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Who funds arts education programs? Grant data from tax filings and live federal listings

Name: arts education grant funding data (Grant Graph)
Creator: Grant Graph
License: public domain sources; compilation freely citable with attribution

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 813 grants totaling $30.7 million went to arts education programs-related work. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of arts education programs, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	54	$2.9 million
STRAZ FAMILY FOUNDATION	2	$1.8 million
INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO	2	$1.4 million
LOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE	1	$1.2 million
WINDSONG TRUST	1	$1.0 million
The Wallace Foundation	5	$928,779
THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION	11	$874,000
THE HECKSCHER FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN	9	$775,000
The Hearst Foundation	5	$750,000
FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION	73	$730,000

Across all funders: 813 grants, $30.7 million total, median grant $10,000.

Where the money went

State	Grants	Total
CA	135	$6.8 million
NY	118	$5.7 million
OR	99	$4.1 million
PA	51	$2.4 million
FL	39	$1.7 million
IL	5	$1.5 million

Open federal opportunities addressing arts education programs (nonprofit-eligible)

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "arts education"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: arts education, arts and culture, humanities.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
22-615	NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages	U.S. National Science Foundation	unspecified to unspecified	09/15/2026
20260916-RQ	Scholarly Editions and Translations	National Endowment for the Humanities	$1 to $1.0 million	09/16/2026
20260511-PCS	Collections Stewardship	National Endowment for the Humanities	$50,000 to $500,000	12/15/2026

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 584 listings mentioning "arts education programs" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.