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 $6.5M in New Cultural Facilities Fund Grants Awarded

Performance by Castle of our Skins, a 2025 Cultural Facilities Fund grant recipient.

Today the MassDevelopment Board of Directors approved 74 new Cultural Facilities Fund (CFF) grants totaling $6,480,500 to support the planning, development, and maintenance of cultural spaces across Massachusetts.

Nonprofit cultural organizations and municipalities were the recipients of capital and planning grants ranging from $8,000 to $200,000. Grant funds will be used for projects in construction, design, repair, renovation, expansion, and the acquisition of cultural facilities.

Jointly administered by MassDevelopment and Mass Cultural Council, CFF provides grants to nonprofits, colleges, and municipalities that own or operate facilities primarily focused on the arts, humanities, and sciences. The program’s 1:1 match requirement leverages investments from the private sector toward the development and preservation of these community assets.

Awardees span all regions state-wide and include community art centers, museums, theaters, historical societies, libraries, nature-based conservation centers, and many others. More than 70% of CFF grants are made to organizations outside Greater Boston.

A complete list of all Cultural Facilities Fund grant recipients is available online. Grantees from the FY25 funding cycle include:

• Massachusetts Audubon Society in Lincoln – $132,000 to construct an outdoor classroom pavilion.
• LaunchSpace in Orange – $65,000 for new heat pumps, mini-splits, ceiling fans, and electrical outlets.
• Creative Haverhill in Haverhill – $26,000 to install an elevator at Cogswell Artspace.
• Zeiterion Theatre in New Bedford – $200,000 to upgrade HVAC systems.
• Roots Rising in Pittsfield – $200,000 for the build-out of a new Farm and Education Center.
• The Cahoon Museum of American Art in Barnstable – $35,000 for planning and design to integrate a newly acquired building into the museum’s campus.

CFF’s 17th round of funding received 198 eligible applications at the December 2024 deadline. A survey on future capital needs circulated last fall revealed that organizations in Massachusetts’ creative and cultural sector anticipate $1.3 billion in capital projects over the next three years.

“Without the support of the CFF, we would have no way to complete needed, large-scale projects in the Essex Company Offices and Yard, a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.” said Susan Grabski of Immigrant City Archives in Lawrence, an FY25 Capital grant recipient and respondent of the survey.

“With CFF support, we were able to leverage the additional funding required to complete such projects as installing HVAC systems and a new elevator. The former provides critical climate control in archival storage, meeting, and classroom areas. The latter made the main building ADA compliant,” she said.

Applications for the next round of CFF grants are expected to open fall 2025.

Grant recipients are invited to celebrate this round of CFF investments on June 27, 2025 at 10:30am at Zumix in East Boston.