About Keith Haring Foundation
The Keith Haring Foundation concentrates large, targeted gifts to arts organizations and LGBTQ health services, primarily in New York. Its giving emphasizes support for institutional arts and performance (including higher-education arts programming) and health services for marginalized communities, with a pattern of making few, sizable grants rather than many small awards.
Focus Areas
Contemporary arts programming and institutional support at higher-education arts campuses (e.g., Bard College)Experimental and contemporary performance venues in New York City (e.g., Performance Space New York)LGBTQ-focused community health and clinical services (e.g., Callen-Lorde)
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated giving: very few grants but large dollar amounts, including repeat support to the same institution (multiple grants to Bard College). Funding is focused and strategic rather than broadly distributed.
Notable grantees: Bard College, Performance Space New York, Community Health Project Inc (Callen-Lorde)
About Keith Haring Foundation
A $1,502,000 grant to Bard College in 2025 stands out in The Keith Haring Foundation Inc’s recent giving and shows how the foundation uses large awards to support arts institutions tied to Haring’s legacy. The foundation also backed Community Health Project Inc (callen-lorde) with $500,000 in 2023, reflecting a parallel commitment to LGBTQ health services and clinical care. Across the recent grants list, the funder combines institutional arts support, performance venues, and health organizations serving people affected by HIV/AIDS and related community needs. The pattern is selective rather than broad: a small number of substantial grants recur across multiple years, often to the same organizations. In the arts, support has gone to contemporary programming and higher-education arts settings; in health, the foundation has funded providers and national nonprofits connected to HIV/AIDS, transgender medicine, and LGBTQ community services. The Keith Haring Foundation Inc’s grantmaking also includes organizations that preserve, interpret, or extend Keith Haring’s life, work, and legacy through exhibitions, education, and cultural programming.
What Keith Haring Foundation Funds
Contemporary arts is one of the clearest threads in the foundation’s grant history. It gave $510,000 in 2023 to Performance Space New York for exempt purpose support, and $129,000 in 2025 to New Museum for exempt purpose support. Educational arts programming appears as well: Bard College received $1,502,000 in 2025. Health-related grantmaking is equally prominent. The foundation awarded $200,000 in 2025 to Mount Sinai Hospital Center for Transgender Medicine and $102,000 in 2025 to Gay Mens Health Crisis Inc. It also supported The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc with $115,000 in 2025, and Safe Passage Project Corporation with $100,000 in 2025. These grants point to services for LGBTQ communities, youth, and people affected by HIV/AIDS.
How Keith Haring Foundation Gives
Typical grants cluster around a middle band of $25,000, with a lower quartile of $15,000 and an upper quartile of $50,000. The recent list shows a foundation that prefers fewer, larger awards, including repeated support for selected organizations across 2023, 2024, and 2025. It is a regular funder rather than a DAF and does not fund individuals or make program-related investments. The general grantmaking program accepts unsolicited applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5.8M
Total Assets
$77.8M
Total Revenue
$13.2M
Total Expenses
$9.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $15K and $50K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$15K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$50K
Geographic Reach
Local12 states funded
About 87% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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