Previous Grantees
Since its inception in 2021, the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative has awarded over $21.8 million to 294 visual arts institutions across the United States and Puerto Rico—from major collecting museums and art schools to regional arts centers and community arts programs.
What began as a $5 million commitment has evolved into a decade-long effort to support and catalyze clean energy adoption, infrastructure upgrades, and long-range sustainability planning across the visual arts. Read on to learn more about our previous grantees. FCI’s first five years laid the foundation for the initiative’s longer horizon, supporting institutions at various stages of planning and implementation.
Grantees from 2021, 2022, and 2023 are listed below detailed project summaries for our 2024 and 2025 awards.
FCI’s first five years laid the foundation for the initiative’s longer horizon, supporting institutions at various stages of planning and implementation. Grantees from 2021, 2022, and 2023 are listed below detailed project summaries for our 2024 and 2025 awards.
2023 Grantees
2023 grantees included 48 visual art institutions across 23 states, with annual operating budgets ranging in size from less than one million to nearly $500 million. A total of $2.7 million was awarded in the 2023 grant cycle, with individual grants from $2.5K to $100k.
For more information, read the 2023 grantee announcement.
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Scoping
Academy Art Museum
Dyer Arts Center, Rochester Institute of Technology
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
Glen Echo Park
Maine Media College
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Fe Art Institute
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Swiss Institute
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages
Wassaic Project
Technical Assistance
California College of the Arts (CCA)
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
Lake Placid Center for the Arts
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
National Nordic Museum
New Orleans Museum of Art
Not An Alternative
Portland Museum of Art
The Anchorage Museum
The Morgan Library & Museum
The Union for Contemporary Art
Implementation
Artpace San Antonio
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Clifton Cultural Arts Center
Dancing Spirit Center for the Arts
Fine Arts Work Center
Florence Griswold Museum
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Institute for Contemporary Art, Carnegie Mellon University
Judd Foundation
Kentucky Museum, Western Kentucky University
Midway Contemporary Art
Museum of Arts and Design
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of International Folk Art
Pratt Institute
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
SITE Santa Fe
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Eiteljorg Museum
The Museum of Modern Art
The Noguchi Museum
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2022 Grantees
2022 FCI grantees represent a broad cross-section of 48 collecting institutions across 19 states, ranging from smaller, specialized museums, to regional powerhouses and major encyclopedic institutions, with annual operating budgets ranging in size from less than one million to nearly $500 million. A total of $3 million was awarded in the 2022 grant cycle.
For more information, read the 2022 grantee announcement.
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Scoping
Contemporary Arts Center
Erie Art Museum
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Nevada Museum of Art
Oakbrook Park Chumash Indian Corporation
Speed Art Museum
The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Westbeth Artists Housing
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Technical Assistance
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California
Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard College
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Henry Gallery Association, Inc. (University of Washington)
Judd Foundation
Longview Museum of Fine Arts
MASS MoCA
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Philadelphia Contemporary
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
South Side Community Art Center
Contemporary Art Museum at University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.
Kentucky Museum at West Kentucky University
Implementation
Visual and Performing Arts Center at Bennington College
Carnegie Museum of Art
Center for Jewish History
Delaware Art Museum
Elmhurst Art Museum
Florence Griswold Museum, Inc.
Hill-Stead Museum
MacDowell
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
New Britain Museum of American Art
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College
Pittsburgh Glass Center
San Diego Museum of Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Storm King Art Center
Tacoma Art Museum
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Morgan Library & Museum
The Museum of Modern Art
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation
Yale Center for British Art
Yale University Art Gallery
2021 Grantees
In response to the range, depth, and need of applications from the first call for proposals, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation awarded $5.1 million to 79 institutions through the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative and simultaneously announced an additional $5 million to the initiative, to be awarded over the next two years. The 2021 grantees represent a broad cross-section of collecting institutions across more than 25 states, ranging from smaller, specialized museums, to regional powerhouses and major encyclopedic institutions.
For more information, read the 2021 grantee announcement.
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Scoping
Anchorage Museum
Fenimore Art Museum
Florence Griswold Museum
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum
International Center of Photography
Judd Foundation
Kentucky Museum
Lyndhurst Mansion
International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS)
Museum of Science & History (MoSH)
Museum of Arts and Design
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
Riverside Art Museum
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Studio Museum in Harlem
Yale University Art Gallery
Technical Assistance
Abbe Museum
Barnes Foundation
Carnegie Institute (Carnegie Museum of Art)
Denver Art Museum
Guild Hall
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
Montclair Art Museum
Museo de Arte de Ponce
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery of Art
Newark Museum of Art
New Britain Museum of American Art
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Seattle Art Museum
The Clark
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Farnsworth Museum
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University
Implementation
Bennington College
Bennington Museum
Berkshire Museum
Bishop Museum
California Indian Museum and Cultural Center
Cape Ann Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum
Colby College Museum of Art
Currier Museum of Art
The Davis
Dayton Art Institute
Dia Art Foundation
Everson Museum of Art
Figge Art Museum
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Frick Collection
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Honolulu Museum of Art
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Joslyn Art Museum
Krannert Art Museum
Laguna Art Museum
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Morgan Library & Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of International Folk Art
Nasher Sculpture Center
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New Mexico Museum of Art
Orange County Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Plains Art Museum
Princeton University Art Museum
Springfield Museums
Taft Museum of Art
Timken Museum of Art
Walters Art Museum
Weatherspoon Art Museum