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Newark Arts Council
Newark, NJ, United States
$350,000
to support the creation of Newark's Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad Monument and related public programming (Fiscal sponsor for City of Newark, Office of the Mayor Ras J. Baraka)
The Valentine Museum
Richmond, VA, United States
$670,000
to support the Reclaiming the Monument public art project (Fiscal sponsor for Reclaiming the Monument)
United States National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites
Washington, DC, United States
$1,000,000
to support the development of a toolkit to inform decisions about the display, interpretation, removal, or relocation of monuments associated with oppression
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc.
Winston-Salem, NC, United States
$1,000,000
to support the Inclusive Public Art Initiative
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation
Washington, DC, United States
$1,023,000
to support new stained-glass windows to replace the cathedral’s Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson windows and related programming
Public Religion Research Institute, Inc.
Washington, DC, United States
$1,150,000
to support research meant to further understanding of the role religion plays in the conception and production of inclusive spaces in the South
Riverfront Development Corporation
Memphis, TN, United States
$1,400,000
to support the creation of A Monument to Listening, a new commemorative public artwork and landscape in Tom Lee Park, and related public programming
Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services
Dearborn, MI, United States
$1,470,000
to support the creation of a new commemorative public artwork by Sara Ouhaddou at Elizabeth Berger Plaza highlighting the work of early Arab writers and poets who settled in New York City (Fiscal sponsor for Washington Street Historical Society)
Movers & Shakers Foundation
New Hyde Park, NY, United States
$1,800,000
to support the development of the Kinfolk AR Monuments app and archive, and related public programming
North Carolina Freedom Monument Project
Raleigh, NC, United States
$1,900,000
to support the construction of the North Carolina Freedom Park and Beacon of Freedom
Black Hills Area Community Foundation
Rapid City, SD, United States
$2,100,000
to support the creation of Rapid City Indian Boarding School Project’s Wakȟáŋyeža Wičhákiksuyapi Memorial (Fiscal sponsor for Rapid City Indian Boarding School Lands Project)
Sealaska Heritage Institute
Juneau, AK, United States
$2,900,000
to support the Kootéeyaa Deiyí Totem Pole Trail project
Trust for the National Mall
Washington, DC, United States
$4,538,000
to support the Temporary Commemoration Pilot program
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Williamsburg, VA, United States
$5,000,000
to support the preservation, relocation, and restoration of the Williamsburg Bray School and development of public programming
Beta-Local, Inc.
San Juan, PR, United States
$40,000
to support strategic planning
Centro de Economía Creativa, Inc.
San Juan, PR, United States
$105,500
to support the mapping of cultural and artistic activity in Puerto Rico
Libraries Without Borders
Washington, DC, United States
$200,000
to support planning for a community archive project in Loíza, Puerto Rico. This grant is issued with Public Knowledge.
Flamboyan Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC, United States
$300,000
to support the Letras Boricuas fellowship for writers from Puerto Rico and the diaspora
University of Houston
Houston, TX, United States
$1,346,000
to support the development of El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña/The Puerto Rican Literature Project
Centro de Economía Creativa, Inc.
San Juan, PR, United States
$8,000,000
to support an initiative to stabilize and strengthen contemporary artists and artist-centered organizations across Puerto Rico. This grant is issued with Arts & Culture.
Texas After Violence Project
Austin, TX, United States
$125,000
to support capacity building for Mourning Our Losses (Fiscal sponsor for Mourning Our Losses)
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC, United States
$150,000
to support the acquisition of David Hammons's African American Flag
The Soze Foundation, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$1,018,000
to support the Right of Return fellowship program for formerly incarcerated artists and planning and capacity building for the Art and Advocacy Society (Fiscal sponsor for Right of Return Fellowship)
The Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,178,500
to support the Literary Arts Emergency Fund
Ithaka Harbors, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,500,000
to continue support for efforts to make JSTOR available to all higher education-in-prison programs now operating in the United States
PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,500,000
to support expansion of the Prison and Justice Writing Program
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
Arlington, VA, United States
$1,500,000
to support development of the Crime and Punishment in America documentary series
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY, United States
$1,778,500
to support the Literary Arts Emergency Fund
The National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,878,500
to support the Literary Arts Emergency Fund
United States Artists, Inc.
Chicago, IL, United States
$2,500,000
to continue support for the implementation of a fellowship program for disabled cultural practitioners living and working in the United States, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation
Equal Justice Initiative
Montgomery, AL, United States
$5,000,000
to support operations and staffing for the expanded Legacy Museum and the new Legacy Gallery
Billie Holiday Theatre, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$100,000
to support Black Theatre United's strategic planning process (Fiscal sponsor for Black Theatre United)
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States
$100,000
to support repatriation of a collection of objects to the Uganda Museum and a new model for politically engaged curatorship for African institutions
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support research on Black trustees at US art museums (Fiscal sponsor for Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums)
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
Arlington, VA, United States
$250,000
to support Making Black America: African American Social Networks
The Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$250,000
to support general operations in light of the COVID-19 pandemic
Smith College
Northampton, MA, United States
$250,000
to support the surveying and cataloging of materials in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
$250,000
to support increased access to materials of interest in the Bodleian Library to Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, United States
$250,000
to support the Fellows at the Forefront pilot program of the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship
New York Public Library
New York, NY, United States
$280,000
to support capacity building and expansion of the Correctional Services’ Reference-by-Mail Program
March on Washington Film Festival
Washington, DC, United States
$450,000
to support the festival's core operations
The Constitution Hill Trust
Johannesburg, South Africa
$450,000
to support organizational capacity building and public programming
The Eyebeam Atelier, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$600,000
to provide general operating support
Tides Center
San Francisco, CA, United States
$115,000,000
to support Creatives Rebuild New York
Gateways Music Festival, Inc.
Rochester, NY, United States
$50,000
to support the Black Orchestral Network (Fiscal sponsor for Black Orchestral Network)
Fractured Atlas, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support capacity building for the Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas (Fiscal sponsor for APOYOnline - Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas, Inc.)
The Arts League of Michigan
Detroit, MI, United States
$150,000
to support artistic and leadership succession planning
AAMC Foundation
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support an online community of practice of art museum curators to further network, develop, and idea exchange regarding best practices for Artist Demographic Data, and create a best practices handbook, a first for the field
Latino Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$150,000
to support planning for the Latinx Theater Initiative
Allied Media Projects, Inc.
