This Arts Fact one pager shows the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) appropriations history for fiscal years 1966-2018.

Government Funding to Arts Agencies, Federal, State, and Local: 1997 - 2017 are highlight in this one page fact sheet.

This report discusses the history and issues surronding government support for the arts.

The report released by the New York City Comptroller, “Culture Shock: The Importance of National Arts Funding to New York City’s Cultural Landscape,” highlights how the NEA supports arts and educational programs across the five boroughs of New York City and profiles four neighborhood-based arts groups that would be impacted.

"In March 2017, the Trump Administration formally proposed the abolition of the two federal agencies that support arts and culture in the U.S., the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Elimination of federal support is not about the money, which only comes to 45 cents per capita for the NEA or .003 percent of the federal budget. The decimation of federal support is the coup de grâce of a long campaign carefully crafted to mislead the public into believing that the arts are irrelevant to most Americans." [Introduction p.1]

The arts have outperformed the overall United States Balance of Trade, increasing its surplus tenfold from 2006 to 2013, while the United States goods and services trade as a whole has registered a deficit every year over the same period. 

This fact sheet show how the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) budget has not been keeping pace with inflation.

This is a one pager of quick facts about the number of artists employed in the United States compiled from research by the Americans for the Arts Research and Policy Department.

This one pager complied by Americans for the Arts gives an overview of revenue sources for arts non profit organizations. Revenue from earned income is the largest sources of income, the remainder must be raise through contributed revenue.

The NEA's Funding the Arts infographic shows us where, how much and who one year's worth of funding reaches.