Museums, theaters, and operas, already reeling from plunging ticket and merchandise sales, are taking a further hit as donors cut back or prioritize giving for human-services groups, such as soup kitchens and homeless shelters, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Some 10,000 arts organizations, 10 percent of the U.S. total, are in danger of folding, according to the lobbying group Americans for the Arts. Lester Salomon, director of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Civil Society Studies, said arts groups rely more heavily than other nonprofit institutions on private donors and face a “double whammy” from givers’ tendency to shift focus during a recession.

In other arts news: The Los Angeles Times reports that the Museum of Latin American Art, in Long Beach, Calif., has hired Richard P. Townsend, former Miami Art Museum deputy director, as its new president, filling a year-old vacancy. And Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center will cut $2-million in spending, nearly a tenth of its budget, over the current and next fiscal years, the Star Tribune reports.