The Shubert Foundation announced a record $37.9 million in unrestricted grants to 635 not-for-profit theatres, dance companies, academic theatre training programs and related service agencies across the country. As the nation’s leading provider of unrestricted funding for the performing arts, grants benefit a broad spectrum of theatre and dance organizations—from large to small, from urban to rural. Long committed to a fully open-door policy, The Shubert Foundation further increased access to theatre and dance companies across the country by revising requirements for those organizations with the smallest budgets.
The Shubert Foundation leads the field in providing general operating support to 471 professional resident theatres and 110 dance companies developing and producing new work across the United States. As always, funds are unrestricted, empowering organizations to utilize their awards as they see fit. In addition to funding theatre and dance companies nationally, The Shubert Foundation is the largest funder of theatre education for the NYC Public Schools, with a gift of $645,000 this year. The Shubert Scholars Program provides another $1.2M in scholarships to students in university theatre arts programs to help alleviate student debt for early-career artists, and recently established endowed scholarship programs at Spelman and Morehouse Colleges.
For more information, visit https://shubertfoundation.org.
