Cambodian Rock Band at Signature Theatre

 

2020 Grants Program Awardees

 

 

In response to COVID19, the Howard Gilman Foundation Board of Trustees approved an additional $1M in contributions to support the following emergency regrant and response programs:

• The Actors’ Fund of America’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants

• Advance NYC’s Advance NYC COVID-19 Micro-Contract Program

• Arts Administrators of Color Network’s Arts Leaders of Color Emergency Fund

• Arts Business Collaborative’s COVID-19 Response: Technical Assistance

• The Dance Union’s NYC Dancers Relief Fund (COVID-19)

• Dance/NYC’s Dance/NYC Coronavirus Relief Fund

• The Drama League of New York’s Directors Emergency Relief Fund

• Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Emergency Grants Fund

• Episcopal Actors’ Guild’s Emergency Aid & Relief Program

• First Peoples Fund Resilience Fund

• Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ COVID-19 Relief Fund

• Indie Theater Fund’s Rapid Relief Emergency Grants

• International Association of Blacks in Dance’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund

• Jazz Foundation of America’s COVID-19 relief via the Musicians’ Emergency Fund

• Musicians Foundation’s CV19 Emergency Aid

• New Music USA’s New Music Solidarity Fund for Freelance Performers

• New York Community Trust’s NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund

• NYC Low-Income Artist/Freelancer’s Relief Fund

• Pentacle’s Fiscal Urgent Care Program

• SDC Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants

• Women of Color in the Arts Advocacy and Membership Programming

 

 

The following organizations were awarded grants in Cycle 1 of 2020:

• A Better Jamaica, Inc.

  $20,000 to support the Jamaica Dance Festival

• American Dance Abroad

  $25,000 for New York City artist services

• American Lyric Theater

  $30,000 for general operating support

• American Theatre Wing

  $25,000 to support the Obie Awards

• Arts for Art

  $60,000 for general operating support over two years

• ArtsPool

  $50,000 for general operating support and an additional $75,000 for financial stabilization

• Baryshnikov Arts Center

  $175,000 for general operating support and an additional $25,000 for strategic planning

• Big Dance Theater

  $60,000 for general operating support over two years

• Blank Forms

  $15,000 for general operating support

• Camille A. Brown & Dancers

  $55,000 for general operating support and an additional $25,000 for cash reserves

• Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute

  $25,000 to support the AfriBembé Festival and an additional $50,000 for feasibility study support

• Chen Dance Center

  $25,000 for general operating support

• Dance/NYC

  $300,000 for general operating support over two years and an additional $75,000 for capacity building

• En Garde Arts

  $25,000 for general operating support

• ETHEL

  $25,000 for general operating support

• The Field

  $100,000 for general operating support over two years and an additional $100,000 for technical assistance

• Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana

  $50,000 to support a Center for Percussive Arts feasibility study

• French Institute Alliance Française

  $80,000 to support the Crossing the Line Festival over two years

• Gallim Dance

  $30,000 for general operating support

• ISSUE Project Room

  $80,000 for general operating support over two years and an additional $60,000 for transition funds

• JACK

  $60,000 for general operating support over two years

• JACK Quartet

  $40,000 for general operating support

• The Knights

  $55,000 for general operating support

• Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion

  $200,000 for general operating support over two years

• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

  $200,000 to support the Mostly Mozart Festival over two years

• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

  $80,000 to support the River to River Festival over two years

• Mama Foundation for the Arts

  $25,000 for general operating support

• New Georges

  $60,000 for general operating support and an additional $50,000 for consultancy support

• New Music USA

  $25,000 for general operating support and an additional $50,000 for NYC project grants

• New York City Players

  $25,000 for general operating support

• New York Philharmonic

  $250,000 to support Project 19 over two years

• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

  $35,000 to support The Oral History Project

• Noche Flamenca

  $60,000 for general operating support over two years

• On Site Opera

  $20,000 for general operating support

• OPERA America

  $75,000 to support artists services

• Pan Asian Repertory Theatre

  $25,000 to support the production of Cambodia Agonistes

• Park Avenue Armory

  $60,000 for general operating support for performing arts presentations

• The Shed

  $100,000 to support the Open Call program over two years

• SITI Company

  $50,000 for general operating support over two years and an additional $100,000 for the Legacy Campaign

• Tectonic Theater Project

  $50,000 for general operating support

• Theater Mitu

  $60,000 for general operating support over two years

• Waterwell

  $30,000 for general operating support over eighteen months

To date, the following organizations were awarded grants in Cycle 2 of 2020. We will post additional awards as we process grants on a rolling basis.

