Arts organizations and other organizations often have huge local impacts brought about by the spending of arts- or event-motivated visitors, the labor-intensive nature of performing arts, museums and live events, and expenditures for local marketing, media and support services. ARA has helped many museums, film festivals, art shows, special events and tourist destinations obtain funding and other government support through analysis of the organization’s ongoing contribution to economic activity, job generation, and increased tax revenues (fiscal impacts). Our most recent economic impact studies were for the Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Road Runners including the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon.
