Firmin was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1999. It has been very important in the building of her career.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.