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. 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.

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. Photo by Scott Chernis

Teenage girl on stage reciting poetry

Minnesota'south state champion Isabella Callery (Anishinaabe) became the 2019 Verse 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 country champion Amanda Fernandez is appear as the 2007 Poetry Out Loud National Champion. Photo 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, artistic writers and translators, country arts agencies, and regional arts organizations in support of arts projects across the land.

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Impact

See the touch on of the Arts Endowment on your country, and how the agency'south work in enquiry, accessibility, and other areas has had a major affect in the arts and civilization of the state.

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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 chapters 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 Percent

Percent of Arts Endowment grants achieve 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' Office of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.South. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the almanac economical impact of arts and cultural production from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.seven billion

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

iv.two Per centum

Percentage of the nation'southward Gross Domestic Product is deemed for by 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 by providing all Americans with various opportunities for arts participation.

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment'due south annual cost to each American.

0.003 Percent

The Arts Endowment's percent of the federal upkeep.

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

Effectually 45 Million Americans

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

More than 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More 6,000

Exhibitions are supported annually as well.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the almost 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 date.

N Dakota

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

Montana

Outperforms the national rate of attention art exhibits, with 33.five percent of this state'southward residents doing this activeness versus 23 percent of Americans overall.

Oregon and Washington

Their literary reading rates (upwards of lx 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 agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the artistic capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with various opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately $eight million

Amount of funding of arts teaching projects annually.

77.6 Percentage

Arts instruction projects (preK-12) that straight appoint with underserved populations.

iii Times More than Likely

8- to. 12-class students from depression socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts education to earn a bachelor's caste than those who did not.