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 $10 million in Arts grants.

Most Recent Grant Recipients

• 2023 Arts Grant Recipients
  Spring

  • Arts Connection
    • $15,000 for General Support
  • Culture for One
    • $8,000 for General Support
  • Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
    • $15,000 for General Support
  • Metropolitan Opera Association
    • $15,000 for Summer Recital Series
  • New Dramatists
    • $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
  • Young People’s Chorus
    • $15,000 for General Support

  Fall

  • Free Arts NYC
    • $15,000 for Teen Arts Program
  • Irondale Arts Ensemble Project
    • $15,000 for General Support
  • MacDowell
    • $20,000 for Operations in Peterborough, NH

Previous Grant Recipients