Detroit, MI, United States
$150,000
to support the planning, production, and expansion of the AMP Seeds Series
Oberlin Dance Collective
San Francisco, CA, United States
$200,000
to support a revamp of dance residency practices
Museum Hue, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$200,000
to support capacity-building efforts
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA, United States
$200,000
to support conservation, digitization, research, engagement, and planning related to the school’s monumental public Diego Rivera fresco
New York University
New York, NY, United States
$215,000
to support dissemination of Proclaiming Disability Arts
Homeboy Industries
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$250,000
to support the creation of a dedicated arts strategy for formerly gang-involved and formerly incarcerated people involved with Homeboy Industries
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$250,000
to support the conservation, cataloging, storage, and study of the work of Michael Richards (1963-2001) (Fiscal sponsor for Michael Richards Estate)
Florida State University Foundation, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL, United States
$260,000
to continue support for dance residencies
Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY, United States
$300,000
to support a collaborative artistic exchange project with Abrons Arts Center and Pública Espacio Cultural. This grant is issued with Presidential Initiatives.
Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$300,000
to continue support for dance residencies
Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$350,000
to continue support for dance residencies
South Arts, Inc.
Atlanta, GA, United States
$359,000
to continue support for the National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness and Emergency Response: a coordinated system of communication and response among providers in the emergency services sector serving artists and arts organizations (Fiscal sponsor for National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness and Emergency Response)
American Folk Art Museum
New York, NY, United States
$390,000
to continue support for an internship program in collaboration with LaGuardia Community College through a third and final grant
Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation
Portland, OR, United States
$400,000
to continue support for the Advancing Indigenous Performance Program
Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$400,000
to continue support for dance residencies
PAʻI Foundation
Honolulu, HI, United States
$425,000
to continue support for the Native Hawaiian Cultural Heritage Network
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, United States
$450,000
to provide a final round of support for the Projecting All Voices initiative
American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$450,000
to continue support for programs cultivating relationships between emerging composers and orchestras
Alliance of Resident Theatres New York, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$475,000
to continue support for theater rehearsal space subsidies through the Creative Space Grant program
The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM, United States
$500,000
to support staff capacity to enhance collections, archives management, and public accessibility
Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Inc.
Montpelier, VT, United States
$500,000
to continue support for capacity building and an emergency readiness and recovery program of, by, and for artists
Abraham in Motion, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$500,000
to support leadership development, capacity building, and institutional growth for A.I.M
Alonzo King LINES Ballet
San Francisco, CA, United States
$500,000
to support artistic expansion and exploration
Artistic Freedom Initiative
New York, NY, United States
$500,000
to support the Afghan Artists Protection Project
Community Partners
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$550,000
to support a collaborative program for repatriation and the care of cultural resources that prioritize Indigenous perspectives or that adapt practices to work for their specific needs, philosophies, and approaches (Fiscal sponsor for Your Neighborhood Museum)
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$550,000
to support the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center's monograph series “A Ver: Revisioning Art History,” focusing on US Latinx artists
East-West Players, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$600,000
to support capacity building for a leading Asian American theater during a period of significant institutional change
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO, United States
$750,000
to support the disruption of established practices around the commissioning of new work
Opera Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$750,000
to support the implementation of hybrid programming models and critical analysis of organizational, artistic, and audience environments
Southwest Folklife Alliance
Tucson, AZ, United States
$750,000
to support organizational capacity and transborder folklife initiatives
Gateways Music Festival, Inc.
Rochester, NY, United States
$800,000
to continue support for a festival celebrating contributions of African American orchestral and chamber musicians and and its first tour to New York City
The Philadelphia Dance Company
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$850,000
to support change capital through the Foundation's Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative
Oakland Museum of California
Oakland, CA, United States
$1,000,000
to continue support for the knowledge management infrastructure initiative's implementation
Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,000,000
to support the TCG Books program. This grant is issued with Public Knowledge.
Cincinnati Opera Association
Cincinnati, OH, United States
$1,300,000
to continue support for Opera Fusion: New Works and to commission new operas about positive Black stories
Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI, United States
$1,950,000
to continue support for the National Alliance for Audition Support
Dance Service New York City, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$2,500,000
to continue support for the New York Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program
The National Black Theatre Workshop
New York, NY, United States
$3,000,000
to support capacity building for a leading Black theater during a period of significant institutional change
Opus 40, Inc.
Saugerties, NY, United States
$300,000
to support the stabilization and conservation of the monumental sculpture by Harvey Fite
The LIT Fund Incorporated
Astoria, NY, United States
$350,000
to support the Cultural Solidarity Fund, a microgrant program for New York City-based arts and cultural workers in financial need due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN, United States
$100,000
to support planning for a new national regranting program to help bring performative social and narrative change projects to completion and production
Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA, United States
$150,000
to support streamed programming of newly created work by Seattle artists
Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN, United States
$232,500
to support a collaborative initiative for plays by emerging and established artists of color for multigenerational audiences
Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$240,500
to support a collaborative initiative for plays by emerging andestablished artists of color for multigenerational audiences
Association of Performing Arts Professionals
Washington, DC, United States
$250,000
to support general operations
Latino Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$263,500
to support a collaborative initiative for plays by emerging and established artists of color for multigenerational audiences
Autry Museum of the American West
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$270,240
to support a collaborative initiative for plays by emerging andestablished artists of color for multigenerational audiences
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$350,000
to continue support for Sustainable Little Tokyo and a community curatorial fellowship program
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA, United States
$500,000
to support work focused on Asian and Pacific Islander American identities and histories, and the building of collaborations with Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities
The Chrysler Museum of Art Incorporated
Norfolk, VA, United States
$500,000
to support a collaboration fellowship program, with Hampton University Museum, that builds scholarship around their African art collections
The New School
New York, NY, United States
$500,000
to support a collections assessment, sustainability planning, and a conservation assessment of the José Clemente Orozco mural
Fisk University
Nashville, TN, United States
$500,000
to support the cataloguing and conservation of the Fisk University Galleries collections, in particular the Harmon Foundation collection of African Modernist Art
New Art Publications, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$500,000
to support the national expansion of BOMB Magazine’s Oral History Project of African diasporic visual artists
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans, LA, United States
$500,000
to support artist archival research residencies, in collaboration with the Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought
Children’s Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN, United States
$546,500
to support a collaborative initiative for plays by emerging andestablished artists of color for multigenerational audiences
Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI, United States
$600,000
to continue support for the Opera of Our Time Initiative
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD, United States
$790,000
to support the archival collection at the David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, and a monument to the late artist and art historian
Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN, United States
$900,000
to continue support for an intensive pre-college professional training program for students from underrepresented communities
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Malden, MA, United States
$1,000,000
to support five recordings of operas by African American composers on African American historical topics
The MAP Fund, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,000,000
to continue support for a regranting program for the creation and development of contemporary performance work
Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,000,000
to support the creation of the Latinx Dance Institute
CABD, Inc.
