For our General Grants for Nonprofits and Publication Grants, Thoma Foundation accepts Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) on a rolling basis from 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. We fund programs that provide promising new insights into the fields of art in which we collect: Digital & Electronic Art, Art of the Spanish Americas, Post-War Painting & Sculpture, and Japanese Bamboo. We value long-term relationships with grantees and encourage you to connect with us before submitting your inquiry.
You may submit an LOI on our online grants portal linked below. We review LOIs on a quarterly basis (see the General Grants for Nonprofits page for the next deadline). If we are interested in learning more about your project, you will hear from us within approximately thirty days of the quarterly deadline with an invitation to submit a Complete Proposal. The grants team will work with your organization to establish a realistic timeline for a Complete Proposal, but generally we ask that organizations aim to submit thirty days from receiving an invitation. Please keep in mind that the Foundation prefers twelve months’ notice before the start of a project.
As of late 2020, our Digital Changemaker Grants and Equity Grants are both in their pilot phases. For the most up-to-date information about the application procedures for each of these programs, please refer to the individual pages for each of these grants to learn more.
Questions about our grant opportunities should be sent to grants@thomafoundation.org. All grant requests must be submitted through our online grants portal.