The General Operating Support (GOS) grant provides general operating support for arts, humanities and arts education organizations. Three types of support are available: Heritage, for organizations seven years or older; Horizons, for organizations one-to-seven years; and Service Organizations, for those dedicated to providing technical assistance and support services to DC arts and humanities practitioners.
| Name | Ward | Amount |
| 826DC | 1 | $70,000 |
| An Open Book Foundation | 4 | $40,000 |
| ARCH Development Corporation | 8 | $90,000 |
| ART ENABLES | 5 | $82,500 |
| Asian Pacific American Film (DC APA Film, Inc.) | 2 | $5,440 |
| Atlas Performing Arts Center | 6 | $84,000 |
| Building Bridges Across the River t/a THEARC | 8 | $120,000 |
| CAPITAL CITY SYMPHONY | 6 | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL FRINGE INC | 5 | $87,000 |
| CapitalBop, Inc. | 1 | $16,160 |
| Capitol Hill Arts Workshop | 6 | $60,610 |
| Cathedral Choral Society of Washington DC | 3 | $45,280 |
| Central Community Development Corporation | 8 | $20,000 |
| Children's Chorus of Washington | 3 | $21,948 |
| Children's Complex Inc | 2 | $17,276 |
| CityDance | 3 | $82,500 |
| COLLECTIONS & STORIES OF AMERICAN MUSLIMS | 8 | $20,000 |
| Company E, Inc. | 1 | $52,850 |
| CONGRESSIONAL CHORUS | 2 | $59,660 |
| Constellation Theatre Company | 1 | $86,620 |
| Critical Exposure | 1 | $70,930 |
| Cultural Development Corporation | 1 | $81,000 |
| Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company | 4 | $45,300 |
| Dance Institute of Washington Inc | 1 | $67,300 |
| DANCE METRO DC INC | 4 | $31,500 |
| David Lloyd Kreeger Foundation | 3 | $56,480 |
| Day Eight | 4 | $5,480 |
| DC Arts And Humanities Education Collaborative Inc. | 2 | $120,000 |
| DC Creative Writing Workshop | 8 | $35,650 |
| DC Film Alliance | 2 | $33,370 |
| DC Jazz Festival | 6 | $95,000 |
| DC Preservation League | 2 | $60,000 |
| DC Theater Arts Collaborative | 8 | $20,000 |
| DC Wheel Productions, Inc. | 5 | $107,700 |
| DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM | 6 | $74,130 |
| District of Columbia Arts Center Inc. | 1 | $34,610 |
| Do The Write Thing Foundation of DC | 8 | $40,000 |
| dog & pony dc inc | 4 | $20,720 |
| Dumbarton Concerts/ Inner City - Inner Child | 2 | $69,020 |
| ELLINGTON FUND | 2 | $83,750 |
| Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital | 2 | $86,500 |
| Federal City Performing Arts Association, Inc. | 2 | $80,000 |
| Ford's Theatre Society | 2 | $110,000 |
| Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop | 2 | $71,150 |
| GALA INC, Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos | 1 | $95,000 |
| Gourmet Symphony | 3 | $20,000 |
| Heurich House Foundation | 2 | $60,000 |
| Hillwood Museum and Gardens Foundation | 3 | $20,000 |
| Historical Society of Washington, DC | 2 | $33,000 |
| Hola Cultura | 1 | $8,300 |
| Humanities Council of Washington DC | 1 | $145,060 |
| Imagination Stage of Washington DC Inc | 6 | $52,350 |
| International Arts & Artists | 2 | $53,000 |
| John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | 2 | $78,750 |
| Joy of Motion Dance Center | 2 | $110,000 |
| KanKouran West African Dance Company | 5 | $27,820 |
| Levine Music, Inc. | 3 | $110,000 |
| Mosaic Theater of DC | 6 | $78,270 |
| MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet Inc. | 4 | $40,000 |
| Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company/Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company | 3 | $49,950 |
| National Building Museum | 2 | $84,000 |
| National Museum of Women in the Arts | 2 | $84,000 |
| NGOMA CENTER FOR DANCE | 7 | $36,720 |
| Old Naval Hospital Foundation | 6 | $58,890 |
| One Common Unity, Inc. | 1 | $61,850 |
| Only Make Believe, Inc | 5 | $41,410 |
| Pan American Symphony Orchestra | 4 | $23,790 |
| PEN/Faulkner Foundation | 6 | $76,830 |
| Pointless Theatre Company | 4 | $26,830 |
| POST CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE INC | 3 | $62,900 |
| President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home | 5 | $75,380 |
| Project Create | 8 | $63,790 |
| Rhythm Visions Production Company, Inc. | 6 | $12,980 |
| Rorschach Theatre | 1 | $17,570 |
| Shout Mouse Press, Inc. | 2 | $29,570 |
| Sitar Arts Center | 1 | $114,390 |
| Smithsonian Institution | 8 | $45,000 |
| Split This Rock, Inc. | 2 | $70,000 |
| Spooky Action Theater Company | 2 | $44,580 |
| Step Afrika! USA Incorporated | 6 | $115,000 |
| Studio Theatre, Inc., | 2 | $100,000 |
| Taffety Punk Theatre Company | 6 | $20,000 |
| Teatro de la Luna | 4 | $20,000 |
| TEXTILE MUSEUM OF D C | 2 | $57,000 |
| The Andrew Keegan Theatre | 1 | $67,500 |
| The Capital Hearings | 3 | $7,050 |
| The Choral Arts Society of Washington | 3 | $95,450 |
| The Emergence Community Arts Collective | 1 | $4,000 |
| The In Series, Inc. | 1 | $50,400 |
| The MusicianShip, DC | 3 | $41,380 |
| The Phillips Collection | 2 | $110,000 |
| The Shakespeare Theatre | 6 | $105,000 |
| The Trustees of Amherst College (Folger Shakespeare Library) | 6 | $110,000 |
| The Washington Ballet | 3 | $110,000 |
| The Washington Chorus | 3 | $76,230 |
| The Washington Men's Camerata, Inc., | 2 | $24,340 |
| The Welders | 5 | $13,280 |
| The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation | 6 | $20,880 |
| Theater Alliance of Washington DC | 8 | $53,810 |
| Theatre Downtown, Inc., t/a The Washington Stage Guild | 4 | $37,080 |
| Theatre Lab, Inc. (The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts) | 2 | $95,000 |
| Thomas Circle Singers | 2 | $27,800 |
| Transformer, Inc | 2 | $46,450 |
| Washington Architectural Foundation | 2 | $43,800 |
| Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts | 2 | $21,970 |
| Washington Bach Consort | 2 | $26,400 |
| Washington Concert Opera | 1 | $45,880 |
| Washington DC Film Festival Inc. (The Washington, DC International Film Festival) | 1 | $43,250 |
| Washington DC Jewish Community Center (Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC) | 2 | $60,000 |
| Washington Drama Society, Inc. | 6 | $84,000 |
| Washington Improvisational Theater Company | 1 | $91,010 |
| Washington Master Chorale Inc | 4 | $16,184 |
| Washington Performing Arts | 2 | $80,000 |
| Washington Project for the Arts, Inc. | 1 | $52,700 |
| Washington Studio School | 2 | $60,000 |
| Washington Theatre Awards Society (theatreWashington) | 1 | $95,000 |
| Women in Film & Video | 3 | $44,020 |
| Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company | 2 | $105,000 |
| Words Beats and Life Inc | 1 | $59,160 |
| Young Playwrights' Theater | 1 | $87,690 |
| Youth Entrepreneur Institute | 8 | $40,000 |
| Total | $7,057,558 |
FY18 General Operating Support (GOS) Grantees (click here)