Wednesday, May 18, 2011  Crunching Numbers: NEA Awards  So the
NEA just announced a new round of grants, and Stage Directions
published it. Let's take a look at the "Access to Excellence"
category for Theatre (not including Musical Theatre, which is
its own category). Since this category is about "access," I have
crunched the numbers to look a geographical distribution, which
might have an influence on access. If I get a chance, I'll
crunch the numbers according to population tomorrow. (This has
not been done very quickly, and has not been proofread.)  A
total of $4,368,000 was awarded spread over 156 grants, which
has an average of $28,000 per grant. Nice. How does it break
down?  The cities of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles
(NYLACHI) Percentage of US population: 13.6% Number of grants:
54 (34.6%) Total amount granted: $1,966,000 (45%) Average grant
amount: $36,407 (130% of overall average) Median grant amount:
$25,500  Everyone else Percentage of US population: 86.4% Number
of grants: 102 (65.4%) Total