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Acme Theater Productions
Metrowest
2025
Capital
View of packed performance space from behind the sound board

Grant: $19,000

Location: Weston

Description: For stage curtains, fixed room dividers, lighting, sound and projectors.

American Antiquarian Society
Central
2025
Feasibility
The Reading Room at Antiquarian Hall

Grant: $35,000

Location: Worcester

Description: To plan for and design HVAC systems replacement.

Aquinnah Circle Cultural & Historic District
Southeast
2025
Capital
Exterior view of the Vanderhoop Homestead by the ocean

Grant: $24,000

Location: Aquinnah

Description: For electrical upgrades, to install a well system, and to power wash and paint the entire first floor of the Vanderhoop Homestead.

Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
Person standing at a table in a gallery at Central St. Studios in Somerville

Grant: $200,000

Location: Boston

Description: For the acquisition and preservation of 57 Central St. Studios in Somerville.

Artspace Greenfield
Western
2025
Capital
Flexible event and program space at the Artspace Community Art Center

Grant: $28,000

Location: Greenfield

Description: For weatherization, HVAC and electrical upgrades, and to create a new ceramics studio.

Artspace Greenfield
Western
2025
Systems
Flexible event and program space at the Artspace Community Art Center

Grant: $8,000

Location: Greenfield

Description: For a 20 year capital needs assessment.

Association to Preserve Cape Cod
Southeast
2025
Capital
Inside the historic barn at the Koppel Center to Preserve Cape Cod

Grant: $200,000

Location: Dennis

Description: To rehabilitate a historic barn into the Koppel Center to Preserve Cape Cod.

Becket Arts Center of the Hilltowns
Western
2025
Systems
People seated outside for a musical performance at the Becket Arts Center of the Hilltowns

Grant: $8,000

Location: Becket

Description: For a 20 year capital needs assessment.

Bellforge Arts Center
Metrowest
2025
Capital
Exterior view of the shuttered

Grant: $200,000

Location: Medfield

Description: For a roof replacement.

Berkshire Environmental Action Team
Western
2025
Capital
Front exterior and entryway of the Berkshire Environmental Action Team building

Grant: $200,000

Location: Pittsfield

Description: To conduct a deep energy retrofit of the Environmental Leadership & Education Center.

Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity
Western
2025
Capital
Two chairs

Grant: $137,000

Location: Northampton

Description: To install a sprinkler system, renovate restrooms, and paint the exterior.

Boston Lyric Opera Company
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
Boxing ring in a former gym space to be converted into the new home of the Boston Lyric Opera Company

Grant: $200,000

Location: Boston

Description: To support fit-out and infrastructural improvements of BLO's space at Midway Studios.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
View from behind an orchestra playing onstage before and indoor and outdoor crowd at Ozawa Hall

Grant: $200,000

Location: Boston

Description: For a new HVAC in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood.

Buckland Historical Society
Western
2025
Capital
Construction work on the framing of a barn on the Wilder Homestead

Grant: $54,000

Location: Buckland

Description: For interior renovations to the English-style barn on the Wilder Homestead, including flooring, doors, reconstructing the weaving room and loft, electrical work, and lighting.

Cahoon Museum of American Art
Southeast
2025
Feasibility
Gallery space at The Cahoon Museum of Art

Grant: $35,000

Location: Barnstable

Description: For planning and design to integrate a newly acquired building into the Museum's campus.

Cambridge Center for Adult Education
Greater Boston
2025
Systems
Front façade of the historic 42 Brattle St

Grant: $9,500

Location: Cambridge

Description: For a 20 year capital needs assessment.

Cape Cod Museum of Art
Southeast
2025
Capital
View of the front façade of the Cape Cod Museum of Art from the lawn

Grant: $38,000

Location: Dennis

Description: For the installation of new collection storage systems.

Castle of our Skins
Greater Boston
2025
Feasibility
Four composers giving a musical performance in an ornate room with red walls at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Grant: $35,000

Location: Boston

Description: For fundraising and design planning for the buildout of their new space at 566 Columbus Avenue in Boston.