Jamaica, NY, United States
$1,000,000
to support the development of a community of practice across the field of social dance
US Latinx Art Forum
Medford, MA, United States
$1,212,500
to support Latinx artist fellowships as part of the US Latinx Art Visibility Fund
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$1,287,500
to support Latinx artist fellowships as part of the US Latinx Art Visibility Fund
KQED, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, United States
$85,000
to support If Cities Could Dance
Latino Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$100,000
to support a model for succession planning for ensemble theater companies
Leeway Foundation
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$100,000
to support the Window of Opportunity Community Relief Fund
Grantmakers in the Arts
Bronx, NY, United States
$150,000
to support information dissemination and communication initiatives
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$150,000
to support a working group for South Asian experimental dance artists
Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support a bubble residency for Emily Johnson/Catalyst (Fiscal sponsor for Emily Johnson/Catalyst)
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association, Inc.
Ashland, OR, United States
$150,000
to support the activities of The Coalition of Professional Non-Profit Theaters
Newark Performing Arts Corporation
Newark, NJ, United States
$150,000
to support capacity building
Dorrance Dance Incorporated
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support future planning for Dorrance Dance
Alliance of Artists Communities
Providence, RI, United States
$150,000
to support a new model designed to address injustices in residency spaces through a restorative justice framework
The Flea Theater, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support capacity building and a reimagined business model
The LIT Fund Incorporated
Astoria, NY, United States
$200,000
to support the Cultural Solidarity Fund, a microgrant program for New York City-based arts and cultural workers in financial need due to the COVID-19 pandemic
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, United States
$200,000
to support general operations at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Graham Gund Gallery
Gambier, OH, United States
200,000
to support general operations
University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
San Juan, PR, United States
$200,000
to support general operations at the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, United States
$200,000
to support general operations at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, United States
$200,000
to support general operations at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
TRI314 Multidisciplinary Visual Performances, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$250,000
to support a bubble residency for TRIBE
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA, United States
$250,000
to support general operations at the C.N. Gorman Museum
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, United States
$260,000
to support general operations at the Arizona State Museum
California Shakespeare Theater
Orinda, CA, United States
$300,000
to support the Shared Light Initiative
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$300,000
to support planning and capacity-building activities connected to the new director’s vision for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland, OR, United States
$300,000
to continue support for First Nations Performing Arts (Fiscal sponsor for First Nations Performing Arts)
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT, United States
$300,000
to support a bubble residency for nora chipaumire
Birmingham Museum of Art Endowment Trust
Birmingham, AL, United States
$300,000
to support the long-serving curator of African art
New Brooklyn Theatre
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$300,000
to support a bubble residency for the feath3r theory
Kamau Studios, LLC
New York, NY, United States
$300,000
to support Kamau Studios, a visual storytelling studio and creative community of storytellers experimenting with narrative devices in visual storytelling called storystyle, including its flagship storytelling project, the Black Gotham Experience
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM, United States
$300,000
to support general operations at the New Mexico State University Art Museum
Institute of American Indian & Alaska Native Culture & Arts
Santa Fe, NM, United States
$340,000
to support general operations at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Emerson College
Boston, MA, United States
$350,000
to continue support for the Latinx Theatre Commons
Rothko Chapel
Houston, TX, United States
$350,000
to support a planning process for programming, specifically cross-sector work related to art, spirituality, and social justice
Museum of the African Diaspora
San Francisco, CA, United States
$350,000
to support the museum's first-ever professional and scholarly chief curator
Spelman College
Atlanta, GA, United States
$350,000
to support general operations at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Pioneer Winter Collective, Inc.
Miami, FL, United States
$400,000
to support artistic expansion and exploration for Pioneer Winter Collective
Brava for Women in the Arts
San Francisco, CA, United States
$445,000
to support artistic expansion and exploration for La Mezcla (Fiscal sponsor for La Mezcla LLC)
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc.
Miami, FL, United States
$450,000
to support succession planning and a new director's hire
Dance Iquail, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$475,000
to support artistic expansion and exploration for DANCE IQUAIL!
UBW, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$495,000
to support Urban Bush Women's Choreographic Center Institute
Social Impact Commons, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$500,000
to support Social Impact Commons, the first national incubator and shared services provider supporting the fiscal sponsorship community
Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$500,000
to continue support for community and artist-informed programming
TRI314 Multidisciplinary Visual Performances, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$500,000
to support artistic expansion and exploration for Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation
Monterey Park, CA, United States
$500,000
to support general operations
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA, United States
$500,000
to support general operations at the Newcomb Art Museum
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Becket, MA, United States
$600,000
to continue support for the Pillow Lab residency program
Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music
Boonville, CA, United States
$600,000
to support a program of training, mentorship, and arts citizenship for emerging composers of diverse backgrounds and aesthetics
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Inc.
Vancouver, WA, United States
$600,000
to support capacity building and activation of the new Center for Native Arts and Cultures
New Brooklyn Theatre
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$600,000
to support artistic expansion and exploration for the feath3r theory
National Association of Latino Arts & Culture
San Antonio, TX, United States
$750,000
to continue support for the Intercultural Leadership Institute
Romare Bearden Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$750,000
to support photography, cataloguing, and research for a digital catalogue raisonné of Romare Bearden’s work, among the first of this kind
Artspace Projects, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN, United States
$800,000
to continue support for the Artspace Immersion Program
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$800,000
to support Anna Deavere Smith’s Pipeline: Girls (Fiscal sponsor for Anna Deavere Smith Pipeline Project)
Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$955,000
to support artistic expansion and exploration for Emily Johnson/Catalyst (Fiscal sponsor for Emily Johnson/Catalyst)
Association of African American Museums
Washington, DC, United States
$1,000,000
to continue support for capacity building and programming
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX, United States
$1,000,000
to continue support for SMU DataArts
Bishop Museum
Honolulu, HI, United States
$1,000,000
to support capacity building and a new leadership program focused on Indigenous frameworks for curators of Hawaiian and Pacific art and culture
Theater of War Productions Limited Liability Company
New York, NY, United States
$1,000,000
to support development of the Digital Amphitheater
The Performance Zone, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,605,000
to support the new artist-founded public benefit corporation, The Collective Practice (Fiscal sponsor for Kaneza Schaal/Bugingo Studios)
Nonprofit Finance Fund
New York, NY, United States
$1,861,500
to support technical enhancement for the second cohort of the Foundation’s Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative for The International Association of Blacks in Dance
Design Trust for Public Space, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$2,000,000
to support outdoor staging in public space for arts and cultural organizations in New York City. This grant is issued with Humanities in Place.
American Symphony Orchestra League
New York, NY, United States
$2,100,000
to continue support for the Catalyst program to advance equitable andinclusive practices in American orchestras
Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$2,500,000
to support Kinetic Light and the development of CAMPUS, a community space for disabled artists (Fiscal sponsor for Disability Dance Works LLC, d/b/a Kinetic Light)
The Silk Road Project, Inc.
