2008 Annual Grants Report

Arts Grants

ANNONYArts$5,000
To produce a dance theatre concert in a park.
Center of Creative Arts$12,500
Underwrite performance of “Jason and the Argonauts.”
Cinema St. Louis$25,000
To support the 2007 film festival.
Cinema St. Louis$20,000
To support the 2008 film festival.
Circus Arts Foundation aka Circus Flora$25,000
Challenge grant for new seating.
Confluences$5,000
To support show of Maya Lin’s model for the Confluence Project at the Missouri Historical Society (which acted as the fiscal agent).
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis$70,000
To support general exhibition fund, this is the first of a three year pledge totaling $210,000.
Craft Alliance$30,000
To support a Grand Center satellite gallery and offices.
Craft Alliance$25,000
To support a second year of exhibition catalogs.
Dance St. Louis$50,000
To support a mainstage production. Second year of a three year grant totaling $150,000.
Dance St. Louis$10,000
In support of a three day festival showcasing national and local dance companies.
Fair St. Louis$11,000
To design a reusable set for the children’s area at “Live at the Levee.”
Folk School of St. Louis$7,500
To support a move to new quarters and purchase instruments for student use.
Grand Center$20,000
To support the performance of Project Bandaloop as part of a large festival of local dance, “Dancing in the Streets.”
Grand Center$10,000
To support a year of collaborative programming among district resident companies.
Jazz St. Louis$75,900
The organization changed its’ name from Jazz at the Bistro. Final payment in a three year grant of $259,000 in support of education programming.
Magic House$76,668
Third and final payment of a three year grant totaling $230,000. For exhibit Music Play-Play Music.
Opera Theatre of St. Louis$100,000
Third payment of a five year grant totaling $500,000. New warehouse and annual opera production.
Prison Performing Arts$10,000
Third and final payment of a three year grant totaling $60,000. Programming support.
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra$200,000
This is the second payment in a multi-year $1 million pledge to the guest artist fund.
Sheldon Arts Foundation$75,000
2008-09 season support with an emphasis on increasing season ticket sales. This is the first payment in a three year pledge totaling $150,000.
Springboard to Learning$35,000
Program and merger costs. This is the final payment of a two year grant totaling $70,000. Springboard to Learning and Young Audiences of St. Louis merged.
St. Louis Actors’ Studio$10,000
To support the company’s inaugural season.
St. Louis Ballet$30,000
To design sets and costumes which set the “Nutcracker Ballet” in St. Louis.
St. Louis Black Repertory Theater$11,333
To support of the hire of a marketing director and executive director. This is the eighth payment of a total grant for $200,000 to be paid over three years.
St. Louis Black Repertory Theater$11,334
To support of the hire of a marketing director and executive director. This is the last of nine payments of a total grant for $200,000 to be paid over three years.
St. Louis Classical Guitar Society$16,850
First of a two year grant of $35,350 in support of a season starring international artists marketed with the assistance of local affinity groups.
Stages St. Louis$15,000
To assist with new audience recruitment by subsiding ticket prices for “Little Women,” the company’s debut holiday production to be staged at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown St. Louis.
Union Avenue Opera$15,000
General support for the 2008 season.
Upstream Theater$6,000
General support for the 2008-09 season.
Webster University$2,000
To support travel costs for visiting Bosnian artists as part of a painting exhibition featuring the work of five contemporary Bosnian artists.

Parks Grants

Tower Grove Park$50,000
Urban forest restoration. Third payment of a four year grant totaling $350,000, of which $150,000 is a matching gift.
Gateway Greening$60,000
Neighborhood Community Gardening & Greening Program. This is the second payment of a three year grant totaling $180,000.
Grace Hill Settlement House$69,000
To support the 2008 Whitaker Urban Evenings Festival in St. Louis Place Park.
Grace Hill Settlement House$14,000
To support research and design of an Urban Chautauqua.
Ivory Perry Park Concerts$6,000
2007 summer concert series. This grant should have been paid out in the last quarter of FY07 but was moved to this year pending receipt of reporting. This is the last year of a two year grant totaling $12,000.
Ivory Perry Park Concerts$9,000
To support the 2008 summer concert series. This grant is renewable for a second year pending hire of a new executive director.
KDHX Community Media$20,000
Harvest Sessions, 2008 summer concert series at Tower Grove Park Farmer’s Market. Formerly listed as Double Helix.
Missouri Botanical Garden$110,000
2008 Music Festival, first year of two year grant totaling $232,000.
Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis$60,000
2008 festival. Third and final payment of three totaling $180,000.