The Foundation Center's 2002 Arts Funding Update

For more than a decade, the Foundation Center has sought to enhance understanding of the role of U.S. foundations in supporting arts and culture by preparing a series of studies of national giving trends.1 This Arts Funding Update continues that tradition with a brief examination of the growth and distribution of foundation arts giving from 1996 to 2000. This update of key funding indicators will be followed in 2003 by Arts Funding IV, which will provide a detailed review of changes in foundations' support of the arts through 2001