The Shubert Foundation has awarded $26.8 million to 533 not-for-profit performing arts organizations through its 2017 Grants Program across the United States. Ranging from $10,000 to $325,000, the grants benefit a broad spectrum of arts organizations, from large to small, covering a wide range of locations around the country, from urban to rural.
Shubert Foundation President, Michael I. Sovern said, “This year we are delighted to be offering support to a record number of 533 performing arts organizations in locations all around the country. Our longstanding practice of providing help in the form of general operating support remains unchanged. We are convinced that talented artists and administrators are best able to decide how to use the funds we grant.”
Three years ago, the Foundation established the Shubert Scholars Program. Grants go to seven leading colleges and universities. The funds are dedicated to providing scholarship assistance to students in graduate degree programs in theatre arts.
Since 1977, over $413 million has been awarded to not-for-profit arts organizations throughout the United States.
The Shubert Foundation, Inc., established in 1945 by Lee and J.J. Shubert, in memory of their brother Sam, is the sole shareholder of The Shubert Organization, Inc. Since its founding in 1900, The Shubert Organization has produced and co-produced hundreds of plays and musicals, both in New York and in cities across the country. Currently, the company owns and operates 17 Broadway theatres, and six Off-Broadway venues.