Vol. 31 No. 3, Fall 2020/Winter 2021 A Journal on Arts Philanthropy 2 Grantmakers in the Arts Reader: Volume 31, No. 3, Fall 2020/Winter 2021 RESEARCH Foundation Grants to Arts and Culture, 2018: A One-Year Snapshot ...................................................5 Reina Mukai Public Funding for the Arts 2020 ............................................................................................................12 Ryan Stubbs and Patricia Mullaney-Loss READINGS Centered. Elevated. Celebrated. Well Resourced. Welcome to Nonprofit Wakanda. .........................16 David McGoy DEI Work is Governance Work ................................................................................................................18 Jim Canales and Barbara Hostetter The Equity Builder Loan Program: Looking Toward Autonomy and Freedom from the Crisis Cycle ................................................................................................................................20 Quinton Skinner Equity. Equity. Equity. ..............................................................................................................................25 Shaunda McDill Arts Funders Should Build Stability and Resilience for Black Artists and Cultural Communities .......................................................................................................................26 Tracey Knuckles A Question of (dis)Trust: Lessons When Your Institution Gets Taken Down ....................................27 Anida Yoeu Ali and Shin Yu Pai San Diego/Tijuana: One Region Two Countries ....................................................................................32 Jonathon Glus We Need to Open Better Pathways to Homeownership for Gig Economy Artists and Freelancers ............................................................................................................................35 Ngoc-Tran Vu How to Be a Soil Keeper: Regenerative Justice and Whole Systems Care ........................................38 Kiley Arroyo Reimagining Public Funding to Reflect America’s Most Diverse City .................................................43 Necole S. Irvin and Deidre Thomas On the Cover Blossom, Mixed media, oil paint on canvas, © 2020 Devon for the topic of how Black men think and deal with their own Smillie | @JALJAE masculinity. The terms in which we see ourselves as a collec- This piece is an illustration of a person of color blossoming tive monolith can be abrasive to our own personal identity. and maintaining through introspective disruption. A metaphor The end path leading to a blossoming individual. Grantmakers in the Arts 3 FROM AN EDITOR As we are sending this issue to Deidre Thomas Grantmakers in the Arts Reader Vol. 31 No. 3, Fall 2020/Winter 2021 publish — a combined Fall/Winter describing ISSN 1530–2520 special — the world marks one year development © 2021 Grantmakers in the Arts of the novel coronavirus pandemic. of Houston’s Editor: Nadia Elokdah, GIA While our ongoing focus on racial cultural plan- Copy editor: Katherine Andersen equity and justice in arts funding ning process to Proofing: Carmen Graciela Díaz remains unwavering, we are increas- help reimagine Design: Warren Wilkins ingly driven to center this inter- the city’s public Submissions and Editorial Policies We welcome suggestions for article topics and sectionally. We must approach our funding. And, writers, as well as submissions of previously knowledge building collaboratively from the per- unpublished articles of various lengths — ranging with those closest to the work, from spective of farmers and landwards from short reflections and long-form articles to research and personal essays to poetry and book artists and community leaders to in Northern California, Kiley Arroyo reviews — that are of interest to arts and culture organizers, and with those commit- offers approaches to regenerative funders, organizers, advocates, and producers. ted to stewarding resources. justice and whole systems care. While GIA members have priority access for submis- sion review, we accept submissions from any and all writers interested in submitting. Please read our To do this, first we are grounding As long practiced, GIA is committed full Submission Guidelines for complete information ourselves in the reality that we are to providing quality research. 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Throughout 2020, anthropic and governmental resources to support Barbara Hostetter, board chair and the growth of the arts and culture. the GIA team navigated work- co-founder, of the Barr Foundation, As we strive to be an anti-racist and anti-oppressive and Quinton Skinner in reflections ing remotely, bringing on a new organization, we ground our daily practice in four about the Equity Builder Loan Pro- Program Assistant, and hosting our guiding principles: collaboration, curiosity, equity, and inclusiveness. gram with Propel Nonprofits. first-ever virtual convening. In the spirit of responsiveness, this will Grantmakers in the Arts 522 Courtlandt Avenue And, secondly, we are acknowledg- be the last printed volume of the First Floor ing that there is much to learn from GIA Reader. 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I have be viewed as case studies: Anida thoroughly enjoyed working on the and committed work as a volunteer Yoeu Ali and Shin Yu Pai on les- Reader over the past three years, coeditor for more than 30 years! sons to funders when equity and and before we close this chapter transparency interfere with the as is, I would like to thank Carmen My best to the entire GIA member- panel process, Jonathon Glus’ call to Graciela Díaz, Steve Cline, and the ship in the interim; we will see you learn from paradigm shifts wit- whole GIA team for the excellent again in Winter 2022! nessed outside of the cultural sector, production work; Kate Andersen, Nadia Elokdah Ngoc-Tran Vu’s article examining copy editor, for being thorough and vice president & the challenges gig economy artists considerate; Warren Wilkins for his director of programs face in homeownership as indepen- partnership and dedication; and Reader coeditor dent workers, and Necole Irvin and last, Frances Phillips, her thoughtful Grantmakers in the Art Reader 31.3 Fall 2020/Winter 2021 4 FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO President’s Letter 2021 racialized grantmaker, I’ve made every Grantmakers in the Arts is people is mistake possible. I am actively presenting our last GIA Reader central to participating in learning with of 2021. We are embracing denying our field. their human- the opportunity we have now, As GIA works to reimagine one year into the pandemic, ity. Resourc- ing the self- the GIA Reader, we have the to reimagine ourselves in ways opportunity to reflect upon that more explicitly center the determina- tion of the the insights we are beginning future we want to see for our to glean from our engage- field and for ourselves.