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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “rehearsal”
Where the money went
Largest: $45,000 to KINGS MAJESTIC CORPORATION — ff&e for 651 arts's new performance space and rehearsal studioes
Dance Service New York CityNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
36 matching grants · $2.1M · through 2024Largest: $291,373 to MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP — for rehearsal space subsidy program grant recipients
Largest: $70,000 to MOVEMENT RESEARCH — support for free and subsidized rehearsal space for dancers & choreographers
Arts EtcJohns Island, SCCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $86,757 · through 2023Largest: $13,935 to Chamber Music Charleston — year 1 - chamber music charleston creates musical adaptation of original part (with permission from composer): $870 chamber music charleston musicians record a string quartet pract…
Play Pa LiveReading, PACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $360,000 · through 2024Largest: $135,000 to DEBAY TOURS INC — to assist in costs associated with rehearsing live music shows in pennsylvania and associated touring costs spent with pa businesses
Largest: $25,000 to REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC (FORMERLY URBAN IMPROVFREELANCE PLAYERS INC) — rehearsal for life - urban improv
Largest: $22,000 to THE DANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 54-1644022 — cover indirect costs related to rehearsal hall rent, utilities, insurance for liability and dso insturments/music housed in the rehearsal hall, as well as the honorarium for conduc…
Fritz B Burns FoundationWoodland Hills, CA
3 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2024Largest: $225,000 to One Voice Children's Choir — contribution is to a charity exempt under section 501(c)(3) which is not a private foundation. contribution is to provide funding for the sponsorship of the rehearsal studio to be …
Boston FoundationBoston, MACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $63,750 · through 2024Largest: $18,750 to Rehearsal for Life Inc — operating support/annual fund
EdvestorsBoston, MACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $17,000 · through 2023Largest: $6,000 to REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC — r14 sy22-23; rehearsal for life - btu
Largest: $25,000 to REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC — human services
Largest: $20,000 to ARTSUPLA — to support some of artsup! la's production costs and provide rehearsal and performance stipends for the performers in theatre by the blind, film by the blind, and rex & friends. th…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →