John Simon Guggenheim Memorial

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $200,000

  New York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2024

  Exhibition installment fee

• $85,000

  Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn · Atlanta, GA · 2024

  Fine arts

• $75,000

  Melissa Febos · Iowa City, IA · 2024

  General nonfiction

• $75,000

  Cassandra L Quave · Decatur, GA · 2024

  Healthspan: a work of narrative nonfiction

• $70,000

  Caridad Svich · New York, NY · 2024

  Drama & performance art

• $70,000

  Garrett Bradley · New Orleans, LA · 2024

  Film-video

• $70,000

  Anthony Tidd · New York, NY · 2024

  Music composition

• $70,000

  Nicola Lopez · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Fine arts

• $70,000

  Nicholas Galanin · Sitka, AK · 2024

  Fine arts

• $70,000

  Matthew Brandt · Playa Del Rey, CA · 2024

  Photography

• $70,000

  Margaret Mary Stratton · Camano Island, WA · 2024

  Photography

• $70,000

  Elaine Equi · New York, NY · 2024

  Poetry

• $70,000

  Sara Bennett · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Photography

• $70,000

  Ada Trillo · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Photography

• $70,000

  Guillermo Galindo · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Fine arts

• $70,000

  Itziar Barrio · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Film-video

• $70,000

  Taji Ra'Oof Nahl · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Fine arts

• $70,000

  Lorraine O'Grady · New York, NY · 2024

  Fine arts

• $70,000

  Jude Chehab · Houston, TX · 2024

  Film-video

• $70,000

  Rodney Jones · Danbury, CT · 2024

  Music composition

• $70,000

  Kate Gentile · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Music composition

• $70,000

  Nicolas Lell Benavides · Signal Hill, CA · 2024

  Music composition

• $70,000

  Joanne Dugan · New York, NY · 2024

  Photography

• $70,000

  Crystal Kayiza · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Film-video

• $70,000

  James Scruggs · Plainfield, NJ · 2024

  Drama & performance art

• $65,000

  Lucy Corin · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Fiction

• $65,000

  Margaret Pearce · Rockland, ME · 2024

  Geography & environmental studies

• $65,000

  Antonietta Grassi · 2024

  Fine arts

• $65,000

  Kali Fajardo-Anstine · Laramie, WY · 2024

  Fiction

• $65,000

  Lotus L Kang · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Fine arts

• $65,000

  Edward Ball · Hamden, CT · 2024

  U.s. History

• $65,000

  James Hannaham · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Fiction

• $65,000

  Claudia Bitran · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Fine arts

• $62,000

  Kaneza Schaal · New York, NY · 2024

  Drama & performance art

• $60,000

  Thomas Beller · New York, NY · 2024

  General nonfiction

• $60,000

  Jennifer Raff · Lawrence, KS · 2024

  General nonfiction

• $60,000

  Jennifer Morton · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Philosophy

• $60,000

  Sonia Almeida · Arlington, MA · 2024

  Fine arts

• $60,000

  Lucas Foglia · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Photography

• $60,000

  Camille Bordas · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Fiction

• $60,000

  Arvie Smith · Potland, OR · 2024

  Fine arts

• $60,000

  Christopher Walter · Durham, NC · 2024

  Preparing the rubin observatory for breakthrough science

• $60,000

  Rachelle Mozman Solano · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Photography

• $60,000

  Elspeth Dusinberre · Boulder, CO · 2024

  Classics

• $60,000

  Bekah Simms · 2024

  Music composition

• $60,000

  Lavar Munroe · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Fine arts

• $60,000

  Lucas Bessire · Norman, OK · 2024

  Anthropology & cultural studies

• $60,000

  Don Lee · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Fiction

• $60,000

  Jumatatu Poe · Durham, NC · 2024

  Choreography

• $60,000

  Abby Zbikowski · Columbus, OH · 2024

  Choreography

• $60,000

  Juan Pablo Gonzalez · Glendale, CA · 2024

  Film-video

• $60,000

  Ryan K Johnson · Columbus, OH · 2024

  Choreography

• $60,000

  Adam Lowenstein · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

  Film, video, & new media studies

• $60,000

  Tanya Pollard · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Early modern studies

