Funding search · EIN 946642644 · San Francisco, CA

The Jay Defeo Foundation

Name: The Jay Defeo Foundation grants, 2022–2025
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.

37
grants reported: $621,450
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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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 “kyung” · $5,000

$5,000
Berkeley Art Museum Uc Regents · Berkeley, CA · 2025
Fellowship Theresa Hak Kyung Cha exhibit

Grant history

All 37 reported grants, largest first.

$120,000
Whitney Meuseum of American Art · New York, NY · 2024
General Support - 2 Art Works by Jay DeFeo
$110,000
Paestum · New York, NY · 2022
General Support - 2 Art Works by Jay DeFeo
$75,000
Museum of Modern Art New York · New York, NY · 2024
General Support - 1 Art Work by Jay DeFeo
$65,000
The Menil Collection Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
General Support - 1 Art Work by Jay DeFeo
$55,000
Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
General Support - 1 Art Work by Jay DeFeo
$45,000
Sfmoma · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General Support
$24,000
The Drawing Center · New York, NY · 2024
General Support - 1 Art Work by Jay DeFeo
$10,000
Getty Museum · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
LA Arts Fire Relief Fund
$10,000
Laguna Art Museum · Laguna Beach, CA · 2024
Support for catalogue to accompany exhibition
$10,000
Institute of Contemporary Art La · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Museum Funds Grant
$10,000
Mills College Art Museum · Oakland, CA · 2023
Museum Funds Grant
$8,000
Roulette Intermedium-Zeena Parkins · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General Support
$5,000
Art Science Lab · New York, NY · 2025
New College catalogue
$5,000
Berkeley Art Museum Uc Regents · Berkeley, CA · 2025
Fellowship Theresa Hak Kyung Cha exhibit
$5,000
Oakland Museum of California Art · Oakland, CA · 2025
Mildred Howard exhibition catalogue
$5,000
The Drawing Center · New York, NY · 2025
Trisha Donnelly exhibit
$5,000
Bampfa · Berkeley, CA · 2024
BAM Fellowship
$5,000
Sfmoma · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Support for catalogue to accompany exhibition
$5,000
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
General Support
$5,000
Brooklyn Rail · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General Support
$5,000
Creative Growth · Oakland, CA · 2022
General Support
$5,000
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
General Support
$3,000
Philadelphia Contemporary · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
M0 21 Lab
$2,500
California College of the Arts · Oakland, CA · 2025
WattisSTEADY exhibit
$2,500
Rockefeller Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2025
Further Triennial
$2,500
Sfai Legacy Foundation and Archive · San Francisco, CA · 2025
SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archive
$2,500
Noah Purifoy Foundation · Culver City, CA · 2022
General Support
$2,500
San Jose Museum of Art · San Jose, CA · 2022
Support for catalogue to accompany exhibition
$2,100
King Baudouin Foundation US · New York, NY · 2022
General Support
$2,100
Uc Berkeley Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General Support
$2,000
Bampfa · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Support for exhibition
$2,000
Creative Growth · Oakland, CA · 2023
General Support
$2,000
San Jose Ica · San Jose, CA · 2023
General Support
$1,500
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2025
Aspen Institute AEFI
$1,000
Swiss Institute · New York, NY · 2023
General Support
$1,000
Aamc Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General Support
$250
Pen America · New York, NY · 2023
General Support

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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.