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Global Art Grants
This program funds highly interactive, community-driven works of art that prioritize community involvement in their development, execution and display. Like art that can be experienced in more ways than visually – art that is touched, heard or experienced as well as viewed.
Nonprofit Art Organizations & Art Centers (USA)
Nonprofit art organizations and community art centers. If an address is listed, it indicates that they have a strong interest in fine art photography. Also listed on this page are other general art organizations and a few city and state art agencies. Art museums are usually listed in a different section of this website.
Wallonie-Bruxelles International Travel Grant for Musicians
Grant for Singers, Musicians, and Musical groups to participate in events held abroad. Candidates should be a professional artist and who is established in the Belgian music scene
Singing for Change
Singing for Change supports nonprofit organizations that inspire personal growth, community integration, and the enhanced awareness that collectively, people can bring about positive change.
Directory of Charities and Nonprofit Organizations
GuideStar is the most complete source of information about U.S. charities and other nonprofit organizations there is. Search our database of more than 1.8 million IRS-recognized organizations to find a charity to support, benchmark your own nonprofit's performance, research the sector, and more.
NonProfit resource center
Information, resources and funding supporting arts organizations.
20 Top Artist Grants and Fellowships You Might Actually Be Able to Get
Making art is expensive business, and working artists look for any financial help they can get. To supplement the costs of fabrication, art materials, studio space, and travel, one of the most popular sources of funds is fellowships and grants.
Arts & Healing Network
Arts & Healing Network offers this list of funding opportunities with the hope that it will support the creation of more art and healing work in the world. Grants are listed alphabetically by funder.
Art Business
How to Apply for Art and Artist Grants, Residencies, Funding, Aid and Other Opportunities for Assistance
On the Move
Securing funding to finance international travels is a big challenge. We at On the Move cannot provide you with tailor-made solutions but we signpost you to organisations and funds which can be useful for your upcoming mobility experiences! This section provides you with information and tips on how and where to find funding for your mobility as an artist, a cultural professional and/or a cultural organisation.
A Call for Artists for a Residency with ACRE
Deadline March 2017 - This is an artist-run non-profit based in Chicago devoted to employing various systems of support for emerging artists and to creating a generative community of cultural producers.
Grant Space
GrantSpaceSM, a service of the Foundation Center, offers information and resources that are specifically designed to meet the needs of nonprofits worldwide in need of know-how for securing funding and operating effective organizations.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Paul Hamlyn Foundation is an independent grant-making organisation that works to help people fulfil their potential and enjoy a better quality of life. It operates three UK programmes – in the Arts, Education and Learning and Social Justice – and a programme of support for NGOs in India.
Dutch Culture - Trans Artists
DutchCulture|TransArtists is the platform stimulating and strengthening artists' mobility in the Netherlands and internationally. We combine and share expertise, and we offer tools and services on artist-in-residence programs and related issues. Here you can find all about facts, use and value of international AiR programs as well as other cultural opportunities for artists to stay and work elsewhere.
10 Nonprofits Teaching Arts Education To Kids Across The Country
With ever-increasing budget cuts negatively affecting US schools, it has been up to independent nonprofits to step in and make up for the deficit in arts programming. Across the country, arts education programs are teaching kids to draw, act, dance and, most importantly, gain an appreciation for the arts. We aren't sure where we'd be without arts education, but we certainly wouldn't be writing for the Arts page.
Kick Starter
We’re a home for everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology. Kickstarter is full of projects, big and small, that are brought to life through the direct support of people like you. Since our launch in 2009, 7.9 Million have pledged $2 Billion, funding 78,000creative projects. Thousands of creative projects are raising funds on Kickstarter right now.
Fresh Artists
Most school districts are severely under-funded. With more and more funds being funneled to "No Child Left Behind" remediation, arts funding has suffered greatly. As an example, in the past few years, only 83 cents per child per year was allocated in the School District of Philadelphia for art-making supplies. This situation reached a crisis in Philadelphia with drastic cuts in academic art programming. We passionately feel that something must be done to save art making in our public schools.
Artquest
Helping artists to make work, sell work, find work and network, Artquest provides the information to drive creative practice and help artists thrive on some of the lowest incomes in the creative sector. All of our staff are part-time, practicing as visual artists. We build a bridge from student experience to sustainable working life, and throughout your professional career, giving advice, information and opportunities at any stage in their life.
European Cultural Foundation
Over the past 60 years,, we have brought together ideas, knowledge and experience to maximise the impact of culture across wider Europe, both through our activities and through our grants programmes. Our goal is to support and bring new ideas and inspired visions to diverse audiences across different countries in Europe and beyond.
A Free bird
A Free Bird™ is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to helping young people, ages 6-18, affected by cancer, fight their disease through the therapeutic benefits of the arts. We provide the artistic resources to hospitals and their patients so these kids can express their ideas and passions, while they go through their treatments!
ARTSKC regional arts council
A nonprofit organization serving the five-county region - Clay, Platte and Jackson in Missouri; Johnson and Wyandotte in Kansas which aims to connect individuals to their art community by providing detailed information in their online Resource Center.
The Dreaming zebra
The Dreaming Zebra Foundation is a (501)(c)(3) nonprofit encouraging children to embrace their individuality, to express themselves creatively, and to follow their artistic dreams. Your gifts help us provide art & music supplies to underprivileged children throughout the world.
Foundation directory online
FDO makes it easy to turn foundations into funders. It’s the only resource you need to search for the foundations most likely to give you grants and manage your prospects through to funding.
FDO simplifies and speeds up your process with:
FDO simplifies and speeds up your process with:
- A thorough database, comprising more than 140,000 grantmakers, that is updated weekly so you can count on the accuracy of results
- Multiple filters and an assessment tool help you quickly identify your best potential funding sources
- A prospect management platform that automates much of the grantseeking process and stores your data for you
RedLine Contemporary Art Center
Located in Denver, Colorado, RedLine Contemporary Art Center fosters education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change. Founded in 2008, RedLine was created to support emerging artists and provide creative opportunities for local residents. RedLine serves as an incubator for a thriving group of resident artists through an in-depth, two-year residency program that includes free studio space, community engagement opportunities, and professional development. The organization also offers a range of programming that responds to the needs of the varied communities that live in the surrounding neighborhoods. Viewing art and arts education through a lens of social issues, the organization ensures equitable access to the arts for under-resourced populations by working to fulfill a vision of empowering everyone to create social change through art.
The Denver Refugee Crafts Collective
Since 2007, A Little Something: The Denver Refugee Crafts Collective has been bringing refugee women together to help them build community, learn new skills, explore the healing power of the creative, and feel empowered by their earnings.
Apple Pie painting
Spending quality time with those that matter to you is an invaluable gift. Laughing and visiting while doing a creative activity makes the memory that much sweeter. Our painting experiences are the best in Kansas City. We want to give you an incredible event that will leave you with a lasting memory.
Artist Grant
Founded in 2017, Artist Grant aims to support and fund artists. All too often, society expects artists to work for free when other types of professionals receive fair compensation for their work. Artists deserve fair compensation. To that end, our charitable organization funds the efforts of artists to continue their important work and contributions to society. We provide a modest competitive grant of $500 to one artist every quarter.
We have no sponsors but are a small group of individuals using our own personal wealth, time, energy, and efforts to fulfill Artist Grant's mission. The team functions as the grant selection jury. We come from different creative backgrounds, so we do not have preferences about artistic style or media. We're interested in and will consider applications from all visual artists. We look forward to seeing your work!
We have no sponsors but are a small group of individuals using our own personal wealth, time, energy, and efforts to fulfill Artist Grant's mission. The team functions as the grant selection jury. We come from different creative backgrounds, so we do not have preferences about artistic style or media. We're interested in and will consider applications from all visual artists. We look forward to seeing your work!
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation
The Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success.
The Hopper Prize
The Hopper Prize is a grant-making institution and digital archiving platform offering a series of individual artist grants on a bi-annual basis totaling $10,000.00 USD.
The Hopper Prize was established for the sole purpose of advancing the field of visual art by providing direct financial assistance to artists in the form of unrestricted fellowships.
The Hopper Prize was established for the sole purpose of advancing the field of visual art by providing direct financial assistance to artists in the form of unrestricted fellowships.
The Parent Grant at the Women's Studio Workshop
$1000 childcare stipend, up to $250 for travel costs, free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access
The Parent Grant—made possible by new support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation—is a four-week residency for an artist with dependent child(ren) under the age of 15. Artists may choose to work in any of our studio disciplines: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, photography, or ceramics.
The Parent Grant—made possible by new support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation—is a four-week residency for an artist with dependent child(ren) under the age of 15. Artists may choose to work in any of our studio disciplines: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, photography, or ceramics.
PKF Grant
Established as part of Lee Krasner’s legacy, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant was set up to support and strengthen the creative lives of artists. Since its start in 1985, the foundation has granted over 65 million dollars in award money to artists in over 77 countries. A competitive grant for artists with extensive exhibition records, this grant has a long list of impressive alumni.
Art for the World
ART for The World is a non-governmental organization founded to build a bridge between art and society, with contemporary art serving humanitarian purposes.
Funding Worldwide/Тransartists
DutchCulture | TransArtists combines and shares expertise on international artist-in-residence programmes and related issues for artists, cultural organisations and policymakers. It offers tools and services to artists, stimulating and encouraging them to make an efficient, innovative, independent “use” of what residencies offer them.
Foundation for Arts Initiative
The Foundation for Arts Initiatives is a private foundation that has been making grants in the arts since 1999, independent of any governments, agencies, NGOs, or their related agendas. It has its own endowment and does not rely on donors or public sources. FfAI’s independence is central to its work and identity.
