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Grant Fact Sheet A town with a population 100-249K
• Can support 91 full-time jobs
Historic Theatre Industry at A Glance (not including New York City): • Creates $2.9 million in expenditures
There are 3,142 counties in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Over half of those counties have a • Generates $270,000 for local and state governments
historic theatre that not only provides arts and entertainment to residents but is also an economic generator
for the county. Historic theatres collectively generate over $427 million dollars annually for local and state • Adds $2.2 million to household incomes in your community
governments and support over 131,000 full-time jobs. (And those numbers do not include the incredible impact A town with a population 250-499K
of NYC Broadway Houses/Times Square which alone supports more than 100,000 jobs and has an estimated
$16 billion impact on the local economy.) • Can support 101 full-time jobs
• Creates $3.1 million in expenditures
• Annual Attendance: 70.7 million • Generates $325,000 for local and state governments

• Annual Total Expenditures: $4.3 billion • Adds $2.4 million to household incomes
• Annual Contribution to Household Incomes: $2.9 billion
A town with a population 500-999K
Arts & Entertainment (National): • Can support 164 full-time jobs
• $152 billion in annual revenues • Creates $5.4 million in expenditures

• 1,655,393 employees
• Generates $545,000 for local and state governments
Included in A&E are: • Adds $3.8 million to household incomes
• $64 Billion - Nonprofit Arts Organizations (Source: Americans for the Arts) A town with a population more than 1 million

• $4.3 Billion - Historic Theatres (Source: League of Historic American Theatres) • Can support 273 full-time jobs

Audience Impact • Creates $9 million in expenditures
Dinner and a show – it’s a thing. The arts, unlike most industries, leverage significant amounts of event-related • Generates $1 million for local and state governments
spending by their audiences—valuable income for local restaurants, parking garages, hotels, and retail stores. • Adds $6.5 million to household incomes
Based on 212,691 audience surveys conducted for a study by American for the Arts, the typical arts attendee
spends $31.47 per person, per event, beyond the cost of admission. Definitions:
One-third of the nation’s arts attendees are from outside the county in which the arts event took place (34.1 Total Expenditures: The total dollars spent by your nonprofit arts and culture organization and its
percent) and spent twice as much ($47.57 vs. $23.44) as their local counterparts. Two-thirds of nonlocal audiences: event-related spending by arts and culture audiences is estimated using the average dollars
attendees (69 percent) indicated that the primary reason they were visiting was to attend that arts event. spent per person by arts event attendees in similarly populated communities.
When local attendees were asked what they would have done if the arts event they were attending was not
taking place, 41 percent said they would have traveled to a different community for a similar arts experience. FTE Jobs: The total number of full-time equivalent
(FTE) jobs in your community that are supported
Average Economic Impact of Historic Theatres by the expenditures made by your arts and culture
A SINGLE THEATRE in a… organization and/or its audiences. An FTE can be one
A town with a population less than 50K full-time employee, two half-time employees, four
employees who work quarter-time, etc. They are not
• Can support 37 full-time jobs necessarily theatre employees.

• Creates $1.2 million in expenditures Government Revenue: The total dollars received by
• Generates $110,000 for local and state governments your local and state governments (e.g., license fees,

• Adds $790,000 to household incomes taxes) as a result of the expenditures made by your
arts and culture organization and/or its audiences.
A town with a population 50-99K

• Can support 79 full-time jobs Household Income: The total dollars paid to
• Creates $2.3 million in expenditures community residents as a result of the expenditures
made by your arts and culture organization and/or
• Generates $200,000 for local and state governments its audiences. Household income includes salaries,
• Adds $1.7 million to household incomes wages, and proprietary income.

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