Art$WChallenge Grant Program

The 2025 Art$WChallenge Runs August 15th Through December 15th!

Donate Today And Double Your Impact

Help us raise money and awareness for Westchester arts organizations this season. Take the Art$WChallenge and donate to any of the eligible organizations listed on this page. Your donation will provide much needed funds to support cultural programs and services in the County. Every new dollar donated (up to a maximum amount set forth in our guidelines per organization) between Friday, August 15, 2025 through Monday, December 15, 2025, is eligible to be matched by ArtsWestchester with the support of Westchester County Government.

Deadlines

Fundraising Deadline: The final day to raise funds is Monday, December 15, 2025.

Submission Deadline: Participating organizations must submit all required supporting documentation through the Submittable grant portal no later than Friday, December 19, 2025, at 5:00 PM to be eligible for the match. Hard copies are not required. Please review the guidelines below for submission instructions.

2025 challenge guidelines

2025 challenge donor form

who is Eligible to participate?

Westchester-based organizations that received grant funding in one of the following categories within the last three years (2023 – 2025): Basic Program Support, Project Support, Yonkers Arts Initiative or Mount Vernon Arts Initiative OR Arts Alive grantees (Westchester County only) are eligible to participate.

There are two ways to donate. Choose the way that is most convenient for you:

1. Select your favorite arts organization from the list below and click their name to go through to their website to make your donation directly to them.

2. Download and print a donor certification donation form here and mail with your check to the arts organization of choice.

For more information or assistance, please contact [email protected]

Please Note: Funding is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis, until all available funds have been allocated. Submitting by the deadline does not guarantee funding.

All complete donations with documentation should be submitted by the organization to ArtsWestchester via Submittable, click HERE.

A Palo Seco Flamenco Company

Accent Dance NYC

Actors conservatory Theatre

Afrikan Healing Circle

Aisling Irish community center

Amani Public Charter School

Antonia arts

Anywhere Theatre Company

Arc Stages

Ardsley Multicultural Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Artfire

Arts & Culture committee

Arts 10566

Asbury-Crestwood united Methodist Church

Association of Community-Based Artists of Westchester

Axial Theatre

Ballet Des Amériques School & Company

Bedford Playhouse

Bethany Arts Community

Blue Door Art Center

Caramoor Center for Music And The Arts

Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival

Clay Art Center

CLC Foundation

Commemorate

Concordia Conservatory

Copland house

Cross Cultural Connection

Daisy jopling Music Mentorship Foundation

Downtown Music at Grace

Emelin Theatre for the Performing arts

enslaved africans’ rain garden

ENU Builds, Inc.

Excelsior symphony orchestra

fashion arts xChange inc.

For the People and Kids

foundation for the Public school of the Tarrytowns

Friends of Chappaque performing arts center

friends of Mount Vernon Recreation

Friends of Music Concerts

fun bunch line dance

GoJo Clan Productions

Gooseberry Studio / Night multimedia art

greenburgh eleven educational foundation

greenburgh evergreen club, inc.

Greenburgh public library

groundwork hudson valley

hamm & Clov Stage Company

Hammond Museum & japanese scroll garden

harrigan educational & cultural center

harrison public library foundation, inc.

hindu temple of tri-state

historic hudson valley

hoff-barthelson music school

hudson ballet theatre

hudson chorale

Hudson River Museum

hudson valley mOCA

hudson valley singers

Hudson valley writers’ center

india center of westchester

inVision u. Inc.

jacob burns film center

jazz forum arts, inc.

jCC of mid – Westchester

juneteenth council

just the place

katonah classic stage

katonah museum of art

katonah village library

kinoSaito

lagond music school

lewisboro celebrates pride

library jazz band

life mosaic inc

limelight theatre company

lincoln park conservancy, inc.

living artist society

LMC media

Luangisa african museum and cultural arts center

lyndhurst

Mayura School of Arts

mamaroneck artists guild

mamaroneck community chorus

morDance

Mount Vernon Arts and Cultural Society

mount vernon public library

neuberger museum of art

new choral society of central westchester

mulford corporation

music conservatory of westchester

new era creative space

new rochelle council on the arts

new rochelle opera

new rochelle public library

new westchester symphony orchestra

northern star quilters’ guild

nowodworski Foundation

OCA – Westchester / hudson valley chapter

ossining public library

p-CoC Inc | Pareting children of color

peekskill arts alliance

pelham art center

performing arts center at purchase college

picture house regional film center

pJS jazz society

port Chester Historical society

Project R.e.a.d.y.

pRYEde Community Group, Inc.

recogniziing enslaved africans of larchmont mamaroneck

rehabilitation through the arts

retake/Remake Inc

revelators

RISEUP–research initiatives for the strategic empowerment of urban populace

river’s edge theatre company

rivertown dance academy

riverArts

rivertowns Village Green

ruth keeler memorial library

rye arts center

Rye historical Society

Sapiyay Collective

schoolhouse theatre & arts Center

Shames JCC on the Hudson

sidra bell dance new york

sing sing prison museum

sleepy hollow pac / westhester dance artists

Songcatchers

sPARC

steffi nossen dance foundation

subomi’s children corporation

summit music festival

Symphony of Westchester

taconic opera

tarrytown music hall

teatown lake reservation

the capa space

the coleman school of dance

the friends of north castle library

the historical society serving sleepy hollow & tarrytown

the LAB

the Loukoumi Make a difference foundation

the play group theater

thespis theater Inc

thomas h. slater center

tutti bravi productions

United Community Center of Westchester, inc

untermyer gardens conservancy

Untermyer performing arts council

urban studio unbound

urbanite Arts & film festival inc

wakanda celebration

wartburg

westchester children’s chorus

westchester children’s museum

westchester circus arts, ltd.

westchester collaborative theater

westchester Harmony

westchester philharmonic

westchester public private Partnership for aging services

westchester youth alliance

white plains downtown district management association

white Plains performing arts center

white plains public library foundation

yoFi fest

yonkers african american heritage committee

yonkers arts

yonkers downtown waterfront BID

Yonkers Philharmonic

yonkers public Library

young musicians for westchester inc

youth theatre interactions

About ArtsWestchester Grants

ArtsWestchester grants reach every part of the County and make possible an extraordinary array of cultural activities. Our grants help Westchester’s cultural organizations grow and support individual artists in the creation of new work. The 2024 Art$WChallenge Grant Program is a funding opportunity open to cultural organizations that received a competitve grant in the past three years to help boost their operating income by attracting new contributions. This grant is made possible with support from Westchester County government.