Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

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.

Top recipients

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

• Chicago Architecture Biennial3 grants · $170,000
• Spaces1 grant · $35,000
• A Project 833 grants · $30,000
• Association of Architecture Organizations2 grants · $25,000
• Ying Lu Lucy Wang1 grant · $25,000
• Anyone Corporation2 grants · $25,000
• New York Review of Architecture3 grants · $21,500
• Dahlia Nduom2 grants · $20,000
• Katherine Reynolds1 grant · $20,000
• The Jewish Museum1 grant · $20,000

Giving over time

Grant history

The 100 largest of 361 grants.

• $75,000

  Chicago Architecture Biennial · Chicago, IL · 2024

  This is a Rehearsal

• $75,000

  Chicago Architecture Biennial · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Chicago Architecture Biennial

• $35,000

  Spaces · Cleveland, OH · 2023

  Everlasting Plastics, US Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition

• $25,000

  Ying Lu Lucy Wang · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Contagious Places, Curative Spaces

• $20,000

  Ariele Dionne-Krosnick · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Swimming Pools, Civil Rights, and the American City in the 1960s

• $20,000

  Caroline Spooner · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Dead Time

• $20,000

  The Jewish Museum · New York, NY · 2024

  Kiesler's Vision Machines

• $20,000

  Tobey Aaron · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Drawing Management: Corporate Organization, International Practice, and the Making of Computer Aided Design

• $20,000

  Chicago Architecture Biennial · Chicago, IL · 2022

  Chicago Architecture Biennial Design Summit

• $20,000

  Dicle Taskin · Chicago, IL · 2022

  The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric (Dis)Integration, 1923-1970

• $20,000

  Katherine Reynolds · Chicago, IL · 2022

  A Different Kind of Tender

• $15,000

  A Project 83 · New York, NY · 2024

  a83 Exhibition Program & Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York

• $15,000

  Carnegie Museum of Art · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

  Tatiana Bilbao: City of Rooms

• $15,000

  Germane Barnes · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Columnar Disorder

• $15,000

  Prospect New Orleans (US Biennials Inc) · New Orleans, LA · 2024

  Prospect.6

• $15,000

  Temitayo Ogunbiyi · Chicago, IL · 2024

  You will wonder if we would have been friends

• $15,000

  Tom Carruthers & Jennifer Newsom · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Pyramidion

• $15,000

  Giovanni Bellotti Alessandra Covini & Adelita Husni-Bey · Chicago, IL · 2023

  La Casa Tappeto

• $15,000

  Jia Weng · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Environmental Conduits in China: Pipe Politics, Fluid Management, and the Rise of the Global Airscape

• $15,000

  Kj Abudu · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Traces of Ecstasy

• $15,000

  Maria Gaspar · Chicago, IL · 2023

  I Believe in the Things You Cannot See

• $15,000

  Megan Echols & Dana McKinney · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Black-Still

• $15,000

  Sarah Hearne · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Print Ready Drawings

• $15,000

  The School of Architecture · Scottsdale, AZ · 2023

  Seabreeze Bop City

• $15,000

  The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023

  The Black Home as Public Art

• $15,000

  Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation · Richmond, VA · 2023

  Dear Mazie,

• $15,000

  Ala Tannir · Chicago, IL · 2022

  The Small Old House by the Sea

• $15,000

  Anita Batemanemanuel Admassu · Chicago, IL · 2022

  Where is Africa

• $15,000

  Anyone Corporation · New York, NY · 2022

  Model Behavior

• $15,000

  Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022

  Himali Singh Soin: Static Range

• $15,000

  Association of Architecture Organizations · Chicago, IL · 2022

  AAO Design Matters Conference 2022

• $15,000

  Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture · Washington, DC · 2022

  JAE Fellows

• $15,000

  Imani Brown · Chicago, IL · 2022

  What remains at the ends of the earth?

• $15,000

  Marina Otero Verzier · Chicago, IL · 2022

  Evanescent Institutions: On the Politics of Temporary Architecture

• $15,000

  Robin Hartanto Honggare · Chicago, IL · 2022

  Building Commodities: Environments of the Colonial Plantation in East Sumatra, 1869-1942

• $15,000

  Storefront for Art and Architecture · New York, NY · 2022

  On The Ground

• $12,500

  Lydia Kallipoliti & Areti Markopoulou · Chicago, IL · 2024

  EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism

• $12,500

  The Center for Independent Documentary · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Artificial Horizon

• $12,500

  Carla Aramouny & Sandra Frem · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Shifting Grounds [the ground between form and practice in Beirut]

• $12,500

  Kenny Cupers Makau Kitata & Chao Tayiana Maina · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Kamirithu Theatre: An Architecture for Decolonization

• $12,500

  Kofi M Boone & Margaret Elen Deming · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Empty Pedestals: Narratives on History, Race and Public Design

• $12,500

  La Namer · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Chacarita Moderna: The brutalist necropolis of Buenos Aires by the architect Itala Fulvia Villa.

