Funding search · EIN 135673173 · New York, NY

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

856
grants reported
$34.8M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$35,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

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1 grant matching “dynasty · $25,000

  • $25,000

    Anna M Shields · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    Legacies of gold and jade: transmissions of tang dynasty literature in the five dynasties and northern song

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • New York Historical Society1 grant · $200,000
  • Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn1 grant · $85,000
  • Brandon Hobson2 grants · $80,000
  • Colin Brant2 grants · $80,000
  • Christy Chan2 grants · $80,000
  • Christopher Sorrentino2 grants · $80,000
  • Rafael Rosa1 grant · $80,000
  • Rebecca Donner2 grants · $80,000
  • Rebecca Makkai1 grant · $80,000
  • Jenny Lion3 grants · $80,000

Giving over time

$11.5M
2022
$11.9M
2023
$11.4M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 856 grants.

  • $200,000

    New York Historical Society · New York, NY · 2024

    Exhibition installment fee

  • $85,000

    Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn · Atlanta, GA · 2024

    Fine arts

  • $80,000

    Terike Haapoja · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    Film-video

  • $80,000

    Anna Craycroft · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    Fine arts

  • $80,000

    Beth B · Savannah, GA · 2022

    Film-video

  • $80,000

    Guthrie P Ramsey · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    Sound proof: black musics american journey

  • $80,000

    Jen Silverman · New York, NY · 2022

    Drama & performance art

  • $80,000

    Josephine Meckseper · New York, NY · 2022

    Fine arts

  • $80,000

    Michael Gene Sullivan · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Drama & performance art

  • $80,000

    Moko Fukuyama · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    Film-video

  • $80,000

    Rafael Rosa · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    Music composition

  • $80,000

    Rebecca Makkai · Evanston, IL · 2022

    Fiction

  • $80,000

    Tyrone Ta-Coumba Aiken · Saint Paul, MN · 2022

    Fine arts

  • $75,000

    Cassandra L Quave · Decatur, GA · 2024

    Healthspan: a work of narrative nonfiction

  • $75,000

    Melissa Febos · Iowa City, IA · 2024

    General nonfiction

  • $75,000

    Angelo Madsen Minax · Burlington, VT · 2023

    Film-video

  • $75,000

    Anne Bluethenthal · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Choreography

  • $75,000

    Chie Fueki · Beacon, NY · 2023

    Fine arts

  • $75,000

    Euan Ashley · Stanford, CA · 2023

    Medicine & health

  • $75,000

    Keisha Blain · Providence, RI · 2023

    A global struggle: how black women led the fight for human rights

  • $75,000

    Maaza Mengiste · Bronx, NY · 2023

    Fiction

  • $75,000

    Rebecca Soderholm · Keene Valley, NY · 2023

    Photography

  • $75,000

    Heather Clark · Mount Kisco, NY · 2022

    Her kind: the boston years of sylvia plath, anne sexton, adrienne rich and maxine kumin

  • $75,000

    Hernan Diaz · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    Fiction

  • $75,000

    Jay Hopler · Somerset, NJ · 2022

    Poetry

  • $75,000

    Jerald Walker · Hingham, MA · 2022

    General nonfiction

  • $75,000

    Phyllis Chen · New Paltz, NY · 2022

    Music composition

  • $70,000

    Ada Trillo · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Photography

  • $70,000

    Anthony Tidd · New York, NY · 2024

    Music composition

  • $70,000

    Caridad Svich · New York, NY · 2024

    Drama & performance art

  • $70,000

    Crystal Kayiza · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Film-video

  • $70,000

    Elaine Equi · New York, NY · 2024

    Poetry

  • $70,000

    Garrett Bradley · New Orleans, LA · 2024

    Film-video

  • $70,000

    Guillermo Galindo · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    Fine arts

  • $70,000

    Itziar Barrio · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Film-video

  • $70,000

    James Scruggs · Plainfield, NJ · 2024

    Drama & performance art

  • $70,000

    Joanne Dugan · New York, NY · 2024

    Photography

  • $70,000

    Jude Chehab · Houston, TX · 2024

    Film-video

  • $70,000

    Kate Gentile · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Music composition

  • $70,000

    Lorraine O'Grady · New York, NY · 2024

    Fine arts

  • $70,000

    Margaret Mary Stratton · Camano Island, WA · 2024

    Photography

  • $70,000

    Matthew Brandt · Playa Del Rey, CA · 2024

    Photography

  • $70,000

    Nicholas Galanin · Sitka, AK · 2024

    Fine arts

  • $70,000

    Nicola Lopez · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Fine arts

  • $70,000

    Nicolas Lell Benavides · Signal Hill, CA · 2024

    Music composition

  • $70,000

    Rodney Jones · Danbury, CT · 2024

    Music composition

  • $70,000

    Sara Bennett · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Photography

  • $70,000

    Taji Ra'Oof Nahl · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Fine arts

  • $70,000

    Cesar Alvarez · South Strafford, VT · 2023

    Drama & performance art

  • $70,000

    Edward Foley · Bexley, OH · 2023

    Constitutional studies

  • $70,000

    Emily Levesque · Seattle, WA · 2023

    The weirdest stars in the universe: illuminating the binary origins of thorne-zytkow objects