Artists Who Are Making a Positive Humanitarian Difference
Steve Barr Helps Children in Hospitals through Drawing
Tracy Ellyn Brings Healing to The World
James Bacchi Serves and Pledges
Tracy Ellyn Brings Healing to The World
James Bacchi Serves and Pledges
Art Therapy Without Borders
Art Therapy Without Borders, Inc., a non-profit incorporation and has been organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and networking purposes to promote, develop, and support international humanitarian art therapy initiatives and the work of art therapists worldwide.
Mission
To promote the therapeutic use of art and advancement of art therapy research in mental health, healthcare, educational, community, and independent practice settings;
To establish an international network of colleagues, students and other interested individuals;
To support the development of education, communication, and exchange of information on art therapy;
To promote understanding of art therapy through dissemination of leading edge news and development of media, online education, archives, and publications;
To encourage public recognition of art therapy through development of opportunities to serve to others in need, enhance health, and transform lives;
To advance collaborative research and program development.
Mission
To promote the therapeutic use of art and advancement of art therapy research in mental health, healthcare, educational, community, and independent practice settings;
To establish an international network of colleagues, students and other interested individuals;
To support the development of education, communication, and exchange of information on art therapy;
To promote understanding of art therapy through dissemination of leading edge news and development of media, online education, archives, and publications;
To encourage public recognition of art therapy through development of opportunities to serve to others in need, enhance health, and transform lives;
To advance collaborative research and program development.
S&R Foundation
Established in 2000 by Dr. Sachiko Kuno and Dr. Ryuji Ueno, S&R Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington, DC.
In the beginning, S&R Foundation’s mission was grounded in its support of talented artists and scientists involved in work for charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes. Over the past 18 years, S&R’s mission to support talented individuals has evolved to encompass broad support of individuals with great potential and high aspirations in the arts, sciences and social entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on furthering international cultural collaboration and ensuing social benefits.
S&R sponsors annual awards programs, operates it’s signature Kingfisher Global Leadership program, and works with its partners to encourage social, scientific and artistic innovation, and to promote cultural and personal development. By supporting individuals and enabling their growth and success within various communities, S&R Foundation nurtures their ability, in turn, to enrich society with the fruits of their hard work and dedication.
In the beginning, S&R Foundation’s mission was grounded in its support of talented artists and scientists involved in work for charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes. Over the past 18 years, S&R’s mission to support talented individuals has evolved to encompass broad support of individuals with great potential and high aspirations in the arts, sciences and social entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on furthering international cultural collaboration and ensuing social benefits.
S&R sponsors annual awards programs, operates it’s signature Kingfisher Global Leadership program, and works with its partners to encourage social, scientific and artistic innovation, and to promote cultural and personal development. By supporting individuals and enabling their growth and success within various communities, S&R Foundation nurtures their ability, in turn, to enrich society with the fruits of their hard work and dedication.
Women's Studio Workshop: Artist's Book Grant
The Artist’s Book Grant is a six- to eight-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition book work. Working intensively in our studios, artists print and bind their own books, and are encouraged to create an edition size no larger than 100 and no smaller than 50.
The grant includes a stipend of $350/week, up to $750 for materials, up to $250 for travel within the Continental US, free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access. WSW can provide technical advice; training on new equipment, techniques, and materials; and production assistance.
The grant includes a stipend of $350/week, up to $750 for materials, up to $250 for travel within the Continental US, free onsite housing, and 24/7 studio access. WSW can provide technical advice; training on new equipment, techniques, and materials; and production assistance.
Global Art Agency
The Global Art Agency endeavour to help chosen charities. Raising money at each of the events we organise is going straight to orphanages that are in desperate need of our help. Also by donating items and educational material we support to help them. GAA donates books, toys, and other material to which the children simply have no access to but will provide real joy and can be a special treat. GAA members have personally met the orphans and spend time with them, giving them the attention they seek. Playing games, colouring, painting, and developing their artistic sides. We are committed raising awareness of the great work that the orphanages do and provide additional gifting support. And personally delivered a huge amount of gifts on Xmas day 2013 to the orphanage in Tanzania.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Established as part of Lee Krasner’s legacy, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant was set up to support and strengthen the creative lives of artists. A competitive grant for artists with extensive exhibition records, this grant has a long list of impressive alumni. Since its start in 1985, the foundation has granted over 65 million dollars in award money to artists in over 77 countries.
The Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists
The Harpo Foundation seeks to stimulate creative inquiry and to encourage new modes of thinking about art. Applications are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the artist’s work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry, and its relationship to the foundation’s priority to provide support to visual artists who are under-recognized by the field.
Creative Capital
Creative Capital supports adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel, and career development services. This impact-driven arts organization provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in funding and career development services valued at $45,000.
Artadia Awards
Artadia is a national non-profit organization that supports visual artists with unrestricted, merit-based awards and fosters connections to a network of opportunities. In the past 18 years, Artadia has awarded over $3 million to more than 300 artists throughout its participating award cities of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
Adolph Gottlieb, one of the artists known for initiating the Abstract Expressionism movement, achieved artistic and financial success far beyond his early expectations. But, he had several colleagues who, despite their artistic achievements, were not able to support themselves financially. The Gottlieb Foundation wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success.
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
The Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions.
Aaron Siskind Foundation
The Aaron Siskind Foundation is a 501(c)(3) set up by preeminent photographer Aaron Siskin’s estate, which he had asked to become a resource for contemporary photographers. The award was established to support and encourage contemporary artists working in the photographic field.
Awesome Foundation Grant
A micro-granting organization, funding “awesome” ideas, The Awesome Foundation set up local chapters around the world to provide rolling grants of $1000 to “awesome projects.” Each chapter defines what is “awesome” for their local community, but most include arts initiative and public or social practice art projects.
PAAM's The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is a nationally recognized, year-round cultural institution that fuses the creative energy of America’s oldest active art colony with the natural beauty of outer Cape Cod that has inspired artists for generations. PAAM was established in 1914 by a group of artists and townspeople to build a permanent collection of works by artists of outer Cape Cod, and to exhibit art that would allow for unification within the community. Today, PAAM continues to offer an every-changing line-up of world-class exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and cultural events.
Artist Grant
Founded in 2017, Artist Grant is a new venture that aims to support and fund artists. To that end, this charitable organization funds the efforts of artists to continue their important work and contributions to society,providing a modest competitive grant of $500 to one artist every quarter.
The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realists
The Bennett Prize, created in 2018, awards $50,000 to a woman artist to create her own solo exhibition of figurative realist paintings, which will travel the country. The Prize will propel the careers of women painters who have not yet realized full professional recognition, empowering new artists and those who have painted for many years.
SFFILM Westridge Grant
The SFFILM Westridge Grant funds feature narrative films that explore social issues or questions of our time that are in the screenwriting or development phase.
CAMp
CAMP is a residential arts facility in the French Pyrenees. It runs 6-day workshops in all disciplines, lead by people like Gavin Bryars, Chris Watson, Annea Lockwood, Laure Prouvost, Eli Keszler and Christina Kubisch. Grants of up to 50% of the cost of attending a session are offered.
Salomon Foundation Residency
La Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon announces an open call for a fully-funded 6 month residency at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), including a stipend of $24,000 for living, housing, and travel expenses.
CaFÉ
While you may know this site for its wide array of calls for shows, exhibitions, and residencies, this site also boasts a collection of grants and awards. Search through the listings at no cost which covers all the need-to-know details for applying, including entry deadline, fees, location eligibility, and more.
Artist Opportunity Monthly
AOM offers a free monthly opportunity list: AOMFree. All you need to do is sign up with your email and they send you thoroughly screened opportunities every month, including grants. AOM prides itself on ensuring each opportunity is worthwhile. A more comprehensive monthly list is offered at $30 a year, in addition to the free version.
ArtDeadline.com
Another site you may have heard of is ArtDeadline.com. According to their website, it is “the largest and most respected source for artists seeking income and exhibition opportunities.” The site may cost you a subscription fee of $20 a year to view the majority of its opportunities, but you can still browse many grants listed for free on their homepage and the @ArtDeadline Twitter account.
The Art Guide
Not sure if you want to apply through a third party, Art Guide is the free artist opportunity site for you. This call for entries website allows you to apply directly to the organization offering the grant. The list is updated daily so there'll always be a great new opportunity to pursue.
1675 Foundation
The 1675 Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals and families through the support of non–profit organizations working in the areas of arts & culture, education, the environment, health, human services and history. Priority is given to organizations serving Philadelphia and Chester Counties in southeastern Pennsylvania and other geographic areas of interest to the Trustees.
3Arts
3Arts supports Chicago artists working in the fields of music, theater, and visual arts. Our focus is on women, people of color, and people with disabilities in recognition that their work is still underrepresented in mainstream culture. 3Arts provides both direct awards to artists and grants to arts organizations for their support of artists.
500, Inc.
Since its founding, The 500, Inc.'s mission has grown to support Dallas' visual, theatrical and musical Arts. The organization has donated over $12 million and countless volunteer hours to support our mission of a healthy Arts Community.
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Adobe supports schools and community–based organizations with programs that enable and inspire K–12 students to think creatively, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively, using digital technology and communication tools. Adobe also supports nonprofit organizations and programs located in Adobe communities that address community–specific needs, with an emphasis on the following criteria: Arts and cultural organizations...
Allen Foundation for the Arts
The purpose of the Bellevue, Washington–based Allen Foundation for the Arts is to "promote a creative and flourishing arts community in the Pacific Northwest." The Foundation, which is especially interested in the performing and visual arts, also supports entities that sustain artists and art organizations.
American Berlin Opera Foundation, Inc.
The American Berlin Opera Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1986 to create scholarships sponsoring young American singers to study and perform in Berlin, and thereafter to pursue career opportunities in Europe.
