The Free for All Endowment Fund awards $300,000 to seventeen organizations to expand access to classical music and cultural programming

Boston – The Boston Foundation today announced that 17 organizations will share $300,000 in grants from the Foundation's Free for All Endowment Fund to support access to music and other cultural programming in Greater Boston.

Since its inception in 2016, the Free for All Endowment Fund has granted over $1.3 million to large and small organizations to ensure that everyone from the Boston region—children, adults, and families—has regular and permanent access to the rich world of classical, orchestral music and related cultural programming. Organizations applying for grants are working to expand their programs and outreach to connect with a broad range of audiences across Greater Boston. Nearly 50 organizations applied with requests totaling over $1 million for this cycle, reflecting the Foundation's effort to connect with a wider range of potential grant partners.

"We believe these organizations contribute to the transformational change, growth, and accountability happening in Classical music across Greater Boston," said Catherine T. Morris, Director for Arts and Creativity at the Boston Foundation. "We are excited to support these organizations and ensembles, their remarkable programming, connection to their communities, and everything they provide for those who live in them."

Nine of this year's seventeen grantee partners had never received a grant from the Free for All Endowment Fund. They received grants ranging in amounts from $5,000 to $28,000.

Learn more about the Fund at https://www.tbf.org/nonprofits/grant-making-initiatives/free-for-all-fund.