Boston, MA, United States
$3,000,000
to support innovative artistic community, capacity building, and plans to develop The American Silkroad
Association of Performing Arts Professionals
Washington, DC, United States
$3,000,000
to support Restarting the Arts, a regranting program to assist presenters, artists, and companies in reopening strategies
The International Association of Blacks in Dance, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD, United States
$3,138,500
to support a second cohort through the Foundation's Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative
New England Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
Boston, MA, United States
$4,062,000
to continue support for the National Dance Project
Fractured Atlas, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$5,000,000
to support a national advocacy organization for artists, helping support their work, livelihoods, and access to professional services, and advocate on their behalf in public dialogues
American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY, United States
$135,000
to support a final grant for the curatorial and conservation activities associated with the museum’s Northwest Coast Hall reinstallation
Prison Communities International, Inc.
Purchase, NY, United States
$150,000
to support bridge funding to complete the Rehabilitation Through the Arts Reentry Toolkit
The Tank, Ltd.
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support Anthony Roth Costanzo's Creative ARC, a project designed to support his creative practice as well as a mentorship program for emerging artists building practices that transcend institutional walls (Fiscal sponsor for Anthony Roth Costanzo)
Dance Exchange, Inc.
Takoma Park, MD, United States
$150,000
to support the development of an artistic legacy project that would capture the processes, methods, and techniques of multidimensional artists (Fiscal sponsor for Liz Lerman LLC)
Artspace, Inc.
New Haven, CT, United States
$200,000
to support the new director's vision by building staff capacity and re-envisioning its New Haven-focused programming
Columbia University
New York, NY, United States
$250,000
to support a pilot oral history project focused on Black curators
Philadelphia Contemporary
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$250,000
to support a collaborative multimedia installation led by artist Pepón Osorio
Institute For Freedoms, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$260,000
to support the completion of North Star, a large-scale multidisciplinary art project (Fiscal sponsor for Kambui Olujimi and North Star)
American Opera Projects, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$270,000
to provide a final round of support for the Composers & the Voice program
The Tank, Ltd.
New York, NY, United States
$350,000
to support the completion, production, and touring of “Iphigenia,” a new opera by Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding (Fiscal sponsor for Real Magic LLC)
Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$423,000
to support production of Cecile McLorin Salvant's animated film “Ogresse” (Fiscal sponsor for Cecile McLorin Salvant's animated film "Ogresse")
Beth Morrison Projects, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$485,000
to support the Producers Academy
Springboard for the Arts
Saint Paul, MN, United States
$500,000
to support a new practitioner-led national training center and local community hub
Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN, United States
$500,000
to continue support for We the Many, a community-centered artist residency program to explore the changing Midwestern identity
Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City, MO, United States
$500,000
to continue support for regional artists engaged in interdisciplinary social practice
Queens Museum of Art
Queens, NY, United States
$500,000
to support artist residencies, planning for an Indigenous practice studio, and organizational capacity toward equity
SmartHistory, Inc.
Pleasantville, NY, United States
$500,000
to continue support for the acceleration of content for underrepresented art historical fields, three one-year postdoctoral fellowships, and honoraria for content curators
San Francisco Jazz Organization
San Francisco, CA, United States
$500,000
to continue support artist residencies, commissions, and digital platforminitiatives
Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$500,000
to support Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE Dance, and the company's artistic and administrative future (Fiscal sponsor for Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, A Dance Company)
Black Lunch Table
Chicago, IL, United States
$500,000
to support a Black artist-led initiative to enhance its digital archive
Brandywine Workshop and Archives
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$500,000
to support succession planning and an ongoing collaboration with Drexel University to expand the organization’s archive of prints created by racially diverse artists
Summaeverythang Community Center
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$500,000
to support artist-directed action and practice in South Central Los Angeles
Recess Activities, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$600,000
to support planning and implementation of equitable organizational and programmatic models based on abolitionist frameworks
Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$600,000
to support the relaunch of the Center for Court Innovation’s Project Reset Brooklyn, an arts-based diversion program offering an innovative response to low-level arrests (Fiscal sponsor for Center for Court Innovation)
artEquity Community
Pasadena, CA, United States
$750,000
to continue support for artEquity training programs
The Louisville Orchestra, Inc.
Louisville, KY, United States
$750,000
to support The Music Makes a City Creative Neighborhood Residency Program
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Inc.
Boston, MA, United States
$750,000
to support the creation and touring of Simone Leigh's representation of the United States for the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in collaboration with Spelman College
Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$750,000
to support Project Number One, a job creation program for artists
Institute of American Indian & Alaska Native Culture & Arts
Santa Fe, NM, United States
$800,000
to continue support for the implementation of the Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts
New Venture Fund
Washington, DC, United States
$900,000
to support cultural strategist placements within City of Oakland government (Fiscal sponsor for Oakland Fund for Public Innovation)
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,000,000
to support the implementation phase of projects giving agency to artists, technologists, and thinkers working at the center of the president’s vision
New Music USA, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,250,000
to support jazz residencies that prioritize women and gender-expansive artists in partnership with the Berklee Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice
Harlem Stage, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$2,000,000
to support artist-led administration and programming
Institute of International Education, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$2,500,000
to continue support for the Artist Protection Fund
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc.
