STATE ARTS AGENCY GRANT MAKING AND FUNDING Each of America's 50 states and six jurisdictions has a government that works to make the cultural, civic, economic and educational benefits of the available to all communities. Through services and grant making, (SAAs) increase citizen access to the and help each state to recognize, cultivate and promote its unique creative assets. State are publicly guided entities that engage citizen volunteers as council members, grant-adjudication panelists and participants in planning and decision making. State Arts Agency Grant Making State provide a wide array of citizen services, including public information, partnership building, technical assistance, and research and planning. Among the most important of these services is grant making: more than 22,000 projects are funded in almost 4,600 communities each year. State invest their funds through a variety of programs designed to foster: educational success, by investing in education opportunities for Total State Arts Agency Grant Awards students. Forty-five percent grants are directed toward programs and organizations with Number of Grants Awarded 22,288 significant education activities; Arts Education Grants 9,951 participation, by supporting Operating Support Grants 5,596 more than 5,661 performances and Individual Artist Grants 2,311 Grants to Local Arts Agencies 1,322 exhibitions; accessibility, by investing more than $49 million in programs that widen the Grant Dollars Awarded $295,984,982 availability of the in rural areas; cultural infrastructure, by investing in organizations, both established Number of Communities Funded 4,572 and emerging, through general operating support, professional development, stabilization funding and networking support. General operating support is one of the most flexible types of funding and accounts for more than one-third grant dollars; innovation, by supporting individual artists and the development of new creative works; and artistic heritage, by investing more than $7 million in the preservation of cultural traditions through projects in the folk and traditional. State grant requirements encourage local investment in the. Applicants match and usually exceed the funds granted by the state with funds from local government, the private sector or earned-income activities. Although grants represent a modest portion of overall funding for the, they convey unique and essential public benefits. State policies encourage civic engagement, catalyze collaboration within and across sectors, ensure equitable access to funding opportunities, and comprehensively address the long-term needs of each state and jurisdiction in America.
State Arts Agency Awards by Discipline Discipline Number of Grants Grant Dollars Crafts 395 $3,131,810 Dance 1,450 $16,034,104 Design Arts 137 $2,023,329 Folklife/Traditional Arts 1,052 $7,134,646 Humanities 305 $6,230,312 Interdisciplinary 378 $6,463,649 Literature 947 $7,180,540 Media Arts 686 $9,339,160 Multidisciplinary 5,326 $101,674,349 Music 4,397 $41,416,939 Opera/Musical Theatre 634 $7,223,520 Photography 194 $1,219,752 Theatre 3,064 $45,537,423 Visual Arts 2,789 $36,621,909 Non-Arts/Non-Humanities 534 $4,753,540 Number of State Arts Agency Awards by Discipline Category Visual Arts 16% Multidisciplinary 24% Performing Arts 43% Other 17% Other includes crafts, folklife/traditional, humanities, interdisciplinary, literature and non-/non-humanities. 2
Number of State Arts Agency Awards by Institution Type Individual Artists 10% Arts Organizations 58% Education Organizations 15% Community Organizations 7% Other Recipients 10% Other Recipients includes groups such as parks and recreation, libraries, media groups and local government entities. 3
