Terra Foundation for American Art
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-2999442. Reported 953 grants totalling $67.6M to 565 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$50,000median grant
$67.6Mgranted, 2020-2024
565recipients, as named on its returns
31%of grantees funded again the next year
$620.6Massets, latest filing
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. Terra Foundation for American Art did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $50,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $22,000 and $75,000; the smallest was $613 and the largest $3,750,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
565 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terra Foundation for American Art Fund | Chicago, IL | $5,250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | New York, NY | $1,020,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Iff | Chicago, IL | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Centre Pompidou | Paris | $995,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| South Side Community Art Center | Chicago, IL | $921,000 | 12 | 4 | 2024 |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery | Washington, DC | $864,568 | 6 | 3 | 2022 |
| National Museum of Mexican Art | Chicago, IL | $707,500 | 13 | 5 | 2024 |
| College Art Association | New York, NY | $645,736 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Smithsonian Institute | Washington, DC | $628,150 | 8 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hyde Park Art Center | Chicago, IL | $622,660 | 12 | 5 | 2024 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY | $575,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Barbican Centre Trust | London | $550,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Forge Project Association | Ancram, NY | $550,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $519,260 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art | Evanston, IL | $502,000 | 8 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $493,000 | 6 | 2 | 2024 |
| Courtauld Institute of Art | London | $489,534 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston | Boston, MA | $480,000 | 6 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Baltimore Museum of Art | Baltimore, MD | $475,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Floating Museum | Chicago, IL | $439,000 | 8 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $438,400 | 11 | 5 | 2024 |
| El Museo Del Barrio | New York, NY | $425,000 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | Chicago, IL | $417,000 | 10 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Academy in Rome | New York, NY | $408,750 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Oxford | Oxford | $408,381 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | Brooklyn, NY | $405,000 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD | $400,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford | Oxford | $397,213 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza | Madrid | $392,098 | 4 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Brooklyn Rail | Brooklyn, NY | $375,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grey Art Museum Nyu | New York, NY | $350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Humboldt-Universitt Zu Berlin | Berlin | $350,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Palais De Tokyo | Paris | $348,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Newberry Library | Chicago, IL | $342,000 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Minneapolis Institute of Art | Minneapolis, MN | $335,000 | 5 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Gallery of Art | Landover, MD | $330,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Portland Art Museum | Portland, OR | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Amistad Research Center | New Orleans, LA | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA | $300,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Freie Universitt Berlin - John-F-Kennedy-Institut Fr Nordamerikastudien | Berlin | $290,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc | Memphis, TN | $284,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Swiss Institute | New York, NY | $279,600 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Heard Museum | Phoenix, AZ | $275,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Moderna Museet Stockholm | Stockholm | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Muse Des Beaux-Arts De Montral | Montreal | $275,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Houston | Houston, TX | $272,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The National Public Housing Museum | Chicago, IL | $260,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Laxart | Los Angeles, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Museum of the American Indian - New York | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Royal Academy of Arts | London | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum | Long Island City, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa | Cape Town | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events | Chicago, IL | $247,100 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Smarthistory | Pleasantville, NY | $240,400 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Phillips Collection | Washington, DC | $230,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Winterthur Museum Garden and Library | Winterthur, DE | $229,652 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $225,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Copenhagen Contemporary | Copenhagen | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Inc | Bentonville, AR | $225,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $225,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| The National Gallery | London | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art | Nagaoka Niigata | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $225,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yinka Shonibare Foundation (london) | London | $220,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rebuild Foundation | Chicago, IL | $216,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign, IL | $213,000 | 5 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chicago Humanities Festival | Chicago, IL | $210,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Abbotsford Cultural Centre | Abbotsford | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Federation of Arts | New York, NY | $200,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive | Berkeley, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Biennale of Sydney | Sydney | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carnegie Institute | Pittsburgh, PA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cincinnati Art Museum | Cincinnati, OH | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | Cleveland, OH | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Denver Art Museum Inc | Denver, CO | $200,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fells Point Creative Alliance Inc | Baltimore, MD | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Institute for Freedoms Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Musee D'arts De Nantes | Nantes Cedex | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Musee Du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac | Paris | $200,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Walker Art Center Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art | Chicago, IL | $191,000 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (bampfa) | Berkeley, CA | $185,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Woodmere Art Museum | Philadelphia, PA | $185,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture University of Syd | Sydney | $183,870 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The University of Sydney | Sydney | $183,870 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art | Chicago, IL | $182,455 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Intuit the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art | Chicago, IL | $178,350 | 7 | 3 | 2022 |
