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 "Have the Coltrane" at the tribute concert at SFJAZZ. See the full concert at arts.gov/honors/jazz. Photograph past 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 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. Photograph 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 Main Terri Lyne Carrington during the virtual tribute concert in 2021. Video prototype courtesy of Elephant Quilt

Teenager crying on stage with other teenagers after winning contest.

DC state champion Amanda Fernandez is announced every bit the 2007 Poesy Out Loud National Champion. Photograph 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 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 agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with various opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately 2,300 Grants

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

43 Percent

Per centum of Arts Endowment grants have place in loftier-poverty neighborhoods.

35 Pct

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 information (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts' Function of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.South. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economical touch of arts and cultural production from 35 industries, both commercial and nonprofit.

$876.7 billion

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

4.ii Per centum

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

4.6 Meg

Americans work in the arts and cultural industries on payroll.

Some Facts near 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 past providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

48 Cents

The Arts Endowment'southward annual price to each American.

0.003 Percent

The Arts Endowment'southward percentage of the federal upkeep.

$5.six 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 artistic capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Around 45 Million Americans

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

More than 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 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 appointment.

Due north Dakota

The state'south residents attend live performing arts events at a higher rate than U.Due south. adults every bit a whole—with 62 percent for Northward Dakota residents versus 48.five percentage of U.South. adults.

Montana

Outperforms the national charge per unit of attending art exhibits, with 33.5 per centum of this country's residents doing this activity versus 23 per centum of Americans overall.

Oregon and Washington

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

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.

Approximately $8 million

Corporeality of funding of arts education projects annually.

77.6 Percent

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

3 Times More Likely

8- to. 12-grade students from low socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts pedagogy to earn a bachelor's degree than those who did not.