Open call: grants to individuals

View the 2024 grants to individuals inquiry form.

Supporting individuals is at the core of the Graham Foundation’s mission to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The original grantmaking program of the Foundation was designed to provide direct support to individuals.

Since its founding in 1956, the Graham Foundation has awarded over 5,000 grants—with over 2,800 grants awarded to individuals, representing an investment of more than 20 million USD. Such support has gone to emerging and established architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, scholars, writers, and other individuals working in the field of architecture.

As one of the few funders of individuals in the field of architecture, the Foundation’s grants provide important support for individuals to conduct research, and produce exhibitions, publications, and other projects that engage ideas across contemporary architecture discourse. Through its annual open call—a two-stage application process—the Graham Foundation offers two types of grants to individuals: Research and Production + Presentation grants.

The first stage inquiry form for 2024 is now available online and is due September 15, 2023. For more information about the Graham Foundation grantmaking programs and eligibility requirements—and to explore hundreds of funded projects from the last decade—visit grahamfoundation.org.

Upcoming grant application deadlines
2024 grants to individuals: inquiry form available, due September 15, 2023
2024 Carter Manny award: application available September 15, due November 15, 2023
2024 grants to organizations: inquiry form available January 13, 2024, due February 25, 2024

About the Graham Foundation
Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. For updates on our programming and grantees, join our mailing list.

*Image above:  Nifemi Marcus-Bello—supported by a Graham Foundation research grant for Africa—A Designer’s Utopia—is among the participants presenting in the upcoming Sharjah Architecture Triennial, The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability, opening November 11, 2023.