Funding search · EIN 136139518 · New York, NY

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music

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 20222025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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2 grants matching “wald · $30,000

  • $15,000

    London Symphony Orchestra · 2024

    Professional performance grant: sins, kdm, vom tod im wald - performacns and recording

  • $15,000

    London Symphony Orchestra · 2022

    Professional performance grant: sins, kdm, vom tod im wald - performances and recording

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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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.