I admit this is shitty hash to sling, but I must needs to comment about tax exempt arts organizations.  In Pittsburgh and elsewhere these organizations, and the people that comprise them, have created a social class of professional mourners.  And professional victims.  

People who are victims of oppression are more talented in all areas of the arts and sciences, per popular modern myth of the persecuted intellectual.   Through history there have been Easter baskets full of martyrs.   And professional mourners, people paid to show up at funerals, dressed like grim fashion models.   

Arts organizations arrange events that mitigate 501c3 status, while soliciting donorship and public revenue.  All the while, nonprofit executives draw handsome salaries and bonuses.   A short list of victims become wards of the establishment.  People jailed or otherwise mistreated elsewhere in the world, or here in the dangerous, callous US.   Someone has to pretend to care.  Why not make money caring about professional victims?   The system is economic genius, even if it renders the arts invalid.   Racketeering can have the effect of invalidating almost anything.   It's a racket.