2007 Grants

ARTS, CULTURE, HUMANITIES

ORGANIZATION & PROJECT
PAYMENT AMOUNT

The Adirondack Museum $25,000
Toward the redesign and expansion of the web site-$2,500  
The Alliance For Historic Hillsborough $17,500
Toward repainting the Alexander Dickson House-$2,500  
American Ballet Theatre $25,000
The American Museum of Natural History $30,000
Arts Council of the Morris Area $35,000
Brandywine Conservancy, Inc. $20,000
Bruce Museum, Inc. $17,500
Carolina Ballet, Inc. $10,000
Carolina Theatre of Durham, Inc. $35,000
The Community Theatre at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts $85,000
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum $25,000
The Corning Museum of Glass $10,000
Durham Symphony Incorporated $15,000
To support the Annual Durham Symphony Family Pops Concert in Historic Hillsborough's Cameron Park-$10,000  
F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts $190,000
For: Children's Cultural Education Endowment Fund-$25,000  
First Night Morris, Inc. $7,500
The Franklin Institute $30,000
The Frick Collection $12,500
The Growing Stage, The Children's Theatre of New Jersey $10,000
Historic Hillsborough Commission $12,000
Toward the Community Heritage Education Initiative at the Burwell School Historic Site  
Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museums, Inc. $60,000
Intrepid Museum Foundation, Inc. $20,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. $40,000
For: American Songbook-$15,000  
Lincoln Center Theater $25,000
The Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages $32,500
Toward support of the new gallery, Making Carriages: From Hometown Shop to Factory-$25,000  
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum $25,000
The Masterwork Chorus, Inc. $10,000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art $15,000
Morris County Heritage Commission $2,755
Toward the reprinting of Historic Sites of Morris County, New Jersey  
Morris County Historical Society $7,500
The Morris Museum, Inc. $35,000
The Morris Museum, Inc. $80,000
Toward the new wing to be built for the Guinness Collection-$85,000 in 2005 and 2006 and $80,000 in 2007  
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union $100,000
For: Support of the creation of a traveling exhibition commemorating the 250th Anniversary of Lafayette's birth-$100,000 in 2005, 2006 and 2007  
Museum of Arts and Design/Matching Contributions $10,000
Two-for-one match of Marian C. Burke's contribution dated 7/26/07  
Museum of Arts and Design $20,000
Museum of Early Trades and Crafts $25,000
The Museum of Modern Art $15,000
National Constitution Center $40,000
New Jersey Ballet Company, Inc. $10,000
The New Jersey Historical Society $25,000
New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation $17,500
New Jersey Theatre Alliance $15,000
New York Botanical Garden $37,500
New York City Ballet, Inc. $20,000
New York City Opera, Inc. $22,500
The Newark Museum Association $40,000
North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc. $38,333
To establish the Barbara C. Kirby Docent Training Enrichment Program endowment-$33,334 and $5,000 to finance that program in 2006; for like uses-$38,333 in 2007 and 2008  
Paper Mill Playhouse $70,000
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Inc. $20,000
Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc. $40,000
The Sarah P. Duke Gardens $75,000
Toward endowment support restricted to the ongoing maintenance, care, and refurbishing of Kirby-Horton Hall thereby establishing the F.M. Kirby Foundation Gardens Fund-$75,000 in 2007 and 2008  
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Inc. $125,000
For: The S. Dillard Kirby Endowment Fund-$25,000  
State Theatre Center for the Arts, Inc. $125,000
For: The F.M. Kirby Endowment Fund-$25,000  
Submarine Memorial Association $10,000
The Violet Festival $2,500
Washington Association of New Jersey $300,000
Toward Our Noble Cause Capital Campaign, along with our previous 2006 gift, shall designate the Colonial Life Room as a "Gallery made Possible by the F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc."  
Weatherspoon Art Gallery $10,000
Toward the renovation of the primary storage vault  
Wildlife Conservation Society $7,500
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library $45,000
 
Total Arts, Culture, Humanities
(58 items)
$2,230,588

F. M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.  •  17 DeHart Street  •  PO Box 151  •  Morristown, NJ 07963-0151  •  (973) 538-4800