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Vilcek Foundation

US-based private foundation

vilcek.org

Grants since 2016
107
Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published)
$4.4M
Funded works, last 5 years
9
Funded works, all time
44

Grants

2026 · prize · Vilcek Prize

Vilcek Prize 2026 — Karolin Luger

Karolin Luger · Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Distinguished Professor, Jennie Smoley Caruthers Endowed Chair Of Biochemistry, University Of Colorado Boulder

$100k

2026 · prize · Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise

Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise 2026 — Natalie Nudell

Natalie Nudell · Adjunct Assistant Professor At The Fashion Institute Of Technology–state University Of New York (fit-suny); Director And Principal Investigator, Fashion Calendar Research Database, Fit-suny; Associate Editor, Fashion Studies Journal ; Founding Board Member, Fashion Studies Alliance; Owner/principal,

$50k

2026 · prize · Vilcek Prize

Vilcek Prize 2026 — Tanya Meléndez-Escalante

Tanya Meléndez-Escalante · Senior Curator Of Education And Public Programs At The Museum At Fit; Board Member At Soharlem: Cultural Industries Incubator

$100k

2025 · prize · Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise

Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise 2025 — Bernardo Mosqueira

Bernardo Mosqueira · Chief Curator, Institute For Studies On Latin American Art (islaa), New York; Artistic Director, Solar Dos Abacaxis, Rio De Janeiro; Director, Premio Foco Artrio, Rio De Janeiro

$50k

2025 · prize · Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise

Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise 2025 — Elham Azizi

Elham Azizi · Herbert & Florence Irving Associate Professor Of Cancer Data Research, Irving Institute For Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University; Associate Professor Of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia Engineering, Columbia University 

$50k

2025 · prize · Vilcek Prize

Vilcek Prize 2025 — Marianne Bronner

Marianne Bronner · Edward B. Lewis Professor Of Biology And Director Of The Beckman Institute, California Institute Of Technology; President, International Society For Developmental Biology

$100k

2025 · prize · Vilcek Prize for Excellence

Vilcek Prize for Excellence 2025 — Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates · Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University; Director, Hutchins Center For African And African American Research, Harvard University; Host And Executive Producer, “finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.”

$100k

2025 · prize · Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise

Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise 2025 — Donna Honarpisheh

Donna Honarpisheh · Knight Foundation Associate Curator Of Art And Research, The Institute Of Contemporary Art, Miami (ica Miami); Podcast Host, “tomorrow Is The Problem,” Ica Miami

$50k

2024 · prize · Vilcek Prize

Vilcek Prize 2024 — Ramon Tejada

Ramon Tejada · Assistant Professor In The Graphic Design Department At Rhode Island School Of Design (risd)

$100k

2024 · prize · Marica Vilcek Prize

Marica Vilcek Prize 2024 — Wolfram Koeppe

Wolfram Koeppe · Marina Kellen French Senior Curator, Department Of European Sculpture And Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art; Board Member, Association Of Art Museums Curators Foundation; Board Member, Bard Graduate Center; Advisory Board, New York School Of Interior Design

$100k

2024 · prize · Vilcek Prize

Vilcek Prize 2024 — Luciano Marraffini

Luciano Marraffini · Kayden Family Professor And Head Of The Laboratory Of Bacteriology, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

$100k

2024 · prize · Marica Vilcek Prize

Marica Vilcek Prize 2024 — Pierre Terjanian

Pierre Terjanian · Chief Of Curatorial Affairs And Conservation, Museum Of Fine Arts Boston; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Curator In Charge, Arms And Armor, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

$100k