The Dallas Museum of Art, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and the arts education nonprofit Big Thought would receive the three biggest checks in a $7,526,255 package of city arts contracts that the City Council is set to approve Wednesday, Oct. 28.
The contracts are item 7 on the consent agenda for the 9 a.m. meeting, which means they pass in a single vote with other routine business unless a council member pulls them for separate discussion. The money comes from the general fund and covers services from Oct. 1, 2026, through Sept. 30, 2027.
Who gets what
The attached list names 69 nonprofits. The museum is recommended for $1,073,896, the Perot Museum for $744,489 and Big Thought for $600,000, which together account for roughly a third of the total.
The Dallas Symphony Association and the foundation that runs the AT&T Performing Arts Center are each down for $300,000. Dallas Black Dance Theatre would get $225,000, The Black Academy of Arts and Letters $216,680, Dallas Children's Theater $180,322 and The Dallas Opera $157,500.
Most awards are far smaller. Twenty-eight groups would receive less than $50,000, and the floor is $26,000, shared by Flamenco Fever, the Oak Lawn Band and Swan Strings. Smaller groups on the list include Arts Mission Oak Cliff, Cara Mia Theatre, Teatro Dallas and KNON community radio, while the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is recommended for $136,000.
How the money was divided
The Cultural Organizations Program pays established Dallas-based nonprofit cultural groups for concerts, plays, exhibitions, workshops and similar programs over a 12-month period, according to the agenda information sheet from the Office of Arts and Culture.
