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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “curatorial”
Where the money went
Largest: $150,000 to WALKER ART CENTER — dyani white hawk exhibition; and curatorial research fellowship: rosario giraldes
Largest: $1.0M to CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP — to support curatorial leadership programs and organizational capacity
Largest: $385,000 to CENTER FOR CURATORIAL LEADERSHIP INC — core support for its fellowship training program that prepares museum curators for leadership roles and seeks to diversify the curatorial leadership track at cultural institutions
Largest: $645,000 to BARD COLLEGE-CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES — purpose: restricted grant to the center for curatorial studies to provide funding for the general operations of the hessel museum of art, support for two positions on the center fo…
Largest: $2.2M to Spelman College — to support the atlanta university center (auc) collective for the study of art history & curatorial studies.
Largest: $250,000 to Hammer Museum — luce curatorial fellowships
Largest: $60,000 to THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION — global curatorial training initiative (2 of 3)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts FoundationRichmond, VACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $126.7M · through 2024Largest: $39.3M to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts — to assist in implementing and funding programs, projects, and operations of the virignia museum of fine arts. for the year ended june 30, 2025, assistance was used for curatorial, …
Largest: $20,000 to ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC — 2026 residency and curatorial fellowship community programs
Largest: $150,000 to INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL — for ici's programs: curatorial intensive, the curatorial forum, and the mississippi initiative
Largest: $43,500 to INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM — detroit artist residency at iscp
Largest: $11,010 to Center for Curatorial Leadership — curatorial research
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →