Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
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About Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation appears to support arts-focused initiatives, with this year's recorded giving concentrated in a single, sizable grant to a progressive arts organization. The foundation likely prioritizes creative programming that advances contemporary or community-centered arts projects. Its giving is currently limited in scope but meaningful in size for individual recipients.
Focus Areas
Progressive/community-centered arts programmingSupport for arts initiatives that emphasize innovation and social engagementSmall- to mid-sized arts nonprofits (project or program support)
Who They Fund
contemporary visual artists (including artists of color)museum studies fellows and museum professionalscoastal and non-urban community audiencesregional arts communities (Southeast, Midwest, Louisiana, Texas)cultural heritage communities (e.g., Indigenous/Code Talkers related)
About Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation’s recent record is built around $25,000 awards for contemporary art exhibitions, commissions, publications, and museum projects. In 2025, it backed Lawndale Art Center for the presentation of MUD, CORN, STONE, BLUE created by Laura Augusta, and NY Foundation for the Arts for SHOAL, a public artwork on a barge that travels to coastal communities in New York City. Those grants show a preference for project-specific support rather than broad thematic statements alone. The same pattern appears across museum and artist-centered work: Detroit Institute of Arts received support for its first major contemporary art installation in the museum’s Great Hall, while The Soil Factory was funded for an artist-in-residency program. The foundation also funds preservation and professional development, including conservation of a terracotta relief sculpture at Virginia Union University and a museum studies fellow at South Dakota State University Foundation. Its grantmaking reaches regional arts organizations, museums, and publications alike, with contemporary visual art as the common thread.
What Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation Funds
Contemporary visual arts are the clearest throughline in the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation’s giving. It supported Ogden Contemporary Arts with $25,000 for Jorge Rojas’ curated The Other Side of the Tracks, a multi-venue exhibition, and gave the Heard Museum $25,000 for Haozous: A Retrospective View. The foundation also backs new work and installations, including $25,000 to City As Living Laboratory for Miss Mary, commissions of new works for rescuing Tibbetts Brook. It funds publications as part of its arts interest: Swiss Institute received $25,000 for the Raven Chacon publication. Beyond exhibitions and print, the foundation has also supported artist development through The Soil Factory’s artist-in-residency program.
How Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation Gives
The foundation’s typical grant size is tightly clustered at $25,000, with the 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile all at that level. That indicates a highly standardized award pattern. The recent list also shows repeated support to some recipients across different years, including Hermitage Museum and Gardens and Ogden Contemporary Arts, alongside one-off grants to many others. The foundation is classified as a Regular Funder and funds individuals. Its active program description points to grants for special projects in contemporary arts, and unsolicited applications are not accepted.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$311K
Total Assets
$4.2M
Total Revenue
$493K
Total Expenses
$368K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $25K and $25K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$25K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
National22 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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