Funding search · EIN 272818091 · Houston, TX

John R Eckel Jr Foundation

Name: John R Eckel Jr Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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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.

80
grants reported: $4.2M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $27,500
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

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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The Museum of Fine Arts Houston10 grants · $1.4M
Menil Foundation11 grants · $907,200
Whitney Museum of American Art7 grants · $550,000
Lawndale Art and Performance Center5 grants · $230,000
Genesys Works3 grants · $180,000
Orange Show Foundation4 grants · $175,000
Project Row Houses3 grants · $120,000
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston3 grants · $90,000
New Group3 grants · $75,000
Fotofest3 grants · $75,000

Giving over time

$1.7M

2022

$1.3M

2023

$1.2M

2024

Grant history

All 80 reported grants, largest first.

$500,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
Capital Campaign
$500,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
Capital Campaign
$300,000
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2022
Capital and Endowment Campaign
$100,000
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$100,000
Orange Show Foundation · Houston, TX · 2024
Capital campaign
$100,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2024
Eckel Gallery Exhibition Program
$100,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2024
Support for the Adam D. Weinberg Artists Fund
$100,000
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2023
Operating support
$100,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2023
Eckel Gallery Exhibition Program
$100,000
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2022
Operating support for the Menil Collection
$100,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2022
Toward the Eckel Gallery Exhibition Program
$75,000
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2024
Support for Menil House grounds renovation
$75,000
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2024
Ruth Asawa drawing acquisition
$60,000
Genesys Works · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$60,000
Genesys Works · Houston, TX · 2023
General operating support
$60,000
Genesys Works · Houston, TX · 2022
General operating support
$50,000
Buffalo Bayou Partnership · Houston, TX · 2024
Supporting a new, site-specific media and sound installation by Rachel Rossin at the Houston
$50,000
Lawndale Art and Performance Center · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$50,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Annual design acquisitions and exhibitions
$50,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$50,000
Lawndale Art and Performance Center · Houston, TX · 2023
To assist with the funding of a strip of adjacent property
$50,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
Toward the Annual Fund
$50,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
Annual design acquisitions / exhibitions
$50,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2023
To support "Ruth Asawa Through Line," a landmark exhibition co-organized with the Menil Collection
$50,000
Lawndale Art and Performance Center · Houston, TX · 2022
To assist with the funding of a strategic acquisition of adjacent property
$50,000
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2022
Funding for Kay Sage painting acquisition
$50,000
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2022
Support of the 35th Anniversary Gala Cirque Surrealiste
$50,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
Toward the Annual Fund
$50,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
Annual design acquisitions/exhibitions
$50,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2022
Toward the 2022 Whitney Biennial
$50,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2022
To partially underwrite acquisition of Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses 2021
$40,000
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$40,000
Project Row Houses · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$40,000
Lawndale Art and Performance Center · Houston, TX · 2023
Operating support
$40,000
Project Row Houses · Houston, TX · 2023
Operating support
$40,000
Lawndale Art and Performance Center · Houston, TX · 2022
General operations and artistic programming
$40,000
Project Row Houses · Houston, TX · 2022
2022 general operations
$30,000
University of Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support of Blaffer Art Museum
$30,000
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
Operating support
$30,000
University of Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
Operating support
$25,000
Fotofest · Houston, TX · 2024
Support of FotoFest's Literacy Through Photography Learning Program
$25,000
Houston Botanic Garden · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$25,000
New Group · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$25,000
Orange Show Foundation · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$25,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
Support for acquisitions in the area of modern and contemporary art
$25,000
William Marsh Rice University · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support for Moody Center
$25,000
Fotofest · Houston, TX · 2023
Support of FotoFests Literacy Through Photography Learning Program
$25,000
Houston Botanic Garden · Houston, TX · 2023
Operating support
$25,000
New Group · New York, NY · 2023
Operating support
$25,000
Orange Show Foundation · Houston, TX · 2023
Operating support
$25,000
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
Toward support of William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows exhibition
$25,000
Fotofest · Houston, TX · 2022
Support of FotoFest's Literacy Through Photography Learning Program in memory of Fred Baldwin
$25,000
New Group · New York, NY · 2022
2022 general operations
$25,000
Orange Show Foundation · Houston, TX · 2022
Operating support
$24,700
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2024
Jason Moran acquisition
$22,500
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2022
Funding for Dorothy Hood drawing acquisition
$20,000
Prounitas · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$20,000
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Support for the upcoming exhibitions, Drawing Down the Moon and Picasso Cut Papers
$20,000
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
Operating support
$20,000
Hermann Park Conservancy · Houston, TX · 2022
Multi-year grant payments 4 and 5 toward the Hermann Park Art Fund
$15,000
Artadia · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support an Artadia 2024 award to a talented, emerging Houston artist
$15,000
Artadia · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
To support of an Artadia 2023 award to a talented, emerging Houston artist
$15,000
Artadia · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Support a 2022 award to an emerging Houston artist
$15,000
Mississippi Museum of Art · Jackson, MS · 2022
The exhibition The End of My Beginning by Jamal Cyrus
$10,000
Astrodome Conservancy · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$10,000
Galveston Island Nature Tourism Council · Galveston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$10,000
Gulf Coast-a Journal of Literature and Fine Arts · Houston, TX · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$10,000
Menil Foundation · Houston, TX · 2024
Support the publication of Duchamp in California: Walter Hopps Curates a Retrospective
$10,000
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey · Florham Park, NJ · 2024
Unrestricted operating support
$10,000
Galveston Island Nature Tourism Council · Galveston, TX · 2023
To support FeatherFest 2023
$10,000
Gulf Coast-a Journal of Literature and Fine Arts · Houston, TX · 2023
Operating support
$10,000
Prounitas · Houston, TX · 2023
Operating support
$10,000
Sculpture Month Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
To support its 2023 exhibition Sleep of Reason / The "Fragmented Figure"
$10,000
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey · Florham Park, NJ · 2023
Operating support
$10,000
Gulf Coast-a Journal of Literature and Fine Arts · Houston, TX · 2022
Operating support
$10,000
Sculpture Month Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
Support Synaptic exhibition
$10,000
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey · Florham Park, NJ · 2022
Operating support
$10,000
University of Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
Blaffer Art Museum - support for the 'NEXT' exhibition program
$5,000
The John Fairey Garden Conservation Foundation · Hempstead, TX · 2023
General operating support
$5,000
Galveston Island Nature Tourism Council · Galveston, TX · 2022
To support FeatherFest 2022

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