The Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarships for Mural Painting

The Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarships for Mural Painting is a U.S. tax-exempt organization that administers an endowed scholarship program honoring muralist Edwin Austin Abbey. The fund’s purpose is to provide scholarships and prize support for artists and architects—historically including residencies at the British School at Rome and grants for public mural work in the United States. The organization is a subordinate/formal fund associated with the National Academy (National Academy of Design) and has an active record of Form 990 filings and asset management. In recent years the fund has continued to support the Abbey Mural Prize (administered by the National Academy), while its Argentina/Rome scholarship activity was limited — the scholarship program was reported as on hold during fiscal year 2024 even as the fund reported investment income and maintained over $1 million in assets. Although the fund does not appear to maintain a standalone public website, it is an operating, donor-facing charitable fund documented in public filing databases and is linked to ongoing Abbey-funded mural grantmaking administered through the National Academy and related Abbey-award activity internationally.