Lack of Diversity in Arts Giving Criticized in New Study
Chronicle of Philanthropy
October 10, 2011
Most foundations make grants to big arts organizations that serve a well-to-do, predominantly white audience, the Associated Press reports, citing a new study by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
The study, to be released Monday at an arts grant maker’s conference in San Francisco, says organizations with annual budgets exceeding $5-million, representing about 2 percent of cultural organizations, collected 55 percent of arts grants in 2009.
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