Federal grants to Portland Art Museum
Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon received $2.0 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 15 awards. Its largest program was Museums for America, with $1.0 million. It had no new grant money in fiscal 2025.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated October 31, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$2.0 million
- Awards15
- Awarded in FY 2025$0
- Largest award$625,000
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 5 | $572,887 |
| FY 2022 | 4 | $95,000 |
| FY 2023 | 5 | $955,000 |
| FY 2024 | 3 | $405,000 |
| FY 2025 | 0 | $0 |
Programs that fund Portland Art Museum
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Museums for America | 4 | $1.0 million |
| Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants | 1 | $625,000 |
| Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges | 1 | $375,000 |
| Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals | 7 | $295,000 |
| National Leadership Grants | 1 | $50,000 |
| Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act | 1 | $7,887 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | 5 | $1.1 million |
| Department of State | 1 | $375,000 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | 1 | $300,000 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | 7 | $295,000 |
| Department of the Interior | 1 | $7,887 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connections campaign | Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants | July 28, 2021 | $625,000 |
| To provide the official U.S. Presentation at the 60th international art exhibition in venice, italy featuring jeffrey gibson: the space in which to place me. | Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges | July 24, 2023 | $375,000 |
| The portland art museum will create a retrospective exhibition of the modernist painter and printmaker yoshida chizuko (1924–2017). Works in the exhibition will include early paintings and sketches, rare monotypes, woodblock prints and zinc-plate mixed media prints, together with archival materials | Museums for America | July 12, 2024 | $250,000 |
| The portland art museum will reimagine its permanent collection galleries and support collaborations between staff, artists, and community partners, with the goal of building staff skills and capacity in community- and artist-centered programming. Project funds will support a series of facilitated s | Museums for America | July 13, 2023 | $250,000 |
| The portland art museum will produce the exhibition black artists of Oregon, which will highlight and celebrate the work of black artists, including works in the museum’s permanent collection that have been historically under-exhibited and under-researched. The museum will engage a guest curator and | Museums for America | July 11, 2022 | $250,000 |
| The portland art museum will mount a major retrospective exhibition of the works of the groundbreaking mid-century modernist oscar howe (yanktonai/dakota; 1915-1983). Co-organized with the smithsonian national museum of the american indian, the exhibition will be complemented by a concurrent site-sp | Museums for America | July 16, 2021 | $250,000 |
| Purpose: to support facilities expenses in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. | Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals | February 15, 2022 | $100,000 |
| Purpose: to support installation and administrative costs for the presentation of africa fashion an exhibition organized by the victoria and albert museum in london. | Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals | July 10, 2023 | $55,000 |
| The portland art museum in Oregon will increase its workforce and provide staff with training to better support patrons as the museum reopens and reengages with the community after the pandemic forced its closure. A newly created role of recruiter will support the recruitment process for the rehirin | National Leadership Grants | October 15, 2021 | $50,000 |
| To support the development and production of a multimedia installation and an accompanying publication featuring the work of jeffrey gibson. | Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals | July 22, 2021 | $35,000 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Portland Art Museum get?
$2.0 million in 15 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Portland Art Museum the most?
The Institute of Museum and Library Services, with $1.1 million in 5 awards. The Department of State and the National Endowment for the Humanities follow.
What is Portland Art Museum's largest federal grant?
$625,000 under Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants, with its first action in the period on July 28, 2021. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Portland Art Museum?
Its largest are Museums for America, Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants and Professional and Cultural Exchange Programs - Citizen Exchanges.
Other grant recipients in Portland
- Oregon Health & Science University
- Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon
- Oregon Department of Housing & Community Services
- Mercy Corps
- Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
- Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
- Port of Portland
- Portland State University
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