Funding search · EIN 300434789 · Los Angeles, CA

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts

Name: The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts 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.

59
grants reported: $1.7M
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

organizational exhibition advancing conservation endowment homestead leaders mobile

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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.

Artcenter College of Design2 grants · $230,000
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit2 grants · $85,000
Tate Americas Foundation1 grant · $85,000
Los Angeles Poverty Department3 grants · $81,000
Armory Center for the Arts3 grants · $75,500
Fulcrum Arts2 grants · $56,000
Clockshop2 grants · $55,000
The American Friends of the Centre Pompidou1 grant · $54,000
Joan2 grants · $44,000
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit1 grant · $35,000

Giving over time

$440,000

2022

$563,000

2023

$709,000

2024

Grant history

All 59 reported grants, largest first.

$130,000
Artcenter College of Design · Pasadena, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$100,000
Artcenter College of Design · Pasadena, CA · 2023
Scholarship endowment
$85,000
Tate Americas Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Exhibition support
$54,000
The American Friends of the Centre Pompidou · Montclair, NJ · 2024
Exhibition and conservation support
$50,000
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2023
Operational support
$35,000
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2024
Support for mobile homestead
$35,000
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2022
Operational support
$30,000
Clockshop · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$30,000
Human Resources Loas Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$30,000
Laxart Dba the Brick · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$30,000
Avenue 50 Studio · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Operational support
$30,000
Los Angeles Poverty Department · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Operational support
$30,000
Pieter · Monterey Park, CA · 2023
Operational support
$30,000
Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation · Monterey Park, CA · 2023
Operational support
$30,000
Highways Inc Dba Highways Performance Space & Gallery · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
Operational support
$30,000
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Operational support
$30,000
Women'S Center for Creative Work · Glendale, CA · 2022
Operational support
$28,000
Coaxial Arts Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$28,000
Fulcrum Arts · Pasadena, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$28,000
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhbitions (Lace) · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$28,000
Self Help Graphics & Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$28,000
The Museum of Juraissac Technology · Culver City, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$28,000
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center · Venice, CA · 2023
Operational support
$28,000
Fulcrum Arts · Pasadena, CA · 2023
Operational support
$28,000
Women'S Center for Creative Work (Feminist Center for Creative Work) · Glendale, CA · 2023
Operational support
$26,500
Armory Center for the Arts · Pasadena, CA · 2022
Operational support
$26,000
California Institute of the Arstredcat · Valencia, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$26,000
Los Angeles Poverty Department · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$26,000
Human Resources Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Armory Center for the Arts · Pasadena, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$25,000
Future Roots · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$25,000
Joan · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$25,000
Los Angeles Filmforum · Pasadena, CA · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
Los Angeles Nomadic Division · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
The Industry (Legal Name the Industry Productions Inc) · Los Angeles Ca, CA · 2023
Operational support
$25,000
18th Street Arts Center · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Beyond Baroque Foundation · Venice, CA · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Clockshop · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
La Freewaves · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Operational support
$25,000
Los Angeles Poverty Department · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Operational support
$24,000
Armory Center for the Arts · Pasadena, CA · 2023
Operational support
$24,000
Velaslavasay Panorama · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Operational support
$23,000
Automata Arts · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$20,000
Echo Park Film Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Organizational support grant
$20,000
Center for the Study of Political Graphics · Culver City, CA · 2022
Operational support
$20,000
Fulcrum Artshomela · Pasadena, CA · 2022
Operational support
$20,000
Laxart · West Hollywood, CA · 2022
Operational support
$20,000
Pieter Performance Space · Monterey Park, CA · 2022
Operational support
$20,000
Santa Monica Museum of Art Dba Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Operational support
$20,000
Side Street Projects · Pasadena, CA · 2022
Operational support
$19,000
Joan · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Operational support
$17,500
La River Public Art Project · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Operational support
$15,000
Joan Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Operational support
$13,500
Craft Contemporary · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Operational support
$13,000
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
Operational support
$10,500
La Artcore · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Operational support
$10,000
Active Cultures · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Operational support
$5,000
The Aspen Insitute Artist Endowed Founation Initiative · Washington, DC · 2024
Advancing next gen leaders support
$5,000
The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Operational support

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