Cultural Competency

The Addy Foundation is committed to providing exposure to the arts, leading to understanding and acceptance of varying ideas, perspectives, and cultures.

Current Giving in Cultural Competency

2025 Giving: $313,000

  • AT&T Center for Performing Arts
  • Aurora Dallas
  • Bishop Arts Theatre Center
  • Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts
  • The Dallas Opera


Total Giving in Cultural Competency

Since 2015: $6,067,174


  • Artstillery
  • African American Society Museum
  • Aurora Dallas
  • Big D Reads
  • Bishop Arts Theater
  • Bmoore Dance
  • Broadway Dallas
  • Dallas Arboretum
  • Dallas Chamber Symphony
  • Dallas Free Press
  • Dallas Holocaust Museum
  • Dallas Museum of Art
  • Dallas Summer Musicals
  • Dallas Theater Center
  • Deep Vellum
  • Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra
  • Juanita Craft Civil Rights Museum
  • Junior League of Dallas
  • Junior Players
  • Perot Museum of Nature and Science
  • Sammons Center for the Arts
  • TACA
  • TeCo Theatrical Productions, Inc, dba Bishop Arts Theatre Center
  • Texas Ballet Theatre
  • Watering Hole Collective


Areas of Focus

The Addy Foundation takes a holistic approach to community investments by focusing on five areas of grantmaking, strategically intended to lift, support, and strengthen communities.

cOMMUNITY

Civic Education

Volunteerism

Community Growth

Revitalization

CULTURE

Arts Accessibility

Cultural Enrichment

Operational Support

Cultural Studies

education

Early Childhood

Primary & Secondary

Special Needs

Workforce Entry

health

Mental Health

Family Planning

Medical Resources

Medical Access

social

Food Insecurity

Digital Divide

Shelter Access

Senior Well-being