Our prizes and Grants
Each year, The Lotos Foundation fulfills its mission by awarding The Lotos Foundation Prizes and The Louis Padovano Grants, insuring a continued dedication to the arts and sciences in New York City.
the Lotos foundation prizes for arts and sciences
Each prize recipient is a promising emerging artist at the outset of his or her professional career, living and working in the New York City metropolitan area. The Lotos Foundation works closely each year with different prominent members of the New York City cultural community to identify its talented prize candidates.
The Louis Padovano Grants
Each year The Lotos Foundation awards organizational grants to a number of not-for-profit organizations based in the New York City metropolitan area who offer outstanding arts programs, free-of-charge, to middle-school and high school students from across the City's diverse populations and neighborhoods, nurturing talented students in the areas of dance, film, music, theatre, visual arts and writing as well as in the life and physical sciences.