Our Grants

 

Learn more about our recent grants…

As of 2020, our grantmaking priorities have expanded to include a focus on education. If you’re mostly familiar with the Thoma Foundation for our work in the arts, our recent work in rural education across the Southwest may be new to you. We invite you to explore our recent grants by clicking here to focus in on 2022! 

Have questions about our grantmaking? Email grants@thomafoundation.org to learn more. 


2022
Education
Nonprofit Organization Grantees
Rural

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Education
Nonprofit Organization Grantees
Rural

rootEd Alliance

rootEd Alliance launched in 2018 to improve postsecondary outcomes for students in rural America, partnering with local and national organizations working to meaningfully provide advice, exposure and access to financial resources, so ...

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Nonprofit Organization Grantees
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 ...

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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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