How to apply
Accepts applications
The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.
- Contact
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial FDTN
90 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(212) 687-4470
- Form and materials
- The foundation has a standard application which specifies the material the applicant should submit for his/her field.
- Deadlines
- September 15
- Restrictions
- Individuals in the U.S.A. And canada
Assets and giving by year
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Tax year 2024
$11,409,500
- Grants listed
- 286
- Assets, end of year
- $383,572,670
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Tax year 2023
$11,882,500
- Grants listed
- 284
- Assets, end of year
- $351,703,079
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Tax year 2022
$11,469,002
- Grants listed
- 286
- Assets, end of year
- $330,238,281
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Tax year 2021
$9,518,498
- Grants listed
- 270
- Assets, end of year
- $378,546,957
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Tax year 2020
$9,468,750
- Grants listed
- 267
- Assets, end of year
- $366,468,536
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Tax year 2019
$9,569,750
- Grants listed
- 274
- Assets, end of year
- $316,705,094
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Tax year 2018
$9,188,000
- Grants listed
- 287
- Assets, end of year
- $271,725,430
Grants paid in 2024
As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.
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New York Historical SocietyNew York, NY
Exhibition installment fee
$200,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$85,000 -
Individual
Healthspan: a work of narrative nonfiction
$75,000 -
Individual
General nonfiction
$75,000 -
Individual
Photography
$70,000 -
Individual
Music composition
$70,000 -
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Drama & performance art
$70,000 -
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Film-video
$70,000 -
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Poetry
$70,000 -
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Film-video
$70,000 -
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Fine arts
$70,000 -
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$70,000 -
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Drama & performance art
$70,000 -
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Photography
$70,000 -
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Film-video
$70,000 -
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Music composition
$70,000 -
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Fine arts
$70,000 -
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Photography
$70,000 -
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Photography
$70,000 -
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$70,000 -
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Fine arts
$70,000 -
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Music composition
$70,000 -
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Music composition
$70,000 -
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Photography
$70,000 -
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Fine arts
$70,000 -
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Fine arts
$65,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$65,000 -
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U.s. History
$65,000 -
Individual
Fiction
$65,000 -
Individual
Fiction
$65,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$65,000 -
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Fiction
$65,000 -
Individual
Geography & environmental studies
$65,000 -
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Drama & performance art
$62,000 -
Individual
Choreography
$60,000 -
Individual
Film, video, & new media studies
$60,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$60,000 -
Individual
Fiction
$60,000 -
Individual
Preparing the rubin observatory for breakthrough science
$60,000 -
Individual
Fiction
$60,000 -
Individual
Classics
$60,000 -
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Philosophy
$60,000 -
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General nonfiction
$60,000 -
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Film-video
$60,000 -
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Choreography
$60,000 -
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Fine arts
$60,000 -
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Anthropology & cultural studies
$60,000 -
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Photography
$60,000 -
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Photography
$60,000 -
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Choreography
$60,000 -
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Fine arts
$60,000 -
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Early modern studies
$60,000 -
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General nonfiction
$60,000 -
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Music composition
$60,000 -
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Poetry
$55,000 -
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Choreography
$55,000 -
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Terrestrial: jewish thought and a world disrupted
$55,000 -
Individual
Drama & performance art
$55,000 -
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Fine arts
$55,000 -
Individual
Extremist speech and democratic backsliding
$55,000 -
Individual
Poetry
$55,000 -
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Dreaming dharma's decline: past portents of buddhism's future present
$55,000 -
Individual
Classics
$50,000 -
Individual
General nonfiction
$50,000 -
Individual
Rational vaccinology: a nanotechnology-enabled route to novel vaccine development
$50,000 -
Individual
General nonfiction
$50,000 -
Individual
Inheritance: a speculative ethnography of evidence
$50,000 -
Individual
Eating oil: an earthly history
$50,000 -
Individual
The infinite extent
$50,000 -
Individual
Criminal injustice: crack cocaine laws and their legacies
$50,000 -
Individual
