The Foundation awards grants to performing arts and cultural institutions, focusing on music and with an emphasis on access to the arts. Grants are also awarded for the visual arts and for arts in education. The Foundation prefers high-impact, sequential arts instruction to one-time programs. The Foundation does not make grants directly to individual artists nor does it support projects such as individual films, books, television programs or art exhibitions. It occasionally makes grants to legal and other services providing support to artists.

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Since inception, the Foundation has awarded $9.7 million in Arts grants.

Most Recent Grant Recipients

• 2021 Arts Grant Recipients

  Fall

  • Concerts in Motion
    • $10,000 for General Support
  • Metropolitan Opera Guild
    • $20,000 for Urban Voices Program
  • Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
    • $20,000 for General Support/$10,000 Leadership Transition
  • Mint Theater Company
    • $20,000 for General Support
  • New York Community Trust
    • $30,000 for Mosaic Network and Fund
  • New York Festival of Song
    • $5,000 for General Support
  • Noel Pointer Foundation
    • $10,000 for General Support

  Spring

  • Beth Morrison Projects
    • $15,000 for Capacity Building
  • Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
    • $15,000 for General Support
  • Metropolitan Opera Association
    • $10,000 for General Support
  • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
    • $10,000 for General Support
  • Third Street Music School
    • $20,000 for Third Street Partners Program
  • Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
    • $15,000 for General Support

Previous Grant Recipients