National Endowment for the Arts sending grant terminations after Trump's proposed budget calls for shuttering agency

The National Endowment for the Arts, the nation's largest funder of arts and arts education, has begun sending grant terminations to arts organizations. 

President Trump's proposed budget, released last week, calls for shutting down the agency, which was founded in 1965. Mr. Trump's budget proposals in his first term had called to shut down the agency, though Congress has decided each time to fund the agency.

In 2024, the NEA has doled out about $200 million in grants to nonprofit art organizations, public arts agencies and organizations, colleges and universities, federally recognized tribal communities and individual writers and translators, according to the agency. The funds are appropriated by Congress annually.