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 "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.

South Dakota Poetry Out Loud Champion Rahele Megosha finding out she had been named National Champion during the 2021 virtual contest. 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 Master) performs at the 2022 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert at SFJAZZ in San Francisco, California. Meet the full concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photo by Scott Chernis

Teenage girl on stage reciting poetry

Minnesota's country 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 Verse 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, state arts agencies, and regional arts organizations in back up of arts projects across the country.

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Impact

See the impact of the Arts Endowment on your land, and how the bureau'due south work in enquiry, accessibility, and other areas has had a major impact in the arts and civilization of the country.

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Some Facts most 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 2,300 Grants

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

43 Percentage

Percentage of Arts Endowment grants have 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 nearly contempo 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 Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economic 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

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

iv.6 Million

Americans work in the arts and cultural industries on payroll.

Some Facts nigh 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 by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment's almanac cost to each American.

0.003 Percent

The Arts Endowment's percent of the federal budget.

$5.6 Billion

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

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 various opportunities for arts participation.

Around 45 Million Americans

Attend a alive 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 also.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the almost recent data (2017) from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), a national survey conducted in partnership with the U.S. Demography Bureau that has immune cultural policymakers, arts managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics about American patterns of arts engagement.

Northward Dakota

The land's residents attend live performing arts events at a college rate than U.S. adults every bit a whole—with 62 pct for North Dakota residents versus 48.5 percent of U.S. adults.

Montana

Outperforms the national rate 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 (up of 60 percent) far exceed the U.S. as a whole (44 per centum).

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 various opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately $eight million

Amount of funding of arts teaching projects annually.

77.half dozen Percent

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

3 Times More Likely

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