This is the eighth year of MFA\u2019s grant distribution. The fund was created in 2017 with a $10 million endowment from the Galveston, Texas-based Moody Foundation. The intention of the fund is to financially back small and emerging nonprofit arts organizations supported by the City of Dallas Office of Art and Culture. In recognition of this generosity, the City of Dallas changed the name of its 750-seat Dallas City Performance Hall to Moody Performance Hall.<\/p>\n
In 2018, its first year, MFA distributed $150,000 to 36 organizations with a maximum grant of $7,500. Since those first awards, MFA has awarded a total of $2,825,000through 428 unique grants to 106 organizations, including seven new organizations this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Moody Fund for the Arts continues to help small arts organizations make great strides in their programmatic and organizational growth,\u201d said Martine Elyse Phillipe, OAC Director and a member of the MFA Executive Review Committee. \u201cThe arts run deep in Dallas, and we\u2019re thrilled to see so many organizations receive this critical support that will help the city\u2019s investments go even further.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Pictured Left to Right: Andrew Briseno, Jocelyn Hansen, Lily Gast*, Madeleine Norton, and Luke Weber in Theatre Three’s production of Debbie Does Dallas. *indicates members of Actors Equity Association. The theater is a recipient of the Moody Fund for the Arts.<\/p>\n
The fund awards flexible grants within five categories. This year saw entries in each category: General Program and Operating Cost Support (41); New Works, Commissions, and Unique Presentations (11); Community Focus Performances\/Artist-in-Residency Programs (6); Cultural Equity, New Initiatives (6); Capacity Building (2).<\/p>\n
The AT&T Performing Arts Center administers the Moody Fund for the Arts and its application and review process. Award decisions are made through a two-level review process.<\/p>\n
The first level, the MFA Advisory Review Panel is a peer-review judging process. This year\u2019s MFA Advisory Review Panel includes Sylvia Bodell, member of Dallas Arts and Cultural Advisory Commission (Place 10) and President of Bodell Communications, Inc; Glyne A. Griffith II, Vice President of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Impact at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Grant Peterson, musician, choral director, educator, and singer and faculty of North Forney High School; Alejandro Saucedo, an actor and director affiliated with Circle Theatre in Fort Worth; and Elliott Trahan, dancer, choreographer, and teacher with Bruce Wood Dance Dallas.<\/p>\n
The second level of review is provided by the MFA Executive Review Committee. This year\u2019s MFA Executive Review Committee includes Stephen Gilhooly, and arts patron, advocate,\u00a0 and Business and Transactional Lawyer; Tracey Nash-Huntley, an arts patron, advocate, philanthropist; and Phillipe.<\/p>\n
Moody Fund Recipients:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 2 Inspired Peace \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tJordan Fraker<\/p>\n \t\t\tJordan Fraker<\/p>\n Rhythm & Romance is part of Avant Chamber Ballet’s 2025-2026 season. Featured dancers are dancers Olivia Mann and Caroline Atwell. The ballet company is a recipient of the Moody Fund Grant for the Arts.<\/p>\n \u2022 Make Art with Purpose, Inc.
\u2022A.rt Experience
\u2022 Agora Artists
\u2022 Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico
\u2022 Art House Dallas
\u2022 Artists Sans Fronti\u00e8res
\u2022 Arts Mission Oak Cliff
\u2022 Artstillery
\u2022 Asian Film Festival of Dallas
\u2022 Avant Chamber Ballet
\u2022 B. MOORE DANCE
\u2022 Ballet North Texas
\u2022 Basically Beethoven
\u2022 Beckles Dancing Company
\u2022 Color Me Empowered
\u2022 Dallas Arts District
\u2022 Dallas Bach Society
\u2022 Dallas Chamber Symphony
\u2022 Dallas International Film Festival
\u2022 Dallas Metroplex Musicians’ Assoc.
\u2022 Dance Council of North Texas
\u2022 DFW Play
\u2022 DG Fine Arts
\u2022 Echo Theatre
\u2022 Emerge Coalition, Inc.
\u2022 Flamenco Fever
\u2022 Greater Dallas Choral Society
\u2022 Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra
\u2022 Indian Cultural Heritage Foundation
\u2022 Infinite Arts Movement
\u2022 Kitchen Dog Theater Company
\u2022 kNOwBOX dance
\u2022 Lone Star Wind Orchestra<\/p>\n![\"Avant](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rhythm-Romance-Photo-credit-Jordan-Fraker-dancers-Olivia-Mann-and-Caroline-Atwell-1.jpg\")
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\u2022 New Texas Symphony Orchestra
\u2022 No Limits Arts Theatre
\u2022 OK2BX Foundation
\u2022 Ollimpaxqui Ballet Co, Inc
\u2022 Orchestra of New Spain
\u2022 Orpheus Chamber Singers, Inc.
\u2022 OutLoud Dallas
\u2022 Over the Bridge Arts
\u2022 Pegasus Contemporary Ballet
\u2022 Pegasus Media Project
\u2022 Prism Movement Theater
\u2022 Representa Foundation
\u2022 Second Thought Theatre
\u2022 Soul Rep Theatre Company
\u2022 South Dallas Concert Choir
\u2022 SPARK! Dallas
\u2022 Swan Strings
\u2022 Teatro Dallas
\u2022 Texas Winds Musical Outreach, Inc
\u2022 The African Film Festival (TAFF)
\u2022 The Artist Outreach
\u2022 The Creative Movement, Inc.
\u2022 The Flame Foundation
\u2022 The Oak Cliff Festival
\u2022 The Smart Project
\u2022 The Women’s Chorus of Dallas
\u2022 The Writer’s Garret
\u2022 Top Ten Records
\u2022 Undermain Theatre
\u2022 Uptown Players, Inc.
\u2022 USA Film Festival
\u2022 Verdigris Ensemble<\/p>\n