Unrestricted funding for arts nonprofits shaping our region. Generously funded by the Cities of Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead.
Fargo Theatre
$10,000 to preserve the historic integrity of the Theatre while expanding its ability to meet the artistic and entertainment needs of increasingly diverse audiences, performers and filmmakers.
Fargo-Moorhead Area Youth Symphonies
$4,500 to provide a rigorous orchestral experience that challenges dedicated youth to reach their full potential musically and personally and emerge as dynamic members of the community.
Fargo-Moorhead Opera
$8,500 to provide high quality opera performances; to develop an appreciation for opera; and to establish an educational outreach program to serve the region’s schools and colleges.
Fargo-Moorhead Symphony
$5,000 to provide high quality opera performances; to develop an appreciation for opera; and to establish an educational outreach program to serve the region’s schools and colleges.
Fargo-Moorhead Visual Artists
$1,800 to promote and support quality visual arts in the area by educating and encouraging visual artists and their communities.
Fargo-Moorhead Youth Choir
$3,000 to provide K-12 students the opportunity to rehearse and perform choral music with skill and understanding.
Gooseberry Park Players
$4,000 to provide an exceptional, fee-free unique educational and multi-generational summer theatre experience for youth ages 11-18.
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
$9,000 to collect, preserve, interpret and share the history and culture – including the arts, a vital part of human history – of Clay County, MN.
Kicks Band of FM
$4,250 to educate, perform and promote jazz, America’s original art form.
Master Chorale of FM
$3,000 to offer opportunities to perform quality choral music beyond the church or collegiate setting.
Plains Art Museum
$9,500 to connect art, artists, and audiences to foster creative, resilient, and welcoming communities.
Rourke Art Museum
$3,250 to educate and inspire the community through the collection, presentation and preservation of the region’s and the world’s artistic heritage. to serve the community by enriching, educating and engaging people of all ages through inspired performances of orchestral and chamber music.
Spirit Room
$1,300 to enrich people’s lives through the development and practice of creative, contemplative and healing arts.
Stage West
$6,500 to integrate exceptional cultural experiences that engage art supporters, as part of fulfilling the mission of West Fargo Events (its umbrella organization) to provide community events to enhance the public experience in the City of West Fargo.
Theatre B
$5,000 to invigorate civic conversation through intimate and transformative storytelling.
Trollwood Performing Arts School
$5,000 to inspire those they serve through the arts to realize their full potential and be a positive influence in the global community.
Project or program support for arts and culture nonprofits making a meaningful impact in our community. Generously funded by the Cities of Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead.
Colored Capital Entertainment
$500 toward Photos in Color, a two-day photography workshop where youth have the opportunity to learn from a professional photographer about how to take and edit photos.
Fiber Arts Festival
$500 toward a display of textiles from several cultures, accompanied, when possible, by a demonstration of the techniques used to make them.
Folkways
$2,500 toward weekly cultural performances at Red River Market celebrating diverse artists through free, public arts experiences in downtown Fargo.
Learning Bank
$2,500 toward its Fine Arts Series, which provides every child in Grades 1-5 in the three school districts with access to experiences with the visual and performing arts.
Nordic Culture Clubs
$500 toward performances by a renowned regional Hardanger fiddle maker and player and the Fargo Spelemannslag, a local ensemble of 12 hardanger fiddle players, at the 2026 Scandinavian Hjemkomst Festival
Prairie Public Broadcasting
$1,920 toward production of radio reports and related digital content focusing on the Metro’s artistic talent and the arts activities in our community.
For health and human services nonprofits using the arts to make a meaningful impact on those they serve. Generously funded by: Choice Bank, Bell Bank, AdShark, Marvin.
Indigenous Legacy
$1,750 toward a project to allow indigenous youth the opportunity to create traditional items, such as jingle dresses and fancy shawls, while bonding with a role model in learning the traditional arts and speaking the Ojibwe/Dakota languages.
Jasmin Child Care & Preschool
$1,350 toward their Creativity Corner Arts program, incorporating culturally diverse visual arts, music and storytelling into daily learning, with a focus on the immigrant, refugee and BIPOC children under their care.
Red River Human Services Foundation
$1,000 toward supplies for weekly ceramic classes for people with intellectual disabilities, adapted for the individual needs of each participant.
Ronald McDonald House
$1,750 to pay an artist to create a fun, colorful mural for the Ronald McDonald House game room to offer joy and a moment of escape.
YWCA Cass Clay
$1,750 toward artist stipends and art supplies for six monthly arts and crafts nights for YWCA participants, led by local BIPOC artists; each month would feature a different cultural draft, such as beadwork.
To fuel the vision and skill of local artists. Funded by individual donors, the Susie Yakowicz Creative Arts Scholarship Fund of the FM Area Foundation, the Moorhead PEO Chapter CO and the Erin Koffler Memorial Fund.
Dayna Del Val
$2,500 toward costs associated with working with a developmental editor and book coach monthly for 12 months, to work on story structure, narrative development and revision strategies of her memoir Recovering Me.
Falling in a Dream
$2,500 toward costs related to producing a new album, including acoustically treating the group’s production spaces, securing professional mastering services and enhanced marketing efforts that build upon their growing audience engagement.
Annie Hough
$2,500 toward rehearsals and performance of River Adventures, an original, educational one-act play for children that alternates between the world of a boy and his grandma and the world of river creatures. Hough is the recipient of a grant funded by the Susie Yakowicz Creative Arts Scholarship Fund.
Dennis Krull
$1,250 toward equipment that will allow the artist to add intaglio printmaking to his artistic skill set.
Callie Stadem
$2,500 toward the composition, recording and performances of a song cycle for soprano voice and harp using poems from the book The Thumbelina Poems by Merie Kirby.
Tobias Zikmund
$2,500 to print photographs, purchase frames and make other preparations in anticipation of his first solo museum exhibition in 2026.