Fiction
$50,000 -
Individual
Medicine & health
$50,000 -
Individual
'becoming like god:' perfection in platonism and stoicism (1c. Bce-2c. Ce)
$50,000 -
Individual
Fiction
$50,000 -
Individual
Building a secure and formally verified commodity hypervisor
$50,000 -
Individual
Improving statistical methodology for evaluating and reducing racial disparities
$50,000 -
Individual
Refracting light: tom lloyd and the effect of art historical disregard
$50,000 -
Individual
Investigations at the intersection of number theory and harmonic analysis
$50,000 -
Individual
U.s. History
$50,000 -
Individual
Francophonics: sounding global french cultures
$50,000 -
Individual
The troubles: civil rights in ireland and america
$50,000 -
Individual
Literary criticism
$50,000 -
Individual
Music - more than meets the ear
$50,000 -
Individual
The maintenance and recovery of large-mammal diversity
$50,000 -
Individual
Film-video
$50,000 -
Individual
Inhabiting error
$50,000 -
Individual
Structured color materials for radiative cooling
$50,000 -
Individual
Poetry
$50,000 -
Individual
Music composition
$50,000 -
Individual
Nanoscale metrology through vector-valued secondary electron yield estimation
$50,000 -
Individual
The enlightenment in africa: newspaper press and intellectual responses to modernity and colonialism in late 19th and early 20th centuries nigeria
$50,000 -
Individual
General nonfiction
$50,000 -
Individual
Explicit class field theory and rigid meromorphic cocycles
$50,000 -
Individual
Fiction
$49,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$45,000 -
Individual
Music composition
$45,000 -
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Fine arts
$45,000 -
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Film-video
$45,000 -
Individual
Photography
$40,000 -
Individual
Film-video
$40,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$40,000 -
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Photography
$40,000 -
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Film-video
$40,000 -
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General nonfiction
$40,000 -
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$40,000 -
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Fine arts
$40,000 -
Individual
Translation
$40,000 -
Individual
Poetry
$40,000 -
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Music composition
$37,500 -
Individual
Fine arts
$35,000 -
Individual
Geography & environmental studies
$35,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$35,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$35,000 -
Individual
A religion of the books: the new testament and other early christian scriptural practices
$35,000 -
Individual
General nonfiction
$35,000 -
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General nonfiction
$35,000 -
Individual
Photography
$35,000 -
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Photography
$35,000 -
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Fine arts
$35,000 -
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Film-video
$35,000 -
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General nonfiction
$35,000 -
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Photography
$35,000 -
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Fine arts
$35,000 -
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Music composition
$35,000 -
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$35,000 -
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Photography
$35,000 -
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Fine arts
$35,000 -
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Photography
$35,000 -
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Fine arts
$35,000 -
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Drama & performance art
$35,000 -
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Fine arts
$35,000 -
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Photography
$35,000 -
Individual
European & latin american history
$35,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$35,000 -
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Photography
$35,000 -
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Adapting to uncertainty: managing risk amid rising seas
$35,000 -
Individual
A new framework for evaluating ice sheet variability and sea level change
$35,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$35,000 -
Individual
Music composition
$35,000 -
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Early modern studies
$35,000 -
Individual
Music composition
$35,000 -
Individual
Poetry
$33,000 -
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Fine arts
$32,500 -
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Photography
$32,500 -
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Photography
$32,500 -
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Architecture, planning, & design
$32,500 -
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Fine arts
$32,500 -
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Fine arts
$32,500 -
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$32,500 -
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$32,500 -
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Fine arts
$32,500 -
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Photography
$32,500 -
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$32,500 -
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$32,500 -
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$32,500 -
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Intellectual & cultural history
$32,500 -
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Fine arts
$32,500 -
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$32,500 -
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Literary criticism
$32,500 -
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Music composition
$32,500 -
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Photography
$32,000 -
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General nonfiction
$30,000 -
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Photography
$30,000 -
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U.s. History