North Adams, MA, United States
$3,000,000
to support the national expansion of Artists at Work, which integrates art and artists through sustainable employment and partnership models into the rebuilding of healthy communities (Fiscal sponsor for THE OFFICE performing arts + film)
Columbia University
New York, NY, United States
$100,000
to continue support for preliminary research for a multidimensional measure of the degree to which American colleges and universities offer a liberal arts education—a LA Index
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support a Gender and LGBTQ+ History Fellow at The Center for Women's History at the New-York Historical Society
PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support efforts for coalition building for critical race theory among academics and institutions
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, United States
$218,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for April Baker-Bell
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, United States
$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Reimagining the American Landscape: Race and the Future of Public History"
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Precarious Ecologies: Science and Social Justice in the Production of Environmental Knowledge"
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, United States
$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Visions of Slavery: Histories, Memories, and Mobilizations of Unfreedom in the Black Atlantic"
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, United States
$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Changing Contours of Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Contestation, Consolidation, and Contradictions"
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, United States
$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Rethinking the Right to the City through the Black Radical Tradition"
New York University
New York, NY, United States
$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Indigenous Futures in Times of Crisis"
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA, United States
$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Black Reconstruction as a Portal"
University of California at Riverside
Riverside, CA, United States
$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Unarchiving Blackness: Why the Primacy of African and African Diaspora Studies Necessitates a Creative Reconsideration of Archives"
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA, United States
$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine"
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA, United States
$225,000
to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Racial Reckoning and Social Justice through Comics"
University of California at Riverside
Riverside, CA, United States
$231,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Alejandra Dubcovsky
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA, United States
$240,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Andy Horowitz
Georgetown University
Washington, DC, United States
$244,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Daniel Neep
American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States
$250,000
to conclude support for the Scholars and Society Program through culminating projects to extend and publicly document the work of program participants
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, United States
$256,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Christina Normore
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$267,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Ramah McKay
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO, United States
$268,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Henry Lovejoy
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA, United States
$276,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Min Kyung Lee
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$290,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Katherine Marino
Howard University
Washington, DC, United States
$296,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Amy Yeboah
Rice University
Houston, TX, United States
$296,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Andrea Ballestero
Amherst College
Amherst, MA, United States
$300,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Kiara Vigil
Duke University
Durham, NC, United States
$300,000
to support a New Directions Fellowship for Tsitsi Jaji
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA, United States
$400,000
to continue support for an inquiry into how social media and other data can be combined with institutional records to support research on the liberal arts
National Humanities Alliance Foundation
Washington, DC, United States
$400,000
to support documentation, analysis, assessment, and dissemination of public humanities and inclusive pedagogy projects focused on social and racial justice
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA, United States
$500,000
to support the establishment of a fellows program in Decolonial Global Studies, and the development of a graduate certificate in the field
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$500,000
to support intersectional studies
New York University
New York, NY, United States
$500,000
to support intersectional studies
Northeastern University
Boston, MA, United States
$500,000
to support planning for a cross-institutional project that emphasizes the histories and commemorative landscapes of Black Boston, digital scholarship, civic engagement, and community-library-university partnerships. This grant is issued with Humanities in Place.
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, United States
$517,600
to support intersectional studies
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA, United States
$524,300
to support intersectional studies
Clark Atlanta University
Atlanta, GA, United States
$578,000
to support the development of digital humanities infrastructure in the context of the Historically Black Colleges and University sector
Prairie View A&M University
Prairie View, TX, United States
$600,000
to continue support for a program of courses leading to a new major in African American Studies
Lincoln University
Lincoln, PA, United States
$600,000
to support the creation of a Black studies department
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, United States
$616,670
to support intersectional studies
Berea College
Berea, KY, United States
$700,000
to support the college's new bell hooks center
University of Ghana
Accra, Ghana
$800,000
to continue support for graduate student training in the humanities
Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda
$800,000
to support scholarly research and training in epistemological and practical approaches to the study of archives
Climate Museum
New York, NY, United States
$800,000
to continue support for postdoctoral fellowships and programming related to environmental justice
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA, United States
$800,000
to support development of Native American and Indigenous language teaching pedagogies and digital resources. This grant is issued with Public Knowledge.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States
$950,000
to support a final continuation to institutionalize dissertation completion fellowships in Latinx studies at six university centers
Fort Lewis College
Durango, CO, United States
$950,000
to support a new institutional framework for Indigenous studies and research
Macalester College
Saint Paul, MN, United States
$1,000,000
to support a Native and Indigenous studies initiative
Public Religion Research Institute, Inc.
Washington, DC, United States
$1,012,000
to support the Religion and Renewing Democracy Initiative, which is designed to broaden public knowledge about the role of religion in both hindering and fostering a more just society
Colorado College
Colorado Springs, CO, United States
$1,024,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT, United States
$1,064,500
to support a Humanities for All Times project
American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Alexandria, VA, United States
$1,183,000
to support the Native Language Program to implement a common Native language preservation strategy with a focus on capacity building at 37 tribal colleges
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY, United States
$1,185,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA, United States
$1,207,000
to support the development of an institute for Black masculinities studies
Knox College
Galesburg, IL, United States
$1,234,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
Hunter College
New York, NY, United States
$1,238,000
to support scholarly study groups between academics from the University of Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican scholars at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. This grant is issued with Presidential Initiatives.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, United States
$1,284,000
to support initiatives at the intellectual and institutional intersection of architecture, urbanism, and the humanities with a focus on social justice
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo, MI, United States
$1,297,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
Austin College
Sherman, TX, United States
$1,344,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, United States
$1,464,000
to continue support for the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies Research with an expanded focus on Native student recruitment and the creation of a national network of Native American and Indigenous studies programs
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, United States
$1,478,000
to support a project on the ethics and politics of storytelling with local communities, building on projects that center suppressed narratives
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States
$1,490,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
Macalester College
Saint Paul, MN, United States
$1,497,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA, United States
$1,499,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, United States
$1,500,000
to support a final round of the Fronteridades program of binational community-engaged initiatives at the US-Mexico border with a particular focus on Nogales
American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States
$1,500,000
to continue support for a program of research fellowships for community college faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY, United States
$1,500,000
to renew support for the Food Humanities Program that supports the creation and collection of oral histories as audiovisual recordings and sharing of Bronx-based food stories that preserve diasporic neighborhood histories and cultures, and support the creation of networks of community gardening efforts that reveal those histories and cultures
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$1,500,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY, United States
$1,500,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
Fort Lewis College
Durango, CO, United States
$1,500,000
to support a Humanities for All Times project
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY, United States
$1,500,000
to establish the Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and a major in Native American and Indigenous studies
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
$1,500,000
to support the creation of a landmark scholarly initiative that documents the lexicon of African American English in a dictionary based on historical principles
American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$1,644,000
to continue support for the Native American Scholars Initiative
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA, United States
$1,977,000
to support "Visualizing Abolition," a collaborative arts-based initiative meant to educate the public about prison abolition. This grant is issued with Presidential Initiatives.
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, United States
$2,000,000
to support diasporic (Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian) digital studies with a focus on graduate students at R1 universities, in collaboration with artists and community members
Mozilla Foundation
San Francisco, CA, United States
$2,400,000
to support seeding justice-minded humanities approaches to ethical computing in college and university curricula through an interdisciplinary phase two of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. This grant is issued with Public Knowledge.
