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Three disabled and non-disabled dancers perform on a white outdoor stage, which opens up to a majestic background of trees, rolling hills and sky. In energetic unison, the three dancers curl into a ball, with lower limbs raised and upper limbs wrapped protectively around their heads. David and Zara balance on their tailbones, and Janpi balances in a one-handed wheelie in their wheelchair. All three dancers wear royal blue knit cropped shirts and matching pants.

Operating Grants for Organizations

Funding List

Fiscal Year 2026: $3,261,500

Operating Grants for Organizations

Organization City/Town Grant
20 Summers Provincetown $14,400
3rd Eye Youth Empowerment New Bedford $8,400
Abilities Dance Brookline $11,600
African-American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard West Tisbury $10,100
Africano Waltham Waltham $16,100
Afrimerican Culture Initiative Boston $8,400
All Newton Music School Newton $23,400
Amherst Cinema Arts Center Amherst $23,000
Amherst Historical Society Amherst $6,000
Amherst Media Amherst $26,500
ANIKAYA/Akhra Somerville $11,800
Aquinnah Cultural Center Aquinnah $10,800
Arlington Center for the Arts Arlington $17,100
Armenian Cultural and Educational Center Watertown $11,900
Art for the Soul Gallery Springfield $8,500
Art Resource Collaborative for Kids Boston $16,900
Artists Association of Nantucket Nantucket $25,200
Arts Connect International Boston $13,800
Arts|Learning Hanover $6,000
Artspace Greenfield Greenfield $6,900
ArtSpace Maynard Maynard $16,400
Ashland Public Library Ashland $12,600
Ateneo Dominicano de Nueva Inglaterra Lawrence $14,800
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Chatham $23,100
Attleboro Area Industrial Museum Attleboro $7,000
Back Bay Chorale Boston $9,800
BAMS Fest Boston $20,700
BCNC Boston $18,300
Beat The Odds Boston $9,700
beheard.world Chelsea $12,200
Bellforge Arts Center Medfield $16,000
Berklee Institute for Accessible Arts Education Boston $14,700
Berkshire Children’s Chorus Sheffield $6,000
Berkshire Environmental Action Team Pittsfield $9,200
Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative Pittsfield $6,400
Berkshire Natural Resources Council Lenox $28,500
Blues to Green Huntington $10,100
Boston Ballet Boston $55,000
Boston Bhangra Brookline $9,000
Boston City Lights Foundation Boston $7,200
Boston Dance Theater Medford $8,100
Boston Festival Orchestra Boston $15,200
Boston Modern Orchestra Project Malden $20,900
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Boston $12,700
Boston String Academy Boston $17,200
Boston Theater Company Boston $6,000
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Boston $36,900
Brighter Boston Brookline $11,900
Brookline Adult & Community Education Brookline $17,100
Brookline Arts Center Brookline $14,200
Building Bridges through Music Lynn $15,000
Cambridge Art Association Cambridge $10,100
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center Cambridge $18,000
Cape Cod Repertory Theatre Company Brewster $16,000
Cappella Clausura Newton $9,600
Castle of our Skins Boston $16,200
Center for Arabic Culture Somerville $10,800
Center for Arts at the Armory Somerville $17,300
Center for Peace Through Culture Great Barrington $17,300
Central Square BID Cambridge $39,900
Central Square Theater Cambridge $25,200
Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston Boston $7,100
Chhandam Institute of Kathak Dance Waltham $9,200
Children’s Museum at Holyoke Holyoke $12,700
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England Boston $32,700
Chinese Culture Connection Malden $17,700
CHUANG Stage Boston $4,500
Circus Up Watertown $8,400
City Ballet of Boston Boston $24,500
City Strings United Boston $12,400
CitySpace Easthampton $8,200
CoDesign Collaborative Braintree $21,900
Common Wealth Murals Springfield $15,500
Community Music Center of Boston Boston $46,800
Company One Boston $24,300
Company Theatre Norwell $22,000
Cordial Eye Gallery and Artist Space Barnstable $10,300
Creative Haverhill Haverhill $6,000
Creative Hub Worcester Worcester $9,000
Creative Process Studio Andover $6,000
Cultural Center of Cape Cod Yarmouth $18,800
CultureHouse Somerville $9,900
Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum Arlington $6,700
Dance Complex Cambridge $16,800
DEAFinitely Newton $6,000
Discovery Museum Acton $32,400
Dream Out Loud Center New Bedford $9,700
Drug Story Theater Marshfield $6,900
Dunamis Boston Boston $14,600
Easthampton City Arts Easthampton $6,200
EcoTarium Worcester $40,400
Elevated Thought Lawrence $31,400
Farrington Nature Linc Lincoln $28,900
Flagship Clubhouse Boston $14,400
Foundry Consortium Cambridge $20,900
Framingham History Center Framingham $11,100
Friends of Prescott Groton $14,600
Front Porch Arts Collective of Boston Boston $17,600
Gallery 263 Cambridge $6,000
Gateway Arts Brookline $18,300
Give Music Springfield $9,500
Gloucester Stage Company Gloucester $19,300
