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Program Name FY App Grant Total Arts Project Grant (City of Houston HOT Funds) A.D Program Name FY App Grant Total Arts Project Grant (City of Houston HOT funds) A.D. Players Theater 11 6857 $2,500.00 American Turkish Association of Houston (ATA) 11 6698 $4,200.00 Aperio, Music of the Americas 11 6693 $2,500.00 Archaeological Institute of America, Houston Soc. 11 6694 $1,900.00 Bay Area Chorus 11 6700 $4,300.00 Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre 11 6701 $3,300.00 BooTown 11 6702 $1,000.00 Box 13 Artspace 11 6703 $2,500.00 Brilliant Lecture Series 11 6845 $10,000.00 Buffalo Bayou Partnership 11 6704 $4,400.00 Center for Performing Arts Medicine 11 6706 $2,500.00 Classical Theatre Company 11 6709 $2,500.00 Colombian Folkloric Ballet 11 6710 $3,500.00 Dancepatheatre 11 6769 $1,500.00 Discovery Green 11 6715 $4,500.00 Foundation for India Studies 11 6719 $1,000.00 Gulf Coast Drum Corps Associates 11 6843 $1,900.00 Houston Cinema Arts Society 11 6733 $4,500.00 Houston Community Services 11 6731 $3,600.00 Houston Playback Theatre 11 6790 $2,500.00 Houston Swing Dance Society 11 6729 $4,500.00 Houston Young Artists Concert 11 6727 $7,570.00 Impulse Artist Series 11 6740 $1,800.00 Indian Film Festival of Houston, Inc. 11 6741 $2,500.00 Jewish Community Center of Houston 11 6745 $10,000.00 Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company 11 6752 $3,000.00 Millenium Press 11 6753 $1,000.00 Mosaic Theatre Company 11 6754 $2,500.00 Northeast Cultural Arts Council, Inc. (NE-CAC) 11 6757 $2,000.00 NTD Public TV Houston Inc. 11 6758 $3,500.00 Opera Vista 11 6762 $2,500.00 Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) 11 6760 $2,500.00 Pride Houston, Inc 11 6763 $4,300.00 Psophonia Dance Company 11 6764 $3,300.00 River Performing and Visual Arts Center 11 6766 $3,700.00 Shunya, Inc 11 6844 $1,000.00 Taping for the Blind Incorporated 11 6773 $2,500.00 Texan-French Alliance for the Arts 11 6774 $2,600.00 Texas Foundation for the Arts 11 6776 $4,200.00 The Catastrophic Theatre 11 6777 $10,000.00 The Positive Project 11 6778 $3,100.00 Travesty Dance Group 11 6780 $4,300.00 Trinity Jazz Festival 11 6781 $4,500.00 Unhinged Productions 11 6782 $2,100.00 United Nations Association International Choir 11 6783 $1,300.00 University of Houston/KUHF Houston Public Radio 11 6748 $10,000.00 Uptown Dance Company 11 6785 $3,000.00 UST Ctr for Irish Studies Cultural Outreach Prog. 11 6784 $2,500.00 Women In Film & Television/Houston 11 6787 $2,400.00 Wordsmyth Theater Company 11 6788 $1,100.00 $173,870.00 City Special Initiatives (City of Houston HOT funds) Center for Hearing & Speech 11 6882 $10,000.00 Chinese Community Center 11 6986 $10,000.00 Da Camera of Houston 11 6921 $10,000.00 Dance of Asian America 11 6912 $5,000.00 Dancepatheatre 11 6960 $1,500.00 Greater Houston Convention and Events Fund 11 6961 $15,000.00 Houston Architecture Foundation 11 7255 $25,000.00 Houston Center for Contemporary Craft 11 6970 $7,300.00 Houston Cinema Arts Society 11 6968 $15,000.00 Houston Festival Foundation 11 6962 $15,000.00 Houston Museum District Association 11 7078 $65,000.00 John C. Freeman Weather Museum 11 6923 $10,000.00 Korean-American Society of Houston 11 6905 $7,500.00 Main Street Theater 11 7258 $15,000.00 Nameless Sound 11 6985 $7,500.00 Rice University Dance Program 11 6885 $3,967.00 Texas Southern University - Jazz Studies 11 6987 $15,000.00 The Anzo Falco Foundation 11 6951 $9,000.00 The Japan-America Society of Houston 11 7185 $15,000.00 University of Houston - Blaffer Art Museum 11 6908 $10,000.00 University of Houston - Clear Lake 11 6964 $6,000.00 University of Houston - Downtown 11 6909 $7,500.00 University of Houston- Cynthia Woods Mitchell Cntr for Arts 11 6904 $15,000.00 Vietnamese Culture and Science Association 11 6988 $15,000.00 $315,267.00 General Operating Support (City of Houston HOT funds) American Festival for the Arts 11 6686 $31,600.00 Continuation Applause Theatre Company 11 6692 $12,100.00 Ars Lyrica Houston 11 6695 $14,100.00 Continuation Art Colony Association Inc. 11 6877 $39,100.00 Continuation Art League Houston 11 6833 $33,300.00 Art Lies 11 6696 $22,200.00 Continuation Asia Society Texas Center 11 6847 $28,900.00 Continuation Aurora Picture Show 11 6809 $18,000.00 Bach Society at Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church 11 6699 $18,100.00 Continuation Bayou City Concert Musicals 11 6797 $4,700.00 Continuation Byzantine Fresco Foundation 11 6799 $8,600.00 CANTARE Houston 11 6705 $7,200.00 City Ballet of Houston 