Grants paid by Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc
EIN 22-3132379 · Spencertown, NY · Form 990-PF, Part XV
Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc of Spencertown, NY (EIN 22-3132379) reported 79 grants paid totaling $11,641,025 to 64 recipients in tax years 2020–2023, on Form 990-PF, Part XV. Derived from IRS e-file data, dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Grants paid
$11,641,025
79 grants
Recipients
64
distinct organizations
Tax years
2020–2023
3 filings in the corpus
By tax year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Amount paid | Approved for future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 22 | $2,020,000 | — |
| 2022 | 21 | $5,161,025 | — |
| 2023 | 36 | $4,460,000 | — |
Top recipients
The 64 recipients receiving the most from Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Inc, by grants paid, out of 64 distinct recipients.
| Recipient | Match | Location | Grants | Total paid | Latest year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Louis Art Museum Foundation 43-1374479 | B | St Louis, MO | 1 | $2,961,025 | 2022 |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art 23-1365388 | C | Philadelphia, PA | 3 | $2,700,000 | 2023 |
| Shaker Museum 14-1364601 | D | Chatham, NY | 2 | $1,100,000 | 2022 |
| Museum of Modern Art 13-1624100 | B | New York, NY | 3 | $300,000 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 94-1156300 | B | San Francisco, CA | 2 | $200,000 | 2023 |
| Art Institute of Chicago 36-2167725 | B | Chicago, IL | 2 | $200,000 | 2023 |
| Town of Austerlitz Grant Award 2022 | U | Austerlitz, NY | 1 | $200,000 | 2022 |
| Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum | U | Saratoga Springs, NY | 2 | $150,000 | 2022 |
| Dallas Museum of Art 75-0808774 | B | Dallas, TX | 2 | $150,000 | 2023 |
| Blanton Museum of Art | U | Austin, TX | 2 | $150,000 | 2022 |
| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 06-0653111 | B | Hartford, CT | 2 | $150,000 | 2023 |
| Seattle Art Museum 91-0640788 | B | Seattle, WA | 2 | $150,000 | 2023 |
| Walker Art Center 41-0693929 | B | Minneapolis, MN | 2 | $150,000 | 2022 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art 13-1789318 | B | New York, NY | 2 | $150,000 | 2022 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston 04-2103607 | C | Boston, MA | 2 | $150,000 | 2022 |
| Harvard University Museums 46-4352893 | D | Cambridge, MA | 1 | $100,000 | 2020 |
| Hammer Museum | U | Los Angeles, CA | 1 | $100,000 | 2020 |
| Storm King Art Center 14-1457573 | B | New Windsor, NY | 1 | $100,000 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art | U | Los Angeles, CA | 1 | $100,000 | 2020 |
| Grey Art Gallery at Nyu | U | New York, NY | 1 | $100,000 | 2020 |
| Kimbell Art Museum | U | Fort Worth, TX | 1 | $100,000 | 2020 |
| Alabama African American Civil Righ 85-1105113 | D | Birmingham, AL | 1 | $100,000 | 2020 |
| Museum of Contemprary Art | U | New York, NY | 1 | $100,000 | 2023 |
| Columbia County Library Association | U | Claverack, NY | 1 | $50,000 | 2020 |
| Worchester Art Museum | U | Worcester, MA | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Mordern Art Museum of Ft Worth | U | Fort Worth, TX | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Guggenheim Museum 20-5669317 | D | New York, NY | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Rose Art Museum | U | Waltham, MA | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| The Broad 27-3032164 | B | Los Angeles, CA | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Harvard Museum | U | Cambridge, MA | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Cincinnati Art Museum | U | Cincinnati, OH | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Hirshorn Museum | U | Washington, DC | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| High Museum of Art | U | Atlanta, GA | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Norton Simon Museum 95-1644606 | D | Pasadena, CA | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Buffalo Akg Art Museum 22-3023056 | D | Buffalo, NY | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Neuberger Museum of Art | U | Purchase, NY | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Baltimore Museum of Art 52-6000162 | B | Baltimore, MD | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Des Moines Art Center 42-0680419 | B | Des Moines, IA | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| The Phillips Collection 53-0204620 | B | Washington, DC | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| J Schnitzer Museum of Art | U | Eugene, OR | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Nelson Atkins Museum | U | Kansas City, MO | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Yale University Art Gallery | U | New Haven, CT | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum | U | Washington, DC | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Milwaukee Art Museum 39-0806316 | B | Milwaukee, WI | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Addison Gallery of American Art | U | Andover, MA | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Rhode Island School of Design 05-0258956 | B | Providence, RI | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Hood Museum of Art | U | Hanover, NH | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston 74-1109655 | B | Houston, TX | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles County Museum | U | Los Angeles, CA | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 54-6001804 | B | Richmond, VA | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Whmt Educational Telecommunications Inc | U | Troy, NY | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Pulitzer Arts Foundation 43-1752949 | B | St Louis, MO | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| National Gallery of Art 53-6001666 | B | Landover, MD | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| The Menil Collection | U | Houston, TX | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Cleveland Museum of Art 34-0714336 | B | Cleveland, OH | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Carnegie Museum of Art | U | Pittsburgh, PA | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| The Morgan Library & Museum 13-1624146 | B | New York, NY | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Tracy 81-0841284 | B | Chatham, NY | 1 | $50,000 | 2020 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art 13-1624086 | C | New York, NY | 1 | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Detroit Institue of Arts 38-1359510 | C | Detroit, MI | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Cantor Arts Center | U | Stanford, CA | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Museum of Art | U | Little Rock, AR | 1 | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Dorsky Museum at Suny New Paltz | U | New Paltz, NY | 1 | $20,000 | 2020 |
| International Foundation for Art Research 13-2623376 | B | New York, NY | 1 | $10,000 | 2023 |
Match tier: A Reported EIN · B Exact name and place · C Strong name match · D Probable name match · U Unresolved. Tiers C and D are inferred, not reported; see how matching works.
