Monument Lab
ActiveArts, Culture & Humanities
About Monument Lab
Monument Lab Inc funds place-based public art, memory projects, and community cultural initiatives primarily through fiscal sponsorships. Their grants support a mix of arts organizations, university partners, grassroots community development/civic groups, and descendant-led historical projects, often enabling site-specific public history or monument-related programming across the U.S. They favor project support that connects creative practice with local history and community engagement rather than unrestricted operating funding.
Focus Areas
Public art and monument/placemaking projects (site-specific commissions and public history installations)Descendant-led historical research and memorialization projectsCommunity arts coalitions and music/culture preservation in neighborhoods (e.g., New Orleans cultural infrastructure)University-partnered public humanities and research projectsCommunity development organizations acting as fiscal sponsors for arts and memorial projects
Who They Fund
emerging grassroots projectsunincorporated community initiatives
About Monument Lab
Monument Lab Inc’s recent giving is defined by equal-size project grants of $85,000, each routed as fiscal sponsorship for place-based public art, memory work, and community history projects. The foundation backs initiatives that use monuments, cultural preservation, and public humanities as tools for local storytelling and civic memory, rather than broad unrestricted operating support. The 2025 grant list shows a mix of universities, churches, cultural coalitions, community development groups, and descendant-led projects. The Corporation of Mercer University received support through fiscal sponsorship, as did Calvary Episcopal Church and Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans. That mix points to a funder working across institutional and grassroots settings, often through intermediaries that can hold and administer project funds. Monument Lab Inc’s grantmaking also reaches historical memorialization and community-based arts efforts tied to specific places, including descendant-centered work in Louisiana and public art in Wyoming. The pattern is national in scope, but the grants are designed around local projects with a strong connection to history, place, and community engagement.
What Monument Lab Funds
A central theme is public art and monument work. Monument Lab Inc gave $85,000 to Laramie Public Art Coalition for fiscal sponsorship, and another $85,000 to University of Washington for fiscal sponsorship, showing support for site-specific public history and research-linked projects. The foundation also funds descendant-led historical and memorialization efforts. The Descendants Project in Vacherie, Louisiana received $85,000 through fiscal sponsorship, indicating support for community-controlled historical work rooted in a specific place and lineage. Community cultural preservation is another clear area. Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans received $85,000, which fits the foundation’s support for neighborhood-based cultural infrastructure. In Tennessee, Klondike Smokey City Cdc Inc received $85,000 through fiscal sponsorship, linking arts and memory work with community development settings.
How Monument Lab Gives
Monument Lab Inc gives at a fixed recent grant size: the 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile are all $85,000. That indicates a uniform grant pattern in the recent sample rather than a wide range of award sizes. The recent grants also point to project-based, intermediary giving. Every listed award is described as fiscal sponsorship, which suggests the foundation often funds new, small, or unincorporated initiatives through a sponsoring organization rather than making direct operating grants. The 2025 list is a set of one-time project awards in the data provided, with no repeat recipients shown across the recent grants sample.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$850K
Total Assets
$2.8M
Total Revenue
$3.3M
Total Expenses
$4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $85K and $85K, with a median of $85K.
25th Percentile
$85K
Median
$85K
75th Percentile
$85K
Geographic Reach
National8 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in TN.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
TIFFANY TAVAREZ
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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