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

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

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

Southward Dakota Poetry Out Loud Champion Rahele Megosha finding out she had been named National Champion during the 2021 virtual competition. Photo past 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 Master) performs at the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert at SFJAZZ in San Francisco, California. Run across the full concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photograph by Scott Chernis

Teenage girl on stage reciting poetry

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

Woman with long brown hair playing drums.

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

Teenager crying on stage with other teenagers after winning contest.

DC state champion Amanda Fernandez is announced as the 2007 Verse 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, artistic writers and translators, land arts agencies, and regional arts organizations in support of arts projects across the state.

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Impact

Encounter the impact of the Arts Endowment on your state, and how the agency'southward 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 contained federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative chapters of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately ii,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 high-poverty neighborhoods.

35 Percent

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 nigh recent information (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly past the National Endowment for the Arts' Office of Inquiry & Analysis and the Bureau of Economic Assay, U.S. Commerce Section. The ACPSA tracks the annual economic touch of arts and cultural product from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.7 billion

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

four.2 Percent

Percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Production is accounted for by arts and cultural industries.

4.6 Million

Americans work in the arts and cultural industries on payroll.

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 creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment'due south almanac cost to each American.

0.003 Pct

The Arts Endowment'due south percentage of the federal budget.

$5.6 Billion

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

Some Facts nearly the National Endowment for the Arts

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

Effectually 45 Million Americans

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

More 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than vi,000

Exhibitions are supported annually every bit well.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the about recent data (2017) from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), a national survey conducted in partnership with the U.Southward. Demography Bureau that has allowed cultural policymakers, arts managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics nearly American patterns of arts appointment.

North Dakota

The state's residents attend alive performing arts events at a higher rate than U.S. adults as a whole—with 62 per centum for Due north Dakota residents versus 48.v pct of U.Southward. adults.

Montana

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

Oregon and Washington

Their literary reading rates (upward of 60 per centum) far exceed the U.S. as a whole (44 percent).

Some Facts about the National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal bureau that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative 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 education projects (preK-12) that straight engage with underserved populations.

3 Times More Likely

8- to. 12-course students from low socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts education to earn a bachelor'south degree than those who did not.