The Foundation has had a longstanding interest in the arts, reflecting Benjamin Altman’s personal commitment and our belief in the essential role that cultural engagement and the arts play in enriching the lives of New Yorkers and creating new avenues of exploration and opportunity for the city’s young people. Given our particular focus on issues of access and inclusion, the Foundation invests in organizations, programs, and projects that achieve results aligned with the objectives outlined below. As a general rule, the programs that we support take place outside of the public schools. Please note that the "Results Sought" reflect the specific outcomes of interest to us.
Promote access to arts and culture for all New Yorkers, with a special focus on people from underserved communities
Results Sought:
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Inc.
$50,000
To build a blueprint for establishing and maintaining a healthy technical theatre and production workforce
Bronx Children's Museum
$125,000 (over two years)
To support the next phase of the Museum's work with children, families, and schools
Bronx Council on the Arts
$120,000 (over two years)
To provide capacity building support
Cool Culture, Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To provide flexible operating support for improvements in technology, staffing, and programs that deepen connections with and among families, museums, and educators
The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
For implementation of its new strategic plan
Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance, Inc.
$80,000 (over two years)
To provide capacity building support
DreamYard Project, Inc.
$50,000
To provide professional development training and coaching to help NYC educators and school administrators use the arts to center racial equity in their curricula, school procedures, policies and practices
The Harlem School of the Arts, Inc.
$150,000 (over two years)
For development and implementation of its Digital Access Programming
Harlem Stage, Inc. FKA Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
$150,000 (over two years)
To provide operating support to Harlem Stage as it marks its 40th anniversary
Kinetic Light
$50,000
For a strategic plan
Kings Majestic Corp. dba 651 ARTS
$100,000 (over two years)
For capacity building during the transition to the L10 cultural hub, its new permanent space
The Museum of the City of New York, Inc.
$100,000
To help support programming, marketing, and community building during the Museum’s Centennial
Museum Hue, Inc.
$40,000
For organizational assessment, stakeholder engagement, and the development of a three-year strategic plan
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
$50,000
To support NYFA's Executive Leaders of Color program
SoHarlem, Inc.
$80,000 (over two years)
To help support the adaptation and continued implementation of its strategic plan
The Studio in a School Association, Inc.
$120,000 (over two years)
For capacity building in support of its professional development activity and efforts to catalogue and disseminate its archives and learning materials
Visual Arts Research and Resource Center Relating to the Caribbean dba Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
$160,000 (over two years)
To help launch the Incubator for Development and Entrepreneurship of Artists
Promote positive youth development among underserved youth through engagement in arts, cultural, and other unique programs that provide sequential opportunities to participate over an extended period of time.
Results Sought:
ArtsConnection, Inc.
$50,000
To support the Teen Reviewers and Critics (TRaC) program, the OnTRaC college and career readiness program, and the Teen Advisory Council's youth-led participatory action research project
Beam Center Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To support the expansion of the Project Leaders Enterprise program
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
$70,000 (over two years)
To expand the Community Music Center Initiative
Casita Maria Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To support K-12 creative youth development and arts education programming
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park
$150,000 (over two years)
To support the growth and development of underserved youth in Sunset Park through the Life Lines Community Arts Project, and to support organizational capacity building
CitySquash
$35,000
To support its comprehensive youth development program
Hudson River Community Sailing
$100,000 (over two years)
To support Sail Academy, a multi-year youth development program
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
$50,000
To support the Middle School Jazz Academy and High School Jazz Academy
Legal Outreach, Inc.
$40,000
For the Civic Engagement and Social Justice Program
Mama Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
$40,000
To provide capacity building support for youth programming in 2023-24
The Noel Pointer Foundation
$100,000 (over two years)
To support the On-Campus Strings program
Publicolor, Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To support its continuum of college preparatory and career readiness programming
Reel Works Teen Filmmaking
$100,000 (over two years)
To support MediaMKRS
Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc. (AKA RISE Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity)
$100,000 (over two years)
To support the Shore Corps Youth Development Program
STEM From Dance
$35,000
To support program expansion in New York City
Urban Arts Partnership
$50,000
To support the continued growth of the School of Interactive Arts