Greenfield Community Television Greenfield $8,700
GreenRoots Chelsea $38,000
Groundwork Somerville Somerville $15,200
Guerilla Opera Springfield $9,900
Hadley Public Library Hadley $9,400
Hamilton-Garrett Music & Arts Academy Boston $11,000
Heritage Museums & Gardens Sandwich $44,300
Hibernian Hall Boston $18,300
Hilltown Youth Recovery Theatre Heath $11,000
Hispanic-American Library Springfield $10,800
Historic Newton Newton $11,800
Historical Natural History and Library Society of Natick Natick $6,400
Holyoke Community Media Holyoke $14,300
Hyannis Public Library Barnstable $16,700
Hyde Square Task Force Boston $40,000
Jean Appolon Expressions Malden $14,900
Joy of Music Program Worcester $20,200
Juventas Music Medford $10,100
KAIROS Dance Theater Boston $6,000
Kendall Square Orchestra Concord $7,000
Kids 4 Harmony Pittsfield $13,000
Kwong Kow Chinese School Boston $28,700
La Donna Musicale Boston $10,200
LaunchSpace Orange $8,400
Lawrence History Center Lawrence $13,700
Lexington Historical Society Lexington $16,900
Liars & Believers Cambridge $7,300
List Visual Arts Center Cambridge $18,300
Looky Here Greenfield $6,000
Lynn Historical Society Lynn $11,800
Make-It Springfield Springfield $12,700
Marblehead Little Theatre Marblehead $8,600
Martha’s Vineyard Museum Tisbury $35,400
Massachusetts Design Art & Technology Institute New Bedford $15,200
MASSCreative Boston $13,300
MIT Museum Cambridge $18,300
Moonbox Productions Woburn $19,800
Mudflat Pottery School Somerville $19,700
Multiverse Concert Series Burlington $6,000
Musica Franklin Greenfield $12,200
Nantucket Island School of Design & the Arts Nantucket $12,600
Nevins Memorial Library Methuen $22,100
New Bedford Historical Society New Bedford $11,500
Newhall Fields Community Farm Peabody $6,000
Newton Chinese Language School Newton $19,200
Newton Theatre Company Newton $6,800
North End Music & Performing Arts Center Boston $18,900
Northampton Arts Council Northampton $10,000
Norwood Historical Society Norwood $6,000
Nuestras Raices Holyoke $25,800
Nueva Esperanza Holyoke $13,700
Old North Illuminated Boston $22,800
Open Door Arts Worcester $13,300
OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center Boston $17,800
Penikese Island School Falmouth $9,800
Plugged In Band Program Needham $12,200
Plymouth Center for the Arts Plymouth $8,700
Plymouth Public Library Foundation Plymouth $10,900
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum and Foundation Hadley $6,500
Project SAVE Watertown $8,000
Project STEP Boston $23,300
Provincetown Commons Provincetown $11,800
Puerto Rican Festival of Massachusetts, Inc. Boston $7,500
Punto Urban Art Museum Salem $11,100
Puppet Showplace Theater Brookline $13,100
Raising Multicultural Kids Easton $13,200
Regional Environmental Council Worcester $24,100
Renaissance Men Wrentham $9,000
Roots Rising Pittsfield $11,000
Rose Art Museum Waltham $18,300
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Boston $49,300
Salem Athenaeum Salem $9,400
Sassafras Earth Education Aquinnah $12,300
Save the Harbor/Save The Bay Boston $20,900
Sawyer Free Library Gloucester $26,800
School for Contemporary Dance & Thought Northampton $6,000
Self-Evident Education Northampton $9,300
Shadaj Lexington $8,800
Sheffield Chamber Players Boston $6,700
Shirley-Eustis House Association Boston $14,500
Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts Worcester $25,800
SpeakEasy Stage Company Boston $26,600
Springfield Cultural Partnership Springfield $11,800
Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum Adams $10,400
Suzuki School of Newton Newton $24,200
Tamarack Hollow Nature and Cultural Center Windsor $6,000
Technocopia Co. Worcester $12,500
The Art Garden Shelburne $6,100
The Cantata Singers Boston $10,700
The CRAFT Institute Lexington $8,400
The Du Bois Freedom Center Great Barrington $10,700
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Amherst $38,200
The Flavor Continues Malden $10,200
The LAVA Center Greenfield $6,000
The Loop Lab Cambridge $17,200
The Natick Community Organic Farm Natick $17,300
The Network for Social Justice Winchester $7,300
The Nolumbeka Project Greenfield $6,000
The Provincetown Theater Foundation Provincetown $14,100
The Un-Common Theatre Company Mansfield $9,100
Theatre Espresso Boston $6,000
Tinkerhaus Newburyport $9,000
Transformative Culture Project Boston $9,300
Unique Steps Dance Academy Two North Attleborough $9,000
Urbanity Dance Boston $18,900
Ventfort Hall Association Lenox $12,000
Wellfleet Historical Society Wellfleet $6,100
Westfield on Weekends Westfield $6,000
Wheelock Family Theatre Boston $18,300
White Snake Projects Brookline $20,600
Winchester School of Chinese Culture Winchester $16,800
Winsor Music Lexington $6,000
Wondermore Dedham $12,400
Worcester Children’s Chorus Worcester $9,300
Worcester Cultural Coalition Worcester $21,600
Workshop13 Cultural Arts and Learning Center Ware $8,400
Your Theatre New Bedford $6,000

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