Patron Foundation

The Patron Foundation

Arts and cultural organizations provide lifelong learning opportunities and are essential to educating our children and creating vibrant communities. The Patron Foundation is dedicated to increasing public support of the arts by broadening participation, in particular by ensuring that children have greater access to cultural opportunities.

To accomplish this goal, the Patron Foundation [501(c)(3) pending] makes funds directly available to museums, zoos, aquariums and performing arts organizations to support their education and community outreach initiatives, and subsidizes field trip transportation and admission costs for schools and civic organizations.

The PatronPartner Company

Funding for the Patron Foundation comes from the PatronPartner Company. Through a national coalition of corporate business partners, PatronPartner creates Cultural Cause Marketing programs which have the potential to dramatically expand the number of companies that support museums, enabling arts and cultural organizations of any size to generate a new source of long-term funding and significant increases in corporate contributions. Our mission is to deliver this new source of funding by making it profitable — not just philanthropic — for business to support the arts.

As a for-profit social enterprise, we believe the best way to make these goals a reality is by demonstrating that a company's ability to make both a difference and a profit are not only complementary, but essential to each other's success. To accomplish this, PatronPartner is bringing together museums, zoos, aquariums, performing arts organizations and business partners to create programs that impact communities nationwide.

To learn more today about how Cultural Cause Marketing offers a significant improvement over the current corporate sponsorship model — enabling museums to benefit when their visitors and members make purchases with participating companies — download our white paper, "The Cultural Cause Marketing Opportunity: A New Source of Funding for Museums, Zoos, Aquariums and the Performing Arts."