The Graham realizes this vision through making project-based grants to individuals and organizations and producing exhibitions, events, and publications.

Past projects include a photographic survey of Le Corbusier’s completed works and an online oral history of housing construction for homeless individuals living with HIV/AIDS in New York City.

[9] In July 2020, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts reported a total of 52 awards worth $320,800.

[11] The Graham Foundation aims to foster dialogue and expand the audience around architecture and its impacts on society and culture.

[13] Notable architects including Rem Koolhaas, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, Buckminster Fuller, and Louis Kahn have lectured and held exhibitions there.