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.

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

In 2021, the Thoma Foundation awarded a $100,000 Digital Changemaker Grant to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. The IPCC is a cultural center and museum dedicated to preserving and perpetuating Pueblo culture ...

Digital Changemaker Grant

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

Flagstaff Arts Center

In 2021, the Thoma Foundation awarded a $100,000 Digital Changemaker Grant to the Flagstaff Arts Center to support the “Creative Flagstaff Digital Resource & Education Center.” This local arts agency is focused not ...

Education

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

Central New Mexico Community College Ingenuity

CNM Ingenuity partnered with the Thoma Foundation to deliver a UX/UI Deep Dive coding bootcamp to young adults in rural parts of New Mexico and Texas in 2021. This part-time bootcamp covered ...

Education

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

High Plains Regional Education Cooperative & NS4ed

During the 2020-2021 school year, Thoma Foundation’s grant to HPREC covered the cost of a virtual, three-part series for counselors, teachers, and Early College High School leaders on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) as ...

Education

Nonprofit Organization Grantees

Moving Arts Española

In 2020, the Thoma Foundation awarded Moving Arts Española a $100,000 matching grant to expand services and programming for older teens by creating additional space within their existing campus. This expansion will ...

Exhibitions

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Publication Recipients

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists

Women have long been the creative force behind Native art. Presented in close cooperation with top Native women artists and scholars, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, the first major exhibition ...

Exhibitions

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Publication Recipients

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern takes a new look at how the renowned modernist artist proclaimed her progressive, independent lifestyle through a self-crafted public persona—including her clothing and the way she posed for ...

Exhibitions

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I Was Raised on the Internet

I Was Raised on the Internet focuses on how the internet has changed the way we experience the world. Due to new types of gaming and entertainment and the rise of social ...

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Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959–1965

Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959-1965 edited by Meredith Malone accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at the Washington University in ...

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Publication Recipients

Pat Passlof: The Brush is the Finger of the Brain

Pat Passlof: The Brush Is the Finger of the Brain is a survey exhibition of the paintings of Pat Passlof (1928-2011), featuring an accompanying catalogue supported by the Thoma Foundation. Spanning a period ...

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