In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, The Denver Foundation, and Create Boulder created the COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund to support nonprofit organizations that are experiencing a dramatic, unexpected loss in revenue.
In the early fall, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation and The Denver Foundation awarded nearly $1.2 million to 41 organizations through the COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund. A second and final round of grantees supporting by the COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund will be announced soon.
Supporters
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation committed $1 million toward the COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund, and The Denver Foundation, which administers the fund, donated $50,000. Other donors at $25,000 or more are Denver Arts & Venues at $205,000; Gates Family Foundation at $100,000; R C Kemper Charitable Trust at $50,000; the Anthony and Delisa Mayer Foundation at $50,000; the JFM Foundation, also at $50,000; Cranaleith Foundation at $50,000; Create Boulder at $40,000; Rose Community Foundation at $25,000; Hemera Foundation at $25,000; and Hal and Ann Logan at $25,000. Individual donors also played an important role in growing the fund, with donations ranging from $15 to $15,000.
2020 Grantees
| Access Gallery | Morrison Theater |
| Art from Ashes | Motus Theater |
| Art Students League | Museo de las Americas |
| Boulder Ballet | Open Studios |
| Boulder Community Broadcast KGNU | Ovation West |
| Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art | Phamaly Theatre Company |
| Chicano Humanities and Arts Council Inc. | Platte Forum |
| Children’s Museum of Denver | Pop Culture Classroom |
| Cleo Parker Robinson Dance | RedLine |
| Curious Theatre | Rocky Mountain Arts Association |
| D3 Arts | Rocky Ridge Music |
| Dairy Center for the Arts | ROSHNI |
| Denver Art Society | Studio Arts Boulder |
| Denver March Powwow, Inc. | Su Teatro Performing and Cultural Arts Center |
| Filipino American Community | Swallow Hill |
| The HadaNou Collective for Vocal Coalition (VoCo) | The Word Storytelling Sanctuary |
| Harmony – A Colorado Chorale | Think 360 |
| Latino Cultural Arts Center | Vintage Theatre |
| Levitt Pavilion | Warm Cookies of the Revolution |
| Centro Cultural Mexicano dba Mexican Cultural Center | Youth on Record |
| Mirror Image |