In 2005-6, Arts Council Northern Ireland (ACNI) received 721 applicants seeking Lottery grants totalling £19,476,245, and made 254 grants, totalling £7,878,472. The Awards for All Scheme accounted for a further 147 awards totalling £539, 284, making the total annual spending £8,417,756 divided amongst 401 recipients.
National Lottery Fund Annual Report 2005-6, ACNI, 2006

Combined art-form projects received the most ACNI lottery funding in 2005-6: £2,157,228 divided amongst 66 awards. Drama projects received the second most: £1,403,456 divided amongst 64 awards, and Visual projects received the third most, £1,288,588 divided amongst 69 awards.
National Lottery Fund Annual Report 2005-6, ACNI, 2006

In 2005-6, Belfast received £4,904,070 of lottery funding, the most of any Local Authority Area in Northern Ireland. Derry received the second most, £961,433, and Down the third most, £621,606. The lowest amount of lottery funding was awarded in Cookstown, which received £3,840 for one project. Belfast received £16.53 per capita funding, the highest of any Local Authority Area. Down received the second most, £10.24, and Derry the third most, £9.35. Ballymena received the least, £0.11 per capita.
National Lottery Fund Annual Report 2005-6, ACNI, 2006

Between 1995 and 2006, Belfast was the Local Authority Area with most ACNI lottery funding expended on it: £35,543,094 or £199.80 per capita. Derry received the second most, £11,965,696 or £116.40 per capita, and Omagh the third most, £4,841,278 or £103.2 per capita. The Lowest recipients were Limavady, which received £148,878 or £4.8 per capita, and Banbridge, which received £177,794 or £4.8 per capita.
National Lottery Fund Annual Report 2005-6, ACNI, 2006

In 2004-05, ACNI distributed £8 million of National Lottery funds. 
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Report 2004/05, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 2005