Who funds Bard College?

Establishment of the "ralph ellison center"

Julie johnson kidd scholarship program

The leonard and claire tow chair in democracy and education

In support of creating economic mobility and career pathways

In support of creating economic mobility and career pathways

General

General operating support

Bpi public health fellowship

Sheila Bam Kosakoff Theater Development Scholarship Fund

Bard prison initiative

Charitable

General use

The arts

Providing physical copies of assigned books to students in financial need.

General

General support

For operations

General exempt purpose

Bard prision initiative

Bard early college program-hudson valley 2026

To fund operating budget

General support

General support

Scholarships, general support

General support

General funding

Scholarships and 2 year college with high school for underserved students.

General Support

For charitable purpose of organization

Donation

Annual fund

General support

General operating

Operating support

Performing arts

Education

General support

To support the organization's mission of operating an educational institution.

Matching contribution (general operating support)

To provide general support

To provide general support

Donee's tax exempt purpose

Ongoing activities

Two Micro College Endowed Chairs

To support bard college's center for civic engagement as the new administrative hub for the open society university network's operations

For donee's exempt purpose

To support a one-year extension of the open society university network (osun) hubs for connected learning initiatives

For support for the expansion of Bard High School Early Colleges in New York City

To provide support to the osun center for human arts and the arts

To provide core institutional support for al-quds bard college for arts and sciences in the academic year of 2024-2025

To support the center for human rights and the arts and the work of founder/director, artist, and scholar tania el khoury

Endowment Gift

General support

To support a senior fellow appointment at bards institute for international liberal education

To continue support for higher education in prison and degree development programs

To provide funding for training osun faculty in best practices for liberal arts & sciences instruction

To support programmatic commitments of the open society university network (osun) hubs for connected learning initiatives until the fall of 2025

General tax exempt purposes

To support the design of a new science laboratory and teaching curriculum for hands-on research experiences for bard early college new york city students

The leonard and claire tow chair in democracy and education

To promote college advising and success

Biomedical sciences at bard bronx

To support the activities of the open society university network economic democracy initiative

To support the preparation and offering of 60 open society university network (osun) online courses in the spring and summer of 2025

To support bard colleges center for civic engagement partnership with the american university of central asia

For Smolny Without Borders

To aid the donee organization in carrying out its exempt functions.

Core support for the bard prison initiative to meet the needs of its growing community of incarcerated men and women through opportunities to earn a college degree while serving sentences and post-release.

General

Charitable

For the study of language and literature endowment

Restricted grants

General purpose

For support of bard early college

To support short-term and semester-long international mobility fellowships to professors in the open society university network

To continue support of the open society university networks civic engagement initiative

General operating support

To further education

General operating support

Jobs and Family Economic Security

Support re-entry workshop for justice-involved alumni in NYC

Charitable

Fostering youth development and leadership

Bpi public health fellowship

Charitable

Women's Program and Alumni

General operating support for nyc's bard high school early colleges

Discretionary

Access & equity

Core support for the smart transfer early college high school (echs) program at bard high school early college (bhsec) bronx, designed to identify, recruit, and support underrepresented students in a rigorous and rewarding early college experience

La voz & the bilingual media fellowship program

Taking early college to scale for economically vulnerable youth in new orleans

"all manner of experiments: legacies of the baghdad group for modern art" exhibition

For donee's exempt purpose

To fund operating budget

To support an interdisciplinary conference to explore whether ideas from the humanities might generate new approaches to the scientific understanding of living systems

General

General support

General support

In support of a conference series to explore the intersection of the humanities and the scientific understanding of living systems

Matching gift

General support, unrestricted

Bard Early College New Orleans to support their program teach college level classes to inner city public school students in New Orleans, enhancing their preparation and opportunities for higher education, and for their futures in life

Plumm project-based learning

Charitable

Enhance Community Health

general support and cultural programming at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

General operating support for bard prison initiative

"innovation and infrastructure - enhancing jewish life on campus"

General support

Funding for general charitable operations

Bard prison initiative - reentry programming

General

General support

Support of college programs for prisoners

Educational

Bard prison initiative

General support

To support a cross-disciplinary engagement among macarthur fellows on themes of global indigenous aesthetics, arts, and modernism. Fellows include natalie diaz (2018), raven chacon (2023), dinaw mengestu (2012), and jeffrey gibson (2019)

Matching gift

Unrestricted charitable purposes

General operating support for theatrical productions and activities

Support for the bard prison initiative to expand college programming in and beyond prisons.