American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States
$2,600,000
to continue support for dissertation completion fellowships for graduate students in specifically designated fields of the humanities and social sciences
Salem State University
Salem, MA, United States
$3,000,000
to support the establishment of a national network of regional comprehensive universities that develop undergraduate-focused digital humanities with an emphasis on ethnic studies and community engagement
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, United States
$3,500,000
to support curricular development, field diversification, academic mentorship, and public humanities work around race in premodern humanities fields (early modern, medieval, classics)
American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States
$3,650,000
to continue support for postdoctoral fellowships in social-justice-oriented government and nonprofit agencies for humanities PhDs
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States
$4,800,000
to support a digital futures collaborative network
Barnard College
New York, NY, United States
$5,000,000
to support the extension and elevation of Caribbean-focused digital humanities scholarship, training, and infrastructure across Caribbean and US universities for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates
American Council on Education
Washington, DC, United States
$500,000
to continue support for the publication and dissemination of comprehensive status reports on the state of race and ethnicity in higher education
American Councils for International Education
Washington, DC, United States
$500,000
to support the America’s Languages Initiative, a national strategy to improve equitable access to language education
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$950,000
to support a new faculty hiring and curricular revitalization program
Five Colleges, Incorporated
Amherst, MA, United States
$1,620,000
to support the expansion of an academic leadership development pilot program with a focus on diversity
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD, United States
$3,128,000
to support initiatives to diversify academic leadership, in partnership with Morgan State University and the University of Maryland at College Park
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States
$5,000,000
to establish a Latinx studies research and training program for advanced graduate students and a network of 16 public research-intensive Hispanic-serving Institutions
American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States
$5,808,000
to support one annual cycle of program renewals at institutions hosting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: Barnard, Bowdoin, Brooklyn, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Haverford, Hunter, Macalester, Oberlin, Pomona, Queens, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Whittier, and Williams Colleges; Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Heritage, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, Wesleyan, and Yale Universities; the Universities of California at Berkeley, at Los Angeles, and at Riverside; the Universities of Cape Town, Chicago, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, Southern California, Texas at Austin, the Western Cape, and the Witwatersrand; the California Institute of Technology; California State University Foundation; City College of New York; United Negro College Fund, Inc.; and Washington University in St. Louis
The Regents of the University of California
Oakland, CA, United States
$15,000,000
to support expansion of the University of California's Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship program by sharpening its focus on the humanities at six UC campuses designated as Hispanic-serving Institutions
Institute of International Education, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to continue support for the Emergency Student Fund for international students in the US impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States
$150,000
to support planning for expansion of the Bard Prison Initiative. This grant is issued with Presidential Initiatives.
American University of Central Asia
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
$150,000
to support emergency funding for students who have fled Afghanistan
The Council for At-Risk Academics
London, United Kingdom
$300,000
to support emergency funds for scholars who have fled Afghanistan and for refugee scholars impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Friends of the American University of Afghanistan
Washington, DC, United States
$300,000
to support emergency funding for the resettlement of students and scholars of the American University of Afghanistan
Scholars at Risk, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$500,000
to support efforts to aid scholars fleeing Afghanistan
Institute of International Education, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$500,000
to support fellowships for scholars fleeing Afghanistan
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Washington, DC, United States
$500,000
to support fellowships for scholars who have fled Afghanistan
Asian University for Women Support Foundation
Cambridge, MA, United States
$550,000
to support emergency funding for Afghan students and alumnae
Henry Ford College
Dearborn, MI, United States
$580,000
to continue support for the transfer of Henry Ford College, Grand Rapids Community College, and Schoolcraft College students in the humanities to the University of Michigan and to strengthen collaboration between faculty in the humanities at both institutions
Phi Theta Kappa
Jackson, MS, United States
$750,000
to continue support for undergraduate research opportunities for community college students through the Honors in Action program
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT, United States
$1,000,000
to continue support for the Center for Prison Education
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$1,000,000
to continue to support a degree-granting program and reentry support for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students
Mount Tamalpais College
San Quentin, CA, United States
$1,000,000
to continue to support prison education and reentry
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark
Newark, NJ, United States
$1,500,000
to continue support for the NJ-STEP program, which coordinates prison education courses inside seven out of the ten accessible facilities across NJ and has created a continuum of higher educational services from prison into the community
University of New Haven
West Haven, CT, United States
$1,500,000
to support a degree-granting partnership with the Yale Prison Education Initiative for incarcerated students in Connecticut
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA, United States
$1,517,000
to continue support for four-year pathways in arts and humanities between Virginia Commonwealth University and Brightpoint and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Colleges in order to accelerate baccalaureate degree completion and strengthen faculty collaborations between the institutions
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA, United States
$1,573,000
to support transfer students in the humanities who are transitioning from Perimeter College to Georgia State University
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, United States
$1,700,000
to continue to support the Cornell Prison Education Program
Virginia Community College System
Richmond, VA, United States
$1,983,000
to continue support for four-year pathways in arts and humanities between Virginia Commonwealth University and Brightpoint and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Colleges in order to accelerate baccalaureate degree completion and strengthen faculty collaborations between the institutions
DePaul University
Chicago, IL, United States
$1,993,000
to support a program to create a structured humanities learning community for students and faculty members working in fields that focus on the histories and cultures of people of color
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States
$2,756,000
to continue support for the transfer of Henry Ford College, Grand Rapids Community College, and Schoolcraft College students in the humanities to the University of Michigan and to strengthen collaboration between faculty in the humanities at both institutions
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States
$4,850,000
to support an expansion of college-in-prison programs for men and women, planning for a master’s degree program, and an endowed chair dedicated to the Bard Prison Initiative
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA, United States
$5,000,000
to support a final renewal for the Cross-Border Community Stations program of innovative community engagement in San Diego and Tijuana
Black Reconstruction Collective, Inc.
State College, PA, United States
$150,000
to support the organization's annual convening and the launching of an annual prize to proposals investigating the work of reconstruction
African Futures Institute LBG
Accra, Ghana
$150,000
to support program planning and activities for the establishment of an independent graduate school of architecture and public events platform in Accra, Ghana
Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, Inc.
Shelter Island, NY, United States
$150,000
to support the organization's engagement with educational institutions and other historic sites. This grant is issued with Higher Learning.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$750,000
to support a trans-institutional partnership between TuskegeeUniversity and the University of Pennsylvania for preservationeducation, outreach, and practice centered on Black heritage
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, AL, United States
$750,000
to support a trans-institutional partnership between Tuskegee University and the University of Pennsylvania for preservation education, outreach, and practice centered on Black heritage
Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium
Birmingham, AL, United States
$750,000
to support the consortium's organizational capacity, a humanities scholar-in-residence, and various projects for community partners and consortium member sites
Latinos in Heritage Conservation
Tucson, AZ, United States
$750,000
to support Latinx heritage and historic preservation networks, organizational capacity, programming and advocacy, and an expanded digital humanities project
University of Florida at Gainesville
Gainesville, FL, United States
$750,000
to support the SPARC 352 Project, a community-centered and racial justice-focused initiative to promote university and community collaborations through the arts and humanities
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Washington, DC, United States
$1,150,000
to support the Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice
Durham, NC, United States
$1,600,000
to support the renovation of the landmark Pauli Murray home, expanded organizational capacity and facilities, and inaugural exhibits
Parks & People Foundation, Inc.
