MAP Fund

The MAP Fund (MAP) invests in performing artists and their work as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. The MAP Fund (initially known as the Multi-Arts Production Fund) was founded in 1989 to engage a national conversation on cultural equity and formal innovation in performance practices and producing structures. It has since invested more than $36 million in 1,500+ discrete projects, representing the work of thousands of generative artists.

MAP makes flexible project grants directly to artists working across all performance disciplines and, since 2012, provides additional artist-driven strategic support through the Scaffolding for Practicing Artists (SPA) program. Both programs are designed to operate in a highly responsive manner, taking cues from the artists as to what, how, and where support will most effectively move their work forward.

Now considered a pillar of performing arts philanthropy, MAP has often supported artists early in their careers and permanently changed the face of arts and culture in the United States. In total, more than 7,000 artists have received MAP support to realize works that interrogate presumptive cultural norms, challenge entrenched ideologies, and remind us over and over again of our shared humanity.