Children’s Museum of Franklin
Metrowest
2025
Capital
Artist's rendering of the exterior of the Children's Museum of Franklin building

Grant: $145,000

Location: Franklin

Description: For the build out of the Museum's first physical location at 157 Cottage Street, Franklin.

City of Lynn
Northeast
2025
Capital
Over 1

Grant: $200,000

Location: Lynn

Description: To install an elevator at the Grand Army of the Republic Hall and Museum.

College Light Opera Company
Southeast
2025
Capital
View of the front exterior of the College Light Opera Company building from a below driveway

Grant: $200,000

Location: Falmouth

Description: For a roof replacement on the Old West Falmouth Inn building.

Community Art Center
Greater Boston
2025
Feasibility
People seated and playing string instruments inside a studio at the Community Art Center in Cambridge

Grant: $35,000

Location: Cambridge

Description: For a feasibility study to evaluate potential expansion and capital campaign planning.

Concord Conservatory of Music
Metrowest
2025
Capital
A musical performance at the Concord Conservatory of Music

Grant: $200,000

Location: Concord

Description: For the acquisition of a new building in the West Concord Junction Cultural District.

Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
View of theater seating in Moviehouse 1 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

Grant: $154,000

Location: Brookline

Description: For new seating, restoration of historic art deco elements, theatre curtain repairs, and a new projector in Moviehouse 1.

Copley Society of Art
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
Front entrance to the Copley Society of Art from Newbury St in Boston

Grant: $12,000

Location: Boston

Description: To repair and restore exterior façade and windows.

Creative Haverhill
Northeast
2025
Capital
Front entrance and brick exterior of the historic Cogswell School

Grant: $115,000

Location: Haverhill

Description: To install an elevator at Cogswell ArtSpace.

Discovery Museum
Metrowest
2025
Feasibility
Playspace at the Discovery Museum in Acton

Grant: $35,000

Location: Acton

Description: To hire a landscape architect to study the feasibility of restoring, redesigning, and renovating the Museum’s outdoor exhibits and wooded play spaces.

Double Edge Theatre
Western
2025
Capital
View of building and open lawn on Double Edge Theatre's campus

Grant: $200,000

Location: Ashfield

Description: To execute plans to build a new Community Design Center as part of Double Edge Theatre’s rural campus.

Drama Studio
Western
2025
Capital
Yellow stucco from exterior with a bright red front door to the Drama Studio

Grant: $163,000

Location: Springfield

Description: For the installation of an elevator.

EcoTarium
Central
2025
Capital
Front glass façade of the Worcester Natural History Society

Grant: $142,000

Location: Worcester

Description: To create ADA-compliant restrooms on the upper level and a family restroom on the middle level of the museum.

Fairbanks Family in America
Greater Boston
2025
Feasibility
Exterior of the historic timber-frame Fairbanks House

Grant: $27,500

Location: Dedham

Description: To hire an architectural firm, survey the property and perform an archaeological dig to plan for the construction of an interpretive center on the Fairbanks property.

Follow Your Art Community Studios
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
Street view of the home of Follow Your Art Community Studios

Grant: $200,000

Location: Melrose

Description: To purchase their current home at 647 Main Street in Melrose.

Footlight Club Community Theatre
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
View of rows of seating at the historic Footlight Club

Grant: $110,000

Location: Boston

Description: For exterior repairs and restoration to the historic Eliot Hall.

Forbes Library
Western
2025
Feasibility
A person viewing an exhibit at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum at Forbes Library

Grant: $15,000

Location: Northampton

Description: To re-envision the Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum and explore feasibility of acoustical improvements.

Fund for Parks and Recreation in Boston
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
Grave markers at the Dorchester North Burying Ground

Grant: $104,000

Location: Boston

Description: For conservation and restoration to grave markers in Dorchester North Burying Ground.

Gibson Society
Greater Boston
2025
Feasibility
Historical parlor at the Gibson House Museum

Grant: $25,000

Location: Boston

Description: To assess and design electrical upgrades, HVAC, and study accessibility for the ground floor and new restrooms.