Baltimore, MD, United States
$150,000
to support operating costs and programming for Blue Light Junction (Fiscal sponsor for Blue Light Junction)
Sweet Water Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL, United States
$500,000
to support the buildout of the Civic Arts Church and 2022 to 2023 programming
Historic Clayborn Temple
Memphis, TN, United States
$500,000
to support organizational capacity and development, community engagement, and public programming
Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$500,000
to support organizational capacity and development for a community-focused project honoring the legacy of John Coltrane
National Opera House
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
$500,000
to support required stabilization work for the opera house building and increased organizational capacity
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University
Tallahassee, FL, United States
$500,000
to support cultural asset mapping, public art programs, art and design residencies, and community-based planning
Daisy Wilson Artist Community, Inc.
Bethel Park, PA, United States
$750,000
to support the build-out of the August Wilson House backyard theater and the renovation of 713 Cassatt Street for artist residency housing
Paso del Norte Community Foundation
El Paso, TX, United States
$750,000
to support the Bracero rehabilitation, museum exhibition and interpretation, a research fellowship, and the development and operation of the Rio Vista Farm tour (Fiscal sponsor for City of Socorro Community Initiative)
Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN, United States
$800,000
to support organizational capacity and research fellowships for the Urban Legacy Lands Initiative (Fiscal sponsor for Urban Legacy Lands Initiative)
Friends of the Coltrane Home in Dix Hills
Deer Park, NY, United States
$1,000,000
to support the preservation of The John and Alice Coltrane Home, organizational capacity, and programmatic expansion
The Historical Preservation Authority of the City of Birmingham
Birmingham, AL, United States
$1,100,000
to support the restoration of the historic A. G. Gaston Motel coffee shop and dining room, and the construction of related support and exhibition spaces
Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center
Baltimore, MD, United States
$1,250,000
to support organizational capacity, design and development, community engagement, and programming for the Black Baltimore Digital Database (Fiscal sponsor for Black Baltimore Digital Database)
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX, United States
$1,600,000
to support the Museo del Westside renovations, a community cultural historian, and organizational capacity
Colloqate Design
New Orleans, LA, United States
$1,750,000
to support the Claiborne Cultural Innovation District component of the Storia Project and related arts and cultural heritage programming
Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation
Bronx, NY, United States
$2,500,000
to support completing the construction and theatrical fit-out of the Bronx Music Hall
The Rebuild Foundation NFP
Chicago, IL, United States
$3,500,000
to support the St. Laurence Arts & Industry construction, archive and collections management, and programming at the Stony Island Arts Bank
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke
Weogufka, AL, United States
$3,500,000
to support the construction of the main lodge gathering space and museum building for the Vlahoke Project
The Tank, Ltd.
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support programming for The Soapbox Presents project (Fiscal sponsor for The Soapbox Presents)
The Tank, Ltd.
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support development of video portals along with related public events and community dialogues for the Zenzile Project (Fiscal sponsor for Salon Africana, Inc.)
Zócalo Public Square
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$250,000
to support a two-year editorial and event series, "How Should Societies Remember Their Sins?"
Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$250,000
to support the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project’s national convenings, LGBTQ heritage regranting program, and LGBTQ place-based research initiatives (Fiscal sponsor for NYC LGBT Historic Sites)
Creative Agents of Change Foundation, Inc.
Louisville, KY, United States
$300,000
to support a project to mark Black history and heritage in Louisville through public realm installations and arts-based experiences
Scalawag
Durham, NC, United States
$350,000
to support the Race & Place editorial vertical and related community events
Leona Tate Foundation for Change, Inc.
New Orleans, LA, United States
$450,000
to support organizational capacity, development, communications, and the TEP Talks
1882 Project Foundation
Washington, DC, United States
$500,000
to support organizational capacity and storytelling programs for the new Chinatown Social Workplace and Story Center
Social Good Fund, Inc.
Richmond, CA, United States
$500,000
to support place-based programming, fellowships, and capacity building for the Re-storying the Potomac project (Fiscal sponsor for Roots to Sky Sanctuary)
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, NY, United States
$650,000
to support a new permanent exhibit, postdoctoral fellowship, and other programs
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
San Francisco, CA, United States
$1,000,000
to support the organization's Pathways to Immigration and Digital
Stories and Histories initiatives
School for Advanced Research
Santa Fe, NM, United States
$1,500,000
to support the creation of an open-source central repository centered on the lives of enslaved Indigenous Americans
Afro Charities, Inc.
Baltimore, MD, United States
$1,500,000
to support construction and operating costs for the AFRO Archives
Fisk University
Nashville, TN, United States
$42,668
to support technical planning for a new online portal that would provide access to archival materials about the Julius Rosenwald Fund
Duke University
Durham, NC, United States
$75,000
to support efforts to communicate the Text Encoding Initiative’s documentation to a multilingual user community
University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD, United States
$100,000
to continue support for the development of optical character recognition tools and services for Arabic scripts
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$115,000
to support research on internet studies programs and explore the feasibility of curriculum development in this area
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, United States
$135,000
to support captioning services that would increase the accessibility of the Voca audiovisual poetry archive
Code for Science & Society, Inc.
Portland, OR, United States
$135,125
to support the development of a tool for libraries to track data and analytics about open repository infrastructure to guide strategy (Fiscal sponsor for Invest in Open Infrastructure)
Educopia Institute, Inc.
Atlanta, GA, United States
$245,000
to support capacity building and business planning for Cita Press, publisher of public domain books in English and Spanish by female authors (Fiscal sponsor for Cita Press)
American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States
$375,000
to support a commission to investigate the challenges of digital infrastructure sustainability and develop system-wide recommendations for solutions
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, United States
$500,000
to support Indigenous scholarship and knowledge in a data services context by advancing Indigenous perspectives, values, and protocols in libraries and digital repositories
University of Luxembourg
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
$500,000
to continue support for the development and sustainability planning of Tropy, a digital image management tool
University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN, United States
$615,000
to support the Mapping Prejudice Project in capacity building and further community engagement
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, United States
$650,000
to support sustainability planning for HuMetricsHSS, an approach to establishing humane indicators of excellence in academia
Social Science Research Council
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$705,000
to support expansion of an open-source platform for multidisciplinary, online public scholarship in the humanities
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, United States
$745,000
to support sustainability planning for a digital publishing program focused on scholarship by African American faculty
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, United States
$850,000
to support further infrastructure development and sustainability planning for digital publishing
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, United States
$971,000
to support new business model development through change-capital funding
South Asian American Digital Archive
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$1,000,000
to support new business model development through change-capital funding
HBCU Library Alliance, Inc.
