Funding search · EIN 136139518 · New York, NY

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music

Name: The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

365
grants reported: $1.8M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $1,250
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

lenya competition travel stipend prize award semifinalist performance

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

95 grants matching “prize” · $396,750

$25,000
George Robarts · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$20,000
Tamara Bounazou · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$15,000
Elenora Hu · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$6,000
Soo Hyun Gemma Nha · Chicago, IL · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$6,000
Queen Hezumuryango · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$5,000
Lawrence Wolff · New York, NY · 2025
Kurt weill prize
$3,000
Crystal Glenn · Wappingers Falls, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$3,000
Rebecca Madeira · Howell, NJ · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$3,000
Schyler Vargas · Evanston, IL · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$3,000
Ian Williams · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$3,000
Jonathan Heller · Huntington Station, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$2,950
Olivia Lapointe · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$2,000
Joseph Cadigan · Houston, TX · 2025
Kurt weill prize
$2,000
Drew Nobile · Eugene, OR · 2025
Kurt weill prize
$1,250
George Robarts · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Bridget Esler · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Chris Richie · New York, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Crystal Glenn · Wappingers Falls, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Elenora Hu · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Alicia Russell Tagert · Richmond, VA · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Hugo Kampschreur · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Ian Williams · South Bend, IN · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Jonathan Heller · Huntington Station, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Kaileigh Riess · Foxboro, MA · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Kendra Dyck · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Marcus Huber · Somerville, MA · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Olivia Lapointe · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Queen Hezumuryango · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Rebecca Madeira · Howell, NJ · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Schyler Vargas · Evanston, IL · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Soo Hyun Gemma Nha · Chicago, IL · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Stavros Koumbaros · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Tajda Jovanovic Turner · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$1,250
Tamara Bounazou · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$750
Sang Bin Park · Cincinnati, OH · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$750
Tanner Cox · Palmdale, CA · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$750
Grace Marie Rusnica · New York, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$750
William Hopkins · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$750
Galilei Uajenenisa Njembo · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$750
Anna Jacobs · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$750
Melanie Athans · San Francisco, CA · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$750
Sachiko Nicholson · Vestal, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$725
Roza Herwig · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$50
Olivia Lapointe · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$25
Roza Herwig · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$25,000
Ana Karneza · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition finals 1st prize
$20,000
The Christian Mark Gibbs Company Ll · Hollis, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition finals 2nd prize
$20,000
Jason Zacher · Livingston, NJ · 2024
2024 lenya competition finals 2nd prize
$3,000
Kendra Dyck · 2024
2024 lenya competition finalist prize
$3,000
Logan Wagner · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
2024 lenya competition finalist prize
$3,000
Rebekah Howell · Nashville, TN · 2024
2024 lenya competition finalist prize
$3,000
Kaileigh Riess · Foxboro, MA · 2024
2024 lenya competition finalist prize
$3,000
Ta'Nika Gibson · New York, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition finalist prize
$1,250
Kendra Dyck · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Logan Wagner · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Prentiss Mouton · New York, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Queen Hezumuryango · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Rachel Weinfeld · New York, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Rebekah Howell · Nashville, TN · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Schyler Vargas · Evanston, IL · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Shavon Lloyd · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Ta'Nika Gibson · New York, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
The Christian Mark Gibbs Company Ll · Hollis, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Tristan Tournaud · Antioch, TN · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Tzeitel Abrego · Astoria, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Ana Karneza · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Atthew Amira · New York, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Francesca Mehrotra · Newton, MA · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Hugo Kampschreur · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Jason Zacher · Livingston, NJ · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Jessica Mills · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Joseph Sacchi · New York, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Kaileigh Riess · Foxboro, MA · 2024
2024 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$25,000
Nyla Watson · Cleveland, OH · 2023
2023 lenya competition first prize
$25,000
Taylor-Alexis Dupont · Orlando, FL · 2023
2023 lenya competition first prize
$25,000
Ryan Johnson · Los Alamos, NM · 2023
2023 lenya competition first prize
$5,000
Liza Gennaro · Bronx, NY · 2023
2023 kurt weill book prize
$2,000
Amanda Hsieh · 2023
2023 kurt weill article prize
$1,250
Celeste Rose · New York, NY · 2023
2023 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Katherine Leidlein · New York, NY · 2023
2023 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$1,250
Lisa Rogali · Hawley, PA · 2023
2023 lenya competition semifinalist prize
$750
Olivia Doig Skaff · Chicago, IL · 2023
2023 lenya competition songbook prize
$750
Stephanie Wake-Edwards · 2023
2023 lenya competition grace keagy prize
$750
Brandon Roth · New York, NY · 2023
2023 lenya competition songbook prize
$20,000
Amanda Sheriff · Smyrna, DE · 2022
2022 lenya competition 1st prize
$15,000
Katrina Galka · Whitefish Bay, WI · 2022
2022 lenya competition 2nd prize
$15,000
Ruth Acheampong · 2022
2022 lenya competition 2nd prize
$10,000
Jeremy Weiss · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
2022 lenya competition 3rd prize
$2,000
Ian Williams · Fort Wayne, IN · 2022
2022 lenya competition finalist prize
$2,000
Lauren Senden · N Mankato, MN · 2022
2022 lenya competition finalist prize
$2,000
Tristan Tournaud · Antioch, TN · 2022
2022 lenya competition finalist prize
$2,000
Cierra Byrd · Akron, OH · 2022
2022 lenya competition finalist prize
$2,000
Eric Botto · Boulder, CO · 2022
2022 lenya competition finalist prize
$2,000
Francesca Mehrotra · Newton, MA · 2022
2022 lenya competition finalist prize
$1,000
Claire Leyden · New York, NY · 2022
2022 lenya competition songbook prize

