Nonprofit Organization Grantees

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation provides grants to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations whose innovative projects and original ideas will advance scholarship, education, and public engagement in the arts. Learn more about our previous nonprofit grantees below.

Interested in applying on behalf of a nonprofit organization? Inquiries about our grant opportunities should be sent to grants@thomafoundation.org. All grant requests must be submitted online through our online grants portal.

Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric

In 2022, the Thoma Foundation awarded SITE Santa Fe a grant in support of the community engagement and programming for the exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric. The exhibition is on view ...

2022

Education

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Golden Apple

Golden Apple Foundation is a proven model that works in support of teacher training, mentoring, and retention in Illinois. In 2022, a grant from the Thoma Foundation helped fund Golden Apple’s expansion ...

2022

Building Capacity: Arts & Community

Education

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

Rural

MASS Design Group

MASS Design Group was founded on the understanding that architecture’s influence reaches beyond individual buildings. MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society) believes that architecture has a critical role to play in supporting ...

2022

Education

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

Rural

Ngage New Mexico

Ngage New Mexico is the backbone organization behind the SUCCESS Partnership, a collective impact effort that represents a cross-sector of community partners who have come together to address education inequities in Doña ...

2022

Education

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

University Art Museum, New Mexico State University

Situated within New Mexico State University (NMSU), a Hispanic-serving land grant institution, the University Art Museum (UAM) serves as an academic environment for the critical analysis of visual art while making culturally ...

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

Publication Recipients

Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight

Dedicated to the advancement of American Indian art, the Heard Museum successfully presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, as well as exhibitions that showcase the beauty and ...

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Publication Recipients

Emotional Bandwidth

Beginning in 1975, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz developed a body of work that today stands unparalleled in its scope and vision for art in a networked age. This richly illustrated book ...

Education

Exhibitions

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

Smart to the Core: Medium/Image

First opened in 1974, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago is a site for rigorous inquiry and exchange that encourages the examination of complex issues through the lens ...

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

Publication Recipients

Video After Television

“Video After Television” is a revisitation of the publication “The New Television: A Public/Private Art,” originally published by EAI in 1977 as a compendium of the papers delivered during “Open Circuits: An ...

Education

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

Amarillo College

Located in the Texas Panhandle, Amarillo College (AC) is a community college serving over 10,000 students. AC embraces a clear theory of change: by addressing a life barrier in an accelerated learning ...

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