  • $70,000

    Joyelle McSweeney · South Bend, IN · 2023

    Poetry

  • $70,000

    Michael Hathaway · 2023

    Rise of the indigenous pacific

  • $70,000

    Stathis Gourgouris · New York, NY · 2023

    On listening: acoustics, acousmatics, noise/music, and the worldly encounter

  • $70,000

    Benedicte Boisseron · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

    Black freegan

  • $70,000

    Daniel a Barber · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    Thermal practice

  • $70,000

    Daniel Hack · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

    Novel meanings: fiction and the rise of meaningfulness

  • $70,000

    Geoff Mann · 2022

    Unprecedented: the end of equilibrium

  • $70,000

    Giorgio Bertellini · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

    The poverty of others: new deal photojournalism to italian neorealism (and back)

  • $70,000

    Jonathan Bailey Holland · Arlington, MA · 2022

    Music composition

  • $70,000

    Prashant K Jain · Urbana, IL · 2022

    Energy from light stored, shuttled, and used on demand

  • $70,000

    Robert F Barsky · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Negotiating international refugee law in the height of the civil rights movement

  • $70,000

    Thomas Chatterton Williams · 2022

    General nonfiction

  • $70,000

    Vera Gribanova · Stanford, CA · 2022

    Ellipsis and the identity relation

  • $70,000

    Yoav Di-Capua · Austin, TX · 2022

    The first arabs: an intimate history of their struggle for dignity and the aftermath of defeat

  • $65,000

    Antonietta Grassi · 2024

    Fine arts

  • $65,000

    Claudia Bitran · 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

    Kali Fajardo-Anstine · Laramie, WY · 2024

    Fiction

  • $65,000

    Lotus L Kang · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Fine arts

  • $65,000

    Lucy Corin · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    Fiction

  • $65,000

    Margaret Pearce · Rockland, ME · 2024

    Geography & environmental studies

  • $65,000

    Abraham Verghese · Menlo Park, CA · 2023

    General nonfiction

  • $65,000

    Alex Camilleri · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    Film-video

  • $65,000

    Amber Bemak · Northampton, MA · 2023

    Film-video

  • $65,000

    Atsuro Riley · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Poetry

  • $65,000

    Beth Macy · Roanoke, VA · 2023

    General nonfiction

  • $65,000

    Carl Walker · Washington, DC · 2023

    Music composition

  • $65,000

    Christopher Peacocke · New York, NY · 2023

    Towards a philosophical theory of the nature of the perception of western music

  • $65,000

    Cynthia Rudin · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023

    Intuition for the algorithms of machine learning e-book

  • $65,000

    Donald Vega · Oyster Bay, NY · 2023

    Music composition

  • $65,000

    Erin Nelson · Stone Mountain, GA · 2023

    Fine arts

  • $65,000

    Eun Young Lee · Auburndale, MA · 2023

    Music composition

  • $65,000

    Evita Tezeno · Richardson, TX · 2023

    Fine arts

  • $65,000

    Fred Turner · Stanford, CA · 2023

    Crisis of representation: media and the politics of difference in 1980s america

  • $65,000

    Jeffrey Masten · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Marlowe's readers: following four centuries of edward ii

  • $65,000

    Jiha Moon · Doraville, GA · 2023

    Fine arts

  • $65,000

    Jon Kinzel · New York, NY · 2023

    Choreography

  • $65,000

    Jordan Weber · New York, NY · 2023

    Fine arts

  • $65,000

    Jordanna Bailkin · Seattle, WA · 2023

    Friends and neighbors

  • $65,000

    Karen Solie · 2023

    Poetry

  • $65,000

    Katherine French · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

    A house on wood street: the life and death of a medieval london boarding house

  • $65,000

    Kim Bowes · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

    Living through the roman empire: an economic history of the 90%

  • $65,000

    Krzysztof Stanek · Upper Arlington, OH · 2023

    All-sky automated survey for supernovae (asas-sn)

  • $65,000

    Larry Gottheim · Yonkers, NY · 2023

    Film-video

  • $65,000

    Lisa Bielawa · New York, NY · 2023

    Music composition

  • $65,000

    Mamadou Dia · Charlottesville, VA · 2023

    Film-video

  • $65,000

    Manjul Bhargava · Princeton, NJ · 2023

    Arithmetic statistics, fourier analysis, and equidistribution

  • $65,000

    Mariam Ghani · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    Film-video

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.