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 "Take the Coltrane" at the tribute concert at SFJAZZ. Encounter the total concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photo by Scott Chernis

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

S 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. See the full concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photo by Scott Chernis

Teenage girl on stage reciting poetry

Minnesota'south 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 equally the 2007 Poetry Out Loud National Champion. Photograph 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 support of arts projects across the country.

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Impact

Run into the impact of the Arts Endowment on your state, and how the agency'due south work in research, accessibility, and other areas has had a major touch 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 bureau that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately 2,300 Grants

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

43 Percent

Per centum of Arts Endowment grants take place in high-poverty neighborhoods.

35 Percentage

Percentage of Arts Endowment grants reach depression-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 Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly past the National Endowment for the Arts' Function of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economical Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economic impact of arts and cultural product from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.vii billion

Corporeality the arts and cultural industries contribute to the U.Due south. economy.

4.2 Percentage

Percentage of the nation's Gross Domestic Product is accounted for past arts and cultural industries.

four.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 past providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment's annual cost to each American.

0.003 Percent

The Arts Endowment'south percentage of the federal budget.

$5.6 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 independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Around 45 Million Americans

Nourish a alive arts event supported past the Arts Endowment annually.

More than 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than half-dozen,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.Southward. Census Bureau that has immune cultural policymakers, arts managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics near American patterns of arts engagement.

N Dakota

The state's residents attend live performing arts events at a higher rate than U.S. adults as a whole—with 62 percent for North Dakota residents versus 48.5 percent of U.S. adults.

Montana

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

Oregon and Washington

Their literary reading rates (upwards of 60 percent) 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 past providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately $8 million

Corporeality of funding of arts education projects annually.

77.6 Pct

Arts instruction projects (preK-12) that directly engage with underserved populations.

3 Times More Likely

eight- to. 12-grade students from low socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts education to earn a bachelor'southward degree than those who did non.