Recent Grantmaking: The Arts


The following list of grants are those made or renewed in the Arts program in the past two years. To review grants made earlier, please visit the past annual reports section.

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Future funding [denoted in italics] for multi-year projects is contingent upon fulfillment of the terms of the grant and review by the Fund. The list is divided into sections by category.

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Arts Education
To increase creative opportunities for children and youth who otherwise have limited access to studying the arts or to interacting with working artists.
Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership - $60,000
Bay Area Video Coalition - $35,000
Bayview Hunters Point Center for Art and Technology - $25,000
California Alliance for Arts Education - $40,000
California Alliance for Arts Education - $40,000
California College of the Arts - $50,000
California College of the Arts Center for Art and Public Life - $50,000
California Poets in Schools - $18,000
California Shakespeare Theater - $15,000
Cantare Con Vivo - $10,000
Center for the Art of Translation - $25,000
Chinese Cultural Productions - $15,000
Community Music Center - $50,000
Council of Chief State School Officers/Arts Education Partnership - $5,000
The Crucible - $15,000
Dance Brigade - $15,000
Dance Brigade, a New Group from Wallflower Order - $20,000
Destiny Arts - $30,000
Drawbridge - $30,000
East Bay Performing Arts on behalf of Oakland Youth Orchestra - $10,000
East Bay Performing Arts on behalf of the Oakland East Bay Symphony - $40,000
Flyaway Productions - $10,000
Imagine Bus Project - $25,000
Advaita Society / Kala Art Institute - $10,000
Leap...imagination in learning - $20,000
The Marsh - $20,000
Media Enterprise Alliance - $15,000
Museum of Children's Art - $30,000
Music National Service Initiative - $45,000
Musical Traditions - $10,000
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts - $5,000
New Conservatory - $15,000
Northern California Music and Art Culture Center, Inc. - $15,900
Oakland Unified School District Visual and Performing Arts Department - $35,000
Oakland Youth Chorus - $30,000
Opera Piccola - $25,000
Out of Site - $25,000
Performing Arts Workshop - $45,000
Performing Arts Workshop - $45,000
Ruby's Clay Studio and Gallery - $15,000
San Francisco Camerawork - $15,000
San Francisco Camerawork - $15,000
San Francisco Chanticleer - $15,000
San Francisco Conservatory of Music - $20,000
San Francisco Film Society - $20,000
San Francisco Mime Troupe - $10,000
San Francisco Opera Association - $50,000
San Francisco Performances - $50,000
San Francisco Symphony - $80,000
San Francisco Unified School District - $60,000
Stagebridge - $25,000
StageWrite - $15,000
Streetside Stories - $45,000
Streetside Stories - $35,000
Teaching Artists Organized - $10,000
Visual Understanding in Education, Inc. - $10,000
Women's Audio Mission - $12,500
Young Musicians Program - $50,000
Young Musicians Program - $50,000
Youth Movement, Inc. / Youth Movement Records - $20,000
Youth Speaks - $35,000

Cultural Commons
Fostering shared understanding and a stronger sense of community through participation in the arts.
Alameda County Arts Commission - $15,000
Alliance for California Traditional Arts - $120,000
Cal Performances - $50,000
Center for Cultural Innovation - $20,000
Center for Cultural Innovation - $25,000
City Arts & Lectures - $25,000
Community Music Center - $50,000
Creative Growth - $7,500
Crosspulse - $15,000
Dancers' Group - $10,000
Epiphany Productions - $10,000
Foundation Center - $2,500
Grantmakers in the Arts - $5,000
Grantmakers in the Arts - $25,000
Joe Goode Performance Group - $10,000
Kearny Street Workshop - $10,000
La Peña Cultural Center - $40,000
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre - $30,000
Museum of Craft and Folk Art - $15,000
Pew Charitable Trusts - $30,000
Playwrights Foundation - $15,000
QCC-the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Art and Culture - $10,000
Radar Productions - $7,500
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery - $10,000
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra - $10,000
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra - $10,000
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - $60,000
San Francisco Performances - $50,000
San Francisco Theater Festival - $5,000
Sixth Street Photography Workshop - $15,000
Small Press Distribution - $25,000
Strange Angels - $10,000
Yerba Buena Arts and Events - $30,000

Preservation of Cultural Heritage
To support preservation of cultural heritage, particularly among recent immigrants.
Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival - $5,000
Alliance for California Traditional Arts - $120,000
Arab Cultural and Community Center - $10,000
Asian Art Museum - $25,000
Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company - $35,000
Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company - $40,000
Croatian Cultural Center - $25,000
CubaCaribe - $7,500
Gamelan Sekar Jaya - $10,000
Korean American Community Center - $10,000
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center - $30,000
API Cultural Center / Oakland Asian Cultural Center - $10,000
Tibetan Association of Northern California - $25,000
World Arts West - $50,000
World Arts West - $50,000

Capital
Luna Kids Dance Inc. - $3,500
Ninth Street Independent Film Center - $100,000

Legacy
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - $100,000



Prescott Circus Theater

Prescott Circus Theatre delivers free after-school circus arts classes to low and very-low income children from seven Oakland public schools.


Featured photos by Anne Hamersky