The Foundation provides basic, unrestricted support to important cultural institutions in New York City. The Foundation also provides programmatic support to institutions in the visual, performing and literary arts and humanities, with an emphasis on innovative programs that relate to other Foundation priorities. Examples of these grants include:

The Leon Levy Foundation Archives and Catalogues Program
The Foundation’s archives and catalogues program helps arts and humanities institutions care for and use the important contents of their archives and store rooms, with the ultimate goal of making them more available to historians, writers, film-makers, and other scholars.

Library of America
With a grant from the Leon Levy Foundation, LOA is creating a volume of the complete writings of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), the father of landscape architecture and the designer of Central Park in New York, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington (pictured here), and dozens of other open spaces across the country.






The Foundation provides travel grants for all first year graduate students, primarily in the areas of art history and archaeology, allowing them to visit sites related to their studies.

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
The Foundation provides supplemental grants to unaffiliated Guggenheim Fellows in the arts and humanities, bringing their support to a level closer to that enjoyed by fellows employed by academic institutions.

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