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'due south "Take the Coltrane" at the tribute concert at SFJAZZ. Encounter 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 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. Photograph by Scott Chernis

Teenage girl on stage reciting poetry

Minnesota's country 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 Master 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 as the 2007 Poetry 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 support of arts projects across the land.

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Impact

See 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 bureau that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity 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.South. territories.

43 Pct

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

35 Pct

Percentage of Arts Endowment grants achieve depression-income audiences or underserved populations.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the about contempo data (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts' Office of Research & Analysis and the Agency of Economic Assay, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economic bear upon of arts and cultural production from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.7 billion

Amount the arts and cultural industries contribute to the U.S. economic system.

4.2 Percent

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

4.half-dozen 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 various opportunities for arts participation.

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment's annual cost to each American.

0.003 Per centum

The Arts Endowment'southward percentage of the federal budget.

$5.half-dozen Billion

Amount awarded past the Arts Endowment since its get-go in 1965.

Some Facts virtually the National Endowment for the Arts

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

Around 45 One thousand thousand Americans

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

More 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More 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.S. Census Bureau that has allowed cultural policymakers, arts managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics about American patterns of arts engagement.

North Dakota

The state's residents nourish alive performing arts events at a higher rate than U.Due south. adults equally a whole—with 62 percent for Northward Dakota residents versus 48.5 percent of U.S. adults.

Montana

Outperforms the national rate of attending art exhibits, with 33.five percent of this country's residents doing this activeness versus 23 percent of Americans overall.

Oregon and Washington

Their literary reading rates (upwards of 60 pct) far exceed the U.South. equally a whole (44 percent).

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

Approximately $eight million

Amount of funding of arts education projects annually.

77.6 Percentage

Arts didactics projects (preK-12) that direct engage with underserved populations.

3 Times More Likely

8- to. 12-grade students from low socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts education to earn a available's degree than those who did non.