Women in Cambodian garb of blue and yellow in parade down the street, in front of a banner.

Cambodian dancers perform at the Little Mekong Night Market in St. Paul, Minnesota. Photo courtesy of AEDA

Group of musicians holding instruments seated outside all wearing white shirts.

2021 NEA National Heritage Boyfriend Tagumpay Mendoza De Leon and the Rondalla Club of Los Angeles in a however from the tribute motion-picture show T he Culture of America, available for free viewing on the NEA YouTube channel. Photo courtesy of Hypothetical Films

Dancers wearing grass skirts and floral wreaths holding bamboo sticks perform a traditional Hawaiian dance.

Students from the Hawaiian trip the light fantastic toe school Pua Ali'i 'Ilima perform a hula pū'ili (split bamboo) at the Prince Lot Hula Festival in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Photo courtesy of PA'I Foundation

Woman banging a large drum while man plays flute on stage.

Roy and PJ Hirabayashi perform during the 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellows Concert. Photo by Michael Thou. Stewart

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. Photograph past James Kegley

Television screen showing an elated Black girl who just won the poetry competition.

Southward Dakota Poetry Out Loud Champion Rahele Megosha finding out she had been named National Champion during the 2021 virtual competition. Photo by James Kegley

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Grants

The National Endowment for the Arts awards grants to nonprofit organizations, artistic writers and translators, land arts agencies, and regional arts organizations in back up of arts projects beyond the country.

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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 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

Percentage of Arts Endowment grants take place in high-poverty neighborhoods.

35 Percent

Per centum 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 about recent data (2020) from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly past the National Endowment for the Arts' Role of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economical Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. The ACPSA tracks the annual economic touch on 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.Southward. economic system.

four.2 Percent

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

4.6 Meg

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 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 annual cost to each American.

0.003 Percentage

The Arts Endowment's percentage of the federal upkeep.

$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 diverse opportunities for arts participation.

Around 45 Million Americans

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

More than than 39,000

Concerts, readings, and performances are supported annually.

More than 6,000

Exhibitions are supported annually also.

Some Facts from the National Endowment for the Arts

These facts are based on the most contempo 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 allowed cultural policymakers, arts managers, scholars, and journalists to obtain reliable statistics about American patterns of arts engagement.

North Dakota

The state'south 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.five percent of U.S. adults.

Montana

Outperforms the national charge per unit of attending art exhibits, with 33.5 pct of this state'due south 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.S. as a whole (44 percent).

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 past providing all Americans with various opportunities for arts participation.

Approximately $8 million

Amount of funding of arts education projects annually.

77.6 Percent

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

3 Times More than Probable

8- to. 12-grade students from depression socioeconomic backgrounds who received arts instruction to earn a bachelor'south degree than those who did not.