• 14th Street Y

  $25,000 to support performing arts programming at LABA Arts & Culture

• 651 ARTS

  $75,000 for general operating support

• All For One

  $20,000 for general operating support

• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

  $125,000 for general operating support of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

• American Classical Orchestra

  $25,000 for general operating support

• American Tap Dance Foundation

  $25,000 for general operating support

• Apollo Theater

  $100,000 for general operating support

• Ballet Hispánico

  $175,000 for general operating support

• BAX

  $35,000 for general operating support

• The Billie Holiday Theatre for Social Justice

  $75,000 for general operating support

• BRIC

  $125,000 for general operating support of Performing Arts Programming

• Brooklyn Academy of Music

  $700,000 for general operating support

• Brooklyn Raga Massive

  $25,000 for general operating support

• Buglisi Dance Theatre

  $15,000 for general operating support

• Carnegie Hall

  $150,000 for general operating support

• Center for Performance Research

  $35,000 for general operating support

• Center for Traditional Music and Dance

  $30,000 for general operating support

• The Chocolate Factory Theater

  $35,000 for general operating support

• Classic Stage Company

  $75,000 for general operating support

• The Classical Theatre of Harlem

  $100,000 for general operating support

• Dixon Place

  $20,000 for general operating support

• Doug Varone and Dancers

  $25,000 for general operating support

• Elisa Monte Dance

  $20,000 for general operating support

• Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana

  $40,000 for general operating support

• Forces of Nature

  $25,000 for general operating support

• Gotham Early Music Scene

  $25,000 for general operating support

• The Harlem Chamber Players

  $25,000 for general operating support

• Harlem Stage

  $100,000 for general operating support

• HERE

  $65,000 for general operating support and an additional $25,000 for the PROTOTYPE Festival

• House Foundation for the Arts

  $25,000 for general operating support

• Imani Winds

  $25,000 for general operating support

• Irish Arts Center

  $50,000 for general operating support

• Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning

  $35,000 for general operating support

• Jazz Foundation of America

  $20,000 to support the Gig Fund and New York City Public Performances

• José Limón Dance Foundation

  $50,000 for general operating support

• The Joyce Theater

  $250,000 for general operating support

• Keen Company

  $20,000 for general operating support

• League of American Orchestras

  $50,000 for general operating support

• Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

  $20,000 for general operating support

• Mabou Mines

  $30,000 for general operating support

• MasterVoices

  $50,000 for general operating support

• The Metropolitan Opera

  $25,000 for general operating support

• Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation

  $85,000 to support USArtists International grants for NYC-based organizations

• Miller Theatre

  $15,000 for general operating support

• National Sawdust

  $75,000 for general operating support

• The New 42nd Street

  $100,000 for general operating support

• New Dramatists

  $75,000 for general operating support

• New York City Ballet

  $75,000 for general operating support

• New York City Center

  $250,000 for general operating support

• Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

  $175,000 for general operating support

• Page 73 Productions

  $40,000 for general operating support

• People’s Theatre Project

  $20,000 to support The PTP Company

• Performance Space New York

  $75,000 for general operating support

• The Play Company

  $30,000 for general operating support

• Playwrights Horizons

  $150,000 for general operating support

• Primary Stages

  $55,000 for general operating support

• Queens Theatre

  $50,000 for general operating support

• Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

  $60,000 for general operating support

• Roulette

  $75,000 for general operating support

• Second Stage Theatre

  $150,000 for general operating support

• Signature Theatre

  $250,000 for general operating support

• Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden

  $20,000 to support PASS: Performing Arts Salon Saturdays

• Sō Percussion

  $35,000 for general operating support

• Soho Rep.

  $75,000 for general operating support

• Stephen Petronio Dance Company

  $35,000 for general operating support

• Symphony Space

  $50,000 for general operating support

• Talea Ensemble

  $20,000 for general operating support

• The Tank

  $30,000 for general operating support

• Target Margin Theater

  $40,000 for general operating support

• Teatro Círculo

  $20,000 for general operating support

• Theatre Development Fund

  $50,000 for general operating support

• Transport Group Theatre Company

  $20,000 for general operating support

• Trisha Brown Dance Company

  $50,000 for general operating support

• Vineyard Theatre

  $75,000 for general operating support

• The Wooster Group

  $50,000 for general operating support

• World Music Institute

  $35,000 for general operating support

• ZviDance

  $20,000 for general operating support

 

 

*The following organizations were awarded two-year grants in 2019:

• 92Y Harkness Dance Center

• Abrons Arts Center

• The Actors’ Fund of America

• Alarm Will Sound

• Ars Nova

• BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

• Bang on a Can

• Bedlam

• The Bessies

• Beth Morrison Projects

• Brooklyn Youth Chorus

• City Parks Foundation

• Clubbed Thumb

• Dance Heginbotham

• Dance Lab New York

• Dance Theatre of Harlem

• Danspace Project

• Dorrance Dance

• Ensemble Studio Theatre

• Fiasco Theater

• The Flea Theater

• Gibney Dance

• Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture

• International Contemporary Ensemble

• Irish Repertory Theatre

• The Jazz Gallery

• The Kitchen

• Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College

• La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

• The Lark

• Lincoln Center Theater

• Mark Morris Dance Group

• Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance

• MCC Theater

• Mint Theater Company

• Monica Bill Barnes & Company

• National Alliance for Musical Theatre

• The National Jazz Museum in Harlem

• New York City Children’s Theater

• New York Public Radio

• New York Theatre Workshop

• Pentacle

• Ping Chong + Company

• Pregones Theater / Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

• Red Bull Theater

• Roundabout Theatre Company

• Skirball Center for the Performing Arts

• The Sol Project

• St. Ann’s Warehouse

• the TEAM

• Theatre Communications Group

• WP Theater

• Young People’s Chorus of New York City