Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and MuseumsGetty—CALIFORNIAChartwell Charitable FoundationLimitations: Giving primarily in CA and NY.60. Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.$25,000, 2006.61. University of Southern California, Shoah Foundation Institute for VisualHistory and Education, Los Angeles, CA. $25,000, 2005.62. University of Southern California, Shoah Foundation Institute for VisualHistory and Education, Los Angeles, CA. $25,000, 2007.The Christensen FundLimitations: Giving primarily in the Southwest (Four Corners region), northernMexico (including the Colorado Plateau and Delta, the Pueblo andHispanic communities of the Rio Arriba/Rio Grande, the Sonoran Deserton both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border and east of the Colorado River,and the Sierra Tarahumara Montane West), Central Asia (the mountainsand associated valleys of northeastern Turkey, the Kyrgyz Republic, andTajikistan), the Rift Valley (especially southwest Ethiopia and adjacentareas of northern Kenya) and Northern Australia (especially Arhem Land,Far Northern Queensland, and the Kimberley and Torres Strait Islands).No <strong>grants</strong> to individuals, or for capital funds, or building or renovationfunding; no loans.63. Friends of Ethiopia, Washington, DC. $150,000, 2006. For purchase ofbooks, archival materials and maintenance facilities and to supportdigitization and cataloguing in the library of Institute of Ethiopian Studies(IES), of Addis Ababa University.64. Friends of Ethiopia, Washington, DC. $75,000, 2007. For books, archivalmaterials and maintenance facilities and support digitization andcataloguing in library of Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES), of AddisAbaba University.65. Indigenous Language Institute, Santa Fe, NM. $35,000, 2007. For digitaldocumentation of Hopi language, traditions, songs and culture forpurposes of securing this knowledge for future generations of Hopipeople.66. Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey. $21,510, 2007.To bring artists and curators from Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic aridKazakhstan to Tenth Istanbul Biennial Festival of Arts to participate inevents, seminar, and workshop in collaboration with Bilgi University.67. Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, CA. $62,861, 2006. Forstrengthening website-based community toolsets for endangeredlanguage activists of the Rosetta Project Digital Language Archive as partof transitional funding program.68. Odam Va Olam, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. $77,914, 2006. To establishtechnical capacity for digital restoration of music and folklore archives inTajikistan, and to pilot-test this digitization and cultural restoration of thismaterial to people through concerts and local TV and radio programming.69. Odam Va Olam, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. $50,000, 2007. To restore archivesof music and folklore in government and private collections in CentralAsia technically through digitization and culturally by sharing materialswith communities from which they were collected.70. Restaurateurs Sans Frontieres France, Avignon, France. $125,000, 2005.To develop proposals to turn several small museums into centers ofliving culture and learning in Tolok, Son Kul area in Kyrgyz Republic, andin Badakhshan and Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and to assist set-up of CentralAsian organization to restore folklore traditions.71. Triad Institute, Great Barrington, MA. $70,000, 2007. For development ofhotfrog.org, storytelling mechanism, virtual meeting place, andself-assembling archive rooted in first-rate storytelling, communitynarratives and social networking around issues of global economy,environmental degradation and social Justice.72. Yirrkala Dhanbul Community Association, Yirrkala Mission, Australia.$60,000, 2007. For launch of Mulka Centre at Buku-Larrnggay Art Centreat Yirrkala in East Arithem Land to help community access andmanagement of Yolngu cultural heritage (through digital archive) bypartially underwriting salary, operational and program evaluation costs.The Carol & James Collins FoundationLimitations: Giving limited to southern CA. No <strong>grants</strong> to individuals.73. Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.$5,000, 2005.Community Foundation for Monterey CountyLimitations: Giving primarily in Monterey County, CA. No support for sectarianreligious programs. No <strong>grants</strong> to individuals (except for scholarships), orfor annual campaigns, deficit financing, general endowments,fellowships, travel, academic research, or publications.74. Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, Carmel, CA. $10,000, 2006. Forrenovation of library annex for cataloging, preserving, and storing thedocument collection.The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County(formerly Greater Santa Cruz County Community Foundation)Limitations: Giving limited to Santa Cruz County, CA. No support for religiousorganizations for religious purposes or individual (public or private)schools, as distinct from a school district. No <strong>grants</strong> to individuals(except for scholarships from designated funds), or for annualcampaigns, deficit financing, building or renovation funds, landacquisition, fellowships, research, endowments, fundraising events, orcelebrations; no student loans.75. Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA.$18,000, 2007. 2-year grant. To archive, preserve and make museum’shistory and art collection available to researchers and public.Compton Foundation, Inc.Limitations: Giving on an international basis to U.S.