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Boston Cultural Council Organizational Grants is a grant from the City of Boston Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, in partnership with Mass Cultural Council, that funds arts, cultural, and creative programming organizations in Boston.
The program provides general operating support grants to small and mid-sized nonprofits, fiscally sponsored organizations, unincorporated entities, and artist collectives with annual budgets under $2 million. Eligible applicants must foster innovative arts programming, advance an inclusive and community-responsive creative sector, and improve quality of life through cultural activities.
Grant awards are tiered at $5,000, $7,500, and $10,000 based on organizational budget size.
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gov State law requires the City to complete an annual census to update the voter roll. Learn more about how to add your name to the census: The Boston Cultural Council Board allocates grants to small and mid-sized organizations whose mission is to sustain and foster arts, cultural, and/or creative programming in Boston.
The Boston Cultural Council (BCC) offers general operating grants to small and mid-sized nonprofit and fiscally sponsored organizations, as well as unincorporated entities and artist collectives.
These grants are intended to strengthen the overall operations and capacity-building of organizations that: Foster innovative and original arts, cultural, and creative programming; Advance a more just and inclusive creative sector that is responsive, community-informed, and accessible; and Improve the quality of life in our city through meaningful arts, cultural, and creative programming.
The BCC Grant is open to organizations with budgets under $2 million. Grant sizes are $5,000, $7,500, and $10,000. The specific amount organizations are eligible for depends on the size of their operating budget.
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This recognition honors organizations that demonstrate a strong, sustained commitment to advancing equity within Boston’s arts and culture ecosystem.
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Massachusetts Poetry Outreach Project New England Film Orchestra Inc On With Living and Learning,Inc DBA OWLL OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center Piano Craft Gallery, Inc. TransCultural Exchange, Inc. Transformative Culture Project United DanceUrbanity Dance, Inc. We Make Noise Boston (formally Beats By Girlz Boston) Writers Without Margins, Inc. Abilities Dance Incorporated Actors' Shakespeare Project African Festival of Boston/Shalupe Agora Cultural Architects Art Resource Collaborative for Kids (ARCK) Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc. Arts Connect International Ashmont Hill Chamber Music Asian American Ballet Project Asian American Resource Workshop Ballet Theatre of Boston, Inc., d/b/a José Mateo Ballet Theatre Bay State Performing Arts Inc. Boston Choral Ensemble, Inc. Boston City Lights Foundation, Inc. Boston Dance Theater, Inc. Boston Festival Orchestra Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Inc. Boston Opera & Zarzuela Corp Boston Rhythm Riders Line Dance Movement Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Convergence Ensemble, INC Design Museum Boston, Inc. Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble ETM-Massachusetts Inc. (ETM-MA) Fort Point Arts Community Fort Point Theatre Channel Girls Rock Campaign Boston Greater Boston Section National Council of Negro Women Hamilton-Garrett Music & Arts Humphreys Street Studios Artist Tenants Association Inspired Masses, Inc. doing business as "Boston in 100 Words," as fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas International Women's Writing Guild Jamaica Plain Music Festival Korean Cultural Society of Boston Kwong Kow Chinese School, Inc. Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women Massachusetts Poetry Outreach Project Medicine Wheel Productions, Inc Mission Hill Health Movement Mudflat Pottery School, Inc. 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DBA OWLL OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center Paul Revere Memorial Association Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc. Sheffield Chamber Players, Inc. Shelter Music Boston, Inc. The Black Literacy and Arts Collaborative Project The Institute of Contemporary Art, Inc. The Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. The West End Museum, Incorporated Trustees of Boston University Turkish American Cultural Society of New England Veronica Robles Cultural Center Vietnamese American Community of Massachusetts, Inc. Vietnamese American Thang Long Limited Vietnamese American Volunteer Association of Boston, Inc. Winsor Music Incorporated Young Audiences of Massachusetts, Inc Abilities Dance Incorporated Actors' Shakespeare Project Ágora Cultural Architects Apollo Club of Boston, Inc. Art Resource Collaborative for Kids Artists' Theater of Boston Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc. Arts Connect International Ashmont Hill Chamber Music Asian American Resource Workshop Bay State Performing Arts, Inc. dba Boston Gay Men's Chorus Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Inc. dba Pao Arts Center Boston City Lights Foundation Boston Dance Theater, Inc. Boston Landmarks Orchestra Boston Latino International Film Festival Boston Music Project (Formerly Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program) Boston Rhythm Riders Line Dance Movement Boston Shakespeare Project Chinese Historical Society of New England Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston DBA Boston Civic Symphony Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Design Museum Foundation dba Design Museum Boston Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble Fort Point Theatre Channel Fresh Ink Theatre Company Guy Mendilow Ensemble, LLC House of Blues Music Forward Foundation Inspire Arts & Music, Inc. Inspired Masses, Inc. DBA “Boston in 100 Words” Jamaica