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. Encounter 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.

South Dakota Poesy 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. See the full concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photograph past Scott Chernis

Teenage girl on stage reciting poetry

Minnesota's state champion Isabella Callery (Anishinaabe) became the 2019 Poesy Out Loud National Champion. Photo by James Kegley

Woman with long brown hair playing drums.

2021 NEA Jazz Primary 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 Customs

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, state arts agencies, and regional arts organizations in support of arts projects across the state.

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Impact

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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 artistic capacity of our communities past 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 Per centum

Percentage of Arts Endowment grants accept identify in high-poverty neighborhoods.

35 Percent

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 almost recent information (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Product Satellite Business relationship (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts' Office of Research & Analysis and the Bureau 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.Southward. economy.

4.2 Per centum

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

4.vi Million

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 independent federal bureau 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 Percent

The Arts Endowment'south percentage of the federal budget.

$5.6 Billion

Amount awarded by the Arts Endowment since its starting time in 1965.

Some Facts almost the National Endowment for the Arts

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

Around 45 Million Americans

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

More than 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than 6,000

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 attend live 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 rate of attention art exhibits, with 33.5 per centum of this state'due south residents doing this action versus 23 percentage of Americans overall.

Oregon and Washington

Their literary reading rates (upward of 60 percentage) far exceed the U.S. as a whole (44 pct).

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 $8 million

Corporeality of funding of arts education projects annually.

77.6 Pct

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

3 Times More Likely

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