Three elderly Black men in suits playing drums, bass, and sax on stage with purple background.

2022 NEA Jazz Masters Stanley Clarke, Baton Hart, and Donald Harrison, Jr. playing Ellington's "Take the Coltrane" at the tribute concert at SFJAZZ. See the full concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photo by Scott Chernis

Television screen showing an elated Black girl who just won the poetry competition.

South Dakota Poetry Out Loud Champion Rahele Megosha finding out she had been named National Champion during the 2021 virtual competition. Photo by James Kegley

Black woman in black dress singing in front of a band on stage with a huge colorful banner behind them.

Host Dianne Reeves (and 2018 NEA Jazz Principal) performs at the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert at SFJAZZ in San Francisco, California. See the total concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photo by Scott Chernis

Teenage girl on stage reciting poetry

Minnesota's state champion Isabella Callery (Anishinaabe) became the 2019 Poetry Out Loud National Champion. Photo by James Kegley

Woman with long brown hair playing drums.

2021 NEA Jazz Principal Terri Lyne Carrington during the virtual tribute concert in 2021. Video image courtesy of Elephant Quilt

Teenager crying on stage with other teenagers after winning contest.

DC state champion Amanda Fernandez is announced equally the 2007 Poesy Out Loud National Champion. Photo by James Kegley

Supporting the Arts in Your Community

The National Endowment for the Arts supports exemplary arts projects in communities nationwide through grantmaking, initiatives, partnerships, and events.

Grants

The National Endowment for the Arts awards grants to nonprofit organizations, creative writers and translators, state arts agencies, and regional arts organizations in back up of arts projects beyond the country.

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Impact

Run across the impact of the Arts Endowment on your state, and how the agency's piece of work in research, accessibility, and other areas has had a major impact in the arts and culture of the country.

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Some Facts about the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the artistic capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately two,300 Grants

Recommended for grant awards annually in all 50 states, DC, and U.S. territories.

43 Percent

Percentage of Arts Endowment grants take place in loftier-poverty neighborhoods.

35 Pct

Percentage of Arts Endowment grants reach low-income audiences or underserved populations.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the almost recent data (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Business relationship (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts' Office of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economic Assay, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economical impact of arts and cultural production from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.seven billion

Amount the arts and cultural industries contribute to the U.S. economy.

4.2 Percent

Percentage of the nation's Gross domestic product is accounted for by arts and cultural industries.

4.6 Million

Americans work in the arts and cultural industries on payroll.

Some Facts near the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an contained federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities past providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment'south almanac cost to each American.

0.003 Pct

The Arts Endowment'southward percentage of the federal upkeep.

$5.half dozen Billion

Amount awarded by the Arts Endowment since its beginning in 1965.

Some Facts about the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an contained federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative chapters of our communities past providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Around 45 1000000 Americans

Attend a live arts event supported by the Arts Endowment annually.

More than 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than 6,000

Exhibitions are supported annually as well.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the most recent data (2017) from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), a national survey conducted in partnership with the U.South. Census Agency that has immune cultural policymakers, arts managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics about American patterns of arts engagement.

North Dakota

The state'south residents attend live performing arts events at a higher rate than U.South. adults as a whole—with 62 percent for N Dakota residents versus 48.five percentage of U.S. adults.

Montana

Outperforms the national rate of attending fine art exhibits, with 33.5 percent of this state's residents doing this activity versus 23 pct of Americans overall.

Oregon and Washington

Their literary reading rates (up of 60 percent) far exceed the U.Southward. as a whole (44 percent).

Some Facts most the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an contained federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the artistic capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately $8 million

Amount of funding of arts education projects annually.

77.6 Percent

Arts pedagogy projects (preK-12) that direct appoint with underserved populations.

three Times More Likely

8- to. 12-grade students from depression socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts education to earn a available's degree than those who did not.