Every grant
All 79 grant rows this organization reported, most recent first.
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA | C | $2,500,000 | paid | GIFT OF ARTWORK TO ENHANCE MUSEUM'S COLLECTION | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Museum of Morden Art New York, NY | C | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Museum of Contemprary Art New York, NY | U | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | San Fransico Musum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA | C | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA | C | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | B | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Arkansas Museum of Art Little Rock, AR | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Norton Simon Museum Pasadena, CA | D | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | J Schnitzer Museum of Art Eugene, OR | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh, PA | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Hood Museum of Art Hanover, NH | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Addison Gallery of American Art Andover, MA | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Mordern Art Museum of Ft Worth Fort Worth, TX | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | The Broad Los Angeles, CA | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Seattle Art Museum Seattle, WA | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum Hartford, CT | C | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Cantor Arts Center Stanford, CA | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, VA | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | The Phillips Collection Washington, DC | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Hirshorn Museum Washington, DC | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Des Moines Art Center Des Moines, IA | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Rose Art Museum Waltham, MA | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Buffalo Akg Art Museum Buffalo, NY | D | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Worchester Art Museum Worcester, MA | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase, NY | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Nelson Atkins Museum Kansas City, MO | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Detroit Institue of Arts Detroit, MI | C | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, DC | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2023 | International Foundation for Art Research New York, NY | B | $10,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202403209349102265 |
| 2022 | St Louis Art Museum Foundation St Louis, MO | B | $2,961,025 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Shaker Museum and Library Old Chatham, NY | B | $1,000,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Town of Austerlitz Grant Award 2022 Austerlitz, NY | U | $200,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Storm King Art Center New Windsor, NY | B | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Museum of Morden Art New York, NY | C | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Harvard Museum Cambridge, MA | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Los Angeles County Museum Los Angeles, CA | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | National Gallery of Art Landover, MD | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Guggenheim Museum New York, NY | D | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | C | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Museum of Fine Arts Boston Boston, MA | C | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Blanton Museum of Art Austin, TX | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Whmt Educational Telecommunications Inc Troy, NY | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Pulitzer Arts Foundation St Louis, MO | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum Saratoga Springs, NY | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | The Morgan Library & Museum New York, NY | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | The Museum of Fine Arts Houston Houston, TX | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2022 | The Menil Collection Houston, TX | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSE | 202333199349106068 |
| 2020 | Harvard University Museums Cambridge, MA | D | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN | B | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Alabama African American Civil Righ Birmingham, AL | D | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Hammer Museum Los Angeles, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Seattle Art Museum Seattle, WA | B | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Grey Art Gallery at Nyu New York, NY | U | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, TX | U | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA | C | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum Saratoga Springs, NY | U | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Museum of Modern Art New York, NY | B | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Museum of Fine Arts Boston Boston, MA | C | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY | B | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA | B | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Shaker Museum Chatham, NY | D | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Blanton Museum of Art Austin, TX | U | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford, CT | B | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | B | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX | B | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Columbia County Library Association Claverack, NY | U | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Friends of the Tracy Chatham, NY | B | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
| 2020 | Dorsky Museum at Suny New Paltz New Paltz, NY | U | $20,000 | paid | GENERAL PURPOSES | 202113139349100601 |
Match tier: A Reported EIN · B Exact name and place · C Strong name match · D Probable name match · U Unresolved. Tiers C and D are inferred, not reported; see how matching works.
Recipient matching for this dataset version has not yet completed its independent precision check. Tier A rows carry the EIN the filer reported; tiers B–D are the matcher's inference and should be read as leads until the check is published on the methodology page.
Source filings
Every figure above is traceable to one of these IRS e-file returns by its OBJECT_ID.
| Form | Tax year | Period end | Filed | Schema | IRS OBJECT_ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990PF | 2023 | 2023-12-31 | not stated | 2023v5.1 | 202403209349102265 |
| 990PF | 2022 | 2022-12-31 | not stated | 2022v5.0 | 202333199349106068 |
| 990PF | 2020 | 2020-12-31 | not stated | 2020v4.0 | 202113139349100601 |
Derived from IRS Form 990-PF e-file XML; recipient identities from the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03. The same rows as Parquet: manifest; as JSON: /api/funders/223132379.json.
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