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Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation

Name: Carl & Marilynn Thoma 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.

166
grants reported: $98.8M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $20,000
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

honorarium award travel exhibition exploratory publication research fellowship

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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.

7 grants matching “exploratory” · $18,100

$3,750
Sofia Ortega-Guerrero · Oakland, CA · 2024
Exploratory travel
$3,350
Henrry Ibanez Mogrovejo · Stony Brook, NY · 2024
Exploratory travel
$2,500
Maria Belen Ballesta · 2024
Exploratory travel
$2,500
Madelaine Benitez Daporta · 2024
Exploratory travel
$5,000
Daen Palma Huse · 2022
Exploratory travel award
$500
Thomas Bf Cummins · Washington, DC · 2022
Juror stipend - exploratory travel awards
$500
Natalila Majluf · 2022
Juror stipend - exploratory travel awards

Top recipients

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

Schwab Charitable3 grants · $90.2M
Collegiate Edu-Nation1 grant · $1.0M
Shirley Ryan Abilitylab Fka Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago1 grant · $1.0M
Yavapai County1 grant · $1.0M
Chicago Shakespeare Theater2 grants · $474,700
New Mexico School for the Arts3 grants · $305,000
Ngage New Mexico1 grant · $300,000
New Mexico State University1 grant · $300,000
Golden Apple Foundation3 grants · $300,000
Site Santa Fe3 grants · $280,000

Giving over time

$24.5M

2022

$36.7M

2023

$37.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 166 grants.

