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IV-01c: National Endowment for the Humanities Funding* Distributed to States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, Total and Per Capita, Fiscal Year 2021 (Current Dollars)

* Monies include those for new grants, supplemental grants, program contracts, and other program-related purposes. The amount for the District of Columbia includes, in addition to grants, funding for a $1.1 million contract with the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Source: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Office of Planning and Budget. The Humanities Indicators thanks NEH Budget Officer David Dohanic for his generous assistance. The population data used to calculate per capita amounts for states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico were obtained from U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, “Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2021 (NST-EST2021-POP),” https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-2021/state/totals/NST-EST2021-POP.xlsx (accessed 10/27/2022). Data presented by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) distributes grant dollars in two forms: 1) to state humanities councils according to a legislatively mandated formula (for a description of the formula by which monies are distributed among the councils and additional information on council funding, see “State Humanities Council Revenues”); and 2) as discretionary awards made to individuals and organizations, including state humanities councils, mainly through national grant competitions (information about funded projects is available via a searchable database on the agency’s website).

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