Funding search · EIN 366062451 · Santa Fe, NM

Lannan Foundation

Name: Lannan Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

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

378
grants reported: $157.8M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

fellowship literary indigenous poetry freedom community cultural award

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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.

Where the money goes

Transfers to intermediary funds and DAFs (Lannan Impact Fund, Fidelity, Amalgamated)
Donations of Lannan art holdings to museums nationwide
Literary arts organizations and poetry programs (Cave Canem, Young Chicago Authors)
Named awards to individual writers, poets, and cultural critics
Palestinian rights journalism and literature (Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada)
Small general support for Santa Fe food, immigrant, and land groups

Typical grant

The median grant is $25,000 and half of everything falls between $2,000 and $100,000, so the working range for an organization is modest. The enormous checks are not competitive grants at all: $70 million and $15 million to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors for the Lannan Impact Fund, $12.3 million to Fidelity Charitable, $10.5 million to Amalgamated, plus six- and seven-figure art transfers to museums. Repeat giving is real but narrow, with Cave Canem, Iberoamericana University Foundation, and the Center for Economic Change & Social Research each taking two or more payments in a single year.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“ART DONATION”
“CULTURAL FREEDOM AWARD”
“LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN LITERATURE”
“GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT”
“INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP AWARD”

Positioning adjacent work

Anchor to their literary arts line: poetry, fiction, and writer development read as the durable institutional theme.
For a New Mexico organization, size the ask at $15,000 to $50,000 for general support, not project budgets.
If your work touches Palestine, frame it as independent journalism or literature, matching Mondoweiss and Electronic Intifada.
Museums holding photography or land art should approach about collection transfer rather than cash grants.

Worth knowing: In 2024 roughly two thirds of all dollars moved to three outside vehicles, and much of the rest went out as art rather than cash, which reads like an institution dispersing its assets rather than building a grant portfolio. The heavy New Mexico count is partly an artifact: individual award recipients such as Cultural Freedom Award and Lifetime Achievement in Literature winners are listed at Santa Fe addresses, and those honors come by selection, not solicitation.

5 grants matching “cave” · $1.2M

$375,000
Cave Canem · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General operating support
$350,000
Cave Canem · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General operating support
$400,000
Cave Canem · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General operating support
$5,000
National Book Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Cave canem event support
$100,000
Cave Canem · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General operating support

Top recipients

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

Rockerfeller Philanthropy Associates2 grants · $85.0M
Georgetown University1 grant · $13.0M
Fidelity Charitable Organization1 grant · $12.3M
Amalgamated Foundation1 grant · $10.5M
Center for Economic Change & Social Research10 grants · $4.8M
Los Angeles County Museum of Art3 grants · $4.0M
Cave Canem4 grants · $1.2M
National Center for Civic Innovation1 grant · $1.0M
Museo De Las Americas2 grants · $862,800
Iberoamericana University Foundation4 grants · $775,000

Giving over time

$21.7M

2022

$12.1M

2023

$124.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 378 grants.