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Opera North 23 grants · $146,950
Carnegie Hall1 grant · $125,000
Volksoper Wien Gmbh2 grants · $69,500
Orchestra Miami2 grants · $45,000
Renaissance-Theater Berlin1 grant · $40,000
London Symphony Orchestra2 grants · $30,000
Annapolis Opera Company2 grants · $30,000
Red Line Productions1 grant · $30,000
George Robarts4 grants · $28,750
Taylor-Alexis Dupont6 grants · $28,550

Giving over time

$491,574

2022

$339,250

2023

$434,300

2024

$518,428

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 365 grants.

$125,000
Carnegie Hall · New York, NY · 2024
Support of kw concerts in 2024 weimar festival
$74,500
Opera North 2 · 2025
2025 collaborative initiative - audio and video capture costs of love life
$50,000
Opera North 2 · 2025
2025 professional performance and broadcast grant: love life
$40,000
Renaissance-Theater Berlin · 2022
2022 professional performance grant: happy end
$40,000
Volksoper Wien Gmbh · 2022
Professional performance grant
$30,000
Red Line Productions · 2022
Professional performance grant: seven deadly sins/mahagonny songspeil
$29,500
Volksoper Wien Gmbh · 2022
Professional performance grant - lady in the dark
$27,500
New York City Center · New York, NY · 2025
2025 collaborative initiative - love life audio capture costs
$25,000
George Robarts · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$25,000
True Concord Voices & Orchestra · Tucson, AZ · 2025
2025 professional performance and broadcast grant: airborne symphony suite
$25,000
Ana Karneza · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition finals 1st prize
$25,000
Festival D'Aix · 2023
Kw/ll artist support: marie oppert
$25,000
Nyla Watson · Cleveland, OH · 2023
2023 lenya competition first prize
$25,000
Ryan Johnson · Los Alamos, NM · 2023
2023 lenya competition first prize
$25,000
Taylor-Alexis Dupont · Orlando, FL · 2023
2023 lenya competition first prize
$25,000
The Glimmerglass Festival · Cooperstown, NY · 2023
Kw/ll artist support: katrina galka
$25,000
Blomst Gug · 2022
Professional performance grant: zaubernacht
$25,000
Melbourne Opera · 2022
Professional performance grant
$25,000
Orchestra Miami · Miami, FL · 2022
2022 professional performance grant: lindberghflug, airborne symphony
$22,450
Opera North 2 · 2025
2025 collaborative initiative - post-capture costs of love life cd
$20,000
Tamara Bounazou · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$20,000
Central City Opera House Association · Denver, CO · 2024
2024 professional performance grant: street scene
$20,000
Jason Zacher · Livingston, NJ · 2024
2024 lenya competition finals 2nd prize
$20,000
The Christian Mark Gibbs Company Ll · Hollis, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition finals 2nd prize
$20,000
Little Opera Theatre of New York · New York, NY · 2023
2022 professional performance grant: down in the valley
$20,000
Orchestra Miami · Miami, FL · 2023
Professional performance grant: road of promise
$20,000
Ovo Theater · 2023
2022 professional performance grant: the threepenny opera
$20,000
Amanda Sheriff · Smyrna, DE · 2022
2022 lenya competition 1st prize
$20,000
Annapolis Opera Company · Annapolis, MD · 2022
2022 professional performance grant: lost in the stars
$20,000
Victorian Opera · 2022
2022 professional performance grant: happy end
$15,953
Ensemble Modern · 2025
Sds recording collaborative inititative
$15,000