$30,000 -
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Choreography
$30,000 -
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East asian studies
$30,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$30,000 -
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$30,000 -
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Film-video
$30,000 -
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$30,000 -
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Poetry
$30,000 -
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Fine arts research
$30,000 -
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Photography
$30,000 -
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Drama & performance art
$30,000 -
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Photography
$30,000 -
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English literature
$30,000 -
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Fine arts
$30,000 -
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General nonfiction
$30,000 -
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Early modern studies
$30,000 -
Individual
Architecture, planning, & design
$30,000 -
Individual
Anthropology & cultural studies
$30,000 -
Individual
Fiction
$30,000 -
Individual
Bridging computational methods with infinite-dimensional models
$30,000 -
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Photography
$30,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$30,000 -
Individual
Fiction
$30,000 -
Individual
Our world renewed: ghost dancing across native north america
$30,000 -
Individual
Scripture and modernity: the obaku buddhist canon in east asia and the west
$30,000 -
Individual
Poetry
$30,000 -
Individual
Drama & performance art
$30,000 -
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Revealing the rna multiverse: visualizing the evolution of rna folding in the past, present and future
$30,000 -
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Fine arts
$30,000 -
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$30,000 -
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Fiction
$30,000 -
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Film-video
$30,000 -
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$30,000 -
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Poetry
$30,000 -
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$30,000 -
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Photography studies
$30,000 -
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Choreography
$30,000 -
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Music composition
$30,000 -
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Near eastern studies
$30,000 -
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Theatre arts & performance studies
$30,000 -
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Albert camus: journals and notebooks
$30,000 -
Individual
Photography
$30,000 -
Individual
Film-video
$30,000 -
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Photography
$30,000 -
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Film-video
$30,000 -
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Architecture, planning, & design
$30,000 -
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General nonfiction
$30,000 -
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Theatre arts & performance studies
$30,000 -
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Photography
$30,000 -
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Mathematical structure and efficient algorithms: the polymorphic gateway
$30,000 -
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Harold cruse: radical contrarian
$30,000 -
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Poetry
$30,000 -
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Music composition
$30,000 -
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Music composition
$30,000 -
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Small files for a small world: mitigating the carbon footprint of streaming video
$30,000 -
Individual
Suniti: a tale and its telling
$30,000 -
Individual
History of science, technology, & economics
$30,000 -
Individual
The international reception of viktor ullmann's der kaiser von atlantis
$27,500 -
Individual
Film-video
$27,500 -
Individual
Photography
$27,500 -
Individual
Ethical pessimism: climate change and the limits of narrative
$27,500 -
Individual
Fine arts research
$27,500 -
Individual
Film-video
$26,000 -
Individual
The future of oblivion: mireya lafuente and the ends of the earth
$25,000 -
Individual
The evolution of behavior
$25,000 -
Individual
Environment, mutation, cancer: a history of the ames test
$25,000 -
Individual
Legacies of gold and jade: transmissions of tang dynasty literature in the five dynasties and northern song
$25,000 -
Individual
Fine arts research
$25,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$25,000 -
Individual
The age of convergence: christians, muslims, and jews in the pre-modern mediterranean
$25,000 -
Individual
On the social function of literature: forms of the real
$25,000 -
Individual
Overlooked no more: frameworks for reimagining educational flourishing for immigrant-origin students
$25,000 -
Individual
Disordered attention
$25,000 -
Individual
Major evolutionary transitions: a paradigm shift
$25,000 -
Individual
Photography
$25,000 -
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Performing solidarities: dancing the world in mao's china, 1949-1976
$25,000 -
Individual
Climate forcing of the antarctic ice sheet
$25,000 -
Individual
The long exit: how china ended its one-child policy
$25,000 -
Individual
History of science, technology, & economics
$25,000 -
Individual
Nationalism and philosemitism: the jewish revival in poland
$25,000 -
Individual
Intellectual & cultural history
$25,000 -
Individual
Literary criticism
$25,000 -
Individual
Christian democracy: a new intellectual history
$25,000 -
Individual
General nonfiction
$25,000 -
Individual
Film-video
$25,000 -
Individual
A political biography of julius caesar
$25,000 -
Individual
Film-video
$25,000
Approved for future payment
Approved in 2024 and not yet paid; the largest 50 are shown.
