1 CARES Act Funding Survey

CARES Act Funding Survey
In spring 2020, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which packaged
numerous relief efforts for the American public. The CARES Act included $75
million in funds distributed through the National Endowment for the Arts. By
law, 40% of those dollars were allocated to state and jurisdictional arts agencies
and regional arts organizations. Your agency or organization received these Arts
Endowment CARES Act funds as a supplement to your fiscal year 2019
Partnership Agreement dollars. No new reporting requirements were associated
with the provision of those funds; however, we know that many states attempted
to track CARES Act funds. To better understand these specific Arts Endowment
CARES Act dollars on a national level, the National Assembly of State Arts
Agencies (NASAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts are administering
this short survey. Please answer the following questions to the best of your
ability, based on information you have received from your grantees. The time
required to complete this information collection is estimated to average 4.5 hours
per response, including the time to review instructions, search existing data
resources, gather the data needed, and complete and review the information
collection. You will be able to save the survey and return to it later if needed. We
ask that you answer all questions as best you can and to the fullest extent
possible.
All results will be anonymized by NASAA and reported to the public in the
aggregate. This survey will not impact current or future awards from the Arts
Endowment. Your participation is voluntary. You will not receive any
compensation for responding to the survey. You may decline to answer any
questions you wish. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are
required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays
a valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. The OMB
control number for this survey is OMB No. 3135-XXXX (expires XX/XX/XXXX).
Please note that this survey is collecting data related to CARES Act funding that
your agency received from the Arts Endowment. It is not collecting data related
to any other supplemental CARES Act funding.
We greatly appreciate both your efforts to answer these questions and your hard
work in allocating and reporting these funds in the first place. Please submit
your response by DATE and direct any questions to Patricia Mullaney-Loss

at [email protected]. If you have any comments concerning
the accuracy of time estimates or suggestions for improving this form, please
contact National Endowment for the Arts at [email protected].

1) Please select your state, jurisdiction or region:
( ) Alabama
( ) Alaska
( ) American Samoa
( ) Arizona
( ) Arkansas
( ) California
( ) Colorado
( ) Connecticut
( ) Delaware
( ) District of Columbia
( ) Florida
( ) Georgia
( ) Guam
( ) Hawaii
( ) Idaho
( ) Illinois
( ) Indiana
( ) Iowa
( ) Kansas
( ) Kentucky
( ) Louisiana
( ) Maine
( ) Maryland
( ) Massachusetts
( ) Michigan

( ) Minnesota
( ) Mississippi
( ) Missouri
( ) Montana
( ) Nebraska
( ) Nevada
( ) New Hampshire
( ) New Jersey
( ) New Mexico
( ) New York
( ) North Carolina
( ) North Dakota
( ) Northern Mariana Islands
( ) Ohio
( ) Oklahoma
( ) Oregon
( ) Pennsylvania
( ) Puerto Rico
( ) Rhode Island
( ) South Carolina
( ) South Dakota
( ) Tennessee
( ) Texas
( ) Utah
( ) Vermont
( ) Virgin Islands
( ) Virginia
( ) Washington
( ) West Virginia
( ) Wisconsin
( ) Wyoming
( ) Mid-America
( ) Mid Atlantic

( ) Midwest
( ) New England
( ) Southern
( ) Western

2) How did your agency or organization administer National Endowment for the Arts
CARES Act funding? Please select all that apply.
[ ] As stand-alone grants, using only Arts Endowment funds
[ ] As a supplement to previously allocated general operating support (GOS) grant funds
[ ] As a supplement to previously allocated grant funds other than GOS
[ ] As part of an emergency relief funding grant that included a mixture of Arts Endowment
CARES Act funds and other funds
[ ] Other - Write In: _________________________________________________

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3) Did your agency or organization track how many staff positions your grantees were able
to create as a result of Arts Endowment CARES Act funding?
( ) Yes
( ) No
( ) Data were collected but lack validity
( ) I am not sure

Validation: Must be numeric
Logic: Hidden unless: #3 Question "Did your agency or organization track how many staff
positions your grantees were able to create as a result of Arts Endowment CARES Act
funding?" is one of the following answers ("Yes","Data were collected but lack validity")
4) Please report the total number of staff positions your grantees created as a result of Arts
Endowment CARES Act funding:
Fulltime:: _________________________________________________

