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IV-01d: National Endowment for the Humanities Funding Distributed to States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, Fiscal Year 2017 (Current Dollars)

Data Source and Other Information

* Monies include those for new grants, supplemental grants, program contracts, and other program-related purposes. Included are awards that were made by the agency using funds appropriated by Congress, transferred by other federal agencies, and contributed by nonfederal entities.
** The amount for the District of Columbia includes, in addition to grants, funding for all program contracts awarded by the agency ($1.1 million).

Source: National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Planning and Budget (data provided to the Humanities Indicators upon request). The population data used to calculate per capita amounts were obtained from U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, “Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2017 (NST-EST2017-01)” (accessed 5/18/2018).

Data presented by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

Related Indicators

For information regarding how NEH funding is allocated, see “State Humanities Council Revenues.”

For additional information regarding public and private investment in the humanities, see “Beyond NEH,” “Charitable Giving for Humanities Activities,” “Foundation Funding of Humanities Activities,” “Not-for-Profit Humanities Organizations and Their Revenues: Overview,” “Not-for-Profit Humanities Organizations and Their Revenues: Trends among the Major Organization Types,” and “Research and Development Expenditures at Colleges and Universities.”

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