Open nowCloses Dec 2, 2026
Public Art for Spatial Justice
Public ArtEquity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Accessibility
Who can apply: Public art projects aligned with spatial justice goals.
Deadline: December 2
About New England Foundation for the Arts
As a social impact organization, NEFA builds, sustains, and fights for arts and culture through grantmaking, partnerships, and advocacy in New England, the nation, and beyond.
Focus Areas
DanceMusicTheaterPublic ArtNative American ArtsCreative EconomyInternational EngagementPerforming ArtsArts & Culture
Who They Fund
nonprofit arts organizationsindividual artists/creatorsperforming arts presenters/venues
Funding Style
About New England Foundation for the Arts
A defining feature of New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated is the repeated use of general operating, creation, and presenting support for arts organizations and presenters across dance, theater, music, public art, and cultural programming. Their recent grants show that they back both organizations that produce work and the intermediaries that help move that work to audiences. The largest recent grant in the dataset is $129,000 to National Performance Network in New Orleans for general operating, creation, and/or presenting support. Other major awards include $96,625 to Danceworks Inc in New York and $87,000 to The Tank LLC in New York, both for the same broad support category. That pattern suggests a funder that uses flexible funding to support arts infrastructure as well as project activity. The foundation’s program list adds more detail about how it works in practice: it supports touring, presentation, travel, residency development, and public art collaborations through named initiatives such as ArtsHERE, Crossroads: Touring New England, National Dance Project Presentation Grant, and National Theater Project Presentation Grant. Its recent grants also include organizations in New York, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Minnesota, and California, showing a national reach alongside a New England base of operations.
What New England Foundation for the Arts Funds
In performing arts presentation and touring, the foundation gave $75,000 to Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Inc in the Bronx and $66,500 to Everett Company Stage & School in Providence, both on a general operating, creation, and/or presenting support basis. It also supports touring through programs such as Crossroads: Touring New England and New England States Touring (NEST). For dance, the grant list includes $68,375 to New York Live Arts Inc in New York and $67,000 to Rosy Simas Danse in Minneapolis. The active program list also includes the National Dance Project Presentation Grant and National Dance Project Travel Fund, which are tied to presenting and travel support for NDP-related work. The funder also supports public art and spatial justice through Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice, a Massachusetts program focused on collaboration and accountable public artmaking. In the creative economy and arts-organization space, Fractured Atlas Productions Inc received $77,000 for general operating, creation, and/or presenting support.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5.4M
Total Assets
$40.3M
Total Revenue
$10.4M
Total Expenses
$13.8M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $20K, with a median of $11K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$11K
75th Percentile
$20K
Geographic Reach
Regional41 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
STEVEN FENTON
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