Terra Foundation for American Art
Chicago, IL · EIN 36-2999442. Reported 717 grants totalling $52.2M to 439 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$50,000median grant
$52.2Mgranted, 2020-2023
439organizations funded
34%of grantees funded again the next year
$602.9Massets, 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 $20,800 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
All 439 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which this organization received money -- the clearest signal of who this foundation actually has a relationship with.
| 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 | $1,010,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Iff | Chicago, IL | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery | Washington, DC | $864,568 | 6 | 3 | 2022 |
| South Side Community Art Center | Chicago, IL | $831,000 | 8 | 3 | 2022 |
| Centre Pompidou | Paris | $745,000 | 4 | 2 | 2021 |
| National Museum of Mexican Art | Chicago, IL | $682,500 | 11 | 4 | 2023 |
| College Art Association | New York, NY | $605,736 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Hyde Park Art Center | Chicago, IL | $602,660 | 11 | 4 | 2023 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY | $575,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Barbican Centre Trust | London | $550,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Smithsonian Institute | Washington, DC | $523,150 | 5 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art | Evanston, IL | $502,000 | 8 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $494,260 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston | Boston, MA | $480,000 | 6 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Baltimore Museum of Art | Baltimore, MD | $475,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza | Madrid | $392,098 | 4 | 2 | 2021 |
| Courtauld Institute of Art | London | $389,867 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | Brooklyn, NY | $375,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grey Art Museum Nyu | New York, NY | $350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $338,400 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| The Newberry Library | Chicago, IL | $297,000 | 8 | 3 | 2023 |
| Moderna Museet Stockholm | Stockholm | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Houston | Houston, TX | $272,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Humboldt-Universitt Zu Berlin | Berlin | $265,900 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Swiss Institute | New York, NY | $254,600 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $253,000 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 Brooklyn Rail | Brooklyn, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum | Long Island City, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Smarthistory | Pleasantville, NY | $240,400 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| The National Public Housing Museum | Chicago, IL | $240,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Winterthur Museum Garden and Library | Winterthur, DE | $229,652 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events | Chicago, IL | $227,100 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Copenhagen Contemporary | Copenhagen | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $225,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA | $225,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| The National Gallery | London | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art | Nagaoka Niigata | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Freie Universitt Berlin - John-F-Kennedy-Institut Fr Nordamerikastudien | Berlin | $220,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive | Berkeley, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Biennale of Sydney | Sydney | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cincinnati Art Museum | Cincinnati, OH | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | Cleveland, OH | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fells Point Creative Alliance Inc | Baltimore, MD | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Heard Museum | Phoenix, AZ | $200,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Musee D'arts De Nantes | Nantes Cedex | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Musee Du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac | Paris | $200,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Walker Art Center Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc | Memphis, TN | $199,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford | Oxford | $195,331 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art | Chicago, IL | $191,000 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Chicago Humanities Festival | Chicago, IL | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Intuit the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art | Chicago, IL | $178,350 | 7 | 3 | 2022 |
| Barnes Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville, AR | $175,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kunst-Werke Berlin E V Kw Institute for Contemporary Art | Berlin | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Champaign, IL | $173,000 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (apac) | Washington, DC | $165,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art | Chicago, IL | $162,455 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Burke Museum Association | Seattle, WA | $160,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Floating Museum | Chicago, IL | $154,000 | 7 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friends of Ganondagan | Victor, NY | $153,037 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Akete Art Foundation | Lagos, Louisiana | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Museum of the Moving Image | Astoria, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Chicago Historical Society | Chicago, IL | $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 |
| 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 |
| Henry E Huntington Library & Art Gallery | San Marino, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Portland Museum of Art | Portland, ME | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Institute of Contemporary Artboston | Boston, MA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Museum of International Folk Art | Santa Fe, NM | $148,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 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 |
| Doshisha University Kyoto Kobe University Kobe | Kyoto | $130,950 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Folk Art Museum | New York, NY | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harvard Art Museums | Cambridge, MA | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Institute of Contemporary Art (ica) University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Intuit the Center for Intuitive and Outside Art | Chicago, IL | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc | Rockland, ME | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (bampfa) | Berkeley, CA | $110,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $105,000 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Universit Paris Nanterre | Nanterre | $102,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ackland Art Museum | Chapel Hill, NC | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Federation of Arts | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Denver Art Museum | Denver, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 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 |