$70.0M
Rockerfeller Philanthropy Associates · New York, NY · 2024
Lannan impact fund
$15.0M
Rockerfeller Philanthropy Associates · New York, NY · 2024
Lannan impact fund
$13.0M
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022
$4m lf chair endowed fund, $2m lannan center endowed fund, $7m endowment fund for lannan center directorship
$12.3M
Fidelity Charitable Organization · Boston, MA · 2024
Daf
$10.5M
Amalgamated Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Daf
$3.8M
Center for Economic Change & Social Research · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$3.4M
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Art donation
$1.0M
National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2024
Literary arts fund
$762,800
Museo De Las Americas · Denver, CO · 2024
Art donation
$692,712
Denver Art Museum · Denver, CO · 2024
Art donation
$642,000
Sheldon Museum of Art · Lincoln, NE · 2024
Art donation
$580,338
The Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2024
Art donation
$567,200
Type Media Center · New York, NY · 2022
$120,000 for general support, $56,000 for tom dispatch, $391,200 for type media fellowship of which $111,600 will support project tom dispatch.
$527,850
University of New Mexico Art Museum · Albuquerque, NM · 2024
Art donation
$500,000
Aclu of New Mexico Foundation · Albuquerque, NM · 2023
Nm legal program
$500,000
Aha Punana Leo Hale Kipa O'Iwi · Hilo, HI · 2023
General support
$500,000
Euchee Language Project · Sapulpa, OK · 2023
We talk yuchi master apprenticeship program
$500,000
Jewish Voices for Peace · Berkeley, CA · 2023
General support
$500,000
Keres Children'S Learning Center · Cochiti Pueblo, NM · 2023
General support
$500,000
Radius Books · Santa Fe, NM · 2023
General support
$500,000
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples · Arcata, CA · 2023
General support
$500,000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
City project - michael heiser
$497,000
Dia Art Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Art donation
$418,700
Amon Carter Museum of American Art · Fort Worth, TX · 2024
Art donation
$400,000
New Mexico Foundation Santa Fe · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Vital spaces - general support
$400,000
Cave Canem · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General operating support
$400,000
Truthout · Sacramento, CA · 2023
General support
$391,522
Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Art donation
$375,000
Cave Canem · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General operating support
$350,000
Cave Canem · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General operating support
$350,000
Dallas Museum of Art · Dallas, TX · 2024
Art donation
$350,000
Iberoamericana University Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2024
General support
$350,000
Iberoamericana University Foundation · San Diego, CA · 2024
General support
$350,000
Arnove Anthony · Santa Fe, NM · 2023
Indigenous community fellowship
$300,000
Copper Canyon Press · Port Townsend, WA · 2023
Five titles in 2020 lannan selection series
$300,000
Democracy Now Productions · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$275,000
Red Cloud Indian School · Pine Ridge, SD · 2022
"completing the circle" scholarships
$250,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
The platform
$250,000
Center for Economic Change & Social Research · Chicago, IL · 2022
Haymarket books
$250,000
Levy Deborah · 2022
Literary fellowship
$201,650
National Gallery of Art · Landover, MD · 2024
Art donation
$200,000
Bassichis Morgan · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Cultural freedom award
$200,000
Sheldon Art Association · Lincoln, NE · 2024
Art donation
$200,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Palestine legal
$200,000
Aclu of New Mexico Foundation · Albuquerque, NM · 2022
Legal program
$200,000
Alameddine Rabih · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
Literary award
$200,000
North Dakota Museum of Art · Grand Forks, ND · 2022
Director's fund
$194,000
Center for Economic Change & Social Research · Chicago, IL · 2023
U.s. Friends of the palestine festival of literature
$180,000
Center for Economic Change & Social Research · Chicago, IL · 2022
Mondoweiss
$175,000
Enote Jim · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Indigenous community fellowship award
$175,000
Enote Jim · Santa Fe, NM · 2023
Indigenous community fellowship award
$160,500
The American Patrons of the National Library and Galleries of Scotland · New York, NY · 2024
Art donation
$160,000
Graywolf Press · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Operational support of citizen literary initiative
$160,000
Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council · Ukiah, CA · 2022
$160,000 for general operating support.
$158,566
New Mexico State University · Las Cruces, NM · 2024
Art donation
$150,000
Center for Economic Change & Social Research · Chicago, IL · 2024
Us friends of palestinian literature
$150,000
Dericotte Toi · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Lifetime achievement in literature
$150,000
Eady Cornelius · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Lifetime achievement in literature
$150,000
Taylor Astra · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Cultural freedom award
$150,000
New Mexico Environmental Law Center · Santa Fe, NM · 2023
Support for legal program
$150,000
Institute for Policy Studies · Washington, DC · 2022
Endowment of the fellowship for new american internationalism
$150,000
Middle East Children'S Alliance · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General support
$150,000
New Mexico Environmental Law Center · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
Support for legal program
$150,000
Radius Books · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
General support
$150,000
Santa Fe Dreamers Project · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
General support
$150,000
Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington, DC · 2022
Support of "sharing honors and burdens: renwick invitational 2023"
$150,000
Truthout · Sacramento, CA · 2022
General support
$142,381
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Art donation
$136,326
International Center of Photography · New York, NY · 2024
Art donation
$135,500
Carnegie Museum of Art · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Art donation
$132,376
Center for Creative Photography · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Art donation
$132,000
City of Marfa · Marfa, TX · 2023
Donation of land
$126,000
Center for Economic Change & Social Research · Chicago, IL · 2022
Study & struggles mississippi winter freedom project
$125,000
Komunyakaa Yusef · Trenton, NJ · 2023
Literary lifetime achievement award
$125,000
Foundations for National Progress · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Mother jones - ben bagdikian fellowship program
$125,000
Komunyakaa Yusef · Trenton, NJ · 2022
Literary lifetime achievement award
$125,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Palestine legal
$120,000
University of Arizona Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Richard shelton's "poetry in prisons" project
$120,000
Jacobin Foundation Ltd · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General support
$116,000
Davis Mike · San Diego, CA · 2022
Cultural freedom fellowship
$113,600
Museum of Contemporary Photography · Chicago, IL · 2024
Art donation
$110,000
Institute for Policy Studies · Washington, DC · 2022
New internationalism project
$109,000
Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington Dc, DC · 2024
Art donation
$103,250
Anchorum Foundation · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Art donation
$101,000
Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society · Chicago, IL · 2023
Electronic intifada
$100,000
501 Cpa · Albuquerque, NM · 2024
Unrestricted
$100,000
Komunyakaa Yusef · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Lifetime achievement in literature
$100,000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Acquisition of thomas joshua cooper's art
$100,000
Museo De Las Americas · Denver, CO · 2024
Direct expenses of acquisition of lannan art
$100,000
Taylor Astra · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Cultural freedom award
$100,000
Center for Economic Change & Social Research · Chicago, IL · 2023
Mondoweiss
$100,000
Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East · Washington, DC · 2023
Support uscpr national organizing convention
$100,000
Jacobin Foundation Ltd · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Support "the dig with daniel denvir"
$100,000
Museum of Contemporary Photography · Chicago, IL · 2023
Development consultant / fundraising costs
$100,000
Red Cloud Indian School · Pine Ridge, SD · 2023
Challenge grant met
$100,000
State Democracy Project · Washington, DC · 2023
Reclaim rhode island
$100,000
Thunder Valley Community Development Center · Porcupine, SD · 2023
General support
$100,000
Cave Canem · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General operating support
$100,000
Copper Canyon Press · Port Townsend, WA · 2022
Five titles in 2020 lannan selection series
$100,000
Graywolf Press · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Operational support of citizen literary initiative

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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.