• $55,000

  Thomas M Keck · Syracuse, NY · 2024

  Extremist speech and democratic backsliding

• $55,000

  Airea D Matthews · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Poetry

• $55,000

  Mara H Benjamin · Northampton, MA · 2024

  Terrestrial: jewish thought and a world disrupted

• $55,000

  Hari Krishnan · Middletown, CT · 2024

  Choreography

• $55,000

  Jonathan a Silk · 2024

  Dreaming dharma's decline: past portents of buddhism's future present

• $55,000

  Mike Cloud · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Fine arts

• $55,000

  Martyna Majok · New York, NY · 2024

  Drama & performance art

• $55,000

  Vievee Francis · White River Junction, VT · 2024

  Poetry

• $50,000

  Teri W Odom · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Structured color materials for radiative cooling

• $50,000

  Matthew Pratt Guterl · Providence, RI · 2024

  The troubles: civil rights in ireland and america

• $50,000

  Michael Rothberg · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Literary criticism

• $50,000

  Tracy K Smith · Waban, MA · 2024

  Poetry

• $50,000

  Henri Darmon · 2024

  Explicit class field theory and rigid meromorphic cocycles

• $50,000

  Jason Nieh · New York, NY · 2024

  Building a secure and formally verified commodity hypervisor

• $50,000

  Beth Nguyen · Madison, WI · 2024

  General nonfiction

• $50,000

  Lillian Pierce · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

  Investigations at the intersection of number theory and harmonic analysis

• $50,000

  Wale Adebanwi · Fort Washington, PA · 2024

  The enlightenment in africa: newspaper press and intellectual responses to modernity and colonialism in late 19th and early 20th centuries nigeria

• $50,000

  Christina Sharpe · 2024

  General nonfiction

• $50,000

  Jacqueline Woodson · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Fiction

• $50,000

  Emma Cline · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Fiction

• $50,000

  Martin Munro · Tallahassee, FL · 2024

  Francophonics: sounding global french cultures

• $50,000

  Mabel Wilson · New York, NY · 2024

  U.s. History

• $50,000

  Krista Thompson · Skokie, IL · 2024

  Refracting light: tom lloyd and the effect of art historical disregard

• $50,000

  Robert M Pringle · Princeton, NJ · 2024

  The maintenance and recovery of large-mammal diversity

• $50,000

  Elizabeth Hinton · New Haven, CT · 2024

  Criminal injustice: crack cocaine laws and their legacies

• $50,000

  Shengze Zhu · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Film-video

• $50,000

  Kosuke Imai · Newton, MA · 2024

  Improving statistical methodology for evaluating and reducing racial disparities

• $50,000

  Vivek K Goyal · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  Nanoscale metrology through vector-valued secondary electron yield estimation

• $50,000

  Alex Purves · Santa Monica, CA · 2024

  Classics

• $50,000

  Ed Yong · Oakland, CA · 2024

  The infinite extent

• $50,000

  Chad a Mirkin · Wilmette, IL · 2024

  Rational vaccinology: a nanotechnology-enabled route to novel vaccine development

• $50,000

  Sianne Ngai · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Inhabiting error

• $50,000

  Utku Asuroglu · Columbia, MO · 2024

  Music composition

• $50,000

  Douglas Rogers · North Haven, CT · 2024

  Eating oil: an earthly history

• $50,000

  Deborah a Thomas · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Inheritance: a speculative ethnography of evidence

• $50,000

  Danielle Ofri · New York, NY · 2024

  General nonfiction

• $50,000

  Gretchen Reydams-Schils · South Bend, IN · 2024

  'becoming like god:' perfection in platonism and stoicism (1c. Bce-2c. Ce)

• $50,000

  Ezekiel Emanuel · Washington, DC · 2024

  Medicine & health

• $50,000

  Nina Kraus · Evanston, IL · 2024

  Music - more than meets the ear

• $49,000

  Hector Tobar · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Fiction

• $45,000

  Joan Nelson · Stamford, NY · 2024

  Fine arts

• $45,000

  Samantha Nye · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Film-video

• $45,000

  Anna Friz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  Fine arts

• $45,000

  Dafna Naphtali · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Music composition

• $40,000

  James Wood · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  General nonfiction

• $40,000

  Janis Lipzin · Sebastopol, CA · 2024

  Film-video