American Express
The American Express Philanthropic Program makes grants in three major program areas: Economic Independence, Cultural Heritage and Community Service. It includes the American Express Foundation and certain corporate gifts. Outside the United States, grants are made to organizations that are able to document not–for–profit status.
American Theatre Wing
The American Theatre Wing provides Jonathan Larson Grants given annually to recognize emerging composers, lyricists, and bookwriters who work in musical theater.
Americans for the Arts Emergency Relief Fund
Supports local arts agencies affected by disasters. It was established to provide timely financial assistance to victims of a major disaster for the purpose of helping them rebuild the arts in their community. Relief funds are distributed directly to local arts agencies and other cultural relief efforts. Local arts agencies may use relief funds to assist with their own recovery as well as to provide needed services and funding to local nonprofit arts organ...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in five core program areas: higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and public affairs.
Angelica Foundation
The Foundation makes program and initiative grants in the areas of the environment, social justice, and the arts, and supports groups that work in drug policy reform. Funding is restricted to nonprofit organizations in California, New Mexico, and Hawaii, as well as non–governmental organizations (NGOs) in Mexico and Central America.
Anheuser-Busch Foundation
Anheuser–Busch and the Anheuser–Busch Foundation have established a legacy of giving back. By supporting and partnering with organizations around the globe, we continue to create new friendships. Over the past decade, our company and charitable foundation have contributed more than $370 million to nonprofit organizations working to improve our communities and enhancing the enjoyment of life for millions of people. Areas of funding interest incl...
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance public well–being through improved communication. As a principal means of achieving this goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. The Annenberg Foundation focuses on four major program areas: education and youth, arts and culture, community and civic, and health.
Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation
The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation awards yearly grants to writers in three rotating disciplines: Theatre, Full–length Fiction, and Short Stories. All works submitted must present the gay and lesbian lifestyle in a positive manner and be based on, or inspired by, a historic person, culture, event, or work of art. Writing contests close on November 30th of each year. Grants are $1000 and are not limited to a single winner.
Art Serve Michigan
Serves, supports, and advocates for an enriched cultural environment and promotes the arts as a valuable state and community resource.
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is focused on enhancing education, preserving greenspace, sustaining the arts and sparking collaboration among its community partners. The Foundation's geographic focus is on communities where members of the Blank family have deep roots: Atlanta; Maricopa County, Arizona; and Beaufort County, South Carolina.
Artography
This national, competitive grantmaking program provides grants of $80,000 to $100,000 over two years for general operating expenses to 8 exemplary arts organizations. Recipients must be focused on demographic change, aesthetic innovation, and critical social engagement. Applicants must be a U.S.–based, non–profit organization classified as a 501(c)(3) public charity and have a minimum five–year history of programming in any single or comb...
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo
Supports, promotes and funds the arts in Kalamazoo County. Our members include arts organizations, individual artists and arts lovers. We accomplish our mission through a variety of programs.
Arts in Healthcare Funds
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) working in partnership with the Society for the Arts in Healthcare (SAH), seeks to promote the use of the arts to enhance the healthcare experience for patients, their families, and caregivers. J&J & SAH have provided funding to over 100 programs in the US and Canada, representing leading models and initiatives in high quality healthcare through the use of arts. Proposals are now being sought from healthcare and/or a...
Arts Work Fund - Chicago
The Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development is a funder collaborative created to help strengthen the management and operations of small arts and cultural organizations in the six–county Chicago metropolitan region.
ASCAP Foundation
The ASCAP Foundation, established in 1975, is a publicly supported charitable organization which is tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their development through music education and talent development programs. The ASCAP Foundation considers proposals from other 501(c)(3) organizations engaging in music education and talent development programs that are consi...
Ashland Inc.
Ashland has a proactive, outcome–driven giving strategy. With average annual contributions of about $3 million, we seek, select, support and/or partner with organizations whose goals reflect our commitment to enhancing the quality of life in our communities. Areas of funding interest include: Education, Matching Grants, Arts, Community & Civic Involvement, the Environment, United Way.
AT & T Foundation
The AT&T Foundation makes grants to tax–exempt, nonprofit organizations as defined under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, and in the case of international grants, to organizations that meet the criteria for nonprofit tax–exemption (under Section 501(c)(3)) and the laws of the country of incorporation. Areas of funding interest: K–12 and higher education – Accredited public and private elementary and secondary...
Bank of America Foundation
Our philanthropic approach is to create a positive impact in our communities today by investing in neighborhoods for the future. To achieve this goal, we form partnerships with key community stakeholders. We work with non–profit organizations to identify critical issues in local communities and invest in these organizations to better equip them to address these needs. Overall, our giving falls into four categories critical to the long–term suc...
Barnes & Noble's Corporate Contributions Program
Barnes & Noble is committed to partnering with for–profit and non–profit organizations that focus their core businesses on higher learning, literacy and the arts. Our partnerships foster community good will and promote our brand. A suitable sponsorship is one that benefits Barnes & Noble and the communities it serves. Funding is limited.
Bechtel Group Foundation
The Bechtel Group Foundation was created in 1954 to respond to the needs of the communities around the world in which Bechtel has offices or major projects. In 2008, the Foundation made grants totaling $2.07 million to 237 nonprofit organizations in 9 countries. The Foundation has four giving programs: educational, civic and cultural, and social service, scholarships and other support to business, technical, and engineering programs at universities worldwi...
Beim Foundation
Traditionally, the Foundation has supported organizations in four funding categories: Arts, Education, Environment and Human Services. The Beim Foundation's geographic priority is the State of Minnesota. In 2006, the Beim Foundation will grant up to 30% of its total giving in support of projects located in the city of Denver, CO; Cumberland county, Maine; Park and Gallatin counties, Montana; and Santa Fe county, New Mexico.
Bemis Company Foundation
Established in 1959, the Bemis Company Foundation serves as the principal instrument of philanthropy for the Company. Funded annually by the Company, the Foundation typically distributes approximately $2.5 million per year to charitable organizations and programs in the United States. Our priority is to give and support those communities in which we operate. The following general guidelines have been established for the distribution of charitable contribut...
Bernard and Audre Ropoport Foundation
The primary focus of the Foundation is on programs that benefit children and youth in Waco and McLennan County, Texas. Proposals that fall outside the areas below are considered as long as they offer imaginative, and when possible, long–range solutions to the problems of the most needy members of society, and ideally, solutions that can be replicated in other communities. The Foundation prefers to concentrate on five primary areas: Education, Arts &a...
Black Rock Arts Foundation Grants
Provides funds in the amounts of $500 to $10,000 to art projects that interact with people and environments and that invite, create, or enrich community.
BMI Foundation
The BMI Foundation, Inc., a not–for–profit corporation founded in 1985, is dedicated to encouraging the creation, performance and study of music through awards, scholarships, internships, grants, and commissions. The Foundation also awards grants on an annual basis that are directed primarily to not–for–profit music organizations from around the country.
Boston Center for the Arts
The BCA supports the creation and presentation of work by artists and seeks to connect artists to a large and diverse audience. The BCA's programs include exhibitions, performances, concerts, poetry readings and special outreach. The BCA also offers subsidized work space in the form of studios, rehearsal space and three small theaters to artists and arts groups.
Bronx Council on the Arts
Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) is celebrating over 40 years as a private, non–profit membership organization that is the official cultural agency of Bronx County. Recognized nationally as a leading arts service organization in providing cultural services and arts programs, BCA serves a multicultural constituency in excess of 1.2 million residents.
Charles Lafitte Foundation
The mission of the Charles Lafitte Foundation is to provide for and support inventive and effective ways of helping people help themselves and others around them to lead healthy, satisfying and enriched lives. To fulfill this mission, the Foundation acts as grantmaker, innovator and volunteer for four main programs: Education, Children's Advocacy, Medical Research & Issues, and The Arts.
Clorox Company Foundation
The mission of The Clorox Company Foundation is to improve the quality of life in communities where Clorox employees live and work. Community involvement is an integral part of our business and is carried out through a program of grant–making, volunteerism and leadership in community service. The Foundation concentrates on two focus areas: education/youth development and culture/civic programs. The Foundation may shift funding priorities from year to...
COMPAS
Provides two types of grants – 1. The Community Art Program (CAP) encourages the use of meaningful, quality, participatory arts to build community. Limited to fund projects and programs in Minneapolis, MN and St. Paul, MN. 2. The General Fund supports 501(c)(3) organizations as they endeavor to produce art projects and programs that reach new audiences or that use the arts to serve the community.
ConocoPhillips
ConocoPhillips has a long tradition of investing in the communities in which we operate. During 2008, our corporate donations totaled more than $95 million, which includes approximately $70 million in charitable contributions from the corporation and about $25 million in funds for other community investment projects donated through our company–operated businesses, as well as various joint ventures and equity affiliates. Areas of funding interest incl...
Copland Fund
The Fund maintains three separate grant programs in support of contemporary American music, each with its own objectives and annual application deadline. Recording Program, Performing Ensembles Program, Supplemental Program (The Supplemental Program's objective is to support non–profit organizations that have a history of substantial commitment to contemporary American music but whose needs are not addressed by the Fund's programs of suppor...
Creative Capital Foundation
Creative Capital, a New York City–based nonprofit organization, acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields. We are committed to working in partnership with the artists whom we fund, providing advisory services and professional development assistance along with multi–faceted...
Cracker Barrel Foundation
The Cracker Barrel Foundation seeks to strengthen and preserve our community by supporting programs in the areas of education, human services, cultural affairs and the environment. Special consideration is given to programs that address children, youth and family issues, and emphasize traditional values such as hard work, education and self–reliance.
