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. See 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.

S Dakota Poesy Out Loud Champion Rahele Megosha finding out she had been named National Champion during the 2021 virtual contest. 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 Chief) 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's state champion Isabella Callery (Anishinaabe) became the 2019 Poesy Out Loud National Champion. Photograph past James Kegley

Woman with long brown hair playing drums.

2021 NEA Jazz Main 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 country champion Amanda Fernandez is announced equally 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, country arts agencies, and regional arts organizations in support of arts projects across the country.

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Impact

Run across the affect of the Arts Endowment on your state, and how the agency'south piece of work in research, accessibility, and other areas has had a major affect in the arts and civilisation of the state.

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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 past providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately two,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 nearly recent 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 Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economic impact of arts and cultural product from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.7 billion

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

4.ii Percent

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

iv.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 bureau that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative chapters of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment'south almanac toll to each American.

0.003 Pct

The Arts Endowment's percentage of the federal budget.

$5.six 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 independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the artistic capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with various opportunities for arts participation.

Around 45 Million Americans

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

More 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than vi,000

Exhibitions are supported annually as well.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the virtually recent information (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.

Northward Dakota

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

Montana

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

Oregon and Washington

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

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.

Approximately $eight million

Amount of funding of arts education projects annually.

77.six Per centum

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

iii Times More Likely

8- to. 12-form students from depression socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts education to earn a bachelor'southward degree than those who did not.