Global Arts Live
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
Artist's rendering of theater space

Grant: $200,000

Location: Cambridge

Description: For theater lighting.

Great Barrington Historical Society
Western
2025
Capital
Outside the historic Wilder Homestead

Grant: $65,000

Location: Great Barrington

Description: For exterior repairs, storm windows and doors, and to renovate archival storage space.

Grub Street
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
Person on stage at a podium before an audience at Grub Street

Grant: $82,000

Location: Boston

Description: For HVAC redesign and replacement.

Hammond Castle Museum
Northeast
2025
Capital
Stone exterior walls and pillars at the Hammond Castle Museum

Grant: $125,000

Location: Gloucester

Description: To restore the Tower façade masonry, roof and drain system.

Heritage Museums & Gardens
Southeast
2025
Capital
Rendering of new Welcome Center at the Heritage Museum & Gardens in Sandwich

Grant: $200,000

Location: Sandwich

Description: To construct a new Welcome Center.

Huntington Theatre Company
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
View of the stage and seating in the Wimberly Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion

Grant: $75,000

Location: Boston

Description: For a new HVAC system at the Calderwood Pavilion.

Hyde Square Task Force
Greater Boston
2025
Feasibility
Teens outside the Former Blessed Sacrament Church at Hyde Square Task Force

Grant: $35,000

Location: Boston

Description: For capital campaign planning to support the construction of a Community Performance Space and renovations to Hyde Square Task Force’s headquarters.

Images Cinema
Western
2025
Capital
Lounge areas with tables and red cushioned benches at Images Cinema

Grant: $200,000

Location: Williamstown

Description: To transform a 150-seat auditorium into two separate theater spaces.

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Western
2025
Capital
Outdoor dance performance at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

Grant: $150,000

Location: Becket

Description: To expand the main parking lot and for new pathways, driveways and campus lighting.

LaunchSpace
Western
2025
Capital
Glaze room in a pottery studio

Grant: $65,000

Location: Orange

Description: For new heat pumps, mini-splits, ceiling fans, and electrical outlets.

Lawrence History Center
Northeast
2025
Capital
Aerial view of the brick Immigrant City Archives building in downtown Lawrence

Grant: $92,000

Location: Lawrence

Description: For insulation, brick pointing, roof and gutter work, lighting, and to install solar panels.

Lexington Arts & Crafts Society
Metrowest
2025
Capital
Exterior of the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society building

Grant: $99,000

Location: Lexington

Description: To repair and replace windows and doors.

Marblehead Arts Association
Northeast
2025
Systems
Event tables and seating within a gallery space

Grant: $8,000

Location: Marblehead

Description: For a 20 year capital needs assessment.

Marblehead Little Theatre
Northeast
2025
Capital
Front façade of brick building with colorful murals

Grant: $26,000

Location: Marblehead

Description: For the replacement of two boilers.

Maria L. Baldwin Community Center
Greater Boston
2025
Systems
Front façade of the Agassiz Baldwin Community

Grant: $8,000

Location: Cambridge

Description: For a 20 year capital needs assessment.

Mass Audubon
Metrowest
2025
Capital
People gathered in an outdoor pavilion

Grant: $132,000

Location: Lincoln

Description: To construct an outdoor classroom pavilion.

Mudflat Pottery School
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
Front façade of Mudflat Pottery School

Grant: $124,000

Location: Somerville

Description: For exterior façade repairs and new windows and doors.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
The Evans Wing Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts

Grant: $200,000

Location: Boston

Description: For roof repairs and skylight replacements on the Robert Dawson Evans Wing and connecting Hemicycle.

Museum of Science
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
Artist's rendering of the Museum of Science from across the Charles River

Grant: $185,000

Location: Boston

Description: To create new accessible restrooms in the Blue Wing.

Nashua River Watershed Association
Central
2025
Capital
Lobby area with a stand with informational papers at the Nashua River Watershed Association

Grant: $40,000

Location: Groton

Description: To create an ADA-compliant bathroom.

New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
Central
2025
Capital
Courtyard with fountain at the New England Botanic Garden

Grant: $55,000

Location: Boylston

Description: For a new fire safety system in the Stoddard Visitors Center.

