Grants

Category Arts & Culture

Grants Made in 2025 $65,950

Concord Singers

Amount
$2,500
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

Full orchestra and treble choir concert with Concord Singers in January 2026

Continuo Arts Foundation

Amount
$10,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

Seniors Sing: music-based health and wellness program for older adults

New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra

Amount
$4,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

Free family-oriented holiday concert with interactive learning in Summit

New Jersey Jazz Society

Amount
$2,950
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

JerseyJazzLIVE! performances on 9 Sundays in 2026

Playhouse Association, Inc.

Amount
$9,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

Digital Wireless Omni Lavalier Microphone system to enhance voice projection for Summit Playhouse performances

Summit Chorale

Amount
$6,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

Spring 2026 concert: Liberty and Justice for All

Summit Symphony

Amount
$3,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

Young Artists Competition providing opportunity for NJ youth to perform with orchestra at May 17, 2026 concert in Summit

The Theater Project

Amount
$2,500
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

Thanksgiving performances in Summit of It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

Amount
$12,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

Teaching artist-led programs with community partners that serve older adults, people with disabilities, and youth

Vivid Stage

Amount
$4,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

Long-form improvisational performances in Summit

Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts

Amount
$10,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2025

Wharton Arts Scholarships: need-based, tuition assistance for performing arts education

Grants Made in 2024 $29,500

Always Neighbors Never Strangers

Amount
$2,500
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2024

Mural project in Summit to promote community unity and uplift neighborhood in the vicinity of 324 Springfield Avenue

Arts By The People

Amount
$3,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2024

Eight week creative writing workshop for Summit residents

Summit Chorale

Amount
$4,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2024

Memorial concert in Summit honoring victims of WWII and the Holocaust

Summit Public Art

Amount
$10,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
Grants Made in 2024

Temporary and permanent art installations in Summit

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

Amount
$10,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2024

Community outreach programs with Summit area organizations and participants

Grants Made in 2023 $53,058

Continuo Arts Foundation

Amount
$8,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2023

SeniorsSing! Music & Wellness Program

Friends of Summit Public Art

Amount
$10,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2023

Art installation, educational programming and outreach initiatives

NJ Intergenerational Orchestra

Amount
$3,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2023

Family Holiday Concert at LCJ Summit Middle School, free to public

NJ Jazz Society

Amount
$2,750
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2023

Support for nine Sunday performances of JerseyJazzLIVE!

Playhouse Association Inc. (Summit Playhouse)

Amount
$5,058
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2023

Facility renovations and improvements

Reeves-Reed Arboretum

Amount
$5,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2023

Summer concert series

Summit Chorale

Amount
$2,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2023

9-11 Memorial Sing-In

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

Amount
$13,250
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2023

Art programs in partnership with local nonprofits

Vivid Stage

Amount
$4,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2023

NJ premiere production of Kodachrome

Grants Made in 2022 $55,800

Continuo Arts Foundation

Amount
$11,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2022

Seniors Sing! and children’s choir scholarships

New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra

Amount
$3,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2022

Spring concert held at LCJSMS

Playhouse Association

Amount
$3,800
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2022

Repair and paint building exterior

Summit Public Schools

Amount
$33,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2022

Upgrade SHS auditorium’s sound system

Vivid Stage (fka Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre)

Amount
$5,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2022

World premiere of “Soft Animals” by NJ playwright Erin Mallon

Grants Made in 2021 $44,500

Continuo Arts Foundation

Amount
$10,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2021

Seniors Sing artistic fees and filtration units

Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre

Amount
$4,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2021

Staged multilingual version of Our Town

Hilltopper Stage Productions

Amount
$5,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2021

SHS musical Newsies

HTTV Inc. (Hometowne Television)

Amount
$7,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2021

Produce “Summit Showcase” featuring creative indivuduals

Playhouse Association Incorporated (The Summit Playhouse)

Amount
$8,500
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2021

Computerized lighting controller and sound unit

Visual Arts Center of NJ

Amount
$10,000
Category
, Arts & Culture
Year
2021

Arts-based programs for seniors, ELL children, and PEP-program students.

Total: $248,808