A Mirror
and a Map
In 2025, we gathered information from 493 unique organization across the U.S., including Puerto Rico, to learn about aspects of the art and cultural field:
- Landscape
- Connections to Community
- Organizational Set Up
- Ownership & Community Access
- Changes & New Directions
- Finances
Ways to Use
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Storytelling and Impact Sharing
Discover valuable data and insights to help tell your organization's story, contextualize your work within the broader field, and highlight the impact of Latinx/é arts and culture organizations to funders and stakeholders.
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Plan for the Future
Explore how your organization relates to peers in the field, uncover emerging trends and opportunities, and leverage these insights to guide strategic planning and decision-making for your organization's future.
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Resource Toolkit
Prepare for a Conversation with a Board
Share data to help inform board decisions about financial stability, staffing and leadership capacity, and long-term planning and resilience.
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Resource Toolkit
Plan for Sustainability
Understand your organization’s financial position in relation to field-wide realities to inform intentional, values-aligned planning decisions.
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Resource Toolkit
Explain Our Value and Why Our Work Matters Across the Field
Share data to inform how Latinx/é arts and culture organizations are essential to community and cultural infrastructure.
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Ways to Take Action
1. Landscape
Take a closer look at the breadth, depth, and creativity that shape the Latinx/é arts and culture ecosystem across focus areas, artistic disciplines, geographic location, and organizational structure.
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SUCCESS
83.9% of Latinx/é-led organizations shared they primarily focus on Latinx/é people and cultures.
95.4% of organizations reported that more than half of the organization's executive leadership self-identifies as Latinx/é.
96.6% of organizations reported that the organization's most senior leader self-identifies as Latinx/é.
85.0% of organizations provide programs locally.
77% of organizations report having an office or facility located within at least one of the communities they serve.
5.5% of organizations are fiscally sponsored, suggesting alternative operating structures.
OPPORTUNITY
Create meaningful pathways that help volunteers and part-time team members grow into sustainable full-time roles, strengthening both workforce and long-term operational capacity.
Consider that certain artistic disciplines and organization types trend toward alternative operating structures: what applies to the majority of 501(c)(3)s may not apply or be accessible to these organizations.
Ways to Use Report
- - Explore focus budget size and structures across focus areas
- - See the range of disciples
- - Learn about geographic distributions
- - Explore staff size across different organization structures
Types of Organization Disciplines
2. Connections to Community
Navigate how Latinx/é arts and culture organizations connect with their communities, including diaspora networks and Indigenous communities, to deepen outreach, build trust, and support culturally grounded engagement and participation.
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OPPORTUNITY
Support research and encourage dialogue to expand understanding of Indigenous experiences, including sovereign Indigenous nation-states within Latin America, and to help Latinx/é organizations integrate Indigenous perspectives, histories, and creative practices into their work in meaningful and sustained ways.
Engage in meaningful outreach and collaboration to build strong, trust-based relationships with Indigenous artists and communities to amplify underrepresented voices within Latinidad.
Ways to Use Report
- - Explore the community reach
- - Explore reach by diaspora & heritage
- - See engagements with Indigenous communities
Communities Served Across Organizations
3. Organizational Set Up
Discover insights into staff composition, leadership structures, benefits offered, and challenges faced by staff members.
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SUCCESS
37.9 % of organizations have solicited community feedback.
34.7 % of organizations have acted on the community feedback they have collected.
36.4% of organizations offer paid time off to full-time staff.
4.2% of organizations mentioned they did not face any staff challenges.
OPPORTUNITY
Provide resources for growth and professional development to support locally rooted organizations in hiring enough staff, supporting their current programs, meeting their community needs, and growing their capacity for the future.
Provide funding to strengthen Latinx/é organizations that will enable them to build stable, healthy workforces through access to core benefits such as medical coverage, retirement plans, and paid leave.
Invest in Latinx/é arts organizations with unrestricted, general operating, or workforce funding that helps to increase staffing levels, offer competitive compensation, support workforce development, and reduce chronic understaffing and turnover pressures.
Ways to Use Report
- - Explore detailed organizational make up from staff, board, volunteers, interns, etc.
- - Explore leader tenure across disciplines
- - Explore benefits offered across varying annual budgets
- - Explore staffing challenges across disciplines
Leader Tenure
4. Ownership & Community Access
Learn more about facility ownership and how this impacts community access.
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SUCCESS
21.8% of organizations offer community space to the community for free.
3.4% of organizations offer office space to the community for free.
13.8% of organizations offer performance space to the community for free.
Ways to Use Report
- - Explore ownership status across organization disciplines
- - Explore types of facilities offered across organization disciplines
Types of Facilities Offered to Artists and General Public
5. Changes & New Directions
Examine how Latinx/é arts and culture organizations have grown and adapted since 2020, reshaping their operations, shifting priorities, and finding new ways to meet their communities.
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SUCCESS
12.4% of organizations reported their board diversity increased.
72.0% of organizations mentioned forming new collaborations and partnerships.
OPPORTUNITY
Invest in retention strategies, create clear leadership pathways, and implement equitable compensation practices to build gains in staff, board, and vendor diversity into lasting structural change.
Develop and incorporate clear, long-term, and strategic planning to help leadership and staff anticipate, plan for, and navigate future challenges.
Ways to Use Report
- - Explore changes across different organizational disciplines
- - Explore strategic actions across different organizational disciplines
Types of Organizational Change Since 2020
6. Finances
Discover how budgets, funding and financial health impact organizational growth and ability to meet demand for delivering programs.
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SUCCESS
49.3% of organizations received some government funding between 2020 and 2024.
63.9 of all organizations received some corporate funding between 2020 and 2024.
52.8% of all organizations received some foundation funding between 2020 and 2024.
OPPORTUNITY
Expand unrestricted, multi-year funding to strengthen organizational and financial stability.
Ways to Use Report
- - Explore budget changes since 2022
- - Explore annual budget and their revenue sources
Annual Budget Distribution
Image Credits
- Image #1: Thalia Spanish Theatre, 2011 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grantee
- Image #2: stefanía Fadul:Voting Project (working title, 2019 NALAC Fund for the Arts, POD Grantee