| Barnes Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kunst-Werke Berlin E V Kw Institute for Contemporary Art | Berlin | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Portland Museum of Art | Portland, ME | $175,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Smithsonian Institute | New York, NY | $175,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thomas Cole Historic House | Catskill, NY | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chicago Historical Society | Chicago, IL | $170,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (apac) | Washington, DC | $165,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $161,990 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Burke Museum Association | Seattle, WA | $160,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| New-York Historical Society | New York, NY | $158,613 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of Ganondagan | Victor, NY | $153,037 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Abbe Museum | Bar Harbor, ME | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Akete Art Foundation | Lagos, Louisiana | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc | Anchorage, AK | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Albuquerque Museum Foundation | Albuquerque, NM | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Museum of the Moving Image | Astoria, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Art Gallery of Ontario | Toronto | $150,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Association of Historians of American Art | Oviedo, FL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bma Support Inc | Birmingham, AL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boston Athenaeum | Boston, MA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Curatorial Leadership | New York, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colby College Museum of Art | Waterville, ME | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| First Americans Museum | Oklahoma City, OK | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fondation Beyeler | Riehenbasel | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fundacion Juan March | Madrid | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hamburger Kunsthalle | Hamburg | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hampton University Museum | Hampton, VA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heckscher Museum | Huntington, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Henry E Huntington Library & Art Gallery | San Marino, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| High Desert Museum | Bend, OR | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Japanese American National Museum | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kunstmuseum Basel | Basel | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc | North Adams, MA | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mmk Museum Fr Moderne Kunst | Frankfurt Am Main | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Musee D'art Moderne De Paris | Paris | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Museum Associates | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Peabody Essex Museum | Salem, MA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum | Boston, MA | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stdtisches Museum Braunschweig | Braunschweig | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Institute of Contemporary Artboston | Boston, MA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Victoria & Albert Museum | London | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Museum of International Folk Art | Santa Fe, NM | $148,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $145,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Intuit the Center for Intuitive and Outside Art | Chicago, IL | $145,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mcclung Museum of Natural History & Culture | Knoxville, TN | $145,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum | Miami, FL | $145,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Independent Curators International | New York, NY | $140,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Museum of Contemporary Photography | Chicago, IL | $139,000 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rijksmuseum Amsterdam | Amsterdam | $137,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Contemporary and (c&) | Berlin | $131,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Doshisha University Kyoto Kobe University Kobe | Kyoto | $130,950 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Muse Du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac | Paris | $129,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Folk Art Museum | New York, NY | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology | Oxford | $125,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Associazione Culturale Bhmf | Florence | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Black Artists Archive | Detroit, MI | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Columbia Museum of Art | Columbia, SC | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dia Center for the Arts Inc | New York, NY | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Harvard Art Museums | Cambridge, MA | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Haus Am Waldsee | Berlin | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute of Contemporary Art (ica) University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kansas University Endowment Assoc | Lawrence, KS | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Muse De Lorangerie | Paris Cedex | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Musee Des Beaux-Arts De Montreal | Montreal | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Portrait Gallery | Washington, DC | $125,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California at Riverside | Riverside, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tacoma Art Museum | Tacoma, WA | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The University of Virginia the Fralin Museum of Art | Charlottesville, VA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block | Tucson, AZ | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ursinus College | Collegeville, PA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vincent Price Art Museum | Monterey Park, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc | Rockland, ME | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aware (archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions) | Paris | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Folded Map Project | Chicago, IL | $120,000 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation | Richmond, VA | $120,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Black Metropolis Research Consortium | Chicago, IL | $113,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chicago Public Library Foundation | Chicago, IL | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Depaul University | Chicago, IL | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Site Santa Fe | Santa Fe, NM | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $105,000 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vassar College | Poughkeepsie, NY | $105,000 | 4 | 1 | 2024 |
