National and Local Profiles of Cultural Support 1998: Nashville

Produced By: Arts Policy and Administration Program, The Ohio State University; Americans for the Arts, Columbus, OhioWashington DC

Funding Agency/Sponsor: Pew Charitable Trusts

Author:

• Cohen, Randy  (Americans for the Arts)
• Filicko, Therese  (Arts Policy and Administration Program, The Ohio State University )
• Wyzomirski, Margaret  (Arts Policy and Administration Program, The Ohio State University )

Abstract (Author):This data collection provides information on the sources of revenue for arts organizations in Nashville, Tennessee for FY1998 as part of the National and Local Profiles of Cultural Support 1998 Project (Profiles Project). The data were collected as part of a 10 community study, conducted along with a national survey. The Profiles Project was conducted through the Arts Policy and Administration Program at The Ohio State University and Americans for the Arts, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Responding organizations provided information on many sources of public contributed income, private contributed income, earned revenues, and interest / endowment income. In addition, organizations were asked to provided information about the incidence of in-kind (non-monetary) support for the organization.

Abstract (CPANDA): One of three related data collection efforts in the National and Local Profiles of Cultural Support study, the Local Surveys, conducted in each of ten communities, collected data from professional nonprofit arts and cultural organizations on a battery of revenue items for fiscal year 1998, across four categories-public contributed income, private contributed income, earned revenue, and interest and other investment income. Developed in close collaboration with the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS), the surveys were designed to facilitate comparisons with currently available data on the nonprofit arts, particularly data sets from arts service organizations and NCCS data sets based on IRS Form 990 data. A collaborative effort of Americans for the Arts and the Arts Policy and Administration Program at The Ohio State University, the study was supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts and local arts agencies in each of the ten communities.

Methodology (CPANDA) : The local surveys of nonprofit arts organizations were conducted in the fall of 1999 through the spring of 2000 by the Center for Survey Research (CSR) at The Ohio State University. The core universe of organizations in each community was taken from a national database of IRS Form 990s, the Return Transaction File maintained by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. In each community, this core universe was expanded to reflect local definitions of nonprofit arts organizations, resulting in some variation in each community's survey universe. Mail surveys were sent to all organizations in the local universe. In Nashville, a total of 46 usable questionnaires were received.

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