Creative Work Fund
Funds for artists and non–profit organizations to create new art works through collaborations. It celebrates artists as problem solvers and the making of art as a profound contribution to the strengthening of communities. Grants range from $10,000 to $35,000. Limited to artists living in and organizations based in San Francisco and Alameda, CA counties.
CUE Art Foundation
CUE Art Foundation, a non–profit organization, provides educational programs for young artists and aspiring art professionals in New York and from around the country.
Dactyl Foundation for the Arts and Humanities
Our programs are designed to develop an aesthetic that is informed by science, history and philosophy and that takes into consideration both the intellectual and intuitive responses to art.
Dana Foundation
The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic organization with interests in brain science, immunology, and arts education. It was founded in 1950.
DEW Foundation
In December, 1994, Dale and Edna Walsh set up an Illinois based 501(c)(3) private charitable contribution foundation named the Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation. We refer to ourselves as DEW Foundation or simply DEW. The first step in the application process is to submit a letter of inquiry (LOI) via the Foundation's Web site or by mail. The Foundation contributes to medical, relief, welfare, education, community service, ministries and environmental pro...
Diller von Furstenberg Family Foundation
The Diller von Furstenberg Family Foundation is a private family foundation which provides philanthropic support to various 501(c)3 non–profit organizations. Founded in 1999, the Foundation is guided by the shared values, concerns and passions of the Diller – von Furstenberg family. The primary recipients of the Foundation's support are organizations within the following sectors: Community Building, Education, Human Rights, Arts, H...
Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts
The Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts, a non–profit organization to memorialize Donna Reed's accomplishments and perpetuate her deep commitment to youth, education, and the performing arts.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people's lives through grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research and the prevention of child maltreatment, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke's properties.
DuPont Contributions Program
DuPont contributes to numerous efforts that meet the needs of various groups and global communities where the company operates. Areas of support include: Educational programs; Culture & the arts; Environmental initiatives; Human & health service organizations; and Civic & community activities.
Eastman Kodak
Eastman Kodak's primary focus is at our site communities, but also includes national and international support. Focus is on the following general areas: Community Revitalization, Environment, and Arts & Culture; Education; Health & Human Services.
Educational Foundation of America
The Educational Foundation of America (EFA) makes grants to qualifying non–profit organizations that have tax–exempt status and those that are not private foundations as defined in the Internal Revenue Code. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the environment, reproductive freedom, theatre, education, medicine, drug policy reform, democracy, peace & national security issues and human services.
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation is dedicated to fostering awareness and appreciation of contemporary visual art, particularly through the support of catalogues and other publications that document exhibitions of work by emerging or under–recognized artists.
Entergy Charitable Foundation
Entergy's Corporate Giving programs include cash as well as in–kind contributions that address myriad community needs: arts and culture, community improvement and enrichment, education and literacy, the environment and healthy families. Entergy's Open Grants Program focuses on improving communities as a whole.
Entertainment Industry Foundation
The Entertainment Industry Foundation responds to some of the most critical needs facing our society. We help raise awareness and funds for important causes such as childhood hunger, cancer research, creative arts, education, cardiovascular research, and much more.
Fidelity Foundation
The Fidelity Foundation grant program was designed to strengthen the long–term effectiveness of nonprofit institutions. The types of projects we fund, and the way in which we fund them, are specifically intended to help nonprofits build the organizational capabilities they need to better fulfill their missions and serve their constituencies. The Foundation has active grant programs in the communities surrounding the Fidelity Investments corporate loc...
Fieldstone Foundation
The Fieldstone Foundation was created by the Fieldstone Group of Companies (Fieldstone) in 1983 to provide grants, leadership development and service to nonprofit organizations working to support individuals in the communities where the companies within Fieldstone do business: Orange, Riverside, North Los Angeles and San Diego Counties in Southern California, Salt Lake City in Utah, and San Antonio in Texas. The Foundation allocates its resources in four g...
Fleishhacker Foundation
The Foundation has two grantmaking programs: Arts & Culture and Precollegiate (K–12) Education.
Flora Family Foundation
The Flora Family Foundation supports public benefit organizations working throughout the world in education, health, arts and culture, the environment, global security, civic engagement, and the advancement of women.
Ford Foundation
Grants and PRIs are given in the Foundation's fields of interest through a program division encompassing three broad areas: Asset Building and Community Development; Education, Media, Arts, and Culture; and Peace and Social Justice.
Francis L. Abreu Foundation
The Francis L. Abreu Charitable Trust funds organizations in the Atlanta area only. The Foundation's areas of interest include arts and cultural programs; secondary education; higher education; health associations; human services; children and youth services. Types of support include capital campaigns; program development; seed money; and matching funds. The Foundation does not approve requests for operating or grants to individuals.
Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation
The Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation, Inc. welcomes the opportunity to consider grant proposals from the following Institutional/Program Activity Areas: Animal Related, Arts, Culture, and Humanities, Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy, Education, Employment/Jobs, Environmental Quality, Protection & Beautification, Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, Health – General & Rehabilitative Services, Health – Multipurpose Associations/Services A...
George Gund Foundation
The George Gund Foundation's guidelines reflect our long–standing interests in the arts, economic development and community revitalization, education, environment and human services.
Getty Foundation
The Getty Foundation fulfills the philanthropic mission of the J. Paul Getty Trust by supporting individuals and institutions committed to advancing the understanding and preservation of the visual arts locally and throughout the world. Through strategic grants and programs, the Foundation strengthens art history as a global discipline, promotes the interdisciplinary practice of conservation, increases access to museum and archival collections, and develop...
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Areas of funding interest include the Humanities, Performing Arts, Research Library Program, Venetian Research Program and discretionary grants.
Gould Family Foundation
The mission of the Gould Family Foundation is to support innovative programs that promote experiential learning and the arts. The foundation prefers programs in their formative stages that can show self–sustaining ability, and are primarily based in California.
Grants For The Arts
Grants are awarded in three categories: Performing, Visual, Media and Literary Arts; Annual Celebrations/Parades; and Tourist–Support Services.
Hagen Family Foundation
The Hagen Family Foundation (THFF) is a private family foundation established in 1999 that provides financial grants to not–for–profit organizations. The Foundation favors creative and innovative proposals in the areas of: The Arts, Education, Environment, Religion, Social Services. The Foundation does not consider contributions to annual drives, capital campaigns, research, or the support of on–going programs. The Foundation supports org...
Halliburton Corporate Contributions
Halliburton supports primarily tax–exempt non–profit organizations dedicated to education, health, the environment and health–related community programs. Support for civic issues, arts and cultural programs may also be considered in areas where there is a significant presence of Halliburton employees and operations. In 2008, the company donated more than $2.2 million to support community initiatives.
Harry Chapin Foundation - National Focus
The mission of the Harry Chapin Foundation is to support organizations that have demonstrated their ability to dramatically improve the lives and livelihood of people by helping them to become self–sufficient. The Foundation's funding focuses on: Community education programs that identify community needs and mobilize resources to meet them, fostering social and economic justice; Arts in education programs and other approaches to educating young...
Hearst Foundations
The Hearst Foundations fund cultural institutions that offer innovative programs in the arts and sciences, the majority of which enable access for young people, thereby enriching their lives. Our focus includes education initiatives for students in pre–kindergarten through 12th grade. In addition, the Foundations support programs that nurture artistic development.
Heckscher Foundation for Children
The Heckscher Foundation for Children was founded in 1921 to promote the welfare of children in New York City and the United States as a whole. We fund organizations serving youth in the fields of education, family services, job training, health, arts and recreation. The Foundation's giving takes the form of program support, capacity–building, capital projects and general operating support. The Foundation seeks to "level the playing field" for...
Herb Alpert Foundation - Arts
The Herb Alpert Foundation has been active in its philanthropic work for more than 20 years. Historically the Foundation's grantees have run the gamut from small organizations working at the local level, perhaps in the earliest stages of their development, to larger and more mature organizations that may have a regional or even a national scope and perspective. Over the past few years the Foundation has focused on core areas: The Arts – a broad...
Houston Endowment
Houston Endowments supports nonprofit organizations and educational institutions that improve life for the people of the grater Houston area. The Foundation funds programs in the arts, community enhancement, education, health, human services, the environment and neighborhood development.
HRK Foundation
Historically, the Foundation's geographic service area has included the Twin Cities Metro Area, the St. Croix Valley, and Ashland and Bayfield counties in Wisconsin. In evaluating new requests, the Board's primary focus is St. Paul. Areas of funding interest include the Arts, Health, Community Building and Education.
Humana Foundation
The Humana Foundation's giving focuses primarily on health. We also support selected projects promoting arts and culture and education improvement. The Foundation promotes healthy lives and communities by supporting organizations that meet our funding priorities and are classified as 501(c)(3) tax–exempt by the Internal Revenue Service. Geographic areas funding interest include Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Lou...
IDP Foundation
The IDP Foundation has three main areas of focus: Health care and medical research, Education, especially as it relates to the relief of poverty through empowerment of the individual. Performing Arts. However, the IDP Foundation does not strictly limit its activities to these three areas of focus. It is always aware of the importance of community involvement and is willing to address other areas of social impact.
Individual Artist Fellowship and Distinguished Artist Award
The Rasmuson Foundation has three award programs for individual artists. Funding is available for emerging, mid–career and mature artists working in a variety of mediums – from choreography to performance art to folk and traditional arts.
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation was established in 1978 to promote and encourage the recognition and appreciation of excellence in the arts; to enhance cultural life internationally through the support of art exhibitions, scholarship, and the endowment of galleries at major museums; and to support biomedical research.
Jerome Foundation
The Jerome Foundation supports programs in dance, literature, media arts, music, theater, performance art, the visual arts, multidisciplinary work and arts criticism. It provides financial assistance to nonprofit, tax–exempt arts organizations that support emerging creative artists who are residents of Minnesota and New York City. Choreographers, film/video and other media artists, composers, literary artists, performance artists, playwrights, multid...
