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.

1 grant matching “commune” · $10,000

• $10,000

  Simon Boudvin · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Commune, Communism, Commons

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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