Grants

(by Grant Year)

Austin Opera, Austin, Texas

Performance Support (2025)

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore, Maryland

OrchKids (2025)

Cal Performances, Berkeley, California

Performance Support (2025)

The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland, Ohio

South Florida Residency-Education (2018 - 2025)

Glimmerglass Festival, Cooperstown, New York

Apprenticeship and Resident / Artists and Festival Artists Programs (2025)

Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Quadrangle Fund for Advancing and Seeding Translational Research

("Q-FASTR") (2024, 2025)

Myasthenia Gravis Research (2023)

Healthy Aging Initiative (2018, 2020)

Houston Grand Opera, Houston, Texas

Performance Support (2025)

League of American Orchestra, New York, New York

Professional Development Programs (2025)

Louisville Orchestra, Louisville, Kentucky

In-Harmony Tour (2025)

The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Pearce Foundation Prize honoring Mayo Clinic's Distinguished Inventor Award (2025)

Pearce Foundation Innovation and Commercialization Co-Funding Initiative (2025)

Clinical Study, Alzheimer's Disease Biomarker/Panel (2021, 2024)

Clinical Study, Macular Degeneration (2018, 2019, 2020)

The Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York

HD Live in Schools (2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Radio Broadcast (2018)

New World Symphony, Miami Beach, Florida

WALLCAST Premiere Sponsor (2024, 2025)

Sponsorship of Mobile Wall (2021, 2023)

3-year Fellow Sponsorship (2018, 2019, 2020)

Northwestern Bienen School of Music, Chicago, Illinois

Merit Aid Scholarship in Memory of Charles W. Douglas (2024)

Merit-Aid Scholarship (2019)

Skyline Piano Series (2018)

Northwell Health Foundation, New Hyde Park, New York

Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research (2022, 2023, 2024)

OPERA America, New York, New York

Retaining Opera Newcomers (2024)

Sphinx Organization, Detroit, Michigan

National Alliance for Audition Support (“NAAS”) and the Sphinx Orchestra Partner Auditions (“SOPA”) (2024, 2025)

University of Miami, Miami, Florida

Frost School of Music, The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc. String Endowment (2025)

Frost School of Music, The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc. Orchestra Endowment (2025)

Frost School of Music, Chopin Academy (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Miller School of Medicine, Research Grant (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Washington National Opera, Washington, D.C.

Performance Support (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Opera Institute & Crafitz Young Artists Program(2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

Other Grants

The Mariinsky Foundation of America, New York, New York

Sherrill House, Boston, Massachusetts

The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to providing philanthropic grants to organizations with projects focusing on medical research and music as further described here. Grants are made annually after an extensive review by the staff, Philanthropic Committee and all of the Directors of The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc.

Please note, the Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals for Grants.