Norman Rockwell Museum
Western
2025
Capital
Person sitting on a bench in a gallery at the Norman Rockwell Museum

Grant: $115,000

Location: Stockbridge

Description: For repairs to the roof, windows, railings and retaining walls, and for tree removal, automatic doors, fencing, screening, carpeting, a generator, and improved heating systems.

Northampton Community Arts Trust
Western
2025
Capital
People gathered in the lobby under blue lighting at the Northampton Community Arts Trust

Grant: $107,000

Location: Northampton

Description: For theatrical lighting and sound equipment in the Workroom Theater.

Oakes Ames Memorial Hall Association
Southeast
2025
Capital
Brick and stone front façade of the historic Oakes Ames Memorial Hall

Grant: $200,000

Location: Easton

Description: To install an elevator.

Osterville Free Library
Southeast
2025
Systems
Exterior view of the Osterville Free Library building

Grant: $8,000

Location: Barnstable

Description: For a 20 year capital needs assessment.

Performing Arts and Education Cooperative
Western
2025
Feasibility
Children on stage during a theatrical performance

Grant: $18,500

Location: Amherst

Description: For a feasibility study and architectural plans for a new performing arts center.

Petersham Memorial Library
Central
2025
Capital
The north wing of the Petersham Memorial Library

Grant: $32,000

Location: Petersham

Description: To install a water drainage system.

Plymouth Center for the Arts
Southeast
2025
Capital
Gallery space at the Plymouth center for the Arts

Grant: $185,000

Location: Plymouth

Description: For structural repairs, stabilization work, and window repairs.

Preservation Worcester
Central
2025
Capital
Front façade of the historic Salisbury House

Grant: $186,000

Location: Worcester

Description: For restoration and repairs to the exterior of the Salisbury House.

Provincetown Film Society
Southeast
2025
Capital
Concessions at the Waters Edge Cinema in Provincetown

Grant: $172,000

Location: Provincetown

Description: For new projection equipment, theater seating, lighting, sound proofing, and to reconfigure lobby space at the Waters Edge Cinema.

Rockport Art Association
Northeast
2025
Systems
People looking at art in the gallery at the Rockport Art Association  & Museum

Grant: $8,000

Location: Rockport

Description: For a 20 year capital needs assessment.

Roots Rising
Western
2025
Capital
Artist's rendering of a new Farm and Education Center at Roots Rising

Grant: $200,000

Location: Pittsfield

Description: For the build-out of a new Farm and Education Center.

Sandisfield Arts & Restoration Committee
Western
2025
Capital
Artwork in a gallery space at the Sandisfield Arts Center

Grant: $116,000

Location: Sandisfield

Description: For new heat pumps, insulation, enhancements to gallery space, water damage repairs, upgraded electric and plumbing systems, and to create an accessible kitchen and storage shed.

Sawyer Free Library
Northeast
2025
Capital
Brick walk ways and landscaped garden beds outside the entrance of the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library

Grant: $87,000

Location: Gloucester

Description: For structural reinforcement and egress improvements to the historic 1764 Saunders House.

Shakespeare & Company
Western
2025
Capital
Aerial view of Shakespeare & Company's campus

Grant: $137,000

Location: Lenox

Description: For the replacement of two roofs, two HVAC systems, and lighting equipment within the Tina Packer Playhouse.

Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum
Western
2025
Capital
Historical trolley car at the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum

Grant: $33,000

Location: Buckland

Description: To partially fund the restoration of MTA/MBTA trolley Line Car 3283.

South Hadley Human Services Department
Western
2025
Capital
Outdoor stage at Buttery Brook Park in South Hadley

Grant: $98,000

Location: South Hadley

Description: For the rebuild of an outdoor performing arts venue at Buttery Brook Park.

STEP Nation
Greater Boston
2025
Systems
People seated at a table creating artwork at STEP Nation

Grant: $12,000

Location: Cambridge

Description: For a 20 year capital needs assessment.

