- World premieres
- Targets kids, African Americans
Community Arts and Leisure Characteristics*
Positive Effect
- Market Arts & Culture dollar activity
- Leisure complements
- Number of arts education organizations
- Number of PACs, orchestras
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Number of general performing arts organizations
Negative Effect
- Number of artists and arts providers
- Number of art museums, music organizations
Community Socio-demographic Characteristics
Positive Effect
- High percentage of kids, young adults
- High percentage of Asian American
- High percentage of Hispanic/Latino
- Socioeconomic level
- Total population
- Median age
*Findings related to the number of organizations per sector apply only to other organizations in that sector - e.g., More competing PACs lowers government support per PAC
What Drives Total Expenses (before depreciation)?
What organizational characteristics affect this performance?
• Expenses increase with sector, organizational age, budget size, higher levels of local and state funding, and more programmatic offerings. Expenses also tend to be relatively higher for organizations that target young adults or Asian Americans.
• When organizations have a parent organization, target kids or African Americans, or offer a higher level of local or world premieres, expenses tend to be lower.
How do community arts and leisure characteristics affect performance?
• Expenses tend to be higher for organizations in communities with higher levels of total arts dollar activity and more leisure activities, which in this case act as complements.
• Having more organizations in the arts education, PAC, orchestra, and general performing arts sectors tends to increase budget size for all organizations in those sectors.
• Organizations tend to have lower expense levels when there is a high number of arts providers and artists in the community.
• Having more organizations that compete in the art museum and music sectors drives down expenses for all organizations in these sectors. In other words, the competition makes it more difficult for organizations in these sectors to grow in budget size.
How do socio-demographic characteristics of the community affect performance?
• Total expenses are higher for organizations in more densely populated communities and communities with a higher median age in the population, those with a higher socioeconomic level, and where the percentage of the population that is under 25, Hispanic/Latino, or Asian American is higher.
What impact does cultural policy have on performance?
• Higher overall state and federal grant activity in the local marketplace has no effect on total expenses.