ICA is a place of possibility and a launchpad for contemporary art and ideas. When you support ICA, you create possibilities for contemporary art to inform, challenge, and inspire.     

Throughout our 60-year history, supporters have made our mission possible, amplifying the voices of countless underrecognized artists. ICA encourages bold experimentation, deep connection, and boundless curiosity with artists and audiences alike—your support makes that happen.

In collaboration with artists and community partners, ICA offers free, accessible, educational, and expansive interactions for visitors across disciplines, ages, classes, races, and abilities. We engage our partners to build inclusive, vibrant creative ecosystems on Penn’s campus, throughout Philadelphia, and beyond.  

Your support enables ICA to flourish as a free and inviting space for everyone—from the local to the global—to grapple with the pressing issues of our time through the lens of art. 

Your support makes ICA possible.

Cash or check donations can be mailed to:  

The Institute of Contemporary Art
Attn: Development
118 S 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104  

Please contact Caroline Tweedy at ctweedy@ica.upenn.edu with any questions. 

View ICA’s Annual Report from fiscal year 2025 (July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025) for a snapshot of what we were able to accomplish with your support. Thank you for enabling us to make ICA’s vision a reality.

Support ICA Annual Giving Fund  

Your fully tax-deductible donation to the ICA Annual Giving Fund provides unrestricted support to ICA. This helps sustain our commitment to producing exhibitions and publications that center under-recognized voices, and offering public programs that provide hands-on learning opportunities and encourage scholarship and learning.    

To make a gift to ICA’s Annual Giving Fund, please donate online here. Donors who contribute $2,500 or more to the Annual Giving Fund in a fiscal year are recognized as members of ICA’s Donor Club, our annual giving leadership group. Learn more about the Donor Club in the section below.

Join ICA’s Donor Circle

The ICA Donor Circle makes ICA’s work possible. Your support ensures we can continue to create transformational experiences for our visitors all year long. The Donor Circle includes donors who give $100 or more to ICA in a fiscal year. 

ICA’s Donor Circle is invited to VIP exhibition previews and receives reciprocal privileges at more than 650 museums in North America through North American Reciprocal Museums (NARM) with their reciprocal museum entry card.

Friends Circle        $100 — $2,499

Curators Circle      $2,500 — $10,000+

With donations of $2,500 and above you will be included in ICA Curators Circle and the University’s Benjamin Franklin Society. ICA’s Curators Circle is invited to curator-led tours and private ICA events throughout the year and receives additional reciprocal privileges at more than 85 institutions in North America through The Modern and Contemporary Reciprocal Program (Mod/Co).

To join the Donor Circle, please donate online here or give offline.
For more information about the Donor Circle, please contact Julia Fox at juliafox@ica.upenn.edu. 

Join the Agnes Martin Legacy Circle   

Individuals who share a deep love and appreciation for contemporary art can follow in the footsteps of celebrated artist Agnes Martin, who, from 1975–1976, made a series of gifts to ICA’s endowment that are now worth well over $1 million.   

By providing for the Institute of Contemporary Art through a will or living trust, a retirement plan, life insurance policy, or a life income arrangement such as a Charitable Gift, Annuity, or Charitable Remainder Trust, you will preserve and strengthen Agnes Martin’s original bequest and ensure that the art of our time and its ability to expand and enliven understanding of the world will forever be available to our various audiences.   

To become a member of the Agnes Martin Legacy Circle, contact Christina Yu, Associate Director of Grants and Planned Giving, at (215) 746-1471 or ctamyu@ica.upenn.edu. 

The ICA Benefit is a special evening celebrating the institution and its impact on the University of Pennsylvania, the city of Philadelphia, and the global arts community. The festive event raises critical funds to support the many important activities of the institution, including exhibitions, publications, and public programs.

High level patrons of the benefit will receive an exclusive artist print commissioned and produced by ICA. See editioned works from previous Benefits here.

For more information regarding the ICA Benefit, contact Julia Fox at (215) 573-0217 or juliafox@ica.upenn.edu.

Enjoy this special message from Zoë Ryan, Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director, Hallie Ringle, Daniel and Brett Sundheim Chief Curator, and Rachell Morillo, DAJ Director of Public Engagement & Research. This video was created in celebration of ICA’s 60th Anniversary.

Featured Images: (1) ICA Benefit 2024. Photo by Eddy Marenco. (2) David Antonio Cruz: When the Children Come Home, 2023. Installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Constance Mensh. (3-4) ICA Benefit 2024. Photo by Eddy Marenco. (5) Ken Lum, The Curse is Come Upon Me., 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains Gallery, New York. Visitors viewing Moveables during ICA’s Fall 2023 Exhibition Celebration. Photo by Constance Mensh. (6) ICA Benefit 2024. Photo by Eddy Marenco. (7) Exhibition tour with curators and artists of Moveables. Photo by Constance Mensh. (8) ICA Benefit 2024. Photo by Eddy Marenco. (9) Visitors watching a performance by Los Bomberos de La Calle in ICA’s lobby. Photo by Constance Mensh. (10) ICA Benefit 2024. Photo by Eddy Marenco.