Elenora Hu · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$15,000
Oklahoma City University · Oklahoma City, OK · 2025
2025 midyear university performance grant: street scene
$15,000
University of British Columbia · 2025
University performance grant - street scene
$15,000
Brevard Music Center · Brevard, NC · 2024
2024 amateur performance grant: the threepenny opera
$15,000
Curtis Institute for Music · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
2024 university performance grant: the seven deadly sins
$15,000
London Philharmonic Orchestra · 2024
Professional performance grant - the seven deadly sins
$15,000
London Symphony Orchestra · 2024
Professional performance grant: sins, kdm, vom tod im wald - performacns and recording
$15,000
New World Symphony · Miami Beach, FL · 2024
2024 performance grant: the seven deadly sins
$15,000
Katrina Galka · Whitefish Bay, WI · 2022
2022 lenya competition 2nd prize
$15,000
London Symphony Orchestra · 2022
Professional performance grant: sins, kdm, vom tod im wald - performances and recording
$15,000
Opera Zuid · 2022
2022 professional performance grant: lady in the dark
$15,000
Opernhaus Graz Gmbh · 2022
Kurt weill/lotte lenya artist: christof messner
$15,000
Ruth Acheampong · 2022
2022 lenya competition 2nd prize
$15,000
Stephen Hinton · Stanford, CA · 2022
Publication assistance - stages of reform german translation
$14,500
University of Minnesota (4) · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
2025 midyear university performance grant: street scene, symphonic nocturne from lady in the dark
$14,500
University of Oklahoma · Norman, OK · 2025
2025 university performance grant: rise and fall of the city of mahagonny
$14,125
Detroit Opera · Detroit, MI · 2025
Professional performance grant: down in the valley
$14,000
Opera North · 2024
To support kw/ll artist, justin hopkins
$12,500
Manhattan School of Music (2) · New York, NY · 2025
2025 university performance grant - the threepenny opera
$12,000
Atelier Armonico · 2023
Amateur performance grant: zaubernacht
$11,500
Ed Liebrecht · 2024
Julius rudel/kurt weill conducting fellow
$10,000
Opera Zuid · 2025
2025 midyear professional performance grant: die dreigroschenoper
$10,000
Orchestra of the Music Makers · 2025
2025 amateur performance grant: symphonic nocturne from lady in the dark
$10,000
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · 2025
Professional performance grant - four walt whitman songs
$10,000
University of Maryland · College Park, MD · 2024
2024 university performance grant: the seven deadly sins
$10,000
Madison Opera · Madison, WI · 2023
2022 professional performance grant: the seven deadly sins
$10,000
Annapolis Opera Company · Annapolis, MD · 2022
Kw/ll artist support: ruth acheampong
$10,000
Jeremy Weiss · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
2022 lenya competition 3rd prize
$10,000
Muhlenberg College · Allentown, PA · 2022
2022 university performance grant: the threepenny opera
$8,500
Denison University · Granville, OH · 2023
University performance grant: threepenny opera
$7,500
Depaul University · Chicago, IL · 2024
2024 university performance grant: street scene
$7,500
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2024
2024 university performance grant: street scene
$7,500
The Shepherd School of Music at Rice Univ · Houston, TX · 2022
2022 university performance grant: street scene
$7,500
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater · Whitewater, WI · 2022
