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'south "Accept the Coltrane" at the tribute concert at SFJAZZ. See the full concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photograph 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 Main) performs at the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert at SFJAZZ in San Francisco, California. Meet the total concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photo by Scott Chernis

Teenage girl on stage reciting poetry

Minnesota'southward land 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. Photograph past 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 across the country.

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Impact

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

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Some Facts nearly 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.

Approximately two,300 Grants

Recommended for grant awards annually in all l states, DC, and U.South. territories.

43 Percent

Percentage of Arts Endowment grants have place in high-poverty neighborhoods.

35 Per centum

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 most recent data (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly past the National Endowment for the Arts' Role of Inquiry & Analysis and the Bureau of Economical Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economic bear on of arts and cultural production from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.vii billion

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

iv.2 Percent

Pct of the nation'due south Gdp is accounted for by arts and cultural industries.

iv.6 Meg

Americans work in the arts and cultural industries on payroll.

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The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the artistic chapters of our communities by 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 past the Arts Endowment since its beginning in 1965.

Some Facts near 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.

Effectually 45 Million Americans

Attend a alive arts upshot supported past the Arts Endowment annually.

More 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than six,000

Exhibitions are supported annually also.

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 allowed cultural policymakers, arts managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics about American patterns of arts date.

North Dakota

The state'due south residents attend live performing arts events at a college rate than U.S. adults as a whole—with 62 percentage for Due north Dakota residents versus 48.v percent of U.Due south. adults.

Montana

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

Oregon and Washington

Their literary reading rates (upwards of 60 percentage) far exceed the U.S. as 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 by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately $eight million

Amount of funding of arts education projects annually.

77.6 Percent

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

three Times More Likely

viii- to. 12-grade students from depression socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts education to earn a bachelor's degree than those who did non.