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Private foundation (trust)EIN 133244308Est. 1985-03

HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION INC

NEW YORK, NY 10001

Total Assets

$573.6M

FY 2024

Annual Giving

$14.4M

FY 2024

Grants Made

105

FY 2024

Avg Grant

$137K

FY 2024

Grant Range

$3K–$3.8M

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Programs & Activities

Program 1

$10.8M

Cataloguing and maintaining the helen frankenthaler foundation art collection for loans to museum exhibitions and in preparation for a future catalogue raisonne. Curating exhibitions or partnering on curatorial projects advancing the legacy of helen frankenthaler and public understanding of her work. Organizing and presenting public programs and events on or related to frankenthaler's work and to other abstract expressionist artists, as well as the role and responsibilities of artist-endowed foundations.

Program 2

$667K

Processing and maintaining the helen frankenthaler foundation archives and library as a study center to facilitate scholarly research on the artist's work. Publishing and assisting with the publication of catalogues and other scholarly texts on helen frankenthaler and her work's relation to other 20th and 21st century artists.organizing and studying the foundation's collection of prints by helen frankenthaler in preparation for current and upcoming phases of the frankenthaler prints initiative gifts to university art museums.

Program 3

$177K

Developing and offering programs in conjunction with bennington college's department of visual arts, specifically its museum fellows term, for which the foundation's offices and study center serve as the new york city hub, and offering other professional development internships for students at bennington college and other academic or nonprofit institutions.conducting and archiving interviews for an oral history program to aid future scholarship on helen frankenthaler and the context of her work.

Financial Snapshot

2024 filing

Total Revenue

$21.2M

Total Expenses

$26.4M

Qualifying Distributions

$26.1M

Min. Investment Return

$7.2M

Grant Range

105 grants

Grant sizes from minimum $3K through median $30K to maximum $3.8M, shown on a logarithmic scale.

Logarithmic scale — typical grant portfolios span orders of magnitude, so distances are proportional to multiplicative change, not dollar gaps.

Giving Over Time

4 years

Giving over time from 2020 to 2024. Peak $25.3M in 2023. Hover bars for details.

Total dollars recorded per filing year. Scale adjusts to the foundation's range.

Top Recipients

373 grants

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
$5M
1 grant
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
$4.6M
1 grant
KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL
$3.8M
1 grant
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO
$3.5M
1 grant
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - SMART MUSEUM OF ART
$3.2M
1 grant
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION - SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
$2.0M
3 grants
FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
$2.0M
7 grants
PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM
$1.6M
1 grant

Grant Size Distribution

373 grants

<$10K
66
grants
$10–50K
190
grants
$50–250K
90
grants
$250K–1M
18
grants
$1–5M
9
grants
$5M+

Geographic Focus

36 states

New York
$19.6M
45% of total
Illinois
$9.1M
21% of total
Massachusetts
$2.2M
5% of total
District of Columbia
$2.1M
5% of total
Connecticut
$2.1M
5% of total
California
$1.3M
3% of total
Washington
$1.1M
3% of total
Vermont
$823K
2% of total
Colorado
$459K
1% of total
Indiana
$432K
1% of total

+26 more states

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