Jerome Robbins Foundation
Jerome Robbins established the Foundation in 1958, in honor of his mother, with the intent to support dance, theater, and their associative arts. Later, following the outbreak of AIDS, he directed Foundation resources to the AIDS crisis which contributions continue today. Before his death, Mr. Robbins conveyed his wish that the Foundation extend its resources to the performing arts – dance and theater especially, though not exclusively. Accordingly,...
Kenneth Rainin Foundation
The Kenneth Rainin Foundation is a private family foundation that funds inspiring and world–changing work. We are dedicated to enhancing quality of life by promoting equitable access to a baseline of literacy, enabling inspiration through the magic of the arts and providing opportunity for a healthy lifestyle for those with chronic disease. The Foundation will focus its efforts on the San Francisco Bay Area and specific medical issues and will utiliz...
Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
Family founded through economic freedom, the Norris Foundation supports programs that advance better health and intellectual enlightenment through education, cultivation of the arts, individual responsibility, freedom and dignity.
Kresge Foundation
The Kresge Foundation awards grants to small, mid–size, and large nonprofit organizations in six fields of interest: health, the environment, community development, arts and culture, education, and human services. Working with our grantees, we endeavor to improve the life circumstances and opportunities for poor, disadvantaged and marginalized individuals, families, and communities. In 2008, we created three new programs – the Health Program, t...
Lannan Foundation
Lannan supports individuals, organizations, and public events addressing one or more of these genres: Art, Cultural Freedom, Indigenous Communities, and Literary.
Lindbergh Foundation
Grants are made in numerous areas of special interest to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, including aviation/aerospace, agriculture, arts and humanities, biomedical research and adaptive technology, conservation of natural resources, education, exploration, health and population sciences, intercultural communication, oceanography, waste disposal management, water resource management, and wildlife preservation.
MacArthur Foundation
The MacArthur Foundation is one of the nation's largest independent foundations. Through the support it provides, the Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media. The Foundation has several programs that include International Program, Domestic Program: Affordable Housing...
Mardag Foundation
The Mardag Foundation makes grants to nonprofit organizations that improve the quality of life in Minnesota for children, seniors and other at–risk populations and for programs in education and arts.
McKnight Foundation
We support efforts to strengthen communities, families, and individuals, particularly those in need. We contribute to the arts, encourage preservation of our natural environment, and promote research in selected fields. We continually explore innovative ideas to advance our goals in partnership with those we serve.
Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund
The Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund provides grants, strategic support, and related management consulting to small and midsized arts organizations throughout the metropolitan Atlanta region.
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's dedication to supporting artists and their work is manifested primarily in its grants programs. The Foundation makes grants available to collaborating performing arts presenters to fund touring engagements through the ArtsConnect program. Grants for community artist–in–residence projects are made through the Foundation's Artists and Communities program. Geographic focus areas: Delaware, District of Colum...
Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Nathan Cummings Foundation is rooted in the Jewish tradition and committed to democratic values and social justice, including fairness, diversity, and community. We seek to build a socially and economically just society that values nature and protects the ecological balance for future generations; promotes humane health care; and fosters arts and culture that enriches communities. The Foundation's approach to grantmaking embodies some basic themes...
New England Foundation for the Arts
NEFA administers grant–making programs that support dance, performing arts, and public art projects in New England and beyond. To learn more about our grant programs, or to find out if you qualify for funding from NEFA, visit their grant programs overview page.
Nord Family Foundation
The Nord Family Foundation is interested in programs that strengthen families and improve public service. Grants are awarded in the fields of Health and Social Services, Education, Arts and Culture, and Civic Affairs. High priority is given to programs that address the needs of economically or socially disadvantaged families. Projects that attack root causes of social problems are also of special interest. The Foundation awards grants in several geograp...
San Francisco Arts Commission
The San Francisco Arts Commission is the City agency that champions the arts in San Francisco. We believe that a creative cultural environment is essential to the City's well–being. Our programs integrate the arts into all aspects of City life.
United States Artists
Dedicated to arts advocacy, support, and funding of the top American artists.
The Windmore Foundation for the Arts
Windmore is a non–profit organization based in Culpeper and was created to promote the arts in the Piedmont Area. Since its inception, Windmore has been a patron of theatre, art education, dance, literature, music, and visual arts.
The Big Read
The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment.
Wyoming Arts Council
The Nonprofit Organizations Program assists Wyoming's nonprofit arts organizations, schools, colleges, museums, libraries and performing arts presenters through grants and technical assistance/information services.
Academy of Country Music: Lifting Lives Grant
ACM Lifting Lives® is the philanthropic arm of the Academy of Country Music dedicated to improving lives through the power of music. Through partnerships with artists and strong ties in the music industry, ACM Lifting Lives develops and funds music-related therapy and education programs, and serves members of the community who face unexpected hardships through its Diane Holcomb Emergency Relief Fund. Generous donations and the support of artists and fans ensure ACM Lifting Lives is able to fund everything from disaster relief and helping communities in need, to music education in schools and music camps for those with disabilities, to supporting programs that use music therapy as a means to help our veterans and wounded warriors, while providing grants to help them ease back into life.
Alternative Exposure Grant
Southern Exposure is now accepting applications for Round 11 of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program. Alternative Exposure supports the independent and self-organized work of artists and small groups that play a critical and significant role in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community−giving grants ranging from $500 to $5000. With major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and additional support from the San Francisco Grants for the Arts/Hotel Tax Fund, Alternative Exposure offers direct support to Bay Area based unincorporated groups, burgeoning art and gathering spaces, publications, websites, collectives, events, and projects that fall outside the traditional frameworks of support.
American Poet Prizes
Since 1934, the Academy of American Poets has provided visibility and financial support to poets demonstrating artistic excellence. Guidelines and entry forms are provided, where applicable. All poets who receive an Academy of American Poets Prize are strongly promoted, including features in American Poets magazine, on social media, and, of course, on Poets.org. [There are a ton of awards in this list. If you're a poet, definitely check it out!
Amphion Grant
The Amphion Foundation's grant program's objective is to encourage the performance of contemporary concert music, particularly by American composers, through support to non-profit performing and presenting organizations that have demonstrated sustained artistic excellence, in addition to music service organizations and other organizations that support contemporary music.
Artslink is now entering its 19th cycle of exchanges, though the organization has been around for more than 50 years. Artslink promotes international citizen diplomacy through innovative arts projects. Grantees work on proposed projects that build relationships, share ideas, and explore cultures. Want to take on an art project while building relationships between international communities and seeing the world? See if you qualify below, and then give it a shot!
Arizona Commission on the Arts: Artist Research and Development Grants
Artist Research and Development Grants (ARDG) are designed to support individual artists from all disciplines. The purpose of this grant is to aid in the development of artistic work, support the advancement of artistic research, and recognize the contributions individual artists make to Arizona’s communities.
Art in the Parks: UNIQLO Park Expressions Grant
The Art in the Parks: UNIQLO Park Expressions Grant supports the creation of artworks by New York City-based emerging artists for 10 designated parks that need more cultural programming. The UNIQLO grant program transforms these locations into art destinations through a series of rotating exhibitions, with supporting events and programs. Generously funded by UNIQLO, each grantee will receive an award of $10,000 to create their proposed artwork.
Artist Grant
Visual artists 18 and older from anywhere in the world can apply for the Artist Grant. There are four grant cycles per year. Founded in 2017, Artist Grant is a new venture that aims to support and fund artists. All too often, society expects artists to work for free when other types of professionals receive fair compensation for their work. Artists deserve fair compensation. To that end, this charitable organization funds the efforts of artists to continue their important work and contributions to society.
Artist Trust: Arts Innovator Award
The Arts Innovator Award, funded by the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation, is an unrestricted award of $25,000 given annually to two Washington State artists of any discipline. The award recognizes artists who demonstrate innovation in their art practice. Examples would be artists who are originating new work, experimenting with new ideas, taking risks, and pushing the boundaries in their respective fields.
The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes
Annually, The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes distributes funds from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes to local and statewide artists and organizations in New York for community-focused arts and cultural activities, professional development opportunities, and project completion support. The ARTS Council administers grants to primarily Chemung, Steuben, Schuyler, and Tioga counties. Visit the NYSCA Decentralization site list to see which arts organization administers grants in your county.
Arts Council Santa Cruz County: Create Grant
The Create Grant Program provides matching grants for individual artists and organizations seeking support for public arts and culture projects in Santa Cruz County. Awards up to $3,000, but may not exceed 50% of the total project budget.
Artslink
Artslink is now entering its 19th cycle of exchanges, though the organization has been around for more than 50 years. Artslink promotes international citizen diplomacy through innovative arts projects. Grantees work on proposed projects that build relationships, share ideas, and explore cultures. Want to take on an art project while building relationships between international communities and seeing the world? See if you qualify below, and then give it a shot!
Arts Tank Greater Palm Springs
Arts Tank Greater Palm Springs welcomes applications for unique, innovative, and publicly accessible arts-based initiatives that would stimulate cultural tourism, address an issue or concern of the Coachella Valley community, and engage a broad cross-section of residents and visitors. Initiatives can be a project, event, product, installation, or idea that is new, grounded in the arts, and has a strategic purpose. A judging panel composed of stakeholders will select finalists to participate in a live Arts Tank event in October 2018. Finalists will receive coaching to prepare their decks and rehearse their presentations. Arts Tank GPS welcomes applications from individuals, groups, and nonprofit organizations.
Asian Cultural Council
The Asian Cultural Council is by far one of the most dedicated organizations giving to Asian artists who are looking for funding an opportunity to conduct research, study, receive special training, and pursue art in non-commercial settings, either in the United States or countries in Asia. The council gives money for anyone in the fields of Archaeology, Art History, Crafts, Dance, New Media, Painting/Sculpture/Installation, and more.
