The Adolf Busch Award celebrates outstanding achievements that creatively and courageously promote a more civil and just society through music.
Donor Name: Adolf Busch Award
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 10/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The mission of the Adolf Busch Award is to recognize and honor organizations that use music to address social injustice, inequity and lack of opportunity.
Funding Information
The Award grants $10,000 to one organization each year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit
- Organizations must be a US-based 501(c)3, or an international organization with a domestic fiscal sponsor.
- Purpose
- Organizations looking to fund general operating expenses or specific projects.
- Established
- Organizations must be established for at least three years to apply.
- Budget
- Qualifying organizations must have an operating budget of less than 3 million dollars.
- They look for organizations that:
- Focus on nurturing the musical and leadership skills of individuals
- Focus on systemically disenfranchised segments of the population
- Engage in grassroots initiatives that promote a pluralistic and equitable society
- Demonstrate a unique and thoughtful approach to the issues they address
- Demonstrate a meaningful organizational maturation since inception
- Show a rejection of the status quo and a willingness to shape a response to systemic issues in a challenging environment.
Areas Not Funded
- Music therapy
- Funding for individual compositions or a specific performance
- Programs that are exclusively state funded
- Religious activities or projects that serve the doctrine of specific denominations
- Political lobbying, political campaigns or legislative activities
- Endowment campaigns
- Organizations that are grantors themselves.
For more information, visit Adolf Busch Award.
