Grants

Category Arts, Culture, Humanities
Grants Made in 2007

Adirondack Museum

Amount
$25,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Toward the redesign and expansion of the web site-$2,500

Alliance For Historic Hillsborough

Amount
$17,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Toward repainting the Alexander Dickson House-$2,500

American Ballet Theatre

Amount
$25,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

American Museum of Natural History

Amount
$30,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Arts Council of the Morris Area

Amount
$35,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Brandywine Conservancy, Inc.

Amount
$20,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Bruce Museum, Inc.

Amount
$17,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Carolina Ballet, Inc.

Amount
$10,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Carolina Theatre of Durham, Inc.

Amount
$35,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Community Theatre at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts

Amount
$85,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Amount
$25,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Corning Museum of Glass

Amount
$10,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Durham Symphony Incorporated

Amount
$15,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

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

Amount
$190,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

For: Children’s Cultural Education Endowment Fund-$25,000

First Night Morris, Inc.

Amount
$7,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Franklin Institute

Amount
$30,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Frick Collection

Amount
$12,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Growing Stage, Children’s Theatre of New Jersey

Amount
$10,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Historic Hillsborough Commission

Amount
$12,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Toward the Community Heritage Education Initiative at the Burwell School Historic Site

Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museums, Inc.

Amount
$60,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Intrepid Museum Foundation, Inc.

Amount
$20,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Amount
$40,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

For: American Songbook-$15,000

Lincoln Center Theater

Amount
$25,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages

Amount
$32,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Toward support of the new gallery, Making Carriages: From Hometown Shop to Factory-$25,000

Macculloch Hall Historical Museum

Amount
$25,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Masterwork Chorus, Inc.

Amount
$10,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amount
$15,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Morris County Heritage Commission

Amount
$2,755
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Toward the reprinting of Historic Sites of Morris County, New Jersey

Morris County Historical Society

Amount
$7,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Morris Museum, Inc.

Amount
$35,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Morris Museum, Inc.

Amount
$80,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities
Grants Made in
Grants Awarded - 2007

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

Amount
$100,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

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

Amount
$20,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Museum of Arts and Design/Matching Contributions

Amount
$10,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Two-for-one match of Marian C. Burke’s contribution dated 7/26/07

Museum of Early Trades and Crafts

Amount
$25,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Museum of Modern Art

Amount
$15,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

National Constitution Center

Amount
$40,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

New Jersey Ballet Company, Inc.

Amount
$10,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

New Jersey Historical Society

Amount
$25,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation

Amount
$17,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

New Jersey Theatre Alliance

Amount
$15,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

New York Botanical Garden

Amount
$37,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

New York City Ballet, Inc.

Amount
$20,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

New York City Opera, Inc.

Amount
$22,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Newark Museum Association

Amount
$40,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.

Amount
$38,333
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

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

Amount
$70,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Inc.

Amount
$20,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.

Amount
$40,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Sarah P. Duke Gardens

Amount
$75,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

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

Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Inc.

Amount
$125,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

For: The S. Dillard Kirby Endowment Fund-$25,000

State Theatre Center for the Arts, Inc.

Amount
$125,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

For: The F. M. Kirby Endowment Fund-$25,000

Submarine Memorial Association

Amount
$10,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Violet Festival

Amount
$2,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Washington Association of New Jersey

Amount
$300,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

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

Amount
$10,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Toward the renovation of the primary storage vault

Wildlife Conservation Society

Amount
$7,500
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

Amount
$45,000
Category
Arts, Culture, Humanities
Total $2,230,588