The federal budget proposal unveiled by the White House on Thursday pours money into defense spending and drains the coffers of three federal agencies that provide financial support to many Central Massachusetts arts and cultural organizations.

Congress must still vote to approve President Trump’s $1.1 trillion budget, which, in its current form, slashes all federal funding for the National Endowment of the Arts, a cultural agency that received just over $147 million in federal money last fiscal year.

Funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, two additional federal departments that fund cultural research and development, is axed in Trump’s budget plan, too.

“There’s a whole funding ecosystem that’s going to be disrupted if all these funding sources go away,” said Greg Liakos, spokesman for the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

According to agency documents, organizations in Massachusetts received over $1.6 million in grants last fall from the National Endowment for the Arts, which was created by an act of Congress in 1965.

The face of downtown Fitchburg could look very different if a $100,000 grant proposal pending with the agency’s Our Town program comes through.

The grant would allow the city to hire a consultant to enact a Cultural Master Plan, a multi-step revitalization effort that, among other initiatives, would convert three downtown properties into affordable housing units and studio space for artists.

Grants from the National Endowment of the Arts must be matched by private investors. If it is approved and matched by private donors, the grant would mean $200,000 in new investments for the city.

Not so if the congressional budget follows the lead of President Trump’s proposal and cuts out the National Endowment for the Arts, said Nick Capasso, director of Fitchburg Art Museum, which is spearheading the effort.

The budget for the National Endowment for the Arts for fiscal year 2017 remains unchanged and will continue to operate as usual until Congress approves a new budget, said agency spokeswoman Judith Kargbo

About $3.5 million in investment by the National Endowment for the Arts helped support Massachusetts arts initiatives last year, Liakos said.

Over $900,000 of that money was awarded to the Massachusetts Cultural Center, which Liakos said last year received an additional $11 million in grant funding from Beacon Hill.

Nora Burchfield, the executive director of the New England Quilt Museum, said her 30-year-old textile museum operates with the help of state grants, which are partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Burchfield said she fears Congress will vote to pass a budget without funding for arts and humanities agencies, a move that would “send a message to the people that arts are not important.”

Many National Endowment for the Arts grants are used to fund arts education, Burchfield said. Without them, it would become more difficult for low-income Americans to view artwork they find inspirational.

“We’re going to turn into a country where only people with money can benefit from the arts,” Burchfield said. “People who have the extra income can afford to send their kids to expensive summer programs. All the other kids whose moms are making minimum wage won’t have access.”

Capasso said a federal budget plan that provides no support for the arts would have a windfall effect, making it more politically viable for local politicians to pull funding for small-town cultural projects.

“This emboldens local politicians to start defunding these things on a state level,” he said. “It has the potential to be a very negative development.”