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 20,000 projects are funded in almost 4,400 communities each year. State invest their funds through a variety of programs designed to foster: educational success, by investing in education opportunities for students. Forty-two percent grants are directed toward programs and organizations with significant education activities; participation, by supporting more than 4,983 performances and exhibitions; accessibility, by investing more than $35 million in programs that widen the availability of the in rural areas; Total State Arts Agency Grant Awards Number of Grants Awarded 20,800 Arts Education Grants 8,805 Operating Support Grants 5,207 Individual Artist Grants 2,228 Grants to Local Arts Agencies 1,382 Grant Dollars Awarded $250,841,395 Number of Communities Funded 4,389 cultural infrastructure, by investing in organizations, both established 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 $6 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 333 $2,520,566 Dance 1,283 $13,617,738 Design Arts 156 $2,308,346 Folklife/Traditional Arts 945 $6,142,592 Humanities 304 $4,556,995 Interdisciplinary 401 $5,450,847 Literature 936 $6,576,265 Media Arts 603 $7,643,409 Multidisciplinary 5,090 $88,043,085 Music 4,185 $36,994,045 Opera/Musical Theatre 550 $6,434,897 Photography 161 $1,174,380 Theatre 2,860 $33,340,217 Visual Arts 2,448 $31,385,694 Non-Arts/Non-Humanities 545 $4,652,319 State Arts Agency Awards by Discipline Category Other includes crafts, folklife/traditional, humanities, interdisciplinary, literature and non-/non-humanities. 2
State Arts Agency Awards by Institution Type Other Recipients includes groups such as parks and recreation, libraries, media groups and local government entities. 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 89.8% of total revenue in fiscal year 2016. 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 $445.1 million in FY, a 7.8% increase from the $412.8 million secured in FY2016. 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. 3
Total State Arts Agency Revenue Fiscal Years 1990- 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 2014 or the most recent available. For more information on the work of, call 202-347-6352, e-mail nasaa@nasaa-.org or visit https://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. 4
State or Jurisdiction State Arts Agency Grant Making Total Grants Awarded Communities Funded Grantees Funded Number Dollars Number Number Alabama 310 $1,653,020 81 222 Alaska 203 1,515,659 39 174 Arizona 268 1,321,819 50 267 Arkansas 447 1,418,105 111 321 California 472 5,555,215 111 379 Colorado 225 1,849,926 66 217 Connecticut 252 2,373,150 65 185 Delaware 211 3,542,054 29 176 Florida 430 14,381,179 110 425 Georgia 160 1,090,778 95 159 Hawaii 62 660,110 22 55 Idaho 174 600,277 46 143 Illinois 140 837,485 46 127 Indiana 129 2,744,541 37 123 Iowa 206 1,304,173 97 172 Kansas 240 980,656 74 193 Kentucky 192 1,413,411 74 175 Louisiana 298 1,696,761 84 263 Maine 108 361,618 55 99 Maryland 575 14,063,388 125 531 Massachusetts 1,992 11,836,391 378 1,632 Michigan 503 9,728,336 126 382 Minnesota 567 33,190,658 82 440 Mississippi 221 1,259,011 66 198 Missouri 535 4,364,910 120 506 Montana 239 1,226,678 54 197 Nebraska 449 2,190,536 78 327 Nevada 352 2,134,462 29 249 New Hampshire 108 574,020 55 96 New Jersey 171 13,435,592 74 142 New Mexico 177 1,039,359 40 175 New York 1,897 36,295,571 215 1,240 North Carolina 356 6,474,763 122 268 North Dakota 222 805,428 51 183 Ohio 724 12,408,881 168 617 Oklahoma 453 2,996,612 83 247 Oregon 309 1,789,830 48 262 Pennsylvania 338 9,337,873 77 284 Rhode Island 300 1,527,600 39 255 South Carolina 329 2,482,800 79 282 South Dakota 300 269,479 57 105 Tennessee 868 5,194,130 201 668 Texas 1,622 7,218,846 186 832 Utah 255 4,255,406 71 226 Vermont 193 970,017 87 180 Virginia 653 3,680,844 182 511 Washington 143 1,821,727 48 130 West Virginia 95 822,852 36 70 Wisconsin 204 1,132,800 82 195 Wyoming 282 1,018,989 44 206 American Samoa 8 175,000 1 4 District of Columbia 415 7,543,530 1 282 Guam 29 568,298 9 29 Northern Marianas 120 133,332 3 112 Puerto Rico 149 1,179,574 33 138 Virgin Islands 120 393,935 8 117 Figures reported here represent data from fiscal year 2016, or the most recent available. Communities funded are measured by the number of unique municipalities receiving awards. Statistics do not reflect non-grant programs, which in some instances make up a substantial portion of activities. 5
State Arts Agency Grant Awards by Recipient Type Grants to organizations Grants to artists Grants to community groups and schools Symbols indicate ZIP codes of at least one grant recipient. 6
State Arts Agency Arts Education Awards Symbols indicate ZIP codes of at least one grant recipient. 7