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Grant
Grants ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 to USA, Canada, and International organizations and individuals to support the preservation of historically significant sound recordings of Western Art Music. Projects may involve preservation, in any valid and reasonable fashion, of commercial as well as private instantaneous recordings, such as providing a collection with proper climate control, and moving a collection to facilities with proper storage conditions. Projects may also involve re-sleeving a collection of discs, setting up a volunteer project to organize and inventory a stored collection, rescuing recordings from danger, or copying recordings on endangered or unstable media. Projects promoting public access to recordings will also be considered.
The Betty Bowen Award
Administered by the Seattle Art Museum, the annual Betty Bowen Award honors a Northwest artist for their original, exceptional, and compelling work. The winner is awarded an unrestricted cash prize of $15,000, and a selection of his or her works is shown at the Seattle Art Museum in the fall of 2017. In addition, up to two Special Recognition Awards in the amount of $2,500 are often granted at the discretion of the Betty Bowen Committee.
Brooklyn Arts Council Grants
BAC Grants support Brooklyn-based cultural projects by individual artists, collectives, artist-nonprofit partnerships and small nonprofits that enrich the cultural life of the borough. BAC's funding programs provide meaningful technical assistance and professional development from application inquiry to final report in the form of info sessions, application draft reviews, and more.
California Arts Council
Professional Development: Funding will support professional growth and leadership training opportunities for individual staff members, artists, arts administrators or arts educators employed by the applying organization. Professional development activities could include: Tuition or registration fees for in-state conferences, seminars and workshopsIn-State travel expenses for conferences, seminars or workshops Fees to work directly with consultants and career coaches. The applicant organization must be a California-based nonprofit arts organization or local arts agency with a history of arts programming for a minimum of three years prior to the time of application.
Capelli Grant
Capelli d’Angeli Foundation is offering fellowship grants of up to $500 each for individual women artists who are in treatment or are survivors of cancer at any stage and creating art in the form of painting, sculpture, photography (of all types), and mixed media. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis and the number of grants given is determined by the funds available. Grant recipients and award amounts will be determined by a review panel on the basis of accomplishment to date and the promise of future achievement as shown by the images presented.
Center for Book Arts: Exhibition Proposal
The Center for Book Arts invites curators to submit exhibition proposals for our Main Gallery. There is no deadline: proposals are reviewed by the Center’s Exhibition Committee three or four times a year, however, the exhibition schedule is planned at least 15 months in advance.
Center for Cultural Innovation: Creative Industries Incentive Fund
The City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs’ Creative Industries Incentive Fund (CIIF) provides project support to arts-based commercial businesses involved in the production or distribution of the arts. Incentive awards are for creative industries of all types, such as manufacturers, service providers, presenters, and designers, among others. The CIIF seeks to support projects aimed at building successful small arts businesses in San Jose by their ability to: Increase community support and marketability; Leverage CIIF funding with other funding support; and Demonstrate growth and economic sustainability.
City of Chicago: Individual Artist Program Grant
The mission of the Cultural Grants Program is to play an active role in the development of Chicago’s arts and culture community by funding artists and arts organizations that have the potential to meaningfully contribute to the City’s cultural vitality. The Individual Artists Program aims to support this mission by assisting Chicago’s professional artists in creating work that elevates their careers and brings value to the City of Chicago. Through this program, DCASE will award project grants to resident Chicago artists over the age of 18 across numerous disciplines and through six funding categories. This is a highly competitive and prestigious program designed to support the applicants with the strongest merit and vision. We anticipate that approximately 35% of applications will be funded. Grants may be larger or smaller than your request based on our available budget and the strength of the application.
Clark Hulings Fund Business Accelerator Program
Established in memory of acclaimed painter Clark Hulings, The Clark Hulings Fund offers strategic business training and support to professional artists. Through this unique program, The Clark Hulings Fund helps up to 20 artists annually better manage their business and tackle specific business obstacles, so that they can get a leg up on making a living through their artwork. The program gives access to business tools, PR outreach, networking events, and many other opportunities as well as mentoring and financial support.
College Art Association
One award will be presented to a practitioner—an artist, designer, and/or craftsperson—and one award will be presented to an art, architecture, and/or design historian, curator, or critic. Fellows also receive a free, one-year CAA membership and complimentary registration to the Annual Conference. Honorable mentions, given at the discretion of the jury, also earn a free one-year CAA membership and complimentary conference registration.
Colorado Arts Partnership Grants
Colorado Creative Industries and Think 360 Arts for Learning joined forces to launch a new collaborative grant-making program: Colorado Arts Partnership Grants. CAP Grants are a unique opportunity in the area of arts funding. The purpose of CAP Grants is to provide schools throughout Colorado with the opportunity to apply for grant money for collaborative and innovative arts programming.
Colorado Creates Grant
Colorado Creates grants are general operating support for organizations and communities to produce arts and cultural activities, impacting people in all regions of the state and enhancing the quality of life. Efforts are made to ensure distribution of funds throughout the state, with a specific goal of increasing investment in rural communities. Two deadlines are open to returning applicants only or new applicants.
Compton Foundation
The scale of the problems we address requires us to meet them with ingenuity and creative thinking: qualities squarely in the purview of art. To that end, we fund work that uses art to spark social change, whether that means directly supporting professional artists who are working toward social or environmental change, funding organizations that bridge artistic disciplines and activism, or groups exploring art as an organizing methodology. We are open to a variety of artistic disciplines, including music, visual art, drama, film, and writing. While we will consider projects at all of these junctures of art and activism, we are most likely to prioritize the first two.
Creative Capital/The Andy Warhol Foundation: Arts Writers Grant Program
The Arts Writers grant supports both emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in four categories - articles, blogs, books and short-form writing - these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to self-published blogs. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.
Dancers' Group: CA$H Grant
CA$H is a granting program for individual artists and organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. CA$H was designed in 1999 by artists, for artists. The program seeks to support artistic projects that represent the many diversities of Bay Area dance community (race, genre, age, gender, ability, experience, location). Grant awards are $3,000 for individual artists and organizations for support of an artistic project.
East Bay Fund for Artists
EBCF will be distributing grants of $500-$8,000 to match donor contributions on a 1-to-1 basis for the commissioning of new works by Bay Area artists. Organizations and Artists wishing to apply should follow the eligibility guidelines listed in the URL. EBCF's overall goals for this work:
Foundation for Contemporary Arts: Emergency Grants
In keeping with FCA's mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, applicants must demonstrate that their artistic practice falls within this context. Created in 1993, Emergency Grants provides prompt funding for innovative visual and performing artists who: 1.) Have unanticipated, sudden opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding, 2.) Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States or U.S. territories, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Grants range in amount from $500 to $2,500.
Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ-Haus: Grants for Media Art
The Foundation of Lower Saxony grant at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art supports a wide spectrum of media art, from video art and net-based projects to audio works and audio-visual installations. Each of the three grants will be awarded for the production of a new project in the area of media art.
Franz and Virginia Bader Fund
The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund welcomes applications from visual artists aged 40 years or older, who live within 150 miles of Washington, D.C., and can demonstrate that they have the potential to benefit as artists from a grant. The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund does not, however, accept applications from filmmakers, video artists, and performance artists.
FRFAF Micro grants
The STUDIO administers the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art @ the Frontier — an endowment to encourage the creation of innovative artworks by the faculty, staff and students of Carnegie Mellon. A special activity of the Frank-Ratchye Fund is its program for Microgrants — grants which are made available to assist projects that require modest support (under $500), and which arise between scheduled cycles for major funding. The FRFAF Microgrant program exists to spur investigations at their earliest and most fragile state, enabling “rapid-response research."
Fulbright Fellowship for the Creative and Performing Arts
Perhaps the most established and well-recognized of the grants, the Fulbright Program has been sending students, academics, and professional across the world to conduct research, study, teach, and act as ambassadors to the US since 1945. A rigorous process of securing recommendations, outlining a proposal, and finding a host sponsor, it’s best to get started on this application early. But with approximately 8,000 grants annually awarded, it’s worth the time to see if you can’t be one of the artists who embark on international adventure while doing some good.Perhaps the most established and well recognized of the grants, the Fulbright Program has been sending students, academics and professional across the world to conduct research, study, teach and act as ambassadors to the US since 1945. A rigorous process of securing recommendations, outlining a proposal and finding a host sponsor, it’s best to get started on this application early. But with approximately 8,000 grants annually awarded, it’s worth the time to see if you can’t be on of the artists who embark on an international adventure while doing some good.
Gilchrist Foundation Micro Grant
In 2014, the Gilchrist Foundation began an exciting new “micro-grant” grant opportunity for qualifying tax-exempt organizations that promote the Arts, wildlife or conservation.
The Haven Foundation: Financial Support Grants
The Haven Foundation gives financial assistance to provide temporary support needed to safeguard and sustain the careers of established freelance artists, writers and other members of the arts and art production communities who have suffered disabilities or experienced a career-threatening illness, accident, natural disaster or personal catastrophe. Grants are awarded and renewed at the discretion of the Haven Foundation Board.
The Hopper Prize
The Hopper Prize was established for the sole purpose of advancing the field of visual art by providing direct financial assistance to artists in the form of unrestricted fellowships. We view the field of visual arts in its broadest and most inclusive sense and therefore make our awards available to artists engaged in artistic practices spanning all methods of production. Recipients will be determined by a panel of distinguished guest curators on the basis of artistic excellence and the promise of future potential. Our program seeks to support artists who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field and who currently need direct financial support to further their artistic practice.
