Kansas is set to miss out on about 00,000 in arts funding this year because state spending doesn't meet a minimum set by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Topeka ? Kansas is set to miss out on about $800,000 in arts funding this year because state spending doesn’t meet a minimum set by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the state is about $250,000 short of the minimum needed to receive federal matching funds for the NEA. Kansas allocated $191,000 in arts funding for this fiscal year.

The executive director of the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission says losing more than $400,000 in federal matching funds will limit the amount of grants the commission can award this year. The loss of NEA funding has resulted in the loss of other arts funding, bringing the total to $800,000.

The Mid-America Arts Alliance announced it would suspend Kansas’ memberships earlier this month. One of its requirements is that states must meet the NEA minimum. The suspension will disqualify Kansas artists and arts organizations from applying for grants through the program.

The nonprofit’s CEO Mary Kennedy said the group provided about $370,000 in programs and services throughout the state last fiscal year.

The Orpheum Theatre had planned to potentially use a grant for $15,000 from Mid-America to pay for a dance troupe performance in late 2016 or early 2017.

Diana Gordon, the Orpheum’s president and chief development officer, said that the theatre will no longer be able to pay for the performance.

This is not the first time that the NEA or Mid-America has suspended funding for the state. Kansas’ arts funding from both group’s was suspended for two years after Gov. Sam Brownback defunded the Kansas Arts Commission in June 2011.