Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

1 grant matching “barge” · $25,000

• $25,000

  Ny Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY · 2023

  For shoal, a public artwork on a barge that travels to coastal communities in ny city

Top recipients

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

• Ogden Contemporary Arts2 grants · $50,000
• New City Arts Initiative2 grants · $50,000
• Hermitage Museum and Gardens2 grants · $50,000
• The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative1 grant · $50,000
• City As Living Laboratory1 grant · $25,000
• Contemporary Art Museum St Louis1 grant · $25,000
• Detroit Institute of Arts1 grant · $25,000
• El Museo Del Barrio1 grant · $25,000
• Film Independent1 grant · $25,000
• Franconia Sculpture Park1 grant · $25,000

Giving over time

Grant history

All 51 reported grants, largest first.

• $50,000

  The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative · Charlottesville, VA · 2021

  General support

• $25,000

  Barnes Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Red metal dust by sky hopinka

• $25,000

  From the Heart Productions · Oxnard, CA · 2024

  To support painting in darkness

• $25,000

  Goodyear Arts · Charlotte, NC · 2024

  To support the artist residency program

• $25,000

  New City Arts Initiative · Charlottesville, VA · 2024

  To support the artist fellowship program

• $25,000

  North Dakota Museum of Arts · Grand Forks, ND · 2024

  Support publication of nd museum of art publications

• $25,000

  Project Row Houses · Houston, TX · 2024

  Fall 25 and spring 26 artist rounds

• $25,000

  Realize Impact · Bainbridge Island, WA · 2024

  To support empatthable's experimental art creation and production and digital distribution, research

• $25,000

  Smithsonian Institution · Washington, DC · 2024

  To support the state fair: growing american graft at the renwick gallery

• $25,000

  Texas Tech Foundation · Lubbock, TX · 2024

  Violet light across america

• $25,000

  The Trustees of Davidson College · Davidson, NC · 2024

  Fund competitive scholorships

• $25,000

  The University at Albany Foundation · Albany, NY · 2024

  For the noal w anderson: black excellence & publication

• $25,000

  University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  Katherine e nash gallery's publication and marketing of a bilingual catalogue to accompany vaivn

• $25,000

  Detroit Institute of Arts · Detroit, MI · 2023

  First major contemporary art installation in the museums great halll a groundbreaking project

• $25,000

  Film Independent · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  A feature length docum

• $25,000

  Glasstire · Houston, TX · 2023

  Coverage of visual art happening in texas non-urban areas

• $25,000

  Laumeier Sculpure Park · Sappington, MO · 2023

  Hugh hayden: american vernacular and monika weiss

• $25,000

  Lawndale Art Center · Houston, TX · 2023

  Presentation of mud, corn, stone, blue created by laura augusta

• $25,000

  New City Arts Initiative · Charlottesville, VA · 2023

  Exhibition costs in spring 2024 and fund all wage

• $25,000

  Ny Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY · 2023

  For shoal, a public artwork on a barge that travels to coastal communities in ny city

• $25,000

  Ogden Contemporary Arts · Ogden, UT · 2023

  Jorge rojas' curated the other side of the tracks, a multi venue exhibition

• $25,000

  Sandhills Institute · Rushville, NE · 2023

  Food trip

• $25,000

  Sioux City Art Center · Sioux City, IA · 2023

  To support the razzle dazzle art installation by amanda browder

• $25,000

  South Dakota State University Foundation · Brookings, SD · 2023

  Museum studies summer fellowship program

• $25,000

  Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2022

  Arghavan khosravi: black rain

• $25,000

  Carnegie Museum of Art · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022

  Forum 86

• $25,000

  City As Living Laboratory · New York, NY · 2022

  Miss mary, commissions of new works for rescuing tibbetts brook

• $25,000

  Hermitage Museum and Gardens · Norfolk, VA · 2022

  Exhibition - roberto lugo

• $25,000

  Indianapolis Art Center · Indianapolis, IN · 2022

  2023 contemporary art exhibitions

• $25,000

  Swiss Institute · New York, NY · 2022

  Support of the raven chacon publication

• $25,000

  The Heard Museum · Phoenix, AZ · 2022

  Haozous: a retrospective view

• $25,000

  The Smithsonian Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

  To support the sharing honors and burdens exhibition at the renwick

• $25,000

  The Soil Factory · Ithaca, NY · 2022

  Artist-in-residency program

• $25,000

  Contemporary Art Museum St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2021

  General

• $25,000

  El Museo Del Barrio · New York, NY · 2021

  General

• $25,000

  Franconia Sculpture Park · Shafer, MN · 2021

  Exhibition - midwest land art biennial

• $25,000

  Hermitage Museum and Gardens · Norfolk, VA · 2021

  Exhibition - roberto lugo

• $25,000

  Ogden Contemporary Arts · Ogden, UT · 2021

  Tamara kostianovskys tropical abbatoir exhibition

• $25,000

  Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center · Oklahoma City, OK · 2021

  Un sorbo de vida contemporary art exhibition.

• $25,000

  Pittsburgh Cultural Trust · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021

  Juried visual art exhibition

• $25,000

  Sdsu Foundation · Brokkings, SD · 2021

  Museum studies fellow

• $25,000

  The Center for Land Use Interpretation · Culver, CA · 2021

  General programs

• $25,000

  Virginia Center for the Creative Arts · Amherst, VA · 2021

  50th anniverary fund to support residencies for artists of color.

• $25,000

  Virginia Union University · Richmond, VA · 2021

  Conservation of terracotta relief sculpture, congo

• $15,000

  Kassan Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  Painting of the last remaining code talkers

• $15,000

  Burnaway · Atlanta, GA · 2022

  Annual compendium of contemporary southern art, the reader

• $15,000

  Press Street 2023 · New Orleans, LA · 2022

  Annual louisiana open call solo and group exhibitions

• $10,800

  Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center · Asheville, NC · 2024

  Merce cunningham: chance dances, faith in arts volume 7 and ruth asawa

• $10,000

  Arts Southeast · Savannah, GA · 2023

  For impact magazine, a semiannual publication highlighting arts and culture in the southeast

• $10,000

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  Discretionary fund 2739970 in support of the "steina publication"

• $10,000

  Great Plains Art Museum · Lincoln, NE · 2022

  Threads & trails: contemplations of our herst