Facts & Figures
- In fiscal year 2008, state arts agencies invested $359.6 million in creating and sustaining arts infrastructures in communities across the nation.
Source: National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Legislative Appropriations Annual Survey, FY 2008. - America's nonprofit arts industry generates $166.2 billion in economic activity every year, resulting in $29.6 billion in federal, state, and local tax revenues.
Source: Americans for the Arts, Arts & Economic Prosperity III: The Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts and Culture Organizations and Their Audiences, 2007. - The creative sector, whose economic function is to create new ideas or creative content, employs 38 million Americans, or 30 percent of all employed people.
Source: Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, 2002. - In 2006, 574,596 U.S. businesses participated in the production or distribution of art and employed nearly 3 million people.
Source: Americans for the Arts, Creative Industries Report, 2006. - Americans donated more than $13.99 billion to the arts in 2004 through individual giving, estates, foundations and corporations.
Source: Giving USA Foundation, Giving USA, 2005. - More than half of U.S. adults participate in cultural tourism. In 2002, cultural tourists spent an average of $166 more per trip than tourists not participating in cultural activities.
Source: Travel Industry Association of America, The Historic/Cultural Traveler, 2003. - American consumers spent $12.8 billion ($42.8 per person) on admissions to performing arts events in 2005.
Source: National Endowment for the Arts, Consumer Spending on Performing Arts, 2006 - More people are attending live performing arts events than professional sporting events in 10 major communities across the United States.
Source: Performing Arts Research Coalition, The Value of the Performing Arts in Ten Communities, 2004. - Copyright Industries (businesses that rely on copyrights and produce computer software, films, television programs, and other audio, visual and printed media) accounted for 11% of US Gross Domestic Product ($1.38 trillion).
Source: International Intellectual Property Alliance, Copyright Industries in the US Economy, 2006. - In 2004, nonprofits -- including public charities, private foundations, and all other—accounted for 8.3 percent of the wages and salaries paid in the United States.
Source: The Urban Institute, The Nonprofit Sector in Brief, 2007.
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