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Fine arts
$70,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$70,000 -
Individual
Destroying (and restoring) democracy by law
$70,000 -
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Fiction
$70,000 -
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Film-video
$70,000 -
Individual
Choreography
$70,000 -
Individual
Efforts of affection: the letters of elizabeth bishop and marianne moore
$60,000 -
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Fiction
$60,000 -
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Fiction
$60,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$60,000 -
Individual
Choreography
$60,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$55,000 -
Individual
Missions impossible: the art of franciscan failure and puebloan perseverance in nuevo mxico
$55,000 -
Individual
A women's history of vatican i
$55,000 -
Individual
Transportations: cosmologies of colonialism in the dutch east india company
$55,000 -
Individual
The revolutionary new science of female birds
$55,000 -
Individual
Poetry
$55,000 -
Individual
The xolotl rite: or, how spanish and mestizo men became nahuatlized in sixteenth century mexico
$55,000 -
Individual
Popular iconoclasm in the public square
$55,000 -
Individual
Things that matter: actual world metaphysics and the mind-body problem
$50,000 -
Individual
Containment: ancient practice and contemporary amnesia
$50,000 -
Individual
American abolitions: the slow death and many afterlives of slavery
$50,000 -
Individual
Unworlding: trans and queer anarchitectures
$50,000 -
Individual
Death and loss
$50,000 -
Individual
Film-video
$50,000 -
Individual
Displacement: europe's long 20th century on a street with no name
$50,000 -
Individual
The power of the """"reich"""" in the german imagination
$50,000 -
Individual
The sound of ai: audio, culture, and the politics of machine learning
$50,000 -
Individual
The book of birds: a memoir of extinction
$50,000 -
Individual
Global modernisms and the problem of transcultural knowledge
$50,000 -
Individual
On violence and the limits of settler colonialism
$50,000 -
Individual
Cancer evolution using mathematical models guided by ecological principles
$50,000 -
Individual
Choreography
$50,000 -
Individual
Poetry
$50,000 -
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Fundamental units of language representation and processing
$50,000 -
Individual
The golden chains: harriet jacobs, harriet beecher stowe, and women's bonds in the age of abolition
$50,000 -
Individual
Viability of pulsars as the source of the galactic center gamma-ray excess
$50,000 -
Individual
Reading roman minds: essays in cognitive history
$45,000 -
Individual
Dreamer of dreams: the vision of william morris
$42,500 -
Individual
Music composition
$40,000 -
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Music composition
$40,000 -
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Music composition
$40,000 -
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Film-video
$40,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$35,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$35,000 -
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Fine arts
$35,000 -
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General nonfiction
$35,000 -
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Photography
$35,000 -
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Photography
$35,000 -
Individual
Fine arts
$35,000
Where the money goes
By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.
- Arts and culture1 grant $200,000100% of the total
By State
Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.
- New York1 grant $200,000
Officers, directors and trustees
As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.
- Edward HirschPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEE Hours 40Pay $760,767
- Andre BernardV.P. AND SECRETARY Hours 40Pay $255,487
- Sari SharabyC.F.O. AND TREASURER Hours 40Pay $250,000
- Susan D MellinCHIEF ADVANCEMENT OFFICER Hours 40Pay $265,000
- Laura AuricchioVICE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY Hours 40Pay $50,000
- Lawrence D BoboTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Emery BrownTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Robert Allan CaroTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Risa L GoluboffTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Adele Chatfield-TaylorTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Lisa HessTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- William P KellyTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Steven D LavineTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Dwight E LeeCHAIRMAN & TRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Lili LyntonTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Eric S MaskinTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Stacy SchiffTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Eric SchwartzTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Cindy ShermanTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Barbara SiskinTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- G Gabrielle StarrTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Benjamin TaylorTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Sandra S WijnbergTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
- Ellen Taaffe ZwilichTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
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