Grants & Awards


Posted: March 27, 2024

The Thoma Foundation and Van Duzer Vineyards announce $25,000 donation to the ¡Salud! Foundation

In honor of their 25th anniversary in the Willamette Valley, the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation and Van Duzer Vineyards are proud to announce a gift of $25,000 to the ¡Salud! Foundation ...

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Posted: May 16, 2023

Thoma Foundation Announces 2023-2024 Awards in the Art of the Spanish Americas

This year, the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is pleased to award two scholars whose work advances our knowledge of the construction of historiography of viceregal Andean painting, and the artistic networks ...

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Posted: January 27, 2023

Thoma Foundation Announces Support of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Retrospective

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is proud to have awarded a $150,000 grant to the Whitney Museum of American Art in support of its upcoming retrospective of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. ...

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Posted: November 9, 2022

Introducing Moving Arts’ New Teen Space! 

The Thoma Foundation sends their congratulations to Moving Arts Española on both the opening of their new teen programming wing, Bowie’s Backstage, and Executive Director Salvador Ruiz’s naming as a UniVisionario. Two ...

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Posted: October 20, 2022

Thoma Foundation Awards $200,000 to Empower Schools

This two-year grant funds the pilot of the LeadRural Fellowship—a coordinated and intentional effort to identify, cultivate, and support rural leaders and to give those leaders the ideas, resources, network, and partners ...

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Posted: October 4, 2022

Thoma Foundation Awards $1 Million to Arizona Student Opportunity Collaborative

A three-year grant to Arizona Student Opportunity Collaborative will create access to high-quality, virtual college & career advising for rural students. The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation has awarded a $1 million ...

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Posted: September 15, 2022

Shifting Tides: Art in the 18th-Century Caribbean

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation has given a grant of $25,000 in support of Shifting Tides: Art in the 18th-Century Caribbean, a symposium and study day to be hosted at the Winterthur Museum in ...

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Posted: August 10, 2022

Thoma Foundation Supports Judd Foundation’s Library Project

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation has made a $60,000 grant to Judd Foundation in support of the Donald Judd Library Project, a digital preservation initiative that weds the deliberate categorization and ...

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Posted: August 8, 2022

Thoma Foundation Support for Education and the Arts in Southern NM Starts with $600,000

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, a private family foundation with offices in Santa Fe and Chicago, has made its first grants to support educational and arts nonprofit organizations in southern New ...

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Posted: June 23, 2022

CEN Announces ​​$1M Grant to Rural HOPE from Thoma Foundation

Collegiate Edu-Nation (CEN) is a network of high-performing rural school districts in Texas that focuses on heightened college and career aspirations through continuous educational attainment and industry-related certifications. The CEN P-20 System ...

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