Thacher Hall
Southeast
2025
Capital
Vaulted ceilings and view of stage from seating in former church at Thacher Hall

Grant: $66,000

Location: Yarmouth

Description: To reinstall Thacher Hall’s built-in historic pipe organ, and to rehabilitate the building's entry staircase.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Western
2025
Capital
Aerial view of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art's campus buildings during autumn

Grant: $88,000

Location: Amherst

Description: For new security systems, archival storage, AC, repairs to the cooling tower and parking lot drainage, roof drainage upgrades and to resurface the Museum’s façade.

The Provincetown Theater Foundation
Southeast
2025
Capital
Musical instruments set up on stage at the Provincetown Theatre

Grant: $30,000

Location: Provincetown

Description: For exterior painting, electrical upgrades, driveway repairs, landscaping, accessible ramps, renovations to the lobby, bar area and kitchen, and to reconfigure a shower and heating system.

Town of Ashburnham
Central
2025
Capital
Front façade of a brick former library

Grant: $15,000

Location: Ashburnham

Description: For weatherization work, a new furnace, windows and doors to The Historical Piano Study Center.

Town of Danvers Office of Natural Resources
Northeast
2025
Capital
Front facade and entrance to the Lawrence H. Crowley Visitor Center

Grant: $90,000

Location: Danvers

Description: For structural, ADA accessibility, energy efficiency, and other capital improvements to the Carriage House (the Lawrence H. Crowley Visitor Center).

Town of Monterey
Western
2025
Capital
Front view of the Monterey Community Center

Grant: $91,000

Location: Monterey

Description: To construct a new outdoor pavilion at the Monterey Community Center.

WCLOC Theater Company
Central
2025
Capital
Front façade of the Grandview Playhouse

Grant: $16,000

Location: Worcester

Description: For a roof replacement.

Wellfleet Historical Society
Southeast
2025
Capital
People gathered on the sidewalk outside the Wellfleet Historical Society & Museum

Grant: $135,000

Location: Wellfleet

Description: For renovations to their historic building and grounds and to support the construction of a new addition.

West Stockbridge Historical Society
Western
2025
Capital
Front façade of the West Stockbridge Historical Society during the holidays

Grant: $77,000

Location: West Stockbridge

Description: For interior renovations to the first and second floors, including new fire safety systems, a fire door and chimney repairs.

Westport Historical Society
Southeast
2025
Capital
The historic former Bell School

Grant: $40,000

Location: Westport

Description: For a new addition onto the Bell School, new mechanical, electrical, HVAC, and climate-control systems, and a new accessible entrance.

Williams-Boltwood House Trust
Western
2025
Feasibility
The historic Williams-Boltwood House

Grant: $16,000

Location: Goshen

Description: For business planning, architectural design, and solar planning for a multi-phased project to restore a historic18th century property.

Worcester Art Museum
Central
2025
Capital
Front façade and entrance to the Worcester Art Museum

Grant: $200,000

Location: Worcester

Description: To create a new permanent exhibit for the Higgins Armory collection.

Worcester Historical Museum
Central
2025
Capital
Front façade of the historic Salisbury Mansion

Grant: $143,000

Location: Worcester

Description: To replace shingle roofing with a historically accurate standing seam metal roof at the Salisbury Mansion.

Worthington Historical Society
Western
2025
Feasibility
Exterior of a historic meetinghouse with people gathered for an event outdoors

Grant: $4,000

Location: Worthington

Description: To study building preservation, space use, maintenance issues and HVAC system upgrades.

Zeiterion Theatre
Southeast
2025
Capital
People on the sidewalk and entering into the Zeiterion Theatre

Grant: $200,000

Location: New Bedford

Description: For HVAC updates.

Zoo New England
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
Penguins scattered around a pool at the African Penguin Coast exhibit

Grant: $200,000

Location: Boston

Description: To build a geothermal energy system to power the African Penguin Coast exhibit at Franklin Park Zoo.

Zumix
Greater Boston
2025
Capital
View of the brick exterior of Zumix from an opposing street corner at night

Grant: $84,000

Location: Boston

Description: To replace windows, stage lighting, a projector and screen, and to refurbish and paint exterior doors and interior walls.


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