2008 LA Arts Funding Survey Results Released by Southern California Grantmakers

There are just over 1,000 arts and culture nonprofits in Los Angeles County, with approximately $1.2 billion in revenue. As a group, their revenue has increased by 24 percent since 1998. However, much of those increases occurred during the early survey periods. In contrast, revenue for the nonprofit sector as a whole increased by 37 percent. At the same time, the slowdown in LA's arts and culture nonprofit sector that began between 2004 and 2006 has continued, resulting in declines in revenue -- despite revenue growth for the nonprofit sector overall -- even as expenditures continued to increase.