| 2008 | New York Shakespeare Festival (Public Theater) | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. | $150,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc. | $50,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | New York Historical Society | $50,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | National Dance Institute, Inc. | $75,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Museum for African Art | $75,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Historic House Trust of New York City, Inc. | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | American Folk Art Museum | $75,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Asian American Arts Alliance | $25,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc. | $50,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Harlem Textile Works Ltd. | $25,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | H.T. Chen Dance Company, Inc. | $50,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Noble Maritime Collection | $25,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | King Manor Association of Long Island, Inc. | $10,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Lower East Side Printshop, Inc. | $25,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co., Inc. | $25,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | National Choral Council, Inc. | $25,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Paper Bag Players, Inc. | $50,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc. | $75,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Thalia Spanish Theatre | $25,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Young Playwrights, Inc. | $25,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Center for Arts Education Inc. | $25,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | New York Studio School of Drawing Painting & Sculpture, Inc. | $25,000 | Legacy |
