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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 2027: $3,543,300

Operating Grant

Organization City/Town Grant
20 Summers Provincetown $14,400
3rd Eye Youth Empowerment New Bedford $9,100
Abilities Dance Brookline $13,700
Acton Chinese Language School Acton $8,400
African-American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard West Tisbury $10,000
Africano Waltham Waltham $13,600
All Newton Music School Newton $23,600
Amherst Cinema Amherst $23,500
Amherst Historical Society Amherst $6,000
Amherst Media Amherst $20,900
ANIKAYA/Akhra Somerville $11,200
Arlington Center for the Arts Arlington $17,000
Arlington Children’s Theatre Arlington $8,200
Armenian Cultural and Educational Center Watertown $15,900
Art for the Soul Gallery Springfield $8,400
Art Resource Collaborative for Kids Boston $12,200
Artists Association of Nantucket Nantucket $25,400
Arts Connect International Boston $13,900
Arts|Learning Worcester $6,000
ArtSpace Maynard Maynard $17,400
Ashland Public Library Ashland $12,600
Ateneo Dominicano de Nueva Inglaterra Lawrence $15,400
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Chatham $23,600
Attleboro Area Industrial Museum Attleboro $7,200
Back Bay Chorale Boston $7,000
Backyard Growers Gloucester $10,800
BAMS Fest Boston $22,300
BCNC Boston $18,300
beheard.world Chelsea $13,200
Bellforge Arts Center Medfield $17,500
Berklee Institute for Accessible Arts Education Boston $15,800
Berkshire Children’s Chorus Pittsfield $6,000
Berkshire Environmental Action Team Pittsfield $10,400
Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative Pittsfield $6,800
Berkshire Natural Resources Council Lenox $29,000
Blues to Green Huntington $13,600
Boston Ballet Boston $55,000
Boston Bhangra Brookline $9,600
Boston City Lights Foundation Boston $7,200
Boston Dance Theater Medford $10,900
Boston Festival Orchestra Brockton $10,600
Boston Modern Orchestra Project Malden $21,000
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Boston $13,000
Boston String Academy Boston $18,700
Boston Theater Company Boston $6,500
Boston Workers Circle Brookline $12,500
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Boston $38,300
Brookline Adult & Community Education Brookline $14,700
Brookline Arts Center Brookline $14,900
Building Bridges through Music Lynn $16,800
Cambridge Art Association Cambridge $9,700
Cambridge Jazz Foundation Cambridge $8,400
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center Cambridge $18,100
Cape Ann Art Haven Gloucester $7,200
Cape Rep Theatre Brewster $16,700
Cappella Clausura Newton $6,100
Castle of our Skins Boston $18,700
Center for Arabic Culture Somerville $11,500
Center for Arts at the Armory Somerville $18,900
Center for Coastal Studies Provincetown $47,500
Center for Peace Through Culture Great Barrington $16,300
Central Square BID Cambridge $40,300
Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston Boston $7,100
Chhandam Institute of Kathak Dance Waltham $9,900
Children’s Museum at Holyoke Holyoke $13,500
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England Boston $33,800
Chinese Culture Connection Malden $19,200
Chorus Pro Musica Boston $6,000
CHUANG Stage Boston $7,300
City Ballet of Boston Boston $24,600
CitySpace Easthampton $8,000
CoDesign Collaborative Braintree $25,100
Common Foundation Amherst $6,000
Common Wealth Murals Granby $15,600
Community Music Center of Boston Boston $48,600
Company One Boston $27,500
Company Theatre Norwell $23,500
Creative Haverhill Haverhill $6,200
Creative Hub Worcester Worcester $14,000
Creative Process Studio Andover $4,500
Cultural Center of Cape Cod Yarmouth $19,200
CultureHouse Somerville $11,800
Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum Arlington $6,000
Dance Complex Cambridge $17,000
Danvers Historical Society Danvers $14,800
Dedham School of Music Dedham $6,900
Discovery Museum Acton $34,000
Dream Out Loud Center New Bedford $10,000
Drug Story Theater Marshfield $9,500
Dunamis Boston Boston $16,400
Easthampton City Arts Easthampton $6,000
EcoTarium Worcester $41,300
Elevated Thought Lawrence $35,400
Falmouth Historical Society Falmouth $6,000
Farrington Nature Linc Lincoln $29,700
Flagship Clubhouse Boston $13,500
Fort Point Arts Community Boston $7,500
Foundry Consortium Cambridge $25,500
Framingham History Center Framingham $10,700
Friends of Prescott Groton $15,900
Front Porch Arts Collective of Boston Boston $19,400
Gallery 263 Cambridge $6,000
Gateway Arts Brookline $18,300
Give Music Springfield $13,000
Gloucester Stage Company Gloucester $18,700
Greenagers Egremont $23,700
Greenfield Community Television Greenfield $8,200
GreenRoots Chelsea $42,600
Guerilla Opera Boston $9,400
Hadley Public Library Hadley $9,100
Hamilton-Garrett Music & Arts Academy Boston $13,300
Harvard Historical Society Harvard $6,000
Heritage Museums and Gardens Sandwich $45,400
Hibernian Hall Boston $18,300
Hilltown Youth Recovery Theatre Heath $11,800
Hispanic-American Library Springfield $14,600
Historic Newton Newton $11,900
Historic Northampton Northampton $12,600
Historical Natural History and Library Society of Natick Natick $6,200
Historical Society of Old Newbury Newburyport $8,800
History Cambridge Cambridge $9,300
Holyoke Community Media Holyoke $14,900
Hyannis Public Library Barnstable $17,000
Hyde Square Task Force Boston $41,800
Jean Appolon Expressions Boston $22,900
Joy of Music Program Worcester $20,600
Juventas Music Medford $10,300
KAIROS Dance Theater Boston $6,000
Kendall Square Orchestra Concord $7,700
Kestrel Educational Adventures Beverly $6,000
Kwong Kow Chinese School Boston $30,500
La Donna Musicale Boston $10,800
Lawrence History Center Lawrence $13,700
Lexington History Museums Lexington $17,100
Liars & Believers Cambridge $6,900
List Visual Arts Center Cambridge $18,300
Looky Here Greenfield $9,000
Lynn Museum & Arts Center Lynn $12,400
Make-It Springfield Springfield $13,400
Manship Artists Residency Gloucester $8,300
Marblehead Little Theatre Marblehead $9,000
Martha’s Vineyard Museum Tisbury $35,500
Mass Arts Center Mansfield $15,300
Massachusetts Design Art & Technology Institute New Bedford $15,000
MASSCreative Boston $13,700
Mattapoisett Museum Mattapoisett $6,000
Milford Community Media Center Milford $6,900
MIT Museum Cambridge $18,300
Moonbox Productions Woburn $21,000
Mudflat Pottery School Somerville $20,300

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