MAP Fund

The MAP Fund invests in performing artists and their work as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society.

MAP is the longest running private funding source for new performance works in the United States and its territories. Since 1989, MAP has championed cultural equity and formal innovation in performance practices with an investment of more than $34 million. Over three decades, thousands of artists have received grants and strategic support for groundbreaking projects that interrogate presumptive cultural norms, challenge entrenched ideologies, and remind us over and over again of our shared humanity.

MAP (originally known as the Multi-Arts Production Fund) was established in 1988 by The Rockefeller Foundation to support innovation and cross-cultural exploration in new works of live performance. From 2001 to 2016, MAP was a fiscally sponsored affiliate of Creative Capital Foundation. In 2016 MAP transitioned from sponsored program to independent organization, and now operates under the leadership of its own governing board. The organization currently has four full-time staff and four part-time staff, and is a proud member of ArtsPool Cooperative.

Over time, the organization has expanded to include new approaches to arts advocacy, including the Scaffolding for Practicing Artists (SPA) program, the Equity in the Panel Room initiative, and multiple research initiatives.