Plain Arts Council Jewish Arts Collaborative Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Massachusetts Poetry Outreach Project Massachusetts Production Coalition Medicine Wheel Productions, Inc Museum of African American History, Inc. New England Intercollegiate Vietnamese Student Association New Repertory Theatre, Inc. North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) On with living and Learning, Inc [DBA OWLL] OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center Parkway Concert Orchestra Paul Revere Memorial Association/Paul Revere House PUERTO RICAN FESTIVAL OF MA, INC. Roxbury Cultural District Roxbury Cultural District Shelter Music Boston, Inc. TC Squared Theatre Company The Chamber Orchestra of Boston The Fenway Community Center at Viridian Inc. The Friends of Fort Point Channel The Writer's Room of Boston, Inc. TransCultural Exchange, Inc. Trustees of Eliot School, dba Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts Turkish American Cultural Society of New England Veronica Robles Cultural Center Victoria Lynn Awkward dba VLA DANCE Vietnamese American Thang Long Limited Vietnamese American Volunteer Association of Boston, Inc. Wheelock Family Theatre at Boston University Writers Without Margins, Inc. Young Audiences of Massachusetts (YAMA) Abilities Dance Incorporated Actors' Shakespeare Project African Festival of Boston Agora Cultural Architects Artists' Theater of Boston Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc. Arts Connect International Ashmont Hill Chamber Music Asian American Resource Workshop Bay State Performing Arts, Inc. dba Boston Gay Men's Chorus Boston After-School Music Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Inc. dba Pao Arts Center Boston City Wide String Orchestra Boston Landmarks Orchestra Boston Latino International Film Festival Boston Rhythm Riders Line Dance Movement Boston Shakespeare Project Brain Arts Organization, Inc. Chhandam Institute of Kathak Dance, Inc. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Cumann na Gaeilge i mBoston (Irish Language Society of Boston) Design Museum Foundation dba Design Museum Boston Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble Dorchester Historical Society Esplanade Association, Inc. Families Creating Together Fenway Community Development Corporation Fort Point Arts Community Fort Point Theatre Channel, Inc. Foundation for a Green Future Girls Rock Campaign Boston Greater Ashmont Main Street Greater Boston Choral Consortium, Inc. House of Blues Music Forward Foundation Inspired Masses, Inc. DBA “Boston in 100 Words” Institute for Pan African Cultural Education Inc. Joseph Nee South Boston Collaborative Center Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program Korean Cultural Society of Boston Lena Park Community Development Corporation Massachusetts Production Coalition Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition Medicine Wheel Productions Inc. Mission Hill Women's Writing Group National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts dba Opening Doors to the Arts New Gallery Concert Series North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) On With Living and Learning (OWLL) Open Theatre Inc. dba Open Theatre Project Original Gravity Concert Series Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc. Paul Revere Memorial Association/Paul Revere House Project RIGHT, Inc. dba Our Place Theatre Project Roslindale Open Studios, Inc. Shelter Music Boston, Inc. Social Good Fund, Inc. (Yo Soy LOLA) The Apollo Club of Boston, Inc. The Boston Comic Arts Foundation dba Comics in Color The Boston Literary District The Chamber Orchestra of Boston The Fenway Community Center at The Viridian, Inc. The Jar, formerly Israeli Stage Company The Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild, Inc. The Urban Farming Institute of Boston, Inc. Transformative Culture Project Vietnamese American Thang Long Limited White Snake Projects, Inc Young Audiences of Massachusetts, Inc. The Boston Cultural Council distributes general operating grants annually through the BCC Organizational Grant.
These funds are sourced from the City of Boston’s Operating Budget, and the Mass Cultural Council (MCC), a state agency, to strengthen small and mid-sized nonprofit and fiscally-sponsored organizations, as well as fiscally sponsored unincorporated entities and artist collectives.
The goal is to invest in the overall operations and capacity-building of organizations that: Fosters innovative and original arts, cultural, and creative programming; Advance a more just and inclusive creative sector that is responsive, community-informed, and accessible; and Improve the quality of life in our city through meaningful arts, cultural, and creative programming.
The BCC grant program works in tandem with other programs within MOAC to ensure that all Boston residents–regardless of background, income, or neighborhood–have access to and can participate in arts and culture as a part of daily life. The BCC is a 7+ member council composed of Boston residents and is facilitated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (MOAC).
Council members work in partnership with MOAC on the strategic direction of the grant program, and they also provide final approval of selected grantees. Council members are selected on the basis of their lived experience within Boston’s arts, cultural, and creative communities and their demonstrated commitment to cultural equity.
Meet the Boston Cultural Council Grants Awarded To 100 Arts And Cultural Organizations Supporting Creativity And Cultural Equity Across The City Have questions? Contact us:
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Small and mid-sized nonprofit and fiscally sponsored organizations, unincorporated entities, and artist collectives with operating budgets under $2 million providing arts and cultural programming in Boston. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates $5,000–$10,000 Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
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