11 6707 $7,600.00 Continuation Creative Alternatives DBA City ArtWorks 11 6836 $23,700.00 Continuation Czech Cultural & Community Center 11 6810 $15,400.00 Dance Houston 11 6711 $12,300.00 Dance Source Houston 11 6713 $5,800.00 Continuation DiverseWorks Artspace 11 6828 $28,200.00 Doctors Orchestra of Houston (TX Medical Center Orchestra) 11 6716 $6,200.00 Dominic Walsh Dance Theater 11 6718 $23,600.00 Continuation Fotofest Inc. 11 6846 $43,800.00 Foundation for Modern Music 11 6720 $2,800.00 Continuation FrenetiCore 11 6800 $5,200.00 Continuation Fresh Arts Coalition 11 6815 $9,100.00 Glasstire 11 6721 $11,200.00 Continuation Greater Houston Preservation Alliance 11 6798 $20,100.00 Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 11 6722 $7,300.00 Continuation HITS Theatre 11 6811 $37,400.00 Hope Stone Inc. 11 6723 $18,400.00 Houston Boychoir 11 6724 $5,100.00 Continuation Houston Center for Contemporary Craft 11 6832 $37,800.00 Continuation Houston Center for Photography 11 6823 $27,300.00 Houston Chamber Choir 11 6737 $20,100.00 Houston Children's Chorus 11 6726 $25,900.00 Houston Early Music 11 6739 $7,800.00 Continuation Houston Festival Foundation 11 6807 $83,500.00 Continuation Houston Fire Museum 11 6792 $14,200.00 Houston Friends of Chamber Music, Inc. 11 6730 $21,900.00 Houston Horizon Chorus 11 6732 $4,500.00 Continuation Houston Institute for Culture 11 6829 $6,800.00 Houston International Dance Coalition 11 6859 $24,100.00 Continuation Houston International Film Festival, Inc. 11 6734 $19,100.00 Houston Masterworks Chorus 11 6738 $7,600.00 Houston Metropolitan Dance Center, Inc. 11 6735 $28,400.00 Houston Tidelanders 11 6736 $6,700.00 Houston Youth Symphony and Ballet 11 6728 $30,200.00 Inprint, Inc. 11 6742 $29,900.00 Continuation InterActive Theater Company, Inc. 11 6837 $9,200.00 Kingwood Pops Orchestra 11 6746 $3,700.00 Continuation Main Street Theater 11 6825 $47,400.00 Mercury Baroque Ensemble 11 6751 $36,000.00 Continuation Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble 11 6801 $3,900.00 Musiqa Inc 11 6755 $11,900.00 Nameless Sound 11 6756 $9,400.00 Opera in the Heights 11 6761 $35,500.00 Continuation Revels Houston Inc. 11 6840 $8,300.00 Continuation Rice Design Alliance 11 6814 $43,800.00 River Oaks Chamber Orchestra 11 6765 $23,100.00 Continuation Russian Cultural Center "Our Texas" 11 6831 $4,400.00 Several Dancers Core 11 6770 $10,000.00 Continuation Southwest Alternate Media Project 11 6794 $19,600.00 Spacetaker 11 6771 $10,300.00 Stages Repertory Theatre 11 6842 $45,000.00 Suchu Inc. 11 6772 $11,200.00 Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts 11 6775 $6,700.00 Continuation Texas Dragon Boat Association 11 6841 $10,000.00 Continuation The Company OnStage, Inc. 11 6839 $4,100.00 Continuation The Country Playhouse 11 6803 $11,000.00 Continuation The Heritage Society 11 6795 $29,600.00 Continuation The Masquerade Theatre 11 6835 $40,800.00 Continuation The Museum of Printing History 11 6824 $19,200.00 Continuation The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art 11 6827 $33,700.00 Continuation The Rothko Chapel 11 6793 $48,000.00 Continuation Theater LaB Houston 11 6808 $7,400.00 Continuation Theatre Southwest 11 6830 $5,300.00 Continuation University of Houston - Blaffer Art Museum 11 6805 $60,200.00 University of Houston- Arte Publico Press 11 6697 $56,600.00 Virtuosi of Houston 11 6786 $25,000.00 Continuation Weather Research Center - The Weather Museum 11 6804 $20,900.00 Writers in the Schools 11 6789 $47,800.00 Continuation Young Audiences of Houston 11 6818 $47,800.00 $1,723,700.00 General Operating Support Expansion (City of Houston HOT funds) Ambassadors International Ballet Folklorico 11 6691 $11,500.00 Continuation Asian-Pacific American Heritage Association 11 6802 $13,700.00 Continuation Bharathi Kalai Manram 11 6826 $10,100.00 Continuation Brazilian Arts Foundation 11 6813 $32,500.00 Continuation Center for African American Military History 11 6796 $57,100.00 Continuation Children's Prison Arts Project 11 6838 $10,700.00 City Dance, Inc. 11 6708 $20,880.00 Continuation Community Artists' Collective 11 6834 $21,300.00 Dance of Asian America 11 6712 $16,900.00 Diaz Music Institute 11 6714 $16,000.00 Continuation Dionysus Theatre 11 6816 $14,100.00 Continuation Express Children's Theatre 11 6806 $50,100.00 Indian Performing Arts Samskriti 11 6767 $4,400.00 Continuation Indo-American Association 11 6817 $23,400.00 Institute of Hispanic Culture of Houston 11 6743 $20,000.00 Jazz Education Inc.
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