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 "Accept the Coltrane" at the tribute concert at SFJAZZ. Run across 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.

Due 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. Come across the total concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photo by Scott Chernis

Teenage girl on stage reciting poetry

Minnesota'southward state champion Isabella Callery (Anishinaabe) became the 2019 Poesy Out Loud National Champion. Photo past 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 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, country arts agencies, and regional arts organizations in support of arts projects across the country.

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Affect

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

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Some Facts virtually the National Endowment for the Arts

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

Approximately 2,300 Grants

Recommended for grant awards annually in all fifty states, DC, and U.Southward. territories.

43 Percent

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

35 Percent

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

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the most recent information (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts' Part of Research & Assay and the Agency of Economic Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economical impact 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. economy.

4.2 Percent

Percentage of the nation'due south Gross Domestic Production is accounted for by arts and cultural industries.

4.6 1000000

Americans piece of 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 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's almanac cost to each American.

0.003 Pct

The Arts Endowment'southward percentage of the federal budget.

$5.6 Billion

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

Some Facts virtually the National Endowment for the Arts

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

Effectually 45 Meg Americans

Attend a alive arts outcome supported by the Arts Endowment annually.

More than 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than half-dozen,000

Exhibitions are supported annually likewise.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the most contempo 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 immune cultural policymakers, arts managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics about American patterns of arts engagement.

North Dakota

The state'due south residents attend alive 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 charge per unit of attending art exhibits, with 33.v percent of this state's residents doing this activity versus 23 percent of Americans overall.

Oregon and Washington

Their literary reading rates (upward of 60 percent) far exceed the U.S. every bit a whole (44 pct).

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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.

Approximately $8 million

Amount of funding of arts instruction projects annually.

77.6 Percentage

Arts education projects (preK-12) that directly appoint with underserved populations.

3 Times More Likely

viii- to. 12-class students from low socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts educational activity to earn a available'due south degree than those who did not.