| Universit Paris Nanterre | Nanterre | $102,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ackland Art Museum | Chapel Hill, NC | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| African American Cultural Center | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ateliers Medicis | Clichysousbois | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Cultural Innovation | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Contemporary and Non Profit Can Gug (haftungsbeschrankt) | Berlin | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Contemporary Arts Center | Cincinnati, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | Houston, TX | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Embarc Inc | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fort Worth Modern Art Museum Assoc | Fort Worth, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Graham Gund Gallery | Gambier, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Honolulu Museum of Art | Honolulu, HI | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Iris & B Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts | Redwood City, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Japanese American Cultural and Community Center | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kalakuta Trust | Cape Town | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kte Art Foundation Lagos Biennial | Lagos, Louisiana | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Madison Square Park Conservancy Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami | North Miami, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New Bedford Whaling Museum | New Bedford, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture | Spokane, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nxthvn Inc | New Haven, CT | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Serpentine Galleries | London | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Field Museum | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Rose Art Museum | Waltham, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Speed Art Museum | Louisville, KY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| US Latinx Art Forum | Medford, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Voices in Contemporary Art | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yale University Art Gallery | New Haven, CT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Whitechapel Gallery | London | $99,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Institut National D'histoire De L'art | Paris | $97,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mccord Stewart Museum | Montreal | $96,963 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 6018NORTH Nfp | Chicago, IL | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture | Chicago, IL | $95,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, IL | $94,700 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Depaul University-Depaul Art Museum | Chicago, IL | $91,650 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Nelson Gallery Foundation | Kansas City, MO | $91,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chicago History Museum | Chicago, IL | $90,000 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Museum of Fine Arts | Boston, MA | $90,000 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Savvy Contemporary Ev | Berlin, New York | $87,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Savvy Contemporary Ev | Berlin | $87,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bard Graduate Center | New York, NY | $85,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tate | London | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chicago Public Library Foundation (cplf) | Chicago, IL | $82,000 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Musee Picasso Paris | Paris | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Puerto Rican Arts Alliance | Chicago, IL | $80,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kunstinstituut Melly | Rotterdam | $78,180 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sixty Inches From Center | Chicago, IL | $76,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art | Providence, RI | $75,700 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery | Buffalo, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Anchorage Museum Association | Anchorage, AK | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asu Art Museum | Tempe, AZ | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Autry Museum of the American West | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College | Claremont, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cala Alliance | Phoenix, AZ | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Native Futures | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colorado College | Colorado Springs, CO | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crocker Art Museum Association | Sacramento, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art | Indianapolis, IN | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Figge Art Museum | Davenport, IA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Georgia Okeeffe Museum | Santa Fe, NM | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gilcrease Museum | Tulsa, OK | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| High Museum of Art | Atlanta, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Joslyn Art Museum | Omaha, NE | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Katherine E Nash Gallery | Minneapolis, MN | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Knoxville Museum of Art | Knoxville, TN | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
142 of 565 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 31%, across 4 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.
Plus 5 grants to individuals totalling $5,695 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 554 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 180 | $10.8M | $25,000 |
| 2021 | 116 | $12.4M | $39,900 |
| 2022 | 222 | $14.7M | $70,500 |
| 2023 | 199 | $14.3M | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 236 | $15.4M | $50,000 |
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. Terra Foundation for American Art has 130 of them, worth $9,237,683. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| National Museum of Mexican Art | Chicago, IL | $342,500 |
| Barbican Centre Trust | London | $310,000 |
| Hyde Park Art Center | Chicago, IL | $300,000 |
| Floating Museum Nfp | Chicago, IL | $285,000 |
| University of Maryland - David C Driskell Center | College Park, MD | $280,000 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Houston | Houston, TX | $250,000 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston | Boston, MA | $250,000 |
| Smithsonian Institute | Washington, DC | $200,000 |
| Savvy Contemporary Ev | Berlin | $175,000 |
| Hampton University | Hampton, VA | $165,000 |
| Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences - Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, NY | $150,000 |
| Center for Curatorial Leadership | New York, NY | $150,000 |
| American Indian Cultural Center Foundation | Oklahoma City, OK | $150,000 |
| Fondation Beyeler | Riehenbasel | $150,000 |
| Museu De Arte Contemporanea Da Universidade De Sao Paulo | Sao Paulo | $134,650 |
Where its money goes
31% 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.
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund226 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc205 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust166 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program165 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc139 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc126 shared recipients
How to approach this foundation
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Terra Foundation for American Art's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). 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: 120 East Erie Street, Chicago, IL, 60611. 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 36-2999442 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.
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