With a little help from the Gene and Jerry Jones Foundation, TACA passed the $1M point in its fiscal year 2023 grant-making.
As a result, TACA has just revealed that 45 Dallas County performing and visual art groups benefited from $400K in TACA’s fourth round of Catalyst Grants, which are made “without restrictions and [are] designed to support high-performing area organizations.”
Accord to TACA President/Executive Director Maura Sheffler, “The generous contributions from the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Foundation, both in support of TACA and last month’s record-breaking TACA Silver Cup Award Luncheon honoring Gene Jones and Joe Hubach, helped us cross the million-dollar mark for grant-making this fiscal year. This gift allows us to achieve a grant-making milestone for the first time since 2018, excluding the pandemic. Further, it allows TACA to make a historic investment in our arts community for this Spring Catalyst grant distribution. We are immensely grateful to the Jones family and our other Catalyst Club donors.”
The TACA Spring 2023 Catalyst grantees include the following:
- Agora Artists, American Baroque Opera Company
- Artstillery
- AT&T Performing Arts Center
- Bishop Arts Theatre Center
- Bruce Wood Dance
- Cara Mía Theatre
- Dallas Black Dance Theatre
- Dallas Chamber Symphony
- Dallas Children’s Theater
- Dallas Contemporary
- Dallas Museum of Art
- Dallas Opera
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- Dallas Winds
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Echo Theatre
- Emerge Coalition
- Fine Arts Chamber Players
- Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra
- Kitchen Dog Theater Company
- Lone Star Wind Orchestra
- Lumedia Musicworks
- Make Art With Purpose
- Nasher Sculpture Center
- Orchestra of New Spain
- Orpheus Chamber Singers
- Pegasus Contemporary Ballet
- Pegasus Media Project
- Plano Symphony Orchestra
- Prism Movement Theater
- Sammons Center for the Arts
- Soul Rep Theatre Company
- Teatro Dallas
- Texas Winds Musical Outreach
- The Cedar’s Union
- The Women’s Chorus of Dallas
- The Writer’s Garret
- Theatre Three
- TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND
- Turtle Creek Chorale
- Undermain Theatre
- Uptown Players and
- Verdigris Ensemble
Since the Catalyst Grant program was created in 2021, TACA “has awarded a total of $1,324,000 in funding as a complement to its ongoing Pop-Up Grant program and the TACA New Works Fund focusing on new artistic works by BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and/or female artists.”
The Catalyst Grant program is supported by the Catalyst Club, consisting of donors that give or pledge $25,000 or more in annual support of the organization. At the present time the following people and organizations make up TACA’s Catalyst Club:
- Communities Foundation of Texas
- Mary McDermott Cook and Grace Cook (of The Eugene McDermott Foundation)
- DFW Lexus Dealers Association
- M.R. & Evelyn Hudson Foundation
- Melinda and Jim Johnson
- Gene and Jerry Jones (of the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Foundation)
- Carol and Kevin March (of The March Family Foundation)
- Kathy and Greg Nelson
- Kate and Keith Newman
- PNC
- Lacy and Clayton Sands (of Rosewood Corporation)
- TI Foundation
- Donna Wilhelm
* Graphic courtesy of TACA