Funding search · EIN 223132379 · Spencertown, NY

Ellsworth Kelly Foundation

Name: Ellsworth Kelly Foundation grants, 2022–2023
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.

57
grants reported: $9.6M
total given: 2022–2023
filing years: $50,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2023. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

artwork collection enhance gift museum

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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.

St Louis Art Museum Foundation1 grant · $3.0M
Philadelphia Museum of Art2 grants · $2.6M
Shaker Museum and Library1 grant · $1.0M
Museum of Morden Art2 grants · $200,000
Town of Austerlitz Grant Award 20221 grant · $200,000
Museum of Contemprary Art1 grant · $100,000
Storm King Art Center1 grant · $100,000
San Fransico Musum of Modern Art1 grant · $100,000
Art Institute of Chicago1 grant · $100,000
Dallas Museum of Art1 grant · $50,000

Giving over time

$5.2M

2022

$4.5M

2023

Grant history

All 57 reported grants, largest first.

$3.0M
St Louis Art Museum Foundation · St Louis, MO · 2022
General purpose
$2.5M
Philadelphia Museum of Art · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Gift of artwork to enhance museum's collection
$1.0M
Shaker Museum and Library · Old Chatham, NY · 2022
General purpose
$200,000
Town of Austerlitz Grant Award 2022 · Austerlitz, NY · 2022
General purpose
$100,000
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purpose
$100,000
Museum of Contemprary Art · New York, NY · 2023
General purpose
$100,000
Museum of Morden Art · New York, NY · 2023
General purpose
$100,000
Philadelphia Museum of Art · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General purpose
$100,000
San Fransico Musum of Modern Art · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General purpose
$100,000
Museum of Morden Art · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$100,000
Storm King Art Center · New Windsor, NY · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Addison Gallery of American Art · Andover, MA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Arkansas Museum of Art · Little Rock, AR · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Baltimore Museum of Art · Baltimore, MD · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Buffalo Akg Art Museum · Buffalo, NY · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Cantor Arts Center · Stanford, CA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Carnegie Museum of Art · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Cincinnati Art Museum · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Dallas Museum of Art · Dallas, TX · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Des Moines Art Center · Des Moines, IA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Detroit Institue of Arts · Detroit, MI · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
High Museum of Art · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Hirshorn Museum · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Hood Museum of Art · Hanover, NH · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
J Schnitzer Museum of Art · Eugene, OR · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Milwaukee Art Museum · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Mordern Art Museum of Ft Worth · Fort Worth, TX · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Nelson Atkins Museum · Kansas City, MO · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Neuberger Museum of Art · Purchase, NY · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Norton Simon Museum · Pasadena, CA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Rhode Island School of Design · Providence, RI · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Rose Art Museum · Waltham, MA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Seattle Art Museum · Seattle, WA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
The Broad · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
The Phillips Collection · Washington, DC · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts · Richmond, VA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum · Hartford, CT · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Worchester Art Museum · Worcester, MA · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Yale University Art Gallery · New Haven, CT · 2023
General purpose
$50,000
Blanton Museum of Art · Austin, TX · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland, OH · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum · Saratoga Springs, NY · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Guggenheim Museum · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Harvard Museum · Cambridge, MA · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Los Angeles County Museum · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Museum of Fine Arts Boston · Boston, MA · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
National Gallery of Art · Landover, MD · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Pulitzer Arts Foundation · St Louis, MO · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
The Menil Collection · Houston, TX · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
The Morgan Library & Museum · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Walker Art Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
Whmt Educational Telecommunications · Troy, NY · 2022
General purpose
$10,000
International Foundation for Art Research · New York, NY · 2023
General purpose

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