The Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Name

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Legal name

Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Website

https://pkf.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Short description

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation is a New York-based non-profit established in 1985 that provides unrestricted grants up to $50,000 to professional visual artists in 80 countries and manages the artistic legacy of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.

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Arts Grant-Making Foundation

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts, Culture & Humanities Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAJ)

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Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA), International Grantmaking & Development Foundations (BPAGAKAH)

Keywords

• Artist grants
• Visual arts funding
• Nonprofit foundation
• Arts philanthropy
• Grant-making foundation

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Foundation Grant Disbursements: The Foundation provides unrestricted grants to professional visual artists and nonprofit arts organizations. Established in 1985 through the generosity of Lee Krasner, the Foundation supports artists through individual grants, organization grants, the Lee Krasner Award for lifetime achievement, and the Pollock Prize for Creativity.

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Core offering

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation that provides unrestricted financial grants to professional visual artists and nonprofit arts organizations. Established in 1985 through Lee Krasner's generosity, the Foundation offers individual artist grants (up to $50,000), the Lee Krasner Award for lifetime achievement, the Pollock Prize for Creativity ($50,000), and organization grants to nonprofits engaging with artists. To date, it has awarded over 5,200 grants totaling more than $93 million across 80 countries.

Product overview

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation is a grant-giving foundation established in 1985 that supports visual artists through multiple programs: the Grant for Artists (unrestricted grants up to $50,000 for professional painters, sculptors, and works on paper artists), the Lee Krasner Award (recognition for lifetime artistic achievement), the Pollock Prize for Creativity ($50,000 award for impactful artistic work), and the Organization Grant (support for nonprofits engaging directly with artists). The Foundation also maintains the Grantee Image Collection to showcase past recipients' work.

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Brands

• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Artists: Unrestricted grants to exceptional visual artists to support the continued development of their work
• Lee Krasner Award
• Pollock Prize for Creativity
• Organization Grant

Products and services

• Grant for Artists Unrestricted grants for professional visual artists to support the continued development of their work. Grant amounts range up to $50,000, with most grants in the $35,000 range, intended for one year and allowing artists time, space, and resources to meaningfully pursue their artistic practice. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis year-round with no deadline.
• Lee Krasner Award Award given in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement to artists with distinguished careers. Over 50 artists have been honored since establishment. Awarded by nomination only. Funds are distributed in three installments.
• Pollock Prize for Creativity A $50,000 award honoring an outstanding artist whose work embodies high creative standards and exemplifies the impact of art on individuals and society. Awarded by nomination only. Five artists have been awarded since establishment.
• Organization Grant Grants to nonprofit organizations that directly engage with artists, such as museums and galleries, supporting exhibitions, artist residency programs, scholarship, and exhibitions about Krasner and Pollock. Awarded by nomination only.
• Grantee Image Collection Online collection of works by Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantees, providing visibility to past grant recipients and showcasing their artistic work.

