Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-2356089. Reported 498 grants totalling $4,223,244 to 435 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $8,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
435 recipient names appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Architecture Biennial | Chicago, IL | $245,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Anyone Corporation | New York, NY | $40,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Association of Architecture Organizations | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Spaces | Cleveland, OH | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York Review of Architecture | New York, NY | $31,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| A Project 83 Inc | New York, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ying Lu (lucy) Wang | Chicago, IL | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Architectural League of New York | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chicago Architecture Center | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Landmark Columbus Foundation Inc | Columbus, IN | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Storefront for Art and Architecture Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Urban Design Forum | New York, NY | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Asu Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $20,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Adil Dalbai & Livingstone Mukasa | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ariele Dionne-Krosnick | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Canadian Centre for Architecture | Montreal | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Caroline Murphy | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Caroline Spooner | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dahlia Nduom | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dicle Taskin | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Elmhurst Art Museum | Elmhurst, IL | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Geoffrey Bawa Trust | Colombo | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Goldsmiths College - London University | London | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harvard University-Graduate School of Design | Cambridge, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Katherine Reynolds | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Liga - Space for Architecture - Mexico City | Mexico City | $20,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lampo | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nationalorganizationofminorityarchitects | South Lyon, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Jewish Museum | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The School of Architecture | Scottsdale, AZ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tobey Aaron | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vishal Khandelwal | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carmen Amengual | Chicago, IL | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ala Tannir | Chicago, IL | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mas Context | Chicago, IL | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Anita Batemanemanuel Admassu | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Carnegie Museum of Art | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Danya Epstein | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Germane Barnes | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Giovanni Bellotti Alessandra Covini & Adelita Husni-Bey | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Imani Brown | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jamila M Moore Pewu (fiscal Agent Csuf Auxiliary Services Corporation) | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jia Weng | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Juliana Barton Michelle Fisher & Amber Winick | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kj Abudu | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kevin Hernandez-Rosa Nicholas Serrambana & Others | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Laxart | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maria Gaspar | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marina Otero Verzier | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Megan Echols & Dana Mckinney | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prospect New Orleans (us Biennials Inc) | New Orleans, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Robin Hartanto Honggare | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sarah Hearne | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Temitayo Ogunbiyi | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tom Carruthers & Jennifer Newsom | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation | Richmond, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Il at Chicago - College of Architecture Design and the Arts | Chicago, IL | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Society of Architectural Historians | Chicago, IL | $13,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Carla Aramouny & Sandra Frem | Chicago, IL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kenny Cupers Makau Kitata & Chao Tayiana Maina | Chicago, IL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kofi M Boone & Margaret Elen Deming | Chicago, IL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| La Namer | Chicago, IL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lydia Kallipoliti & Areti Markopoulou | Chicago, IL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Radhi Ben Hadid Meriem Chabani & John Edom | Chicago, IL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stanley Cho Elisa Iturbe & Alican Taylan | Chicago, IL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Center for Independent Documentary | Chicago, IL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Anna Abengowepatricia Anahorymawena Yehouessi | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Aaron Cayer | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adriana Salazar | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| African Futures Institute | Accra | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Albert Brenchat-Aguilar | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ana Miljaki | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anahi Alviso-Marino & Nel Beloufa | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Anezka Minanikova | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Anna Bokov | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anna Martine Whitehead | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Anooradha Siddiqi | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anthony Carfello | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Architexx | Chevy Chase, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Architectural Association | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Architectural Association School of Architecture | London | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ari Seligmann | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aria Dean | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arnika Fuhrmann | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Art Omi | Ghent, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arthur J Clement & Emily Makas | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arts Club of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Assaf Evron | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Becky Beamer & Jori Erdman | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beth Weinstein | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bhekisisa Russel Hlongwanel & Sumayya Vally | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Reconstruction Collective | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bracket | Alameda, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bruno Borgna Mauricio Corbaln & Pio Torroja | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California College of the Arts | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Canadian Centre for Architecture | Montreal, Quebec | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Land Use Interpretation | Culver City, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chicago Mobile Makers | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chimurenga | Cape Town | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chris Dingwall David Hartt & Daniel Schulman | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City College of New York | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Claire Zimmerman | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clarissa Tossin | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colloqate Design | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Counterpublic | St Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Craft Contemporary | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Craig L Wilkins | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cranbrook Art Museum | Bloomfield Hills, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| David Huber | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Davide Spina | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Del Vaz Projects | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Design Trust Chicago (fiscal Agent Social Good Fund Inc) | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dia Art Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dongola | Beirut | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elisa Silva | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Elizabeth Glvez & Jos Ibarra | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eva Diaz | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Every Ocean Hughes (emily Roysdon) | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Farzin Lotfi-Jam & Mark Wasiuta | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Felecia Davis Marcella Del Signor & Others | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Felicia Francine Dean (fiscal Agent University of Tennessee) | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Floating Museum Nfp | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fred Schmidt-Arnales | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the High Line | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gabriel Cira James Heard & Julian Phillips | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gabriel Fuentes (fiscal Agent Kean College of New Jersey Foundation Inc) | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Gabriel Monteleone | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gili Merin | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gouled Ahmed & Asmaa Jama | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gregor Stemmrich | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gustavo Diguez Felipe Mesa and Ana Valderrama | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Helene Kazan | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| High Museum of Art | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Huda Tayob | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hunter College Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Insite (installation Gallery) | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indra Mcewen | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ines Weizman | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute of Contemporary Arts (ica) | London | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Isabel Duarte Maya Ober & Nina Paim | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jeremy Lybarger | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jingru (cyan) Chengmengfan Wangchen Zhan | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jo-Ey Tang | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| John Keenen | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| John Lin | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Joseph Giovannini | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Juana Salcedo | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Judith Raum | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Julia Phillips | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Julie Ault | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kelly Walters (fiscal Agent the New School) | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kiyan Williams | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kleanthis Kyriakou & Regner Ramos | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Krista Thompson | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Liga-Space for Architecture | Mexico City | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Laila Kazmi | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Leticia Virguez Lalli | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lobna Sana | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lori Brown & Karen Burns | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Loudreaders | Ames, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louise Emily Carverangela Rui | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lucy Adjoa Armah | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mak Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles at the Schindler House | West Hollywood, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mak Center for Art and Architecture | West Hollywood, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Makram El Kadi & Ziad Jamaleddine | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Manifest Project Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manuel Shvartzberg Carri | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mariam Ghani | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marissa Benedict Daniel De Paula & David Rueter | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marshall Brown | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology-School of Architecture and Planning | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Materials & Applications | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Menna Agha & Sara Salem | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michelle Barrettchris Daemmrich | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mindy Seu | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Molly Brandt & Kevin Weil | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mona Minkara | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Museum of Design Atlanta Inc | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nahyun Hwang & David Moon | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nana Biamah-Ofosu Bushra Mohamed & Mark El-Khatib | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Neil Levine | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nifemi Marcus-Bello | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Noam Andrews | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oscar Tuazon | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oxana Gourinovitch | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ozayr Saloojee & Jamie Vanucchi | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Paola Antonelli & Alice Rawsthorn | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Patricio Del Real | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pedro Gadanho | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pep Aviles | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Philip Denny James Wines & Suzan Wines | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pierre Blanger & Pablo Escudero | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Places Journal | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Primary Information | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Proyector | Mexico City | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Queens Museum of Art | Queens, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ragdale Foundation | Lake Forest, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rekha Auguste-Nelsonrafaie Farnooshisabel Strauss | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Renata Hejduksteven Hillyerkim Shkapichjames Williamson | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rosella Biscotti | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sara Zewde | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shantel Blakely | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sharmyn Cruz Riveradanny Giles | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sharon Lockhart | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Simon Boudvin | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Smithsonian Institution-Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Soberscove Press | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Steffen Siegfried Kunkel | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Susan Buck-Morss Kevin Mccaughey & Adam Michaels | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Suzanne Lettieri & Anya Sirota | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Suzy Halajian & Noah Simblist | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Swiss Institute | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Syracuse University | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Terreform Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Thandiwe Loewenson | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Architecture Initiative Inc | New Haven, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Black School | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Center for Architecture Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Drawing Center | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Mosaic Rooms | London | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Museum of Modern Art | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Royal College of Art | London | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University at Buffalo-the University at Buffalo Art Galleries | Buffalo, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The World Around | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tutin Aryanti | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vanessa Grossman | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Victoria and Albert Museum | London | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wexner Center for the Arts | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yale University-Yale University Press | New Haven, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yun Fu | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| E-Flux Architecture | Amsterdam | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| I Press Incorporated | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elisavet Edvisa Hasa | Chicago, IL | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ishita Jain & Ankita Trivedi | Chicago, IL | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ladi'sasha Jones | Chicago, IL | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rice University-School of Architecture | Houston, TX | $9,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alice Bucknell | Chicago, IL | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thandi Loewenson | Chicago, IL | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catalina Mejia Morenohuda Tayob | Chicago, IL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
48 of 435 (11%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 7%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Chicago Architecture Biennial
Chicago Architecture Biennial - Spaces
Everlasting Plastics, US Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition - Ying Lu Lucy Wang
Contagious Places, Curative Spaces - Chicago Architecture Center
From Me to We: Imagining the City of 2050 - Tobey Aaron
Drawing Management: Corporate Organization, International Practice, and the Making of Computer Aided Design - Ariele Dionne-Krosnick
Swimming Pools, Civil Rights, and the American City in the 1960s
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 85 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 136 | $1,099,290 | $7,500 |
| 2022 | 143 | $1,157,405 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 114 | $979,625 | $8,250 |
| 2024 | 105 | $986,924 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts has 83 of them, worth $738,000. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Liga-Space for Architecture | Mexico City | $15,000 |
| University of the Witwatersrand | Johannesburg | $15,000 |
| Jean-Louis Cohen | New York, NY | $15,000 |
| Temitayo Ogunbiyi | Gwynedd, PA | $15,000 |
| Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture | Washington, DC | $15,000 |
| Lydia Kallipoliti & Areti Markopoulou | Chicago, IL | $12,500 |
| Stanley Cho Elisa Iturbe & Alican Taylan | Chicago, IL | $12,500 |
| Mark Bennett Geronimo Inutiq & Rafico Ruiz | Chicago, IL | $12,000 |
| Architectural Association School of Architecture | London | $10,000 |
| Association of Architecture Organizations | Chicago, IL | $10,000 |
| Dark Matter U | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 |
| Dia Art Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 |
| Dongola | Beirut | $10,000 |
| Elizabeth Glvez & Jos Ibarra | Chicago, IL | $10,000 |
| Geoffrey Bawa Trust | Colombo | $10,000 |
Where its money goes
76% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $8,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Illinois.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL, 60610. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
EIN 36-2356089 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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