$35.1M
Schwab Charitable · Orlando, FL · 2024
General support
$35.1M
Schwab Charitable · Orlando, FL · 2023
General support
$20.0M
Schwab Charitable · Orlando, FL · 2022
General support
$1.0M
Shirley Ryan Abilitylab Fka Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Collegiate Edu-Nation · Roscoe, TX · 2022
General support
$1.0M
Yavapai County · Prescott, AZ · 2022
General support
$350,000
Chicago Shakespeare Theater · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$300,000
New Mexico State University · Las Cruces, NM · 2022
General support
$300,000
Ngage New Mexico · Las Cruces, NM · 2022
General support
$250,000
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc Dba Seo Scholars · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
$250,000
Portland Art Museum · Portland, OR · 2023
Jeffrey gibson biennale support
$250,000
The Santa Fe Opera · Santa Fe, NM · 2023
2023 season sponsorship
$200,000
Empower Schools · Boston, MA · 2022
General support
$200,000
Mass Design Group · Boston, MA · 2022
General support
$162,500
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$125,000
Site Santa Fe · Sante Fe, NM · 2024
General support
$124,700
Chicago Shakespeare Theater · Chicago, IL · 2023
Deductible portion of 2023 spirit of shakespeare host committee sponsorship
$123,197
Scholarships · Dallas, TX · 2024
Scholarships
$111,200
Oklahoma State University Foundation · Stillwater, OK · 2024
General support
$105,000
New Mexico School for the Arts · Sante Fe, NM · 2022
General support
$100,000
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy · Buffalo, NY · 2024
Publication grant
$100,000
Golden Apple Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$100,000
New Mexico School for the Arts · Sante Fe, NM · 2024
General support
$100,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$100,000
Golden Apple Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$100,000
New Mexico School for the Arts · Sante Fe, NM · 2023
General support
$100,000
Phoenix Art Museum · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
General support
$100,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$100,000
Asia Society Texas · Houston, TX · 2022
General support
$100,000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
General support
$100,000
Golden Apple Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$100,000
Site Santa Fe · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
General support
$82,508
University College London · 2024
Post-doctoral fellowship
$75,000
Regents of the University of California at Riverside · Riverside, CA · 2024
Exhibition support
$75,000
Santa Fe Opera · Sante Fe, NM · 2024
General support
$75,000
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Exhibition support
$75,000
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth · Fort Worth, TX · 2022
General support
$60,000
Adam Jasniewski · Dallas, TX · 2022
Travel award
$60,000
Judd Foundation · Marfa, TX · 2022
General support
$55,000
Site Santa Fe · Santa Fe, NM · 2023
General support
$50,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$50,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$50,000
Hoover Institution · Stanford, CA · 2024
General support
$50,000
Milwaukee Art Museum · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Exhibition support
$50,000
The Dallas Foundation · Dallas, TX · 2024
Exhibition support
$50,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$50,000
Myriad USA · New York, NY · 2023
Exhib support elias sime at biennale
$50,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$40,000
Museo De Arte De Lima · 2024
Exhibition support
$40,000
Think New Mexico · Sante Fe, NM · 2024
General support
$40,000
New Berry Library · Chicago, IL · 2023
Grant: seeing race before race
$35,000
Universidad De Ingeniera Y Tecnologia · 2024
Conservation grant
$35,000
Think New Mexico · Santa Fe, NM · 2023
Annual donation
$35,000
Tucson Museum of Art · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Grant for cumbi: textiles, society and memory in andean south america
$34,833
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival · Sante Fe, NM · 2022
General support
$32,500
Carla Garcia · 2024
Doctoral fellowship
$32,500
Hillsboro Medical Center Foundation · Hillsboro, OR · 2024
General support
$32,500
Carla Garcia · 2023
Research award
$30,000
Amon Carter Museum of Art · Fort Worth, TX · 2024
General & exhibition support
$30,000
Bard College · Annandaleonhudson, NY · 2022
General support
$30,000
John Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
General support
$26,874
Blanton Museum of Art · Austin, TX · 2023
Annual leadership board contrib
$25,000
Dallas Opera · Dallas, TX · 2024
General support
$25,000
Figge Art Museum · Davenport, IA · 2024
Exhibition support
$25,000
Nakatomi Hajime · 2024
Next gen award
$25,000
New Mexico Museum of Art · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Publication grant
$25,000
Autry Museum of the American West · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Grant for indigenous futures exhibit
$25,000
Gaby Greenlee · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023
2022-23 postdoctoral fellowship
$25,000
International Print Center New York · New York, NY · 2023
Grant for storywork: the prints of marie watt
$25,000
New Museum of Contemporary Art · New York, NY · 2023
Donation for tuan andrew nguyen exhibit
$25,000
Hoover Institution · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$25,000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General support
$25,000
McKnight Center for the Performing Arts · Stillwater, OK · 2022
General support
$25,000
National Trust for Historic Preservation · Fort Worth, TX · 2022
General support
$25,000
Winterthur Museum Garden and Library · Winterarthur, DE · 2022
General support
$24,333
Yessica Porras · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Asa research and travel award
$24,000
Chicago Humanities Festival · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$23,261
Lyric Opera of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General support
$23,000
McKnight Center for the Performing Arts · Stillwater, OK · 2023
General support
$22,500
Elena Amerio · 2023
Pre-doctoral fellowship grant
$22,500
Elena Amerio · 2022
Pre-doctoral fellowship grant
$21,400
Electronic Arts Intermix · New York, NY · 2024
Publication grant
$20,000
Cantor Art Museum Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Publication grant
$20,000
Portland Museum of Art · Portland, ME · 2024
Publication grant
$20,000
University of Texas Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Exhibition support
$20,000
Denver Art Museum · Denver, CO · 2022
General support
$20,000
MIT List Visual Arts Center · Cambridge, MA · 2022
General support
$20,000
Parallel Studios · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
General support
$20,000
Phoenix Art Museum · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General support
$20,000
Smart Museum of Art · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$17,534
Ninel Valderrama · Lawrence, KS · 2023
Research award
$17,500
Pilot Light · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$15,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Exhibition support
$15,000
Rodrigo Villalobos Ruiz · 2024
Conservation grant
$15,000
Utec · Lowell, MA · 2024
General support
$15,000
Oklahoma State University Museum of Art · Stillwater, OK · 2022
General support
$15,000
Vanina Estela Scocchera · 2022
Asa research and travel award
$14,600
Ewa Kubiak · 2024
Research & travel award
$12,500
American Friends of the Prado Museum · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General support
$12,000
State University of New York State · Stony Brook, NY · 2024
Seminar support

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