PCM is delighted and honored to announce that we have received a multi-year General Operating Support Grant from the Perenchio Foundation! With this funding, we can continue providing accessible, high-quality music education and experiences while building the capacity we need to help our students and audiences discover joy, excellence, and community through music.

Perenchio Foundation’s General Operating Support Grants provide unrestricted, multi-year funding to arts organizations across Los Angeles County. These grants are designed to strengthen organizational infrastructure, support long-term planning, and build the financial resilience that allows arts organizations to grow with stability — and to endure.

Stephen Cook, PCM’s Executive Director, says “We are honored by the Perenchio Foundation’s confidence in PCM’s mission, the caliber of our teaching, the depth of our community partnerships, and the belief that music education should be for everyone. Multi-year, unrestricted support like this is a gift of time and stability, exactly what allows an organization to build for the long term rather than just the next semester.”

“Permanence in the arts is not an accident. It is the result of organizations that have built real governance, real financial discipline, and real community trust — over years, sometimes decades — often without the kind of sustained investment that would make any of it easier. What we are investing in is not a program or a season. It is the infrastructure behind the work — the staffing, the systems, the reserves that allow an organization to absorb a hard year without losing what took twenty years to build. That is what multi-year unrestricted support makes possible, and it is the only kind of investment the Foundation believes is worth making.”

– Stephania Ramirez, Executive Director of Perenchio Foundation

Thank you to the Perenchio Foundation for believing in our students, our faculty, and the programs that connect us with one another every day. This belief, paired with the continued generosity of supporters like you, is what helps our vibrant musical community thrive.