Atlanta, GA, United States
$1,000,000
to support new business model development through change-capital funding
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, United States
$1,000,000
to support new business model development through change-capital funding
Rhizome Communications, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$1,000,000
to support new business model development through change-capital funding
Texas After Violence Project
Austin, TX, United States
$1,000,000
to support the growth of the archive, its capacity for consultative support to other community archives, and its long-term sustainability
American Council of Learned Societies
New York, NY, United States
$1,200,000
to support an open competition addressing sustainable digital infrastructures for understudied and marginalized collections, archives, and recently discovered primary sources
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA, United States
$2,000,000
to support access and discoverability for the Furious Flower Poetry Center's audiovisual, sound, and digital image archives
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, United States
$75,000
to support research, business modeling, and publisher and librarian engagement to determine an approach for equitable access to journal literature
OCLC, Inc.
Dublin, OH, United States
$90,000
to support a convening addressing the development of inclusive, non-racist descriptive practices in libraries and archives
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA, United States
$100,000
to support planning for a controlled digital lending effort with the University of California Libraries digitized library collections
National Information Standards Organization
Baltimore, MD, United States
$125,000
to support the development of a consensus framework for implementing controlled digital lending in libraries
New York University
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to support accelerated testing and completion of training and technical resources for the ethical description and circulation of Indigenous cultural knowledge and data
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, United States
$175,000
to support planning for development of a community-driven archive and resource collection for Indigenous research, teaching, and learning
National Endowment for the Humanities
Washington, DC, United States
$253,000
to support an additional round of applications for, and an assessment of, a fellowship program in digital publication
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, United States
$300,000
to support planning for a computational humanities and social sciences laboratory focused on Black digital humanities
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, United States
$400,000
to support the creation of data sets derived from legal corpora based on Jim Crow laws for analysis and teaching
New York University
New York, NY, United States
$502,400
to support sustainability planning for services to preserve new forms of digital scholarship
Invisible Histories Project of Alabama
Birmingham, AL, United States
$600,000
to continue support for the development of a network of archives that document the lived experiences of LGBTQ people in the rural South
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lincoln, NE, United States
$750,000
to support the development of an online portal on African poetry
New York University
New York, NY, United States
$750,000
to support the expansion of networked resources, developed by and for Indigenous communities, for appropriate access to their cultural heritage materials, including data
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, United States
$800,000
to support computational approaches and data visualizations for analysis of Black American novels
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA, United States
$800,000
to support a collaboration between archivists and ethnic studies faculty for integrating community archives materials in undergraduate curricula
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, United States
$805,000
to continue support for the development of the Sourcery tool for peer-to-peer sharing of scanned-on-demand archival materials
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, United States
$1,175,000
to support accessibility of digital educational resources for students with disabilities
Council on Library and Information Resources
Alexandria, VA, United States
$1,200,000
to support general operations
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, United States
$1,400,000
to support sustainability planning for a platform offering data on the history of enslaved people and others involved in the transatlantic slave trade
San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco, CA, United States
$2,000,000
to support a research and training initiative devoted to building capacity for prison library services. This grant is issued with Presidential Initiatives.
Brownsville Heritage House
Brooklyn, NY, United States
$50,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
San Antonio African American Community Archive
San Antonio, TX, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
Christiansburg Institute, Inc.
Christiansburg, VA, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives
West Hollywood, CA, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
La Historia Historical Society
El Monte, CA, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
Centro del Obrero Fronterizo, Inc.
El Paso, TX, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
Achieva
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive (Fiscal sponsor for Western PA Disability History and Action Consortium)
Pueblo of Isleta Department of Cultural and Historic Preservation and Yonan An Cultural Center
Isleta, NM, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
Beck Cultural Exchange Center, Inc.
Knoxville, TN, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
Women in Dialogue
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
Allied Media Projects, Inc.
Detroit, MI, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive (Fiscal sponsor for Black Bottom Archives)
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
Mashpee, MA, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
Fort Apache Heritage Foundation, Inc.
Fort Apache, AZ, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
The OUTWORDS Archive, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$100,000
to support the needs of the community-based archive
Miami Valley Public Media, Inc.
Yellow Springs , OH, United States
$250,000
to support the preservation of historical audio collections held by campus radio stations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
University of East Anglia
Norwich, United Kingdom
$278,000
to support further development of the "storehouse model," in which contemporary writers deposit their materials in a university archive early in their careers to help ensure broad and lasting use
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States
$340,000
to support community-based archives through an internship program and the planning of the program’s expansion to other schools
Sixty Inches from Center
Chicago, IL, United States
$350,000
to support The Blackivists in community-based archives work centered on Black lives in Chicago (Fiscal sponsor for The Blackivists)
Ithaka Harbors, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$500,000
to support the digitization of prison newspapers and broaden their discovery and access
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, United States
$500,000
to support sustainability planning for audiovisual preservation, including statewide and regional digitization services
Miami University
Oxford, OH, United States
$510,000
to support the further development of an Indigenous language archives platform through community research engagement
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, United States
$522,500
to support development of software for generating metadata about digitized and born-digital audiovisual materials
Movement Alliance Project
Philadelphia, PA, United States
$560,000
to support infrastructure capacity building for community-led archiving and audiovisual preservation
Duke University
Durham, NC, United States
$630,000
to support an intergenerational project archiving and documenting contemporary activism
WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA, United States
$750,000
to support a final phase of expanding audiovisual preservation capacity for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Shift Design, Inc.
New Orleans, LA, United States
$850,000
to support sustainability planning and further capacity building for archiving social media content
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States
$125,000
to support a series of voter education workshops for college students
New-York Historical Society
New York, NY, United States
$450,000
to continue support for the Citizenship Project
American Folk Art Museum
New York, NY, United States
$100,000
to continue support for arts programming for individuals with dementia and their care partners
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY, United States
$100,000
to support arts programming for individuals with dementia and their care partners
Timeslips Creative Storytelling, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI, United States
$125,000
to support organizational planning
Intrepid Museum Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$135,000
to continue support for arts programming for individuals with dementia and their care partners
Rubin Museum of Art
New York, NY, United States
$140,000
to continue support for arts programming for individuals with dementia and their care partners
Jewish Museum
New York, NY, United States
$150,000
to continue support for arts programming for individuals with dementia and their care partners
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, New York City, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$175,000
to continue support for arts programming for individuals with dementia and their care partners
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY, United States
$300,000
to continue support for arts programming for individuals with dementia and their care partners
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC, United States
$400,000
to continue support for arts programming for individuals with dementia and their care partners
Legal Services Corporation
Washington, DC, United States
$105,000
to support a planning project for the Civil Court Data Initiative
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
$3,000,000
to support LDF’s organizational archives. This grant was issued with Public Knowledge.
Candid
New York, NY, United States
$70,000
to support general operations
Nonprofit New York
New York, NY, United States
$75,000
to support general operations
Top photo: Courtesy of the Oakland Museum of California.