| Iris & B Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts | Redwood City, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Madison Square Park Conservancy Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Thomas Cole Historic House | Catskill, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Muse Du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac | Paris | $96,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Aware (archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions) | Paris | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Chicago History Museum | Chicago, IL | $90,000 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Savvy Contemporary Ev | Berlin, New York | $87,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Contemporary and (c&) | Berlin | $86,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bard Graduate Center | New York, NY | $85,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New-York Historical Society | New York, NY | $83,613 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Chicago Public Library Foundation (cplf) | Chicago, IL | $82,000 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rebuild Foundation | Chicago, IL | $81,000 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Folded Map Project | Chicago, IL | $80,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Musee Picasso Paris | Paris | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Phillips Collection | Washington, DC | $80,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kunstinstituut Melly | Rotterdam | $78,180 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art | Providence, RI | $75,700 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| 6018NORTH Nfp | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Abbe Museum | Bar Harbor, ME | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc | Anchorage, AK | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery | Buffalo, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art | Indianapolis, IN | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gilcrease Museum | Tulsa, OK | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| High Desert Museum | Bend, OR | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| High Museum of Art | Atlanta, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 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 |
| Mingei International Museum | San Diego, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mississippi Museum of Art | Jackson, MS | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Montclair Art Museum | Montclair, NJ | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Museu De Arte De So Paulo | Sao Paulo | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Museum Associates | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Museum of Indian Arts and Culture | Santa Fe, NM | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Museum of Nebraska Art | Kearney, NE | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Museum of the Cherokee Indian | Cherokee, NC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Museum of Vernacular Arts and Knowledge | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Gallery Singapore | Singapore | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Museum of the American Indian | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Nordic Museum | Seattle, WA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Neuberger Museum of Art | Purchase, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Museum of Contemporary Art | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Orleans Museum of Art | New Orleans, LA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Carolina Museum of Art | Raleigh, NC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ogden Museum of Southern Art | New Orleans, LA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Peabody Essex Museum | Salem, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Princeton University Art Museum | Princeton, NJ | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Queens Museum | Queens, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Riverside Art Museum | Riverside, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Riverside Community College District Foundation | Riverside, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rochester Museum and Science Center | Rochester, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Seattle Art Museum | Seattle, WA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Soul of Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Soul of Nations Inc | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tacoma Art Museum | Tacoma, WA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Andy Warhol Museum | Pittsburgh, PA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Arts Club of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit, MI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Norman Rockwell Museum | Stockbridge, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum | Columbus, OH | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Speed Art Museum | Louisville, KY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Threewalls | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Toledo Museum of Art | Toledo, OH | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tougaloo College Art Collections | Tougaloo, MS | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block | Tucson, AZ | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unc Greensboro Excellence Foundation | Greensboro, NC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Iowa - Stanley Museum of Art | Iowa City, IA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Kentucky Art Museum | Lexington, KY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Nevada Reno Foundation | Reno, NV | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of New Mexico Foundation | Albuquerque, NM | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Utah State University | Logan, UT | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Victoria & Albert Museum | London | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Westmoreland Museum of American Art | Greensburg, PA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Westmoreland Museum of Art | Greensburg, PA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Worcester Art Museum | Worcester, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Zeitz | Cape Town | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture | Seattle, WA | $74,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palais De La Porte Dore | Paris | $73,651 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Foundation of the State University of New York at Binghamton Inc | Binghamton, NY | $72,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art | New Paltz, NY | $71,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Freie Universitat Berlin - John-F-Kennedy-Institut Fur Nordamerikastudien | Berlin | $70,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fundao De Apoio Universidade Federal De So Paulo | So Paulo | $70,610 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Plains Art Museum | Fargo, ND | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Turner Contemporary | Margate | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gwzo Ev | Leipzig | $69,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kalamazoo Institute of Arts | Kalamazoo, MI | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mead Art Museum | Amherst, MA | $64,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
89 of 439 (20%) 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 34%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 408 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
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 |
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 118 of them, worth $8,542,983. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | $125,000 |
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 36% of this one's giving went to organizations in Illinois. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $50,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Illinois.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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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 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.
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