In support of its exhibition, "all manner of experiments: legacies of the baghdad group for modern art" to be presented at the hessel museum of art from june to october 2025

Bard prision initiative

Bard early college program-hudson valley

General support

Employee - arts and educational program

General support

To support general operations

Fisher center

Fisher center

General support

General support

General support

Purchase of furnishings and equipment for bard high school early college bronx.

General funding

Contribution for longy school of music at bard

General fund

Scholarships, general support

Support for the bard prison initiative to expand college programming in and beyond prisons.

Elas grant

Bard early college hudson valley

Unrestricted

General/ education/ religious

Scholarships and 2 year college with high school for underserved students.

General exempt purpose

General Support

For charitable purpose of organization

Educational

General support

General support

General use

Matching gift

Matching gift

Undergraduate scholar awards

Annual fund

Unrestricted

Charitable purposes

General operating purposes

General support

General & Unrestricted

General support

General Support

To their general fund

Scholarships

General operating support for bard prison initiative

Donation

General & Unrestricted

Bard prison initiative

General support

General support

To support programming for local school children and the center for curatorial studies hessel museum

General operating support

General fund

Center for curatorial studies

Audubon project

Bard Prison Initiative (BPI)

General

Bard prison initiative

Matching gift

General funding

General Operating Support

General support

Matching gifts

Bpi 25th anniversary celebration

Bpi 25th anniversary celebration

Bard prison intitiative

250

General use

Fidelity matching gifts to education

Charitable donations

Matching contribution (general operating support)

To provide general support

Ongoing activities

To support bard college's center for civic engagement as the new administrative hub for the open society university network's operations

Donee's tax exempt purpose

To create a robust ecosystem of academic collaboration and advance the integration of teaching, learning, and curricula across osun

To develop an integrated curriculum, and a set of public programs, research opportunities, and collaborative activities across the open society university network

For donee's exempt purpose

To provide support to the osun center for human arts and the arts

To support the center for human rights and the arts and the work of founder/director, artist, and scholar tania el khoury

General support

To provide core institutional support for al-quds bard college for arts and sciences in the academic year of 2023-2024

To support the second and third year of a masters program curriculum in transnationalism that will prepare students to shape the transnational public debate about urgent contemporary global problems

To support the continuation and development of osun's collaborative for liberal education for adolescents (clea) initiative

To provide support for open society university network undergraduate student mobility and scholarships to students attending birkbeck's 2024 london critical theory summer school

To provide scholarships for undergraduate student mobility within the open society university network

The leonard and claire tow chair in democracy and education

To support the fourth year of a masters program curriculum in global studies that will prepare students to shape the public debate about urgent contemporary global problems

To support the activities of the hannah arendt humanities center at bard college

To expand a program offering two-year degrees through bard college in new york public libraries

To promote cross-institution collaboration and integration beyond the regular osun-supported programs

To design and implement new, innovative supports for at-risk scholars and civil society actors participating in university-based protective fellowships by centering leadership development for resilience and sustained impact

To ensure osun students across the network full access to library resources required for osun online courses and network collaborative courses

To support an online learning platform and early college courses that fill knowledge gaps created by bans, censorship and other threats in education

Core support for the bard prison initiative to meet the needs of its growing community of incarcerated men and women through opportunities to earn a college degree while serving sentences and post-release.

Core support for the bard prison initiative to meet the needs of its growing community of incarcerated men and women through opportunities to earn a college degree while serving sentences and post-release

General

Charitable

For donee's exempt purpose

Biomedical sciences at bard bronx

General purpose

Further charitable goals

Davis UWC Scholar Program 2023

To support short-term and semester-long international mobility fellowships to professors in the open society university network

To fund a course and certificate project-based learning program in sustainable business and nonprofit practices

General operating support

Educational

Educational

To support cross-campus dialogues and a teach-in program to educate high school and university students on climate justice

Unrestricted funding

General tax exempt purposes

General

Jobs and Family Economic Security

General

Charitable

Fostering youth development and leadership

Charitable

Program/operating support

Providing books for Pell eligible students enrolled in Literature classes.

For the simulation and detection of potential biosignatures

Access & equity

General support

Women's Program and Alumni Re-entry

General support for nyc's bard high school early colleges

Discretionary

Discretionary

To support osun professorship that brings distinguished scholars to teach and research at bard college in 2023/24 academic year

Core support for the smart transfer early college high school (echs) program at bard high school early college (bhsec) bronx, designed to identify, recruit, and support underrepresented students in a rigorous and rewarding early college experience