ORIGINAL POST: https://www.stlmag.com/culture/st-louis-national-endowment-for-the-arts-funding/

Theater companies, classical radio stations, and visual arts organizations have lost tens of thousands in 2025 funding.

Numerous St. Louis arts organizations—including those involved with theater, film, dance, and visual arts—say they were informed over the weekend that 2025 grants previously awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts have been revoked.

Those facing revocation include St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Saint Louis Dance Theatre, The Black Rep, Cinema St. Louis, Classic 107.3 FM, the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and the Laumeier Sculpture Park. Many of the organizations’ leaders say they were told that grants that had been previously preliminarily awarded now falls outside the NEA’s “new priorities.”

-NEA revokes local arts organizations’ grants, citing ‘new priorities’