About J Paul Getty Trust
The Getty Trust concentrates its recent giving on arts, cultural institutions, and built‑heritage preservation, favoring large, project‑specific grants that support public art, museum capacity, and historic preservation initiatives. Grants are aimed at place‑based cultural projects (both in Los Angeles and internationally) and programs that preserve or interpret modern and historic architecture and collections.
Focus Areas
Public art and cultural corridors in Los Angeles (e.g., Destination Crenshaw)Historic preservation and conservation of modern architecture ('Keeping It Modern')Museum capacity and collections support, including major international museums
Who They Fund
emerging museum and art professionalspostdoctoral fellows in art historyundergraduate interns (Los Angeles County organizations)museums and cultural institutionsLatinx artists and communitiesAfrican American artists/archives and communities
About J Paul Getty Trust
The J Paul Getty Trust’s recent giving is defined by place-based cultural work: a $2.5 million grant to Destination Crenshaw in Los Angeles, funding that sits alongside major support for museum capacity, art history, and built-heritage preservation. The trust also backed the National Trust for Historic Preservation with $1.6 million for Keeping It Modern, and made a $1.4056 million grant to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai through its trust grants program. Those examples show a pattern of large, project-specific awards rather than broad unrestricted support. The trust’s portfolio includes public art corridors, preservation of modern architecture, conservation of collections, and international museum initiatives. It also funds scholarship and training in the arts, including postdoctoral fellowships in art history and internships for undergraduate students at Los Angeles County organizations. In practice, the trust works across museums, archives, universities, and heritage organizations, often tying grants to named programs or collaborative initiatives. Its giving reaches both Los Angeles institutions and partners in other major cultural centers, reflecting an interest in local cultural infrastructure as well as international art and preservation networks.
What J Paul Getty Trust Funds
In public art and cultural-corridor work, The J Paul Getty Trust gave $500,000 to Destination Crenshaw in 2024 for special projects, extending earlier support for the same initiative. In museum exhibition and programming work, it granted $400,000 to the Academy Foundation for Pacific Standard Time 2024 and $350,000 to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation for the same program. The trust also supports Latinx art in museums: grants of $500,000 each went to the National Gallery of Art, Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio, and The Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation under Advancing Latinx Art in Museums. For scholarship and professional development, it awarded $485,000 to the American Council of Learned Societies for the Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and $280,000 to Museum Associates for Getty Marrow Undergraduate Interns at Los Angeles County organizations.
How J Paul Getty Trust Gives
Typical awards are mid-sized to large: the grant-size distribution is p25 $2,000, median $7,550, and p75 $39,106. That distribution sits alongside a small number of much larger project grants, which shape the trust’s visible recent giving. The funder is a regular DAF-classified funder and does make grants to individuals, including fellowship support in art history. The recent record shows repeated support for the same institutions and initiatives across years, especially for programs such as Pacific Standard Time, Getty/ACLS fellowships, and trust grants to major museums and heritage organizations. The pattern is program-specific rather than open-ended.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$28.5M
Total Assets
$13.9B
Total Revenue
$767.4M
Total Expenses
$448.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $2K and $39K, with a median of $8K.
25th Percentile
$2K
Median
$8K
75th Percentile
$39K
Geographic Reach
Regional34 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
JAMES CUNO
TRUSTEE, PRES. & CEO
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where J Paul Getty Trust Funds
Top 10 recipient countries by grant volume for J Paul Getty Trust.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 1,770 | $74.3M | 69.3% |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 149 |
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