-based organizations forprojects in Mexico, Central America, and Sub-Saharan Africa and on anational basis for programs in peace and population and theenvironment. Other funding limited to areas where board membersreside: primarily San Francisco, Marin, and Santa Clara counties, CA. No<strong>grants</strong> to individuals, or for capital or building funds, no loans.76. National Security Archive Fund, Washington, DC. $40,000, 2005. Forpeace and security programs.77. National Security Archive Fund, Washington, DC. $25,000, 2006. Forproject on military transparency.The Eisner Foundation, Inc.Limitations: Giving limited to Los Angeles County CA. No support for sectarianpurposes. Generally, no <strong>grants</strong> to individuals, annual campaigns, existingobligations, re-granting programs, sponsoring conferences or specialevents.78. Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.$25,000, 2007.Feintech Family FoundationLimitations: Giving primarily in Los Angeles, CA. No <strong>grants</strong> to individuals.79. Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.$35,000, 2005.80. Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.$30,000, 2006.Flora Family Foundation81. National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC. $132,000,2006. For Hurricane Katrina relief.82. Restaurateurs Sans Frontieres France, Avignon, France. $50,000, 2006.The Fuller Foundation, Inc.Limitations: Giving primarily in CA and New York, NY.83. World Monuments Fund, New York, NY. $25,000, 2005.The Ann and Gordon Getty FoundationLimitations: Giving primarily in CA, with emphasis on the San Francisco BayArea. No <strong>grants</strong> to individuals.84. Foundation of American Institute for Conservation of Historic and ArtisticWorks, Washington, DC. $5,000, 2005.J. Paul Getty TrustLimitations: Giving on a national and international basis, with emphasis on LosAngeles and Southern CA. No <strong>grants</strong> for operating or endowmentpurposes, start-up, construction or maintenance of buildings, oracquisition of works of art.© 2009 by the Foundation CenterPublished by the Library of Congress and the Foundation Center3
CALIFORNIA—GettyFoundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums85. Achi Association, Zurich, Switzerland. $120,000, 2009. 3.50-year grant.For pilot conservation training program at ancient fortress and monasteryat Wanla, Lower Ladakh, India.86. American Academy in Rome, New York, NY. $200,000, 2009. 2-year grant.For arrangement and description of Photographic Archive.87. American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY. $85,000, 2008. Forarrangement and description of Henry Darger Archive.88. American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA. $141,000, 2009.2.25-year grant. For research and planning for exhibition Searching forPeace, Post-WWII Innovations in Clay, as part of special initiative PacificStandard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.89. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA. $243,000, 2007. 3-yeargrant. For arrangement and description of collection of Native Americanimages.90. Archives de la Critique d Art, Chateaugiron, France. $167,152, 2007.2-year grant. For arrangement and description of archives of PierreRestany.91. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. $240,000, 2009. 2.25-year grant.For the planning of online scholarly catalogue of the 19th-centuryEuropean paintings collection.92. Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA. $200,000,2009. 2.50-year grant. For interpretive project Open Collections.93. Balboa Art Conservation Center, San Diego, CA. $41,000, 2006. Forconservation education and training.94. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany. $250,000, 2008.3.25-year grant. For treatment and research related to conservation offurniture collection decorated in Boulle technique.95. Beijing University, Han Art Institute, Beijing, China. $130,000, 2007.1.25-year grant. For digital database of Han Dynasty carvings fromNorthern Shaanxi Province.96. British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol, England. $87,000,2005. For Archival Projects.97. British Library, London, England. $276,752, 2007. 2.25-year grant. Forcataloguing of illuminated manuscripts within Harley collection.98. British Museum, London, England. $284,803, 2007. For arrangement anddescription of Anthropology Pictorial Collection.99. British School at Rome, Rome, Italy. $218,000, 2008. 2-year grant. Forarrangement and description of J B Ward-Perkins photographic collection.100. Brotherhood of the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Cairo, Egypt.$250,000, 2006. For conservation of mosaics in Church of theMonastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai.101. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. $120,000, 2007. 2-yeargrant. For arrangement and description of institutional archives as partof special initiative On Record: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.102. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. $86,900, 2005. For archivalprojects.103. Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. $195,823, 2006. Forarchival projects.104. Canadian Museum of Carpets and Textiles, Toronto, Canada. $28,596,2005. For cataloguing of collections.105. Carnegie Institute, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. $150,000,2009. 3.25-year grant. For interpretive project Warhol: Timeweb at AndyWarhol Museum.106. Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, Florence, Italy. $40,000, 2005. Forcataloguing of collections.107. Cincinnati Museum Association, Cincinnati, OH. $82,000, 2008. Fortreatment and research related to conservation of Mural for Terrace PlazaHotel by Joan Miro in Cincinnati Art Museum.108. Cincinnati Museum Association, Cincinnati, OH. $31,000, 2006. Forconservation surveys of Mural for the Terrace Plaza Hotel by Joan Miroand Murak of Cincinnati by Saul Steinberg in Cincinnati Art Museum.109. Circulo Amigos de la Cultura, Lima, Peru. $66,900, 2007. 1.25-yeargrant. For conservation training program at Instituto Superior deConservacion y Restauracion Yachay Wasi.110. Columbia University, New York, NY. $145,000, 2008. 2-year grant. Forarrangement and description of Meyer Schapiro Papers.111. Committee of Historic and Scientific Work, Paris, France. $21,977,2008. For French-Spanish translation of Reconnaitre et conserver lesphotographies anciennes (Recognition and Preservation of OldPhotographs).112. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA. $250,000, 2007. Forcollaborative transition planning project for New Orleans artsorganizations.113. Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, CA. $55,000,2007. 2-year grant. For conservation survey of works fromeighteenth-century French furniture collection.114. Dessau-Rosslau, City of, Dessau-Rosslau, Germany. $117,041, 2009.2.25-year grant. For preparation of catalogue of fifteenth- andsixteenth-century German drawings collection in AnhaltischeGemaldegalerie Dessau.115. Fachhochschule Hildesheim/Holzminden/Goettingen, Hildesheim,Germany. $13,141, 2006. For conservation survey.116. Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, PA. $78,200, 2006. Forconservation treatment and research.117. Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA. $118,000, 2009. 2.75-year grant. Forresearch and planning for exhibition on experimental film and video artof Southern California from 1957-1980, as part of special initiative,Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.118. Florida International University Foundation, Wolfsonian-FloridaInternational University, Miami, FL. $50,000, 2008. For arrangementand description of John and Drew Eberson Architectural Archive.119. Fondazione Federico Zeri, Bologna, Italy. $252,647, 2006. For archivalprojects.120. Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico. $44,000, 2006. Forarchival projects.121. Foundation of American Institute for Conservation of Historic and ArtisticWorks, Washington, DC. $100,000, 2009. 2-year grant. For strategicplanning initiative.122. Foundation of American Institute for Conservation of Historic and ArtisticWorks, Washington, DC. $64,500, 2008. For participants from LatinAmerica and Caribbean to attend annual meeting in Denver, Colorado.123. Foundation of American Institute for Conservation of Historic and ArtisticWorks, Washington, DC. $59,000, 2006.124. Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurenberg, Erlangen, Germany.$115,000, 2005. For cataloguing of collections.125. Friends of Bhutans Culture, Bellevue, WA. $198,000, 2007. For textileconservation training program in Bhutan.126. Friends of Bhutans Culture, Bellevue, WA. $96,000, 2005. Forconservation training.127. Friends of the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt. $100,000, 2009. Forconservation survey of manuscripts collection.128. Friends: The Foundation of the California African-American Museum, LosAngeles, CA. $225,000, 2009. 1.50-year grant. For research andplanning for exhibition, Places of Validation, Art and Progression atCalifornia African-American Museum, as part of special initiative, PacificStandard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.129. Fundacao de Apoio a Universidade de Sao Paulo, Institute of BrazilianStudies, Sao Paulo, Brazil. $50,000, 2008. For conservation survey andrelated workshop on history and treatment of works created with iron gallink.130. Fundacion Espigas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. $140,000, 2007. 3-yeargrant. For updating and expansion of database for Espigas archive.131. Fundacion Museo de la Plata, La Plata, Argentina. $38,220, 2006. Forconservation survey.132. George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography and Film,Rochester, NY. $150,000, 2009. 2-year grant. For conservation surveyof daguerreotypes of Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah JohnsonHawes at George Eastman House, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.133. George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography and Film,Rochester, NY. $65,000, 2006. For conservation education and training.134. Harvard University, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA.$95,000, 2008. 2.25-year grant. For arrangement and description ofarchival collections at Harvard University Art Museums related todevelopment of American art history and art museums.135. Institut National d Histoire de l Art, Paris, France. $265,400, 2008.2.25-year grant. For arrangement and description of photographicarchives.136. Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC. $300,000,2007. 2.50-year grant. For Conservation Bookshelf component ofinitiative, Connecting to Collections: Call to Action.137. International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration ofCultural Property, Rome, Italy. $306,175, 2005.138. International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration ofCultural Property, Rome, Italy. $250,000, 2005. For conservationtraining.4 © 2009 by the Foundation CenterPublished by the Library of Congress and the Foundation Center
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