Performing Arts
Arts Education
California Alliance for Arts Education
Pasadena, CA
For the Advancing Arts Education in California Schools project (Collaboration with Education)
$300,000
California County Superintendents Educational Services Association
Sacramento, CA
For the Reinvigorating Arts Education in California project
50,000
For the Reinvigorating Arts Education in California project (Collaboration with Special Projects and Education)
470,000
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz, CA
For implementation of the arts education program
25,000
San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds
San Francisco, CA
For general support of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Arts Education Funders’ Collaborative (Collaboration with Education)
50,000
SRI International
Menlo Park, CA
For completing a study of arts education in California
Collaboration with Special Projects and Education
For studies on three different obstacles to greater delivery of arts education in California’s K-12 public schools (Collaboration with Special Projects and Education)
170,000
Arts Organizations and Audiences
Dance
AXIS Dance Company
Oakland, CA
For general support
135,000
Chinese Cultural Productions
San Francisco, CA
For general support
105,000
Dance/USA
Washington, DC
For general support of Bay Area activities
150,000
Dancers Group
San Francisco, CA
For a strategic plan assessment
5,750
Gamelan Sekar Jaya
El Cerrito, CA
For general support
82,000
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Becket, MA
For participation by Bay Area artists
180,000
Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
For general support
110,000
LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
For general support
150,000
For strategic planning
30,000
For implementation of organizational assessment results
1,000,000
For strategic planning and board training
30,000
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
San Francisco, CA
For general support
165,000
For the Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange
150,000
Oakland Ballet
Oakland, CA
For costs associated with the dissolution of the Oakland Ballet Association
15,000
Oberlin Dance Collective
San Francisco, CA
For the Director’s Fund
35,000
Project Bandaloop
Oakland, CA
For general support
90,000
Robert Moses’ Kin
San Francisco, CA
For general support
75,000
Smuin Ballets/SF
San Francisco, CA
For general support
180,000
Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
For general support
150,000
Film and Video
Bay Area Video Coalition
San Francisco, CA
For support of the expansion of a youth digital music production training program
Collaboration with Regional Grants
California Film Institute
Mill Valley, CA
For general support
120,000
Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
For an organizational effectiveness grant to support technical assistance providers during an executive leadership transition
Collaboration with Philanthropy
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
San Francisco, CA
For general support
150,000
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
For general support
150,000
Music
Aspen Music Festival and School
Aspen, CO
For scholarships and fellowships for Bay Area students
75,000
Association of California Symphony Orchestras
Sacramento, CA
For general support
45,000
Berkeley Jazzschool
Berkeley, CA
For funds to enable Dansun Productions to include additional footage in the documentary film on legendary jazz musicians the Heath Brothers
20,000
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
For executive transition and strategic planning
Collaboration with Philanthropy
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz, CA
For general support
180,000
Carmel Bach Festival
Carmel by the Sea, CA
For general support
215,000
Chamber Music America
New York, NY
For support of programs in the San Francisco Bay Area
75,000
Classics for Kids Foundation
Bozeman, MT
For a Bay Area string instrument mentoring pilot project
Collaboration with Special Projects
Community Music Center
San Francisco, CA
For the Board-designated endowment fund for financial aid
150,000
For general support
285,000
Community School of Music and Arts
Mountain View, CA
For general support of the music program
255,000
Door Dog Music Productions
San Francisco, CA
For general support
90,000
Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
For general support
40,000
KITKA
Oakland, CA
For general support
90,000
Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
For general support
300,000
Menlo School
Atherton, CA
For general support of Menlo School’s Music@Menlo program
(Collaboration with Special Projects)
150,000
For general support of Menlo School’s Music@Menlo program
150,000
Midsummer Mozart
San Francisco, CA
For general support
120,000
Monterey County Symphony
Carmel, CA
For general support
60,000
Music at Kohl Mansion
Burlingame, CA
For capacity building during the current phase of institutional development
50,000
Pacific Chamber Symphony
San Francisco, CA
For general support
25,000
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
For general support
300,000
Piedmont Choirs
Piedmont, CA
For general support
90,000
Ragazzi The Peninsula Boys’ Chorus
San Mateo, CA
For general support
90,000
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
For general support
165,000
San Francisco Sinfonietta
San Francisco, CA
For presenting “Handel’s Messiah: Sing it Yourself” at Davies Symphony Hall
10,000
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
For general support
750,000
San Jose Taiko
San Jose, CA
For capacity building
225,000
Santa Cruz County Symphony Association
Santa Cruz, CA
For general support
75,000
Schola Cantorum
Mountain View, CA
For general support
51,000
Sonos Handbell Ensemble
Berkeley, CA
For general support
51,000
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
For a presentation entitled “Originalism, Music and the Constitution”
Collaboration with Special Projects
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
For general support of the Young Musicians Program
