No, grant dollars should not be double-counted in the analysis. The Organizational Expenditure Survey instructed the responding organizations to exclude any dollars that were awarded as grants or contracts to other nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Similarly, researchers removed from the economic impact analysis expenditures that were identified in Cultural Data Project profiles as grantmaking dollars.
Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research and Policy, explains one of our most powerful research studies and advocacy tools: the Arts & Economic Prosperity study. (3:30)
