Via Art Fund

What they fund

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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.

• Counterpublic1 grant · $175,000
• Telfair Museum of Art Inc (Telfair Museums)1 grant · $100,000
• Curated Storefront1 grant · $100,000
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston1 grant · $100,000
• Black Cube1 grant · $85,000
• Society of King'S Chapel1 grant · $85,000
• Monument Lab1 grant · $85,000
• Boston Public Art Triennial1 grant · $75,000
• Dia Art Foundation1 grant · $75,000
• Hammer Museum1 grant · $75,000

Giving over time

Grant history

All 45 reported grants, largest first.

• $175,000

  Counterpublic · St Louis, MO · 2022

  Torkwase dyson: bird and lava and torkwase dyson: bird and lava

• $100,000

  Contemporary Arts Museum Houston · Houston, TX · 2025

  Theaster gates: freedmen's town pavilion (working title)

• $100,000

  Telfair Museum of Art Inc (Telfair Museums) · Savannah, GA · 2024

  Allison janae hamilton: venus of ossabaw

• $100,000

  Curated Storefront · Akron, OH · 2023

  Chakaia booker: untitled lock 3 project

• $100,000

  Henry Art Gallery · Seattle, WA · 2022

  Rafa esparza: temple of boom

• $85,000

  Black Cube · Englewood, CO · 2025

  Whitney lynn: atomic open house

• $85,000

  Monument Lab · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

  Sonya clark: the descendants of monticello as part of declaration house

• $85,000

  Society of King'S Chapel · Boston, MA · 2024

  Harmonia rosales: journey toward reconciliation: a memorial at king's chapel

• $75,000

  Moma Ps1 · Queens, NY · 2025

  Precious okoyomon: courtyard commission

• $75,000

  Performa · New York, NY · 2025

  Tau lewis: no one ascends from the underworld unmarked

• $75,000

  Tinworks Art · Bozeman, MT · 2025

  Auriea harvey: edmonia triumphalis

• $75,000

  Boston Public Art Triennial · Boston, MA · 2024

  Beatriz cortez: nomad 2

• $75,000

  Smithsonian Institution (National Portrait Gallery) · Washington, DC · 2024

  Wendy red star: plinth commission

• $75,000

  US Biennial Inc (Prospect New Orleans) · New Orleans, LA · 2024

  Joiri minaya: fleurs de liberation: an ecology of resistance

• $75,000

  Dia Art Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

  Delcy morelos: delcy morelos at dia chelsea

• $75,000

  Hammer Museum · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  Cannupa hanska luger: sovereign

• $75,000

  Heart of Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  Eamon ore-giron: tlaloc's eyes

• $75,000

  Laxart · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  Kara walker:untitled (stonewall jackson project)

• $75,000

  Philadelphia Contemporary · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  Jean shin: freshwater

• $75,000

  Pioneer Works Art Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

  Charles atlas: the mathetics of consciousness

• $75,000

  Project Eats · New York, NY · 2022

  Arthur jafa and garrett bradley: a negro, a lim-o

• $70,000

  Madison Square Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2023

  Nicole eisenman: stopped crane

• $60,000

  Smithsonian American Art Museum · Washington, DC · 2025

  Nick cave: mammoth

• $60,000

  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art · North Adams, MA · 2022

  Ej hej hill: brake run helix

• $55,000

  Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute · Williamstown, MA · 2024

  Hugh hayden: sleeping giant

• $50,000

  Buffalo Bayou Partnership · Houston, TX · 2025

  Rafael lozano-hemmer: undercurrents

• $50,000

  Locust Projects · Miami, FL · 2025

  Edison peafiel: de profundis clamavi ad astra (from the depths, i cried out to the stars)

• $50,000

  Landmarks the University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023

  Howardena pindell: tbd

• $50,000

  Portland Art Museum · Portland, OR · 2023

  Jeffrey gibson: a space in which to place me

• $45,000

  Creative Time · New York, NY · 2024

  Chloe bass: if you hear something, free something (hear/free)

• $40,000

  1708 Gallery · Richmond, VA · 2023

  General operating support

• $40,000

  516 Arts · Albuquerque, NM · 2023

  General operating support

• $40,000

  Indigo Arts Alliance · Portland, ME · 2023

  General operating support

• $40,000

  Native American Community Development Institute · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  General operating support

• $40,000

  Participant · New York, NY · 2023

  General operating support

• $40,000

  Boston Art Review · Boston, MA · 2022

  General operating incubator grant

• $40,000

  Granary Art Center · Ephraim, UT · 2022

  General operating incubator grant

• $40,000

  Magpie Creative · Rapid City, SD · 2022

  General operating incubator grant

• $40,000

  Project for Empty Space · Newark, NJ · 2022

  General operating incubator grant

• $40,000

  Utah Museum of Contemporary Art · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022

  General operating incubator grant

• $35,000

  Bronx Museum of the Arts · Bronx, NY · 2024

  Saya woolfalk: archive of earth: ark

• $35,000

  California College of the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  Em'kal eyongakpa: s? Bt reflections ("bath for the ears")

• $20,000

  Baltimore Museum of Art · Baltimore, MD · 2023

  Jessica bell brown, 2024 via curatorial fellow

• $-1,853

  Project Eats · New York, NY · 2024

  Unspent funds from 2022 grant

• $-100,000

  Henry Art Gallery · Seattle, WA · 2024

  2022 cancelled grant

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