Arts & Culture Grant Recipients

We support a broad array of Wisconsin-based arts & culture organizations – big and small, professional and volunteer, performing arts and visual arts, and museums of all types and sizes.

2025 Grants: Arts & Culture

2025

Aperi Animam Inc.

General Operations

$10,000

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2025

Black Arts MKE

General Operations

$30,000

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2025

CAVT Museums

General Operations

$10,000

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2025

Civic Music MKE

General Operations

$10,000

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2025

Danceworks

General Operations

$30,000

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2025

Discovery World

Bright Ideas: Empowering Early Science Learners Through Light and Movement

$20,000

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2025

Ex Fabula

AfterDark: For The Culture Project

$5,000

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2025

Feast of Crispian Inc

General Operations

$15,000

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2025

Florentine Opera Company

General Operations

$110,000

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2025

Historic Milwaukee, Inc.

General Operations With Funds Earmarked for Equipment, Technology and Marketing.

$25,000

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2024

Imagine MKE

General Operations

$50,000

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2024

Joy Engine

Local Artist Participation in the ArtBlaze Summer Beach Series

$10,000

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2025

Ko-Thi. Inc.

General Operations

$10,000

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2024

La Familia De Arte

A Partnership with the Surrounding Community to Create a Large Public Art Installation of Mosaic Tiles on Concrete at Three Bridges Park Trailhead

$20,000

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2025

Local Media Foundation

A new arts and culture reporter at the Journal Sentinel who can expand arts coverage (year one of two-year $170,000 Grant)

$70,000

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2024

Lynden Inc.

General Operations

$15,000

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2024

Marcus Performing Arts Center

General Operations

$50,000

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2025

Marcus Performing Arts Center

The Cultural Heartbeat for All Capital Campaign (Pledge)

$1,000,000

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2025

Marquette University

Let the Real World In Exhibit

$22,000

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2024

Milwaukee Art Museum

Herzfeld Photography Program ($120,000) and Junior Docent Student Program ($20,000)

$140,000

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2025

Milwaukee Ballet Company, Inc.

General Operations

$160,000

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2025

Milwaukee County Historical Society

The Making of Black Milwaukee Documentary

$10,000

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2024

Milwaukee Film, Inc

General Operations

$150,000

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2025

Milwaukee Film, Inc

Purchase of Downer Theatre (Pledge)

$500,000

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2025

Milwaukee Jazz Institute

General Operations

$10,000

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2025

Milwaukee Opera Theatre

General Operations

$7,500

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2025

Milwaukee Public Museum, Inc

General Operations

$75,000

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2024

Milwaukee Public Museum, Inc

Capital pledge payment for new museum building

$500,000

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2025

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc

Capital pledge payment for Education Center

$1,000,000

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2024

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc

General Operations

$100,000

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2024

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

General Operations

$100,000

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2024

Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. (MWF)

Astral Relics of the Great North Woods - Fuzz Pop Workshop's Immersive Art Installation

$25,000

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2024

Next Act Theater

General Operations

$25,000

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2024

Optimist Theatre

Shakespeare in the Park General Operations

$15,000

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2024

Present Music

General Operations for Season 2025-2026

$15,000

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2024

Radio Milwaukee

General Operations

$25,000

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2024

Renaissance Theaterworks

General Operations

$30,000

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2024

Riverwest Artists Association (DBA Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts)

General Operations

$15,000

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2024

Skylight Music Theatre Corp

General Operations

$40,000

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2025

Skylight Music Theatre Corp

Cabot Theatre Purchase (Pledge)

$500,000

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2024

Studio K Flamenco

General Operations

$7,500

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2024

Ten Chimneys Foundation Inc

Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program

$20,000

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2025

The Moth

The Moth StorySLAMs in Milwaukee-2026

$25,000

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2025

Washington Park Neighbors

Strengthening Economic & Workforce Development Through Washington Park Wednesdays

$7,500

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2025

West Side Arts Un, Limited

Expanding Workforce Development & Economic Growth Through The New State

$15,000

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2024

Wild Space Dance Company

Dancing Onwards: Strategic Planning - Board, Audience and Fund Development

$15,000

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2025

Wisconsin Intergenerational Orchestra

General Operations

$7,500

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2024

Woodland Pattern

General Operations

$10,000

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2025

WRTP | BIG STEP

Representation & Celebration: Milwaukee Workforce Art Murals

$25,000

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2024 Grants: Arts & Culture

2024

Black Arts MKE

General Operations

$30,000

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2024

Create Wisconsin (Fiscal Sponsor)

Small Arts Affinity Cohort

$10,000

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2024

Danceworks

General Operations

$30,000

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2024

Early Music Now

General Operations

$10,000

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2024

Ex Fabula

General Operations

$5,000

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2024

Florentine Opera Company

General Operations

$110,000

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2024

Historic Milwaukee, Inc.

General Operations

$10,000

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2024

Imagine MKE

General Operations

$50,000

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2024

Joy Engine

ArtBlaze 2024

$5,000

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2024

La Familia De Arte

General Operations

$15,000

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2024

Lynden Sculpture Garden

General Operations

$10,000

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2024

Marcus Performing Arts Center

General Operations

$50,000

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2024

Milwaukee Art Museum

Herzfeld Center for Photography & Media Arts Programming ($120,000) and Junior Docent School Program ($20,000)

$140,000

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2024

Milwaukee Ballet

General Operations

$135,000

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2024

Milwaukee Film

General Operations ($150,000) and Emergency Funding ($550,000)

$700,000

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2024

Milwaukee Public Museum

General Operations

$75,000

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2024

Milwaukee Repertory Theater

General Operations

$100,000

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2024

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

General Operations

$155,000

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2024

Milwaukee World Festivals

Summerfest FuzzPop Workshop Exhibit: Yield

$20,000

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2024

Next Act Theater

General Operations

$25,000

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2024

Optimist Theatre

Free Shakespeare in the Park General Operations

$10,000

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2024

Pink Umbrella Theater Company

General Operations

$10,000

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2024

Present Music

General Operations

$15,000

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2024

Radio For Milwaukee

General Operations

$40,000

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2024

Renaissance Theaterworks

General Operations

$30,000

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2024

Skylight Music Theatre

General Operations

$40,000

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2024

Storyville Center for the Spoken Word (The MOTH)

StorySLAM Series in Milwaukee 2024

$25,000

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2024

Studio K

The Flamenco Nutcracker 2024

$5,000

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2024

Wild Space Dance Company

General Operations

$15,000

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2024

Woodland Pattern

General Operations

$15,000

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