Illinois Arts Council Agency: Individual Artist Support
The Individual Artist Support (IAS) program assists Illinois artists to realize a career goal, take advantage of a professional opportunity, or to produce and present an artistic project.
Integrity Arts & Culture Association Mini-Grants
We believe the arts are essential to the health and vitality of our communities and our nation. We are passionate about supporting literary, performing and visual artists in creating. We recognize the great need for support, and that receiving funding can sometimes be a complicated process. This is why we decided to do what we can to assist you and why our application process has been made simple.
Japan-United States Friendship Commission
The Japan U.S. Friendship Commission offers up to five leading contemporary and traditional artists from the United States an opportunity to spend three to five months in Japan in 2018-19 through the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program. Cultural understanding is at the heart of this program. Artists participate as seekers, as cultural visionaries, and as living liaisons to the traditional and contemporary cultural life of Japan. They also serve as connectors who share knowledge and bring back knowledge. Their interaction with the Japanese public and the outlook they bring home provide exceptional opportunities to promote cultural understanding between the United States and Japan.
Joan Mitchell Foundation Emergency Grant
The Joan Mitchell Foundation provides emergency support to US based visual artists working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and/or drawing, who have suffered significant losses after natural or man-made disasters that have affected their community. Artists who have been negatively impacted due to catastrophic situations of this nature can apply to the Foundation for funding.
KFW Artist Enrichment Grant
The Artist Enrichment (AE) grant provides opportunities for feminist artists and arts organizations to further their artistic development to create art for positive social change. Applicants may request funds for a range of activities including: artistic development, artist residencies, the exploration of new areas or techniques, or to build a body of work. Applicants to the AE grant program, like the AMA grant program, should show high artistic quality in the work sample, and should be able to demonstrate their commitment to feminism and their understanding of the relationship between art and social change. Both grant programs are arts-based and feminist in nature.
The Leap Award
The LEAP award provides a $1000 grant to one grantee for an early career artist in the contemporary craft field. The gift is intended to be used towards a new product line or body of work. The Society for Contemporary Craft will commit to promoting the work for the duration of one year along with providing special features on six finalists.
MacColl Johnson Fellowships
The Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund, established at the Rhode Island Foundation in 2003, provides up to three $25,000 artist fellowships each year, rotating among composers, writers, and visual artists on a three-year cycle.
Maltings Theatre: No Strings Attached Grant for Young Theatre Makers
No strings attached is a grant scheme to help young people make their first piece of theatre. Grants of between £500 and £1000 are available to young people from across the south-east region. The grant is for anyone aged between 18 and 25 who hasn’t previously received a grant from the arts council.
Manitoba Arts Council: Dance Creation/Production Grant
The Dance Creation/Production Grant is available to support the creation of original works by Manitoba choreographers, and/or for the production of choreographic work to a Manitoban audience.
Marianne Oberg Foundation for Spiritual Art
MOFSA, the Marianne Oberg Foundation for Spiritual Art is a new nonprofit organization located in Charlotte, NC, whose mission is to inspire, encourage and support the creation of spiritual art. We pursue our educational mission through grants to artists and exhibits of spiritual art.
Minnesota Region 2 Arts Council: Individual Artist Grant
The goal of the Region 2 Arts Council (R2AC) Fellowship Program is to assist the region’s most talented artists in furthering and innovating their work by awarding substantial financial support to fund creative time and/or experiences that facilitate depth and advancement in their art form. Through such support, the R2AC aims to elevate the quality and raise the profile of artistic work in the region and create a strong community of R2AC Fellows. Two $6,000 awards will be granted yearly. The funds can be used for, but not limited to 1.) Exploring new directions or continuing work in progress, 2.) Production costs, materials, or equipment, 3.) Collaborative or community projects, 4.) Travel, research or study to further your art.
Money for Women - Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.
Money for Women is the oldest ongoing feminist granting agency. After Barbara Deming‘s death in 1984, we became a memorial fund. While other grant sources have come and gone, our fund is in its fourth decade. We are still feminist and still willing to take risks. The foundation gives encouragement and grants to individual feminists in the arts (writers and visual artists). Funding projects which you have begun or which are well underway, and for which you have substantial work to show. We request that the majority of your submitted materials be related to and part of this project.
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Fund for the Arts
The NALAC Fund for the Arts is the only national grant program intentionally investing in Latinx artists and nonprofit arts organizations in the United States. (Latinx is a gender-neutral term increasingly used in lieu of Latino or Latina). To date, NALAC has awarded over 500 grants, reflecting an investment of $2.5 million across 35 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and México.
National Park Arts Foundation, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Resid
This residency is newly renovated and is now open to families, couples, as well as individual artists and collectives. Artists will have access to the presentation space, studio, and accommodations, plus they will receive a $2,000 stipend.
National Sculpture Society Grant: Henry Hering Art and Architecture Award
The Henry Hering Art and Architecture Award is presented as the occasion warrants for outstanding collaboration between architect, owner and sculptor in the distinguished use of sculpture in an architectural project. The use of figurative or realist sculpture is of greatest interest. The jury is looking for excellence in an architectural project in which the architect collaborated with the sculptor and owner of a site. The jury is composed of two sculptors and one architect. A winning entry will receive three medals and three hand-lettered citations – one each for architect, owner and sculptor.
New Music USA Grants
Our approach to project grants is driven by two core convictions. First, that the best way to serve new music is to ask practitioners what they need rather than tell them what they should want. Second, that the process for requesting financial support should be simple and should help artists connect with audiences, not just funders. Applicants are asked to present their projects using the same language and media they would use to build public interest in their work. Our goal is to make grantmaking less about grant writing and focus instead on how artists naturally talk about their work. Through our project grants, awardees gain more than a grant award; they gain access to our public network. By promoting awarded projects through social media, email, and our deep connections within the field, we work tirelessly to build a community around projects while supporting awarded artists as they develop their work.
Oregon Arts Commission, Art Builds Communities Grant
Arts Build Communities (ABC) grants support the arts in local communities and the involvement of the arts and artists in community development and cultural tourism. The grants recognize the expanding role that arts organizations play in the broader, cultural, social, educational and economic areas of community life. Support is provided to arts and other community-based organizations to form alliances and partnerships to strengthen communities through projects that connect the arts with local issues and opportunities.
Oregon Regional Arts & Culture Council: Project Grant
RACC’s Project Grant Program provides financial support to individual artists and not-for-profit organizations in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties, for project basedarts programming. Grants are awarded up to $7,000 and are available in three categories: Artistic Focus, Arts Equity & Access, and Arts Services.
Parent Artist Advocacy League for the Performing Arts (PAAL): Childcare Grants for Performing Arts
A parent-artist creating in the United States seeking funding for general artistic and/or general professional childcare support or project-specific childcare support. Union membership not required. All theatrical disciplines and administrative positions are eligible to apply for these grants. Pregnant Parent Artists and Artists in Late Stages of the Adoption Process are welcome and qualified to apply.
The Parent Grant at the Women's Studio Workshop
The Parent Grant—made possible by new support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation—is a four-week residency for an artist with dependent child(ren) under the age of 15. Artists may choose to work in any of our studio disciplines: intaglio, letterpress, papermaking, screenprinting, photography, or ceramics.
Pikes Peak Arts Council Microgrant Application
The Microgrant is open to current members of the Pikes Peak Arts Council, Colorado Springs, Colorado who have not received funding from PPAC within the last twelve months. If you are not presently a member of the Arts Council, please visit www.pikespeakartscouncil.org/join. Thanks for your participation!
PlySpace Funded Artist Residency Program
PlySpace is an artist-in-residence program in Muncie, Indiana, that is dedicated to offering visual artists, writers, performers, designers, and other creative individuals time and space to investigate and pursue their own practices. Additionally, it serves as a platform for experimentation and provocation by catalyzing conversation and collaboration with various Muncie communities. PlySpace facilitates opportunities for residents to engage with the public through partnership and programming that is tailored to their area of interest. PlySpace is pleased to support practitioners in a variety of creative fields and facilitate access to a wide range of media-specific equipment and facility accommodations for individuals and teams working in areas including, but not limited, to painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, glass, metals, ceramics, performance, photography, video/film, time-based media, writing, poetry, theatre, non-object based practice, and social practice.
Queens Council on the Arts: Artist Commissioning Program
The Artist Commissioning Program (ACP) provides Queens choreographers, playwrights, and composers $10,000 towards the creation and production of a new, original work to be interpreted for dance, theater, and music. This innovative program allows Queens community members to participate as Art Producers. Art Producers select the artists in a panel and serve as a support structure for the cohort. Both Artists and Art Producers receive access to professional development programming and collaborative arts events throughout the year-long program.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University awards 50 funded residential fellowships each year designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment. The stipend amount is $77,500. Fellows receive office or studio space and access to libraries and other resources of Harvard University. During the fellowship year, which extends from early September 2019 through May 31, 2020, residence in the Boston area is required as is participation in the Institute community. Fellows are expected to present their work-in-progress and to attend other fellows’ events.
Rocket Grant
Rocket Grants provide opportunities for Kansas City area artists to make and share experimental work and ideas in public spaces around the region - by providing direct support for exceptional, under-the-radar, artist-driven, and artist-centered projects. These grants receive support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and are developed and implemented by a partnership between the Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, MO and the Spencer Museum of Art, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.
S&R Foundation Washington Award
Since its inception in 2001, the Washington Award has recognized talented artists in the fields of, music, dance, and visual arts especially those who contribute to international cultural collaboration. We are excited to announce the amount of the Washington Award will be increased to a cash prize of $10,000. In addition, the Awards Committee may designate a Grand Prize winner who will receive an additional $5,000.
Scholastic Art and Writing Scholarship
Young artists and writers are free to explore any and all topics. There are no pre-defined prompts and no work is ever disqualified from the Scholastic Awards because of the nature of its content.
