2008 LA Arts Funding Survey Results Released by Southern California Grantmakers

According to Helmut Anheier, Director, UCLA Center for Civil Society, "There exists a recurring trilemma comprising the growing need for arts funding, stagnating financial support and limited accessibility to available private funding sources. The current economic crisis adds new challenges to LA's arts organizations, but it is important to note that some of the underlying trends have been taking place for some time. Indeed, for as long as we have surveyed arts funding patterns and trends in L.A., a central finding has been that public and private funding flows are unlikely to meet the financial needs of LA's arts and culture nonprofit sector. Expressed in constant dollars, funding flows to the arts are about the same as they were in 2000."