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About This Study <br />This Arts & Economic Prosperity 5 study was conducted by Americans for the Arts <br />to document the economic impact of the nonprofit arts and culture industry in 341 <br />communities and regions (113 cities, 115 counties, 81 multi -city or multi -county <br />regions, 20 states, and 12 individual arts districts)—representing all 50 U.S. states <br />and the District of Columbia. <br />The diverse local communities range in population <br />(1,500 to four million) and type (rural to urban). <br />The study focuses solely on nonprofit arts and <br />cultural organizations and their audiences. The <br />study excludes spending by individual artists and <br />the for-profit arts and entertainment sector (e.g., <br />Broadway or the motion picture industry). Detailed <br />expenditure data were collected from 14,439 arts <br />and culture organizations and 212,691 of their <br />attendees. The project economists, from the <br />Georgia Institute of Technology, customized input- <br />output economic models for each participating <br />study region to provide specific and reliable <br />economic impact data about their nonprofit arts and <br />culture industry: full-time equivalent jobs, <br />household income, and local and state government <br />revenue. <br />The 250 Local, Regional, and <br />Statewide Study Partners <br />Americans for the Arts published a Call for <br />Participants in 2015 seeking communities interested <br />in participating in the Arts & Economic Prosperity <br />5 study. Of the more than 300 potential partners <br />that expressed interest, 250 local, regional, and <br />statewide organizations agreed to participate and <br />complete four participation criteria: identify and <br />code the universe of nonprofit arts and cultural <br />organizations in their study region; assist <br />researchers with the collection of detailed financial <br />and attendance data from those organizations; <br />conduct audience -intercept surveys at cultural <br />events; and pay a modest cost-sharing fee (no <br />community was refused participation for an <br />AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS I Arts R Economic Prosperity 5 <br />inability to pay). Thirty of the 250 partners included <br />multiple study regions as part of their AEP5 <br />participation (e.g., a county as well as a specific city <br />located within the county). As a result, the 250 local, <br />regional, and statewide organizations represent a total <br />of 341 participating study regions. <br />The Cultural Council of Indian River County <br />responded to the 2015 Call for Participants, and <br />agreed to complete the required participation <br />criteria. <br />Surveys of Nonprofit Arts and <br />Cultural ORGANIZATIONS <br />Each of the 250 study partners identified the universe <br />of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that are <br />located in their region(s) using the Urban Institute's <br />National Taxonomy of Exempt Entity (NTEE) <br />coding system as a guideline. The NTEE system— <br />developed by the National Center for Charitable <br />Statistics at the Urban Institute—is a definitive <br />classification system for nonprofit organizations <br />recognized as tax exempt by the Internal Revenue <br />Code. This system divides the entire universe of <br />nonprofit organizations into 10 Major categories, <br />including "Arts, Culture, and Humanities." The <br />Urban Institute reports that approximately 100,000 <br />nonprofit arts and cultural organizations were <br />registered with the IRS in 2015. <br />The following NTEE "Arts, Culture, and <br />Humanities" subcategories were included in this <br />study: <br />K <br />