Sierra Arts Grants to Artists
The Grants to Artist program currently provides resources to artists with the intention to encourage artist growth from concept to completion. SAF offers $1,000 grants to professional artists at any stage in their career and $500 to high school and college artists through the John and Rose Ascuaga Grant and the George Hutchison Grant.
Southern Creatives Places
As part of our mission to advance Southern vitality through the arts, South Arts has launched Southern Creative Places: a limited number of grants for small and rural communities wishing to plan or implement creative placemaking projects.
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Special Awards in the Arts
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, in partnership with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is pleased to announce a $300,000 fund for the creation and development of new dance works by California choreographers. The works are to be commissioned and produced by Bay Area nonprofit arts presenting organizations that can apply for grants of $50,000 each.
William H. Johnson Prize
The William H. Johnson Prize is awarded annually to an early career African American artist. For our purposes, "early career" is a flexible term that should be interpreted liberally to include artists who have finished their academic work within twelve years from the year that the prize is awarded. For example, a person who finished their studies in 1999 is eligible to apply in 2011, but not in 2012. Age is not determinative, and artists who have not earned BFAs or MFAs are still eligible so long as they have not been working as an artist for more than twelve years.
Alberta Music
The Alberta Recording Arts Foundation was founded in 1980 by Bob McCord from CISN Radio in accordance to the licensing agreement that was required by the CRTC for radio broadcasting. This led to the incorporation of the Alberta Recording Industries Association (ARIA) in 1984 under the Societies Act of Alberta. Its official mandate was to “participate and assist in the overall development and improvement of the Alberta and Canadian recorded music industry, especially as it relates to Alberta.”
APRA AMCOS
We're here for the music. We help music creators get paid for their work and give music users easy ways to legally play and copy what they like. Royalties keep the music coming and ensure the industry’s future. And that’s what we all want to hear.
The D’Addario FoundatioN
We're here for the music. We help music creators get paid for their work and give music users easy ways to legally play and copy what they like. Royalties keep the music coming and ensure the industry’s future. And that’s what we all want to hear.
The NAMM Foundation
For the past several years, The NAMM Foundation has received hundreds of requests for grants and is grateful for nonprofit organizations around the world who seek to provide opportunities for people of all ages to learn and make music. The hundreds of requests received every year far surpassed the Foundation's budgetary resources for grants. Therefore we are currently not reviewing additional organizations to be invited to apply to be considered for a grant.
Music BC Travel
Music BC Travel Grants provide assistance to BC based artists to participate in touring and showcasing initiatives domestically and internationally, and BC based companies and individuals undertaking business travel activities in support of the BC music community. Read the updated guidelines before using the online forms to apply.
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
AFAC envisions a thriving Arab art and cultural scene, one that is confident in its expression, open to dialogue, accessible to all and sustained locally by committed patrons. Two fundamental principles guide AFAC's mode of work: transparency in the grant giving process and independence through a diversity of funding sources.
Recorded Music
Recorded Music NZ sets aside up to 1% of net revenue, and makes this available for educational, archival/conservation and charitable projects that fall within the scope of the Music Grants programme.
Firefly Creative Writing
Here at Firefly, we use workshops, coaching, online classes and writing retreats to help people gently come back to their voices and tell their stories. This is our mission, our passion and our wish for you.
The company’s various projects and activities includes Wales Book of the Year, National Poet of Wales, Bardd Plant Cymru and Young People’s Laureate Wales, Literary Tourism activities, Writers on Tour funding scheme, creative writing courses at Tŷ Newydd, and Young People’s Writing Squads. Fieldworkers work specifically to develop literature activity in the south Wales Valleys and in north Wales.
The College Grant
Prospective college students with a passion for writing can turn it into a rewarding career in one of several key areas. Creative writing and journalism degrees are two of the most popular ones for writers, and a number of schools have excellent programs in these fields. Aspiring professional writers typically complete a two-year degree at minimum.
Writers League
For more than three decades, the purpose and mission of the Writers’ League of Texas has been to provide a forum for information, support, and sharing among writers; to help writers improve on their craft and market their skills; to promote the interests of writers and the writing community at large; and to elevate the art and enterprise of writing.
The Elizabeth George Foundation
The Elizabeth George Foundation is committed to providing emerging playwrights, short story writers, poets, and unpublished novelists with one-time funding that will enable them to live and work for a period of time as a writer. Grant funds may be used for living expenses not to exceed a year, for tuition in accredited MFA programs in the United States, for travel, for research, for artistic residencies, for writers' conferences, or for other efforts designed to promote the goal of giving writers an opportunity to improve, finish, or refine their work. In addition, organizations that provide residencies or learning opportunities for fiction writers, poets, or playwrights are eligible. Non-profit organizations that provide services to increase the education, artistic expression, and literacy of at-risk youth and of youth transitioning out of foster care may also be considered for funding.
Arts Council of Wales
The company’s various projects and activities includes Wales Book of the Year, National Poet of Wales, Bardd Plant Cymru and Young People’s Laureate Wales, Literary Tourism activities, Writers on Tour funding scheme, creative writing courses at Tŷ Newydd, and Young People’s Writing Squads. Fieldworkers work specifically to develop literature activity in the south Wales Valleys and in north Wales.
Speculative Literature Foundation
The SLF currently offers four grants: The Older Writers’ Grant, the Travel Grant, the Working Class Writers Grant, and the Diversite Writers/Worlds Grant. All of our grants are free to apply, and are designed as ‘gateway’ grants, with easy and straightforward applications that should be quick to complete. We hope that they will both serve the community directly, and also encourage genre writers to explore the wide variety of grants, awards, and residencies available in the larger writing community.
ARVON
For over fifty years Arvon has been the UK’s home of creative writing. We have three centres, in Devon, Shropshire and Yorkshire. Our residential courses and retreats, led by highly acclaimed writers, span poetry to playwriting, song to screenplay, fact to fiction, starting to finishing – and we offer grants to help with course fees for those who need it.
West Australian Music
Passionately committed to championing Western Australia’s thriving music industry since 1987, WAM (West Australian Music) is the peak music body responsible for supporting, nurturing and growing all forms of contemporary music in WA.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation’s
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation’s principle objectives are to promote the arts, culture and heritage for the public benefit.
Narada Michael Walden Foundation
The Narada Michael Walden Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to making a difference in the lives of young people by supporting music appreciation and education for Bay Area youth. Through grants, scholarships, educational programs, performances, mentorships and collaborations with community organizations the Foundation provides opportunities for emerging young artists.
The Jubilation Foundation
We want to bring forth the joyful side of human nature for a whole and healthy world. We believe that music and movement -- wherever and however it happens -- can promote well-being in the individual and the community.
SOCAN Foundation
SOCAN Foundation provides grants for Canadian music creators and publishers working to promote appreciation for Canadian music in today’s society. Our grants support the spread of our music both within Canada and abroad, ensuring our voices are heard all over the world and in our own back yards.
East Texas Communities Foundation
East Texas Communities Foundation was founded in 1989 by visionary leaders who saw the need for a community foundation to serve the people and communities of East Texas. The strong leadership of early organizers like Isadore Roosth, Norman Shtofman, “Dub” Riter, and an investment of the United Way of Tyler/Smith County launched the Foundation. By 1994, the Foundation’s assets had grown to more than one million dollars.
The Stanwood-Camano Area Foundation
The Stanwood-Camano Area Foundation is committed to fostering and promoting a culture of philanthropy in our local community. We work with community members, businesses, and other local non-profit organizations to connect people who care with the causes and initiatives that matter most to them.
Northgate Foundation
Northgate Foundation is an Educational Charitable Trust based in Ipswich which provides small financial awards to young people under the age of 25.
The Sunnyside Music Festival
The Sunnyside Music Festival provides free music, fun entertainment, local food, lots of beer, and kids activities to the greater Sunnyside neighborhood of Northwest Denver via an inclusive all-day music festival in Chaffee Park. Through community outreach, it supports musicians, artists, businesses, schools, and non-profits.
The Open Media Foundation
The Open Media Foundation is dedicated to making the media accessible to everyone, especially those who are underrepresented in traditional media. Since 2004, we have provided over $1,000,000 in grants, scholarships and discounts to individuals and organizations. Currently, our grants are limited to matching grants, scholarships and discounts toward the services, tools and training we provide at OMF for local nonprofits and community organizations.
The Alexia Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice, to respect history lest we forget it and to understand cultural difference as our strength – not our weakness
Alexia Foundation Professional & Student Grant
Blue Earth’s Grant
Blue Earth sponsors documentary projects whose goal is to educate the public about critical environmental and social issues. We are primarily interested in work that is educational and informational in nature and will consider proposals of any geographic scope involving the photographic and motion picture mediums
FotoEvidence Book Award
FotoEvidence books dedicated to the work of photographers whose commitment and courage create an awareness of social injustice.
CENTER’s Project Development Grant
The Project Development Grant offers financial support to fine art, documentary or photojournalist works-in-progress. The grant includes a cash award to help complete a project as well as platforms for feedback and professional development opportunities for the works final stages
THE MANUEL RIVERA-ORTIZ FOUNDATION
We invite documentary photographers around the globe to submit their documentary photo project proposals highlighting human unrest, forgotten communities, over-exploited people and environments impacted by war, povery, famine, disease, exploitation and global distress
Marine Conservation Photography Grant
The Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) believes that photography is a powerful tool for marine conservation. We seek emerging conservation, wildlife and environmental photographers with a passion for marine subjects to apply for an unprecedented annual photography grant. SOSF has set aside US$40,000 to invest directly in marine conservation photographers of the future
Howard Chapnick Grant
The Howard Chapnick Grant was established to encourage and support leadership in fields ancillary to photojournalism, such as editing research, education and management.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde
