Howard Gilman Foundation

• This foundation funds New York City-based performing arts organisations, including dance companies, theatre companies, music ensembles, performing arts presenters, and performing arts service organisations, with flexible general operating support as well as responsive support for challenges and opportunities.
• A realistic request should sit within its typical grant range of $5,000 to $150,000, since about eight in ten of its 1,520 grants fall there, with a median grant of $25,000 and half of all grants at $25,000 or less; a request toward the lower end is the safer bet for a first approach.
• It is quite relationship-led in practice, as 92% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had also funded in its two preceding filings, so new applicants are competing for a smaller share of funding.
• Apply through the process set out on the Foundation's website, bearing in mind it runs three funding cycles per calendar year with fixed deadlines.
• Organisations working in arts education, in-school or after-school arts programming, professional performing arts training or tuition-based programmes, individual artists, social service organisations, and venues that are primarily rental facilities should not apply, as these fall outside what the Foundation funds.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club · Foundation grant - debt reduction
  $750,0002024 tax year
• Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance of New York · Foundation grant - casa belong capital project
  $605,0002024 tax year
• New York Shakespeare Festival · Foundation two-year grant - general operating
  $450,0002024 tax year
• St. Ann's Warehouse · Foundation two-year grant - general operating
  $375,0002024 tax year
• Chamber Music America · Foundation grant - regranting
  $360,0002024 tax year
• Alliance Of Resident Theatresnew York Inc · Foundation grant - regranting
  $360,0002024 tax year
• Dance Service New York City Inc (Dba Dancenyc) · Foundation grant - regranting
  $360,0002024 tax year
• New York City Center · Foundation two-year grant - general operating
  $350,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.