Funding search · EIN 046822881 · Dallas, TX
Alturas Endowment
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 15
- grants reported
- $493,545
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $10,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Grant history
All 15 reported grants, largest first.
- $138,500
Alturas Foundation · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating funds - sec 4942(g) requirements met
- $127,665
Alturas Foundation · San Antonio, TX · 2023
Unrestricted operating funds - sec 4942(g) requirements met
- $72,180
Alturas Foundation · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Unrestricted operating funds - sec 4942(g) requirements met
- $25,000
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art · Bentonville, AR · 2022
Support for we the people: the radical notion of democracy exhibit
- $25,000
The Morgan Library & Museum · New York, NY · 2022
Support for nina katchadourian exhibit & publication
- $20,000
Museum of Fine Arts Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
Exhibition support of "deep waters - four artists and the sea."
- $20,000
Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington, DC · 2022
Support for renwick 50th exhibition
- $10,000
Denver Art Museum · Denver, CO · 2023
Annual fund
- $10,000
New York Botanical Garden · Bronx, NY · 2023
Support for ebony g. Patterson exhibition, alturas foundation artist grant recipient
- $10,000
Pulitzer Arts Foundation · Saint Louis, MO · 2023
Annual fund
- $10,000
The University of Texas at San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Support for colfa/southwest school of art/kukuli velarde exhibition
- $10,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2022
Support for at the dawn of a new age exhibit
- $5,200
San Antonio Botanical Garden · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Evening guest speaker program offered to the general public by the garden
- $5,000
Artists' Legacy Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2023
Support for artist viola frey catalog raisonne
- $5,000
Museum of Contemporary Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Annual fund
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