Grants

Monuments Project

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

Puerto Rico

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.

Exploratory and Discretionary Grants

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

Creation, conservation, and preservation for historically underresourced artists and organizations

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

Equitable access to arts and culture

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

New economic paradigms and institutional models

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

Visionary artists and practitioners across institutions and communities

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)

Accurate narratives

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

Demographic transformation

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

Equitable access to higher learning

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

Evolve our institutions

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

Keep and shape our places

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

Promote greater engagement and understanding

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

Maintenance and sustainability

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

Networks and sharing

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.