Foundation News

News Categories

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posted: July 18, 2022

Thoma Foundation Awards $145,000 to Scholars of the Art of the Spanish Americas

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation will award nearly $145,000 in fellowships and grants to support scholarship on the art of the Spanish Americas. This year, the Foundation is pleased to name ...

Posted: June 23, 2022

NYU: Topics in Time-based Media Art Conservation, A Conversation with The Thoma Foundation Team

Perspectives from a Private Collection: How the Thoma Foundation Collects and Conserves Digital, Video and Media Art The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, founded in 2014, confronts conservation and display challenges by ...

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 ...

Posted: June 14, 2022

Spotlight on Loans and Collection-Related Grants

The Collections team and Grants team at the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation have been working together closely this year to better align our Loans and Grants programs. We are continuing to refine our applicant procedures and guidelines while streamlining interdepartmental coordination. We encourage prospective applicants to subscribe to our newsletter (in the footer of this page) and to check back frequently on our Loans page and our Collection-Related Grants site. In the meantime, we are proud to announce several recent Collections-Related exhibition grants that feature Thoma Collection loans.