About Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Established in 1985 through the generosity of Lee Krasner, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation provides direct financial resources and programmatic support to emerging and established visual artists worldwide and supports exhibitions and scholarship related to the legacies of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.
Focus Areas
Visual artsPaintingSculptureWorks on paper (including printmaking)Artist residenciesExhibitionsArtistic scholarship and research
Funding Style
general operating supportunrestricted supportgeneral support
About Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Pollock-krasner Foundation Inc. is built around direct support for visual artists, with unrestricted individual grants used for new work, materials, studio rent, and professional practice. Its mission also extends to exhibitions, scholarship, and research tied to the legacies of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. In the recent grants list, that artist-centered model appears alongside support for institutions that serve the field, including a $125,000 grant to Portland Art Museum and a $100,000 grant to Stony Brook Foundation for the PKF House & Study Center. The foundation also makes recognition awards for artists with distinguished careers, including the Lee Krasner Award and the Pollock Prize for Creativity, both of which reflect a focus on artistic achievement rather than project-specific programming. Grants appear across the United States and internationally, with nonprofit organizations, museums, and individual artists all represented in the current record. The foundation’s work sits at the intersection of studio practice, arts institutions, and art history, with a strong emphasis on visual arts in multiple forms, including painting, sculpture, and works on paper.
What Pollock-Krasner Foundation Funds
Visual arts are the center of the foundation’s grantmaking, and the recent grants show that focus in several directions. For exhibition and institutional support, they gave $100,000 to Musee National Picasso-paris in 2025, linking grantmaking to public presentation of art and scholarship. They also awarded $50,000 to Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2023, which reflects support for artist development settings. In the individual artist stream, awards such as $60,000 to Oliver Lee Jackson in 2024 and $50,000 to Shahzia Sikander in 2024 show direct backing for artists’ practice. The portfolio also includes residencies and studio environments, with $36,500 to Vermont Studio Center in 2023 and $36,000 to Yaddo in 2025, indicating attention to the spaces where artists work and develop.
How Pollock-Krasner Foundation Gives
The typical grant size is tightly clustered: p25 is $20,000, the median is $26,936, and p75 is $30,000. Recent awards still include larger outliers, but the center of gravity is in the mid-tens of thousands. The record shows grants in multiple years to several recipients, including Stony Brook Foundation, International Studio & Curatorial Program, and Vermont Studio Center, which points to recurring relationships rather than one-time awards only. The foundation is an operating foundation in the sense that it funds both individuals and nonprofits through general support, unrestricted artist grants, and nomination-only awards. The active individual artist program accepts unsolicited applications; the organization grant and recognition awards are nomination-only.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2.2M
Total Assets
$66M
Total Revenue
$6.7M
Total Expenses
$6.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $20K and $30K, with a median of $27K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$27K
75th Percentile
$30K
Geographic Reach
National25 states funded
About 58% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
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Headquarters
Funding intensity
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Where Pollock-Krasner Foundation Funds
Top 10 recipient countries by grant volume for Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 190 | $5.4M | 69.8% |
| 2 | Germany | 21 | $502K |
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