Arts Groups Get $22 Million

The National Endowment for the Arts today awarded nearly $22 million to 50 arts organizations, including a first-time, $1-million grant to Washington’s Kennedy Center, to help them achieve long-term financial stability and attract greater private support.

Among the grants awarded were $1 million to the San Francisco Opera, $500,000 to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and $300,000 to the Performing Arts Council’s education division, Los Angeles Music Center. Organizations receiving the so-called “challenge grants” are required to raise $3 in new, non-federal funds for every dollar of government money received.