• $12,500

  Radhi Ben Hadid Meriem Chabani & John Edom · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Muqarnas-Sacred Grounds

• $12,500

  Stanley Cho Elisa Iturbe & Alican Taylan · Chicago, IL · 2022

  Confronting Carbon Form

• $10,000

  Aaron Cayer · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Incorporating Architects

• $10,000

  Anezka Minanikova · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Clara Istlerova, A Life Among Letters

• $10,000

  Architectural Association · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Ripple Ripple Rippling

• $10,000

  Architectural Association School of Architecture · 2024

  Entangled Archive

• $10,000

  Ari Seligmann · Chicago, IL · 2024

  The Photographic Construction of Japanese Architecture

• $10,000

  Arthur J Clement & Emily Makas · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Philip G. Freelon: An Architect of Relationships and Stories

• $10,000

  Assaf Evron · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Collage for the Edith Farnsworth House

• $10,000

  Association of Architecture Organizations · Chicago, IL · 2024

  AAO Design Matters Conference 2024

• $10,000

  Carmen Amengual · Chicago, IL · 2024

  A Non-Coincidental Mirror

• $10,000

  Chimurenga · 2024

  African Mobilities

• $10,000

  City College of New York · New York, NY · 2024

  ARCH at Sixty

• $10,000

  Colloqate Design · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Challenging Patterns of Supremacy

• $10,000

  Craft Contemporary · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Material Acts

• $10,000

  Craig L Wilkins · Chicago, IL · 2024

  if history were told as stories it'd never be forgotten...

• $10,000

  Dahlia Nduom · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image

• $10,000

  Dia Art Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

  Cameron Rowland: Properties

• $10,000

  Dongola · 2024

  Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury

• $10,000

  Elizabeth Glvez & Jos Ibarra · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Latinx Coalition Chats

• $10,000

  Eva Diaz · Chicago, IL · 2024

  After Spaceship Earth

• $10,000

  Every Ocean Hughes (Emily Roysdon) · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side

• $10,000

  Fred Schmidt-Arnales · Chicago, IL · 2024

  It Is a Good Project and Should be Built

• $10,000

  Geoffrey Bawa Trust · 2024

  On Gardens: Contemplating the Relative in Space, Time, and Life

• $10,000

  Hunter College Foundation · New York, NY · 2024

  Andrea Blum: BIOTA

• $10,000

  I Press Incorporated · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  Revisiting i Press: the i Press series on the human environment by architect/publisher Mary Otis Stevens

• $10,000

  Ines Weizman · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Josephine Baker and the Colonial Modern

• $10,000

  Insite (Installation Gallery) · San Diego, CA · 2024

  INSITE Journal_07

• $10,000

  Jeremy Lybarger · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Midnight Tremor

• $10,000

  Juana Salcedo · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Jaguar Lens

• $10,000

  Julia Phillips · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Pentasomnia

• $10,000

  Lampo · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Lampo 2023-24 and 2024-25 Concert Series

• $10,000

  Liga-Space for Architecture · 2024

  The missing architect

• $10,000

  Lobna Sana · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Recognized

• $10,000

  Lori Brown & Karen Burns · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Women Architects and Global Solidarity Across the Cold War Divide

• $10,000

  Mariam Ghani · Chicago, IL · 2024

  An Incident

• $10,000

  Menna Agha & Sara Salem · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Disembodied Territories

• $10,000

  Molly Brandt & Kevin Weil · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Inventory of a Building's Reuse and a Landscape's Redesign

• $10,000

  Neil Levine · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Architecture for Reading in Public

• $10,000

  Philip Denny James Wines & Suzan Wines · Chicago, IL · 2024

  What Else Could It Mean?

• $10,000

  Sara Zewde · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton's Kingdom

• $10,000

  Simon Boudvin · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Commune, Communism, Commons

• $10,000

  Smithsonian Institution-Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum · New York, NY · 2024

  Making Home-Smithsonian Design Triennial

• $10,000

  Soberscove Press · Chicago, IL · 2024

  In the Horizontal Plane

• $10,000

  Storefront for Art and Architecture · New York, NY · 2024

  Swamplands

• $10,000

  Suzanne Lettieri & Anya Sirota · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Junior Architects

• $10,000

  Swiss Institute · New York, NY · 2024

  Energies

• $10,000

  Syracuse University · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Here There Be Dragons, Season Four: Odes[s]a

• $10,000

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024

  Materialized Space

• $10,000

  The World Around · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  The World Around Summit 2024

• $10,000

  University of Il at Chicago-College of Architecture Design and the Arts · Chicago, IL · 2024

  The UIC/SoArch Journal

• $10,000

  University of Washington · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Pattern Language 2-253

• $10,000

  Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024

  Disability Meets Architecture

• $10,000

  Victoria and Albert Museum · 2024

  Tropical Modernism

• $10,000

  Ana Miljaki · Chicago, IL · 2023

  I Would Prefer Not To

• $10,000

  Anna Bokov · Chicago, IL · 2023

  From Method to Style: "Elements of Spatial Composition Architectural Pedagogy after Vkhutemas

• $10,000

  Anooradha Siddiqi · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement

• $10,000

  Architexx · Chevy Chase, MD · 2023

  Spatializing Reproductive Justice

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