2026 Awardees Announced

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announced that it has awarded $4.5M in Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI) grants to 83 visual arts organizations across the United States and Puerto Rico, supporting energy efficiency, clean energy generation, emissions reduction, and climate resilience initiatives. The awards bring the cumulative FCI investment to over $21.8 million conferred to nearly 300 institutions since the program's 2021 launch. The first U.S.-based grant program of its kind in the visual arts, FCI has evolved from a visionary initiative into the field's leading grantmaking program for environmental and institutional sustainability, funding work at every stage, from energy audits and feasability studies to large-scale capital projects.