300,000
Opera/Music Theater
42nd Street Moon
San Francisco, CA
For general support
90,000
American Musical Theatre of San Jose
San Jose, CA
For general support
70,000
Broadway By the Bay
Burlingame, CA
For general support
75,000
Lamplighters Opera West Foundation
San Francisco, CA
For general support
165,000
Pocket Opera
San Francisco, CA
For general support
120,000
San Jose Children’s Musical Theater
San Jose, CA
For general support
255,000
For strategic planning
18,500
West Bay Opera Association
Palo Alto, CA
For accounting service fees
6,000
Theater
American Conservatory Theater
San Francisco, CA
For general support
480,000
Aurora Theatre Company
Berkeley, CA
For general support
105,000
Bay Area Theatresports
San Francisco, CA
For general support
40,000
California Shakespeare Theater
Berkeley, CA
For general support
250,000
Magic Theatre
San Francisco, CA
For an organizational effectiveness grant
Collaboration with Philanthropy
For general support
150,000
Marin Shakespeare Company
San Rafael, CA
For general support
90,000
Mayfair Improvement Initiative
San Jose, CA
For the use of a popular theater as a community-organizing and education tool in low-income East San Jose neighborhoods
Collaboration with Regional Grants
Playwrights Foundation
San Francisco, CA
For infrastructure assessment
Collaboration with Philanthropy
San Jose Repertory Theatre
San Jose, CA
For general support
150,000
Santa Rosa Players
Santa Rosa, CA
For general support
50,000
SEW Productions/Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
San Francisco, CA
For general support
120,000
For strategic planning
35,000
ShadowLight Productions
San Francisco, CA
For general support
50,000
Teatro Vision
San Jose, CA
For capacity building
275,000
The.art.re.grüp, The LAB
San Francisco, CA
For general support
50,000
Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
For National Free Theatre Day
25,000
Theatre Rhinoceros
San Francisco, CA
For general support
90,000
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
For general support of Shakespeare Santa Cruz
75,000
Willows Theatre Company
Concord, CA
For general support
120,000
Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
For an organizational effectiveness grant
Collaboration with Philanthropy
Cultural Facilities
Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music
Berkeley, CA
For a capital campaign for new facility construction
1,000,000
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
For predevelopment costs associated with the Winters Building Revitalization Project
10,000
Northern California Community Loan Fund
San Francisco, CA
For the Nonprofit Space Capital Fund for the development of critically needed arts and cultural facility space within the Bay Area
250,000
Other Performing Arts Grants
American Conservatory Theater
San Francisco, CA
For a permanent endowment to support new works
5,000,000
Destiny Arts Center
Oakland, CA
For support of dance, theater, martial arts, violence prevention, and leadership instruction to
young people as a means to end isolation, prejudice, and violence in Richmond, CA
Collaboration with Regional Grants
Northern California Grantmakers
San Francisco, CA
For the Arts Loan Fund
75,000
San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
For a permanent endowment to support new works
5,000,000
San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
For the endowment fund
10,000,000
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
For an endowment to support the Symphony’s education programs
5,000,000
Supporting Services
Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
For general support of the Living Cultures Grants Program
150,000
For general support of the Living Cultures Grants Program
350,000
Alternate Roots
Atlanta, GA
For the Katrina Project to develop a strategic arts-based response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
50,000
American Symphony Orchestra League
New York, NY
For support of programs in the San Francisco Bay Area
25,000
Arts Council Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
For theory-of-change consultant services for the Artsopolis Marketing Partnership (Collaboration with Philanthropy)
930
For San Jose Repertory Theatre’s organizational consultancy with Albert Hall Associates
65,000
Fund for Folk Culture
Austin, TX
For general support
100,000
Grantmakers in the Arts
Seattle, WA
For general support
90,000
Horizons Foundation
San Francisco, CA
For a performing arts regranting program
60,000
Jazz at Lincoln Center
New York, NY
For the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Fund to provide assistance to performing artists and performing arts organizations affected by Hurricane Katrina
100,000
KALW Public Radio
San Francisco, CA
For the performing arts reporting component of the Public Service Reporting Project
150,000
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana
San Jose, CA
For the performing arts program
20,000
National Performance Network
New Orleans, LA
For general support
100,000
Nonprofit Finance Fund
New York, NY
For support of programs in the San Francisco Bay Area
75,000
For conducting a Nonprofit Business Analysis service for seven performing arts nonprofit organizations
55,000
Noontime Concerts
San Francisco, CA
For general support
20,000
San Francisco Foundation
San Francisco, CA
For the Fund for Artists’ Community Foundation partnership
250,000
San Francisco Performances
San Francisco, CA
For general support
450,000
San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum
San Francisco, CA
For conducting a series of focus groups for input in the development of the plan for the new Museum of Performance and Design
7,000
Sonoma County Community Foundation
Santa Rosa, CA
For production of Performance Sonoma 2007, a performing arts festival
60,000
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
For general support of Cal Performances
450,000
Zellerbach Family Foundation
San Francisco, CA
For general support of the Community Arts Distribution Committee
600,000
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