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The Largest Shuttered Venue Operators Grants
The 25 largest Shuttered Venue Operators Grants, from SBA's award file. 280 grantees were awarded exactly $10 million, the program's ceiling, so every row below is a grantee at the cap.
How this list is built
The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program paid theatres, concert halls, cinemas, museums and live-event promoters whose earned revenue collapsed in 2020. SBA published a file of all awards, with the total awarded across the initial grant, reconsiderations and the supplemental round. The archive holds the 5 July 2022 snapshot. This list groups the file's 13,011 rows by grantee name and state, sums the total awarded, and ranks by it. Ties — and at the cap there are many — are broken alphabetically.
Unit ranked: the grantee as SBA named it. Metric: total SVOG awarded, initial plus reconsiderations plus supplemental. Universe: 12,999 grantee-and-state rows covering 12,994 grantee names, $14.57B awarded. Vintage: SBA award file as of 5 July 2022.
The 25 largest grants
| # | Grantee as named by SBA | State | Venue type | Total awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 230 FA LLC - SVOG | NY | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | 313 Presents, LLC - SVOG | MI | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 3 | ACE SL, LLC - SVOG | TX | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 4 | Adrienne Arsht Center Trust, Inc. - SVOG | FL | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 5 | AGDP Holding Inc. - SVOG | NY | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 6 | Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission - SVOG | AL | Museum Operator | $10,000,000 |
| 7 | Alamo City Point, LLC - SVOG | NY | Motion picture theater operator | $10,000,000 |
| 8 | Alamo South Lamar, L.P. - SVOG | TX | Motion picture theater operator | $10,000,000 |
| 9 | Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. - SVOG | NY | Live performing arts organization operator | $10,000,000 |
| 10 | American Artists Limited, Inc. - SVOG | MA | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 11 | American Museum of Natural History - SVOG | NY | Museum Operator | $10,000,000 |
| 12 | And Peggy Tour Limited Liability Company - SVOG | NY | Theatrical producer | $10,000,000 |
| 13 | Angelica Tour Limited Liability Company - SVOG | NY | Theatrical producer | $10,000,000 |
| 14 | Apex Event Management, LLC - SVOG | CA | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 15 | Aquarium of the Pacific - SVOG | CA | Museum Operator | $10,000,000 |
| 16 | Arizona Center for Nature Conservation - SVOG | AZ | Museum Operator | $10,000,000 |
| 17 | Armory Hospitality LLC - SVOG | MN | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 18 | Arts Center and Theatre of Schenectady, Inc. - SVOG | NY | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 19 | As Long As There Is Love Limited Liability Company - SVOG | NY | Theatrical producer | $10,000,000 |
| 20 | ATG San Antonio, LLC - SVOG | TX | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 21 | ATG San Francisco, LLC - SVOG | CA | Live venue operator or promoter | $10,000,000 |
| 22 | Atticus Limited Liability Company - SVOG | NY | Theatrical producer | $10,000,000 |
| 23 | Audubon Nature Institute, Inc. - SVOG | LA | Museum Operator | $10,000,000 |
| 24 | Aurora Civic Center Authority - SVOG | IL | Live performing arts organization operator | $10,000,000 |
| 25 | Autumn Smile Broadway Limited Liability Company - SVOG | NY | Theatrical producer | $10,000,000 |
What this measures, and what it does not
The program capped a grantee's total at $10 million. 280 grantees were awarded exactly that, and one more came within four cents of it: Danish San Juan Limited Liability Company - SVOG ($9,999,999.96). All 25 rows below are tied at the cap, so the order among them is alphabetical and measures nothing.
SBA appended " - SVOG" to grantee names in this file; the names are reproduced as published, suffix included.
This is a July 2022 snapshot. Later reconsiderations, returns and recaptures are not in it. A grant is a payment on an application SBA approved; it is not a finding about the grantee.
Sources
- Archive data page: SBA Shuttered Venue Operators Grant awards
- SBA, Shuttered Venue Operators Grant award data, as republished by the PRAC
- File as held:
DATA_SBA_SVOG-all-awards-2022-07-05.xlsx(sha256 1666c9036af3ee62…)