2022 college/univ. Grant: the harpies
$7,000
Meredith College · Raleigh, NC · 2025
2025 midyear university performance grant: lady in the dark
$7,000
Emma Cavage · New York, NY · 2024
Harold prince/kurt weill directing fellow
$7,000
Arcola Theatre · 2023
Professional performance grant: no for an answer
$7,000
Wageningen Symphonic Orchestra · 2023
Amateur performance grant: lindberghflug
$6,500
Mastervoices · New York, NY · 2025
Kurt weill/lotte lenya artist
$6,000
Lotte Lehmann Akademie Perleberg · 2025
2025 university performance grant - street scene
$6,000
Queen Hezumuryango · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$6,000
Soo Hyun Gemma Nha · Chicago, IL · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$6,000
Joseph Sacchi · New York, NY · 2024
2024 lenya competition finals discretionary award, outstanding vocal achievement
$6,000
Queen Hezumuryango · 2024
2024 lenya competition finals discretionary award, outstanding performance of a contemporary musical theater selection
$6,000
Celeste Rose · New York, NY · 2023
2023 lenya competition rebecca luker award
$6,000
Jeremiah Sanders · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
2023 lenya competition kurt weill award
$6,000
Seattle Collaborative Orchestra · Seattle, WA · 2022
Professional performance grant
$5,500
Santa Monica College Foundation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
2023 college/university performance grant symphonic nocturne, the guests
$5,000
Lawrence Wolff · New York, NY · 2025
Kurt weill prize
$5,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2025
2025 university performance grant: der jasager
$5,000
Sydney Conservatorium of Music · 2025
Professional performance grant
$5,000
University of Minnesota (4) · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
Kurt weill mentor honorarium and travel: jim holmes, street scene, symphonic nocturne
$5,000
American Symphony Orchestra · New York, NY · 2024
Professional performance grant - kleine dreigroschenmusik
$5,000
Bronx Opera Company · Bronx, NY · 2023
Amateur performance grant: lady in the dark
$5,000
Liza Gennaro · Bronx, NY · 2023
2023 kurt weill book prize
$5,000
Baerum Kulturhus · 2022
2022 professional performance grant: zaubernacht
$5,000
Brigantes Music · 2022
Professional performance grant: symphonic nocturne from lady in the dark
$5,000
New World Symphony · Miami Beach, FL · 2022
University performance: kleine zaubernachtmusik
$5,000
Sheridan College · 2022
2022 college/univ. Grant: happy end
$5,000
Vegas City Opera · Las Vegas, NV · 2022
2022 amateur performance grant: the threepenny opera
$4,000
Ronald Wilbur · Lexington, KY · 2022
2022 lenya competition rebecca luker award
$3,500
Arcola Theatre · 2024
Professional performance grant - no for an answer
$3,500
Noam Shapiro · New York, NY · 2024
Harold prince/kurt weill directing fellow
$3,000
Crystal Glenn · Wappingers Falls, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$3,000
Ian Williams · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$3,000
Jonathan Heller · Huntington Station, NY · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$3,000
Rebecca Madeira · Howell, NJ · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$3,000
Schyler Vargas · Evanston, IL · 2025
2025 lenya competition prize
$3,000
Kaileigh Riess · Foxboro, MA · 2024
2024 lenya competition finalist prize

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