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Gagosian GalleryflagshipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 19 October 2026Collaborative presentation of Lee Krasner's paintings and works on paper from the 1960s at Gagosian's rue de Ponthieu gallery in Paris. First solo exhibition of Krasner's work in France, opening October 19, 2026.
• The Metropolitan Museum of ArtflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 October 2026Presenting Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous from October 4, 2026 to January 31, 2027. First major dual survey of both artists' work at the Met.
• Musée National Picasso-PariscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 October 2024Presented Jackson Pollock: The Early Years 1934-1947 from October 15, 2024 to January 19, 2025. First Pollock exhibition in France since 2008, focusing on early works and diverse influences.
• Kasmin GalleryflagshipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 2 October 2024Exclusive global representation of Jackson Pollock's artwork through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, beginning October 2024. Kasmin has represented Lee Krasner's work since 2016, marking a reunion of both artists under the same gallery for the first time in half a century.
• Olney GleasonflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerExhibits and exclusively represents the artworks of Krasner and Pollock through the Foundation. Handles curatorial and sales inquiries about works by Krasner or Pollock.
• Artists Rights Society (ARS)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHandles all queries related to image reproduction and artwork licensing requests for Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner works. Does not supply high-resolution images.
• Pollock-Krasner House and Study CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocated at 830 Fireplace Road, East Hampton, NY. A resource for learning more about the lives and work of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.
• Archives of American Art, Smithsonian InstitutioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHouses the Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers (circa 1914-1984). A key resource for scholarly research about the artists.
• Fundación CalliaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner2024-25 Organization Grantee based in Madrid, Spain. Supported for Art for Equality Initiative and other programs.
• ArtTableminorStrategic or Co-development Partner2024-25 Organization Grantee in New York, NY. Supported for Artist Talk Series.
• Barbican Centre, LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPresented Lee Krasner: Living Colour exhibition from May 30 to September 1, 2019. First major presentation of her work in Europe for more than 50 years.
• Guggenheim BilbaocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPresented Lee Krasner: Living Colour exhibition from September 18, 2020 to January 10, 2021.
• Zentrum Paul Klee, BerncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPresented first retrospective in Switzerland of Lee Krasner from February 7 to August 16, 2020.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Joan Mitchell Foundation: Established by painter Joan Mitchell, this foundation provides direct grants and fellowships to individual visual artists, including a comprehensive grants and residencies program. It is the closest peer to Pollock-Krasner given the shared model of an artist-endowed private foundation distributing unrestricted support to working painters and sculptors.
• Robert Rauschenberg Foundation: Established by Robert Rauschenberg, this foundation funds residencies, grants, and arts education initiatives, including the prestigious Rauschenberg Emergency Grants. It is a direct comparable in artist-endowed grantmaking with a similar mix of direct-to-artist and organization grants.
• Creative Capital: Creative Capital provides project-based grants, advisory services, and professional development to innovative visual, performing, and literary artists. As a 2024-25 organization grantee of Pollock-Krasner, it is also an active ecosystem partner and shares the unrestricted/structured hybrid grant model.
• Jerome Foundation: The Jerome Foundation funds emerging artists and arts organizations, with a focus on early-career practitioners. While younger and differently missioned than Pollock-Krasner, it operates the same unrestricted-grant model for visual and other discipline-based artists, making it a strong process and structure peer.
• Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation: Established through the estate of Pierre Matisse (dealer son of Henri Matisse), this foundation supports visual arts projects and exhibitions. It shares Pollock-Krasner's artist-endowed private-foundation structure and focus on visual arts legacy stewardship.
• MacDowell: MacDowell is one of the oldest artist residency programs in the United States and a 2024-25 Pollock-Krasner organization grantee. While primarily a residency rather than grantmaker, it serves the same population of professional visual artists and is a meaningful comparator on artist-support infrastructure.
• Dedalus Foundation: The Dedalus Foundation, established by artist Robert Motherwell, supports scholarships, research, and publications related to Modernism and Motherwell's legacy. It is a comparable peer in the artist-endowed private foundation model focused on visual arts legacy and direct artist/scholar support.
• Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation: This foundation gives unrestricted awards to women-identifying visual artists at mid-career, mirroring Pollock-Krasner's unrestricted-grant and lifetime-achievement approach. It is a direct structural peer in grantmaking philosophy, if narrower in beneficiary scope.
• Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts: The Warhol Foundation is one of the largest private funders of contemporary visual arts in the United States, distributing grants to artist-endowed foundations, curatorial programs, and exhibition-making organizations. It mirrors Pollock-Krasner in using a marquee artist's legacy to underwrite grantmaking for the broader visual arts field.

Broad incumbents

• Terra Foundation for American Art: The Terra Foundation funds exhibitions, scholarship, and publications about American art globally, with a much larger endowment and broader institutional scope than Pollock-Krasner. It is comparable as a large private arts foundation distributing grants to organizations and shaping the international visual arts ecosystem.

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Strengths5 records

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Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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