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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 “exhibits”
Where the money went
Largest: $150,000 to WALKER ART CENTER — dyani white hawk exhibition; and curatorial research fellowship: rosario giraldes
Largest: $150,000 to PROJECT EATS INC — core support for project eats art inside/out exhibition program to increase the number of art-holding institutions investment in art exhibitions outside of museum and gallery walls
Largest: $40,000 to THE JEWISH MUSEUM — help with the costs of its upcoming exhibition, "the sassoons and the exhibition's accompanying catalogue
Largest: $150,000 to The University of Tennessee Foundation — beauford delaney graduate research fellowship and community exhibitions
Largest: $100,000 to STOCKTON UNIVERSITY — to support a permanent exhibition at the alliance chapel, a traveling exhibition, student research, and public programming
Largest: $25,000 to MOCA JACKSONVILLE — grant in support of "the armory south": the 1924 jacksonville woman's club exhibition rediscovered exhibition
Largest: $10,000 to HORIZONS GREATER PHILADELPHIA — art exhibition & contest awards
Pasadena Art AlliancePasadena, CACharity · may take applications
46 matching grants · $628,000 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to INNER-CITY ARTS — support for artists, exhibitions, educational programs and other art-oriented projectssupport for artists, exhibitions, educational programs and other art-oriented projects
Minnesota Historical SocietySaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
39 matching grants · $2.3M · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to DELANO FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — legacy grant for the permanent exhibit phase 1: exhibit plan
Largest: $75,000 to STIFTELSEN NORDISKA MUSEET — for support to display paintings by august strindberg and fresco sketches by carl larson in the new permanent exhibition, nordbor
Largest: $250,000 to NLI USA INC — gallery/ exhibitions
Largest: $100,000 to THE CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL AND EDUC — for intra-diasporic curators exhibition support and general exhibition support
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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 →