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Giving to Socrates Sculpture Park means sustaining a place where artists, land, and community come together to shape public life. Your support makes it possible for artists to experiment at scale, for neighbors and visitors to experience contemporary art freely, and for the Park to steward this reclaimed waterfront home for future generations.

Socrates relies on a community of supporters—including individuals, foundations, and corporate partners—whose generosity ensures that the Park remains free and open 365 days a year while enabling ambitious artistic projects and public programs to thrive.

Socrates is an independent non-profit organization that is 100% reliant on fundraising to maintain and program the New York City public park that so many call home.

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Socrates Circle

Socrates Circle is a community of neighbors and supporters who sustain the life of the Park through participation, advocacy, and philanthropy.

Members of Socrates Circle support the Park not only through giving, but through active participation in the stewardship of our shared public space.

Learn More About Socrates Circle

The Point Visionaries Fund

The Point Visionaries Fund is a multi-year leadership initiative supporting the early years of The Point and ensuring that this new waterfront site thrives as a place for artistic experimentation, community gathering, and ecological stewardship.

Learn More about The Point Visionaries Fund

The Devra 
Freelander Fund

Established in 2019 in memory of artist Devra Freelander, The Devra Freelander Fund supports The Socrates Annual Fellowship & Exhibition. Each year, one participating artist is named the Devra Freelander Artist Fellow, celebrating Devra’s adventurous spirit and her commitment to sustainability, identity, and feminism.

Learn more about The Devra Freelander Fund

Corporate Partnerships 
& Space Rentals

Corporate partnerships and space rentals at Socrates Sculpture Park support a place where artists create ambitious work in the public realm and communities gather in a shared civic space. The Park offers a distinctive outdoor setting shaped by art, landscape, and public life. Whether supporting exhibitions and programs or hosting gatherings at the Park, partners and guests play a direct role in sustaining this unique cultural resource.

Learn more about Corporate Sponsorships & Rentals

Additional Ways to Give

By Check

Make checks payable to Socrates Sculpture Park and mail to:

Socrates Sculpture Park
P.O. Box 6259
Long Island City, NY 11106

By Donor-Advised Fund (DAF)

Search for Socrates Sculpture Park Inc. or EIN 11-3066597 to select Socrates as a beneficiary.

By Stock Transfer

Please contact development@socratessculpturepark.org for transfer instructions.

Thank you

All programming at Socrates Sculpture Park is free and made possible, in part, by support from the AG Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Charina Endowment Fund, City Parks Foundation, Con Edison, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Sidney E. Frank Foundation, Stuart and Maxine Frankel Foundation, Ford Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, The Goldstone Family Foundation, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, Hyde & Watson Foundation, Kite Key Foundation, Lambent Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Mathis-Pfohl Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Molly Blank Fund, Silman, A TYLin Company, Margaret Silva Fund, TD Charitable Foundation, as well as the Socrates Sculpture Park Board of Directors, and our many generous individual donors.

Socrates’ programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the Queens Borough President Donovan Richards; the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the New York City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts; NYC Department of Parks & Recreation; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

In-kind support is generously provided by Spacetime C.C.

Socrates Sculpture Park acknowledges the generous support provided by the Collaborative Arts Network New York (CANNY). As a coalition of small to mid-sized multidisciplinary arts organizations, CANNY is committed to strengthening the infrastructure of arts nonprofits throughout New York. For more information about CANNY, please visit https://can-ny.org/.

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