Would axing the NEA usher in the Artpocalypse? In a word, the answer is no. The National Endowment for the Arts, marked for elimination in the Trump administration’s recent budget proposal, spent $148 million for 2016. That represents just 0.003 percent of the federal budget — and also a tiny fraction what museums, theater companies and dance troupes need to operate. No nonprofit arts organization, large or small, depends solely on a federal subsidy to stay in business. And that’s by design. The NEA vets all applicants to make sure they have other sources of funding — that they are “going concerns” with proven viability — as do the state and regional agencies, such as the Arizona Commission on the Arts, that get 40 percent of the NEA’s grant funding to redistribute in every congressional district in the country.