Part time:: _________________________________________________
Contractors:: _________________________________________________
If you don’t have numbers for the above categories, please include an estimate of fulltime
equivalent positions. (You can explain how the estimate was calculated in the next question):
_________________________________________________

Logic: Hidden unless: #3 Question "Did your agency or organization track how many staff
positions your grantees were able to create as a result of Arts Endowment CARES Act
funding?" is one of the following answers ("Yes","Data were collected but lack validity")

5) If you entered an estimate in the question above, please explain how the
estimate was calculated:
_________________________________________________

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6) Did your agency or organization track how many staff positions your grantees were able
to retain as a result of Arts Endowment CARES Act funding?
( ) Yes
( ) No
( ) Data were collected but lack validity
( ) I am not sure

Validation: Must be numeric
Logic: Hidden unless: #6 Question "Did your agency or organization track how many staff
positions your grantees were able to retain as a result of Arts Endowment CARES Act
funding?" is one of the following answers ("Yes","Data were collected but lack validity")
7) Please report the total number of staff positions your grantees retained as a result of
Arts Endowment CARES Act funding:
Fulltime:: _________________________________________________
Part time:: _________________________________________________

Contractors:: _________________________________________________
If you don’t have numbers for the above categories, please include an estimate of fulltime
equivalent positions. (You can explain how the estimate was calculated in the next question):
_________________________________________________

Logic: Hidden unless: #6 Question "Did your agency or organization track how many staff
positions your grantees were able to retain as a result of Arts Endowment CARES Act
funding?" is one of the following answers ("Yes","Data were collected but lack validity")

8) If you entered an estimate in the question above, please explain how the
estimate was calculated:
_________________________________________________

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Validation: Must be currency

9) What was the total dollar amount that your grantees spent on
facilities/infrastructure, using Arts Endowment CARES Act funding?
_________________________________________________

Validation: Must be numeric

10) What was the total number of organizations that spent grant dollars on
facilities/infrastructure, using Arts Endowment CARES Act funding?
_________________________________________________

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11) Apart from information about staff positions created or retained or investments in
facilities, did your agency collect any other data related to the impact of Arts Endowment
CARES Act funding?
( ) Yes
( ) No
( ) I am not sure

Logic: Hidden unless: #11 Question "Apart from information about staff positions created
or retained or investments in facilities, did your agency collect any other data related to the
impact of Arts Endowment CARES Act funding?" is one of the following answers ("Yes")

12) What data did you collect related to Arts Endowment CARES Act funding?
For example, activity locations, number of artists involved, number of people
participating, salaries of project administrators and/or affiliated artists,
demographics of communities served.
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________

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Logic: Hidden unless: #11 Question "Apart from information about staff positions created
or retained or investments in facilities, did your agency collect any other data related to the
impact of Arts Endowment CARES Act funding?" is one of the following answers ("Yes")
13) Please attach any grantee-level data that you collected specifically for grants that
included Arts Endowment CARES Act dollars.
For example, if you have CARES Act grant records that can be exported from your grants
management system to a spreadsheet, that can be uploaded here.
________1
________2

________3

14) Arts Endowment CARES Act funding allocated through my agency or organization
allowed for the following benefits in my state:

Agree

Neither
Agree
nor
Disagree

Disagree

Not
applicable

Retained jobs

()

()

()

()

Created jobs

()

()

()

()

Maintained
facilities
(physical
maintenance
and/or retained
access to
facilities)

()

()

()

()

Supplemented
funds for other
relief efforts
(such as relief
funds
administered in
conjunction with
other
organizations)

()

()

()

()

Helped directly
support artists
with cash

()

()

()

()

Helped support
artists indirectly

()

()

()

()

Helped support
our state or
region's cultural

()

()

()

()

infrastructure
Helped leverage
local, state,
and/or private
support

()

()

()

()

Assisted
organizations to
sustain
themselves while
shifting to
alternative/online
content delivery
and
programming

()

()

()

()

15) Is there anything else you would like to relay about the importance, impact
or challenges related to Arts Endowment CARES Act funding?
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________

Thank You!
Thank you for taking the CARES Act Funding Survey. If you have any
questions, please contact [email protected].