An Unprecedented National Network
DataArts is the vital interchange where thousands of cultural organizations, grantmakers, researchers, advocates, and service providers meet to advance the arts, culture, and humanities. Together we are creating an unparalleled source of information, resources, and perspectives for and about the cultural sector.
Become a Partner
When you partner with DataArts, you’re strengthening the cultural sector with the power of high-quality data and helping tell a more persuasive story of its assets, contributions, and impacts.
Our Partners
New partners join us every month. These lists are updated quarterly.
Cultural Nonprofits
Thousands of nonprofit arts, culture, and humanities organizations participate in SMU DataArts annually. They are making an important contribution to their own health and vitality and that of the sector at large. We salute these community treasures.
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Research Partners
They’re experts in their fields – whether music, dance, arts education, opera, theater, visual arts and collections, literary, film, or media. They are also dedicated research partners using the SMU DataArts platform to streamline their data collection and drawing on CDP data to develop sophisticated analyses, resources, and tools that advance the sector. They and their members are helping create a more inclusive, representative picture of our nation’s cultural nonprofits.
The Chorus Operations Survey (COS) is the most comprehensive source of data available on choruses and the choral field. The information gathered helps choruses make better decisions about programming, budgeting, staffing, and other management practices.
OPERA America's Professional Opera Survey is hosted on the DataArts platform, and is the most comprehensive annual survey on U.S. and Canadian professional nonprofit opera companies.
TCG's Theatre Facts is the only in-depth report examining the attendance, performance, and overall fiscal state of the U.S. professional not-for-profit theatre field.
Participating Grantmakers
Public and private funders nationwide use the DataArts platform to make complex decisions, and increase the transparency and impact of their philanthropy.
- 39 Participating Grantmakers
- Allegheny Regional Asset District
- Arizona Commission on the Arts
- Arts Council for Long Beach
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona
- Bravo Greater Des Moines
- Broward County Cultural Affairs Division
- California Arts Council
- Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
- City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture
- City of Culver City Cultural Affairs
Philanthropic Partners
DataArts is grateful for the additional philanthropic support of funders who believe in the power of data to strengthen the vitality, performance, and public impact of the cultural sector.
- 17 Philanthropic Partners
- Arizona Community Foundation
- William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund
- Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Every Page Foundation
- Fidelity Foundation
- Flinn Foundation
- Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
- The George Gund Foundation
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Jerome L. Greene Foundation
Our Founders
DataArts was launched as the Cultural Data Project (CDP) in the fall of 2004, by a group of Pennsylvania grantmakers and arts advocates seeking to provide a statewide, web-based data collection system for arts and cultural organizations. The CDP was operated as a program of The Pew Charitable Trusts until 2013.
Our Transformation Funders
DataArts’ predecessor organization, the Cultural Data Project, operated for nearly a decade as a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. The CDP’s national transition to DataArts and technology transformation were generously supported by the following organizations.
