In January 2025, Teiger Foundation contributed to the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, which supports Los Angeles County-area artists and arts workers in all disciplines impacted by the Palisades and Eaton fires. Administered by The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), the Fund is a J. Paul Getty Trust-led coalition of major arts organizations and philanthropists dedicated to providing emergency relief for individuals impacted by this federally-recognized "qualified disaster."
Teiger Foundation also extended support to a range of organizations advancing experimental publishing, feminist and Latinx cultural initiatives, archival reinterpretation, and climate-centered curatorial work. While these strong, curator-led projects did not meet all of the eligibility requirements of the Call for Proposals, the Foundation considered them worthy of support for their contributions to the field.
Commitments included The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center in New York, launching Historias, a citywide initiative reframing New York history through Latinx contributions; The Brooklyn Rail, continuing its New Social Environment series of daily conversations that archive and expand contemporary cultural discourse; and Afro Charities in Baltimore, commissioning artists to create new work from the AFRO American Newspapers Archives as part of its exhibition and education programs at the historic Upton Mansion.
Additional support was awarded to Triple Canopy, whose issue-based fellowships foster experimental publishing and interdisciplinary collaboration; The Lab in San Francisco, which anchors its next cycle of programming in ecological metaphors of composting and collective transformation; and A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, the nation’s first feminist artist-run space, which will expand its fellowship program, mid-career commissions, and feminist reading groups.
Climate action remained central, with grants to City as Living Laboratory in New York for Cloudburst Project, addressing urban flooding through artist-led public research and installations; Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in California for Becoming Estuarine, a project linking ecological history and community stewardship of the San Francisco Bay; and Micronesia Climate Change Alliance in Guam for Ta Nå’i Animu, an Indigenous art and storytelling initiative centering intergenerational knowledge and Pacific Island resilience.