Ireland’s only charitable organisation working at the intersection of commerce and culture.
Our mission is to encourage investment in the arts for the benefit of wider society.
Our vision is an Ireland where business and the arts working in partnership inspire and shape the world around us.
Our long-term corporate members range from large multinational companies, and SMEs across professional and financial services, construction, tech, and energy companies, to universities, and government and semi-state agencies.
Our arts members range from National Cultural Institutions to small regional arts venues and individual artists representing art forms from music, dance, theatre, visual art, craft, and heritage, through to circus and street performance, community arts and poetry.
AIB, Allianz Ireland, Amazon, Anonymous, Bank of Ireland Group, CBRE, Citibank, Clancourt, Department of Culture, Communications and Sport, Dublin City Council, Dublin Port Company, ESB, Irish Life Group, Life Insurance Association, Lilly Limerick, Maples Group, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, SMBC Aviation Capital, TileStyle, TU Dublin, Workday
Accenture, An Post, Arthur Cox, Bewleys, Bórd Gáis Energy, Catapult, Clinch Wealth Management, DublinTown, Ecclesiastical, FBD Insurance, Grant Thornton, HLB Ireland, IADT, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail, Ibec, Irish Art Services, Lisney Estate Agents, KPMG, Mason Hayes & Curran, Matheson LLP, Ogier Ireland LLP, Philip Lee, Pinergy, Repak, Simmons & Simmons, Society of Actuaries in Ireland, Staycity Group, Winston Taylor, The Irish Times Group, Three Ireland, University College Cork, VHI, Walls Construction
Addleshaw Goddard, Arts Council of Ireland, Aviva, CCI Executive Search / Creative Careers, Creative & Cultural Industries Skillnet, Dublin City University, Fexco, Gormleys, Ipsos B&A, Ivy Capital, Maynooth University, Morgan McKinley, Org Group, Process FGi, Q4PR, The HIVE, The Merrion Hotel, University of Galway, Walkers Global, Western Development Commission, Whyte & Sons Auctioneers
Antoine Xavier, Ashley Emadi, Chris Chapman, Davina Saint, Gerard McNaughton, Jeanne Kelly, Jerome Ó Drisceoil, John O'Connell, Kate Smiley, Margaret Ward, Michelle Maguire, Natasha McKenna, Niamh Fawl, Oliver Wall, Owen Reilly, Pamela Fay, Shell Holden, Teresa McColgan, Tony Lawless
Age & Opportunity, Alexandra de Valera // Ecoscope, Alison McEvoy, Animation Dingle, Bounce, Cackle Management, Cairde Sligo Arts Festival, Casey Hallahan, Cian Ó Náraigh, Ciara McElholm, Crawford Art Gallery, Dublin Book Festival, Elaine Tucker, Engage Art Studios, Irish Institute of Music and Song, Jackie O'Donoghue Art, Jade Butler, James Joyce Tower, Jennifer Reynolds, Jessica Rodrigues, Kelly Keesing, Leah Flowers, Limerick Jazz Society, Maria Atanacković, Mina Tension, Mullingar Town Band, Musici Ireland, Naoimh Ní Luanaigh, National String Quartet Foundation, Native Events, Nicholas Makin, Nina McGowan, NYOI, Opera Collective Ireland, Opera House, Orla O'Kane, Óscar Mascareñas, Outlandish Theatre Platform, Paddy Courtney, Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Peter Sheehan Studio, Photo Museum Ireland, PhotoIreland Festival, Poetry Ireland, Project Arts Centre, Promenade, Richard Healy, Roberto L. Delgado, Róisín Fitzpatrick, Rough Magic Theatre Company, Royal Dublin Society, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Royal Irish Academy, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Run of the Mill Theatre, Russborough House, Sample-Studios, Sans. PRESS, Scene & Heard Festival, Seabed Sanctuary Collective, Shane O'Neill, Sharon Murphy, Signal Arts Centre, Sing Ireland, Sligo Baroque Music Festival, SO Fine Art Editions, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Spideog Productions Ltd, St. Patrick's Festival, TCA South Dublin Participatory Arts (Tallaght Community Arts), Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, The Abbey Theatre, The AI Sanctuary, The Ark, The Big Idea, THE BRIDGE, The Discovery Programme, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, The Everyman Palace Theatre, The Five Lamps Arts Festival, The forest that won't forget, The Gaiety School of Acting, The Hunt Museum, The International Dublin Writers' Festival, The Source Arts Centre, THISISPOPBABY, Tracy Staunton, Trevor Colgan, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Waterford Spraoi, Wexford Festival Opera, What About Us, Youth Theatre Ireland
Founded in 1988 as Cothú - The Irish Business Council for Arts & Heritage, Business to Arts began as a peer group of leading Irish businesses such as Bank of Ireland, Irish Shell, The Jones Group, Aer Rianta, Coyle Hamilton, and Clancourt Investments.
The inaugural ‘Arts Sponsor of the Year Awards’ was hosted in 1991, and would later become our annual Business to Arts Awards, a flagship date on the corporate-cultural calendar celebrating the best partnerships in the country.
Some of our most significant projects which have had a lasting impact on the arts sector include New Stream, a €400k investment from Bank of America Merrill Lynch to develop income-generation skills in Irish arts organisations in 2009, and Fund it, Ireland’s first creative crowdfunding website, which supported over 1,700 creative projects and generated over €5.2m for the creative sector between 2011 - 2023.