State or Jurisdiction State Arts Agency Grant Making Total Grants Awarded Communities Funded Grantees Funded Number Dollars Number Number Alabama 671 $5,517,066 89 268 Alaska 166 $1,431,620 37 136 Arizona 287 $2,377,936 46 284 Arkansas 372 $1,355,251 98 278 California 499 $7,568,027 116 409 Colorado 236 $1,651,768 61 236 Connecticut 252 $2,373,150 65 185 Delaware 243 $3,655,799 35 207 Florida 440 $29,542,641 116 429 Georgia 175 $1,185,308 97 163 Hawaii 62 $660,110 22 55 Idaho 209 $616,266 55 174 Illinois 724 $4,652,146 120 588 Indiana 238 $3,420,469 59 195 Iowa 178 $1,253,001 66 165 Kansas 94 $646,141 38 76 Kentucky 240 $1,617,031 76 210 Louisiana 316 $1,467,292 87 271 Maine 156 $1,163,999 63 137 Maryland 681 $18,090,641 164 641 Massachusetts 1,977 $12,499,384 371 1,620 Michigan 507 $9,770,569 138 387 Minnesota 576 $32,915,515 93 459 Mississippi 260 $1,785,065 84 243 Missouri 535 $4,364,910 120 506 Montana 404 $2,413,297 54 214 Nebraska 449 $2,190,536 78 327 Nevada 352 $2,134,462 29 249 New Hampshire 108 $574,020 55 96 New Jersey 168 $13,502,096 79 150 New Mexico 177 $1,039,359 40 175 New York 1,912 $41,202,519 217 1,213 North Carolina 338 $7,066,532 124 262 North Dakota 227 $956,253 60 202 Ohio 843 $13,398,171 190 669 Oklahoma 408 $2,528,657 73 222 Oregon 309 $1,789,830 48 262 Pennsylvania 358 $9,073,335 84 319 Rhode Island 311 $3,797,497 43 251 South Carolina 335 $3,384,191 85 283 South Dakota 472 $1,359,325 83 225 Tennessee 790 $5,440,765 208 671 Texas 1,659 $8,533,313 206 790 Utah 244 $4,607,864 70 222 Vermont 188 $962,947 76 166 Virginia 657 $3,592,923 168 518 Washington 144 $2,304,024 43 135 West Virginia 95 $822,852 36 70 Wisconsin 204 $1,132,800 82 195 Wyoming 176 $798,261 42 169 American Samoa 8 $175,000 1 4 District of Columbia 415 $7,543,530 1 282 Guam 22 $562,424 8 22 Northern Marianas 120 $133,332 3 112 Puerto Rico 151 $1,092,506 32 123 Virgin Islands 150 $291,256 9 149 Figures are from fiscal year 2017, or the most recent available. Communities funded are the number of unique municipalities receiving awards. Statistics include non-grant programs when reported. 4
State Arts Agency Funding State grant-making activities are dependent on revenues. Several funding sources contribute to SAA revenue, with the largest being state funds. States allocate these funds through three common mechanisms: legislative appropriations to SAAs, line items passing through SAA budgets and transfers to SAAs from other state funds. Combined, these mechanisms accounted for 89.4% of total revenue in fiscal year. Other funding for SAAs comes from the National Endowment for the Arts; foundation, corporate and individual support; and other federal grants. Total revenue amounted to $434.9 million in FY, a 3% decrease from the $450.4 million secured in FY2017. State budgets on the whole have entered a period of slow but stable growth following the Great Recession of 2007-2009. However, long-term issues such as pensions, aging infrastructure, and increasing health care expenditures will loom large over states for the foreseeable future. Total State Arts Agency Revenue Fiscal Years 1990-5
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) NASAA is the membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation's state and jurisdictional. Its mission is to strengthen by representing their individual and collective interests, empowering their work through knowledge, and advancing the as an essential public benefit. NASAA serves as a clearinghouse for data and research about public funding and the, facilitating the transfer of ideas for members and partners. This report draws on data from NASAA's biannual legislative appropriations surveys and from ' Final Descriptive Reports (FDRs) of grant-making activity submitted annually to the National Endowment for the Arts and NASAA. Grant figures reported here represent data from fiscal year 2017 or the most recent available. For more information on the work of, call 202-347-6352, e-mail nasaa@nasaa-.org or visit nasaa-.org. NASAA's collection of grant-making statistics is supported in part through a cooperative agreement with the National Endowment for the Arts. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License. 6
State Arts Agency Grant Awards by Recipient Type Grants to organizations Grants to artists Grants to community groups & schools Symbols indicate ZIP codes of at least one grant recipient. 7
State Arts Agency Arts Education Awards Symbols indicate ZIP codes of at least one grant recipient. 8