Funding Alert: Arts & Culture


1772 FOUNDATION

The Foundation focuses its grantmaking on endangered historic properties, the preservation of trades, the preservation of crafts schools and programs, agriculture, African-American historic sites, sustainability training and conferences, and the inner-city revitalization of Paterson and Newark, New Jersey. The Foundation is committing additional funds to key focus areas of historic preservation and sustainable food systems. [More...]

A BLADE OF GRASS

The Organization provides resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. The Organization’s Fellowship for Engaged Art supports socially engaged projects that promote art as a catalyst for social change; projects that feature artists in leadership roles; dialogue-based projects that emphasize active and sustainable partnerships in communities; and projects in which artists engage community members as equal partners on locally relevant issues, or globally relevant issues as they apply to the local context. [More...]

AARON SISKIND FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s 2016 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Program encourages and celebrates artistic achievement in contemporary photography by supporting the creative endeavors of artists working in photography and photo-based art medium. The Foundation will award a limited number of fellowship grants to artists working in photography and photo-based art. [More...]

ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS

The Academy’s Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize recognizes the author of the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. Named for the poet, novelist, essayist, and political activist and co-founder of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the Prize includes both a $25,000 grant and a 10-day residency at Glen Hollow in New York. [More...]

ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Academy’s Grants Program seeks to inspire imagination and connect the world through the medium of motion pictures. The Program directly supports the overall mission of the Academy and its commitment to diversity in the industry. [More...]

ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Academy, the home of the Oscars, is accepting applications for its film festival grants. The grants will be given to festivals occurring during the 2010 calendar year. [More...]

ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES ARTS AND SCIENCES FOUNDATION

The Foundation is the educational and preservation wing of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars. The Foundation seeks applications from film-related nonprofits, schools, and colleges for its Institutional Grants program. [More...]

ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION

The Foundation's mission is to support the professional theater community, from emerging artists to seasoned vets, while promoting and investing in the theater and the performing arts. The Foundation's Theatre Grants provide support to nonprofit theatres nationwide with 501(c)3 status, an established artistic and administrative track record, a history of fiscal responsibility, and have worked to improve the state of the theater. [More...]

ACTORS’ EQUITY FOUNDATION

The Foundation is dedicated to supporting the professional theatre community, from emerging artists to seasoned veterans while promoting and investing in the theatre and the performing arts. The Foundation’s Theatre grants support nonprofit theatres across the nation that have an established artistic and administrative track record, a history of fiscal responsibility, and have worked to improve the state of the theatre. [More...]

ADOLPH AND ESTHER GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION

The Foundation seeks to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success. The Individual Support Grants program was conceived in order to recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist. [More...]

ALAVI FOUNDATION

The Foundation is devoted to the promotion and support of Islamic culture and Persian language, literature, and civilization. The Foundation strives to meet its mission by targeting its grantmaking to the following eight areas: grants to colleges and universities; donations to Persian schools; donations and loans to Islamic organizations; free distribution of Islamic books; donations for disaster relief; support of the arts; student loans; and scholarly research. [More...]

ALEXIA FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Alexia grant enables professional photographers and visual journalists to produce substantial bodies of work that share the Foundation’s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. The annual program awards a $20,000 grant to one professional photographer or visual journalist to produce a substantial body of work that shares the Foundation’s goals. [More...]

ALFRED FRIED PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

The Award promotes photographers from all over the world whose pictures capture human efforts towards a peaceful world and the quest for beauty and goodness in their lives. The Award shows the various facets of peacefulness and aims to discover the best picture of the better side of humans and the positive aspects of changes in the world. [More...]

AMERIAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE

The Committee is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. The Committee’s Archives grant is awarded for postproduction, distribution, and/or Archives licensing costs of a documentary film, which draws on the Committee’s archival collection. [More...]

AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME

The Academy’s Rome Prize is awarded annually to 30 emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers that exemplify the highest standard of excellence in arts and humanities scholarship. Fellows are chosen from the areas of architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, visual arts, ancient studies, medieval studies, Renaissance and Early Modern studies, and modern Italian studies. [More...]

AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF MUSEUMS

The Alliance’s Museums Connect grants seeks to strengthen connections and cultural understanding between people in the United States and abroad through collaborative and innovative projects facilitated by museums. The program’s two goals are to ensure that communities in the U.S. [More...]

AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION

The Institute supports conservation education, research, and outreach activities that increase understanding of our global cultural heritage. The Institute's Holly Maxson Conservation grants seek to reach and build awareness among students (from any level in the range between middle school and undergraduate) about aspects of the field of conservation and related fields such as architecture, book arts, libraries and archives, cabinetmaking, and the historic trades as a career path; encourage the target audience to consider conservation or related fields as a career path; promote and expand diversity, equity, and inclusion; become a permanent part of ongoing educational programs, which includes potential for programs to be financially sustainable; and achieve project results (as seen in workplan, budget, personnel involved, capacity to manage funds). [More...]

AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE

The Committee is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. The Committee’s Archives documents the organization’s activities from its inception in 1914 to the present. [More...]

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

The Association’s 2011 Sara Jaffarian School Library program award for exemplary humanities programming recognizes, promotes, and supports excellence in humanities programming in elementary and middle school libraries that serve children K-8. By the Association’s definition, a humanities program can be focused in many subject areas, including but not limited to social studies, poetry, drama, art, music, language arts, foreign language and culture. [More...]

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION

The Association supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster greater understanding and appreciation of the value of philosophical inquiry. The Association accepts applications for two grant programs: the Small Grant program and Diversity and Inclusiveness Funding. [More...]

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

The Society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge," is the oldest learned society in the United States. The Society's Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research grants support exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. [More...]

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS FOUNDATION

Created in 1975, the Foundation aims to advance the interior design profession by drawing upon its resources to promote meaningful collaboration and research, award scholarships, and fund projects that broaden the value of interior design. The Foundation's Irene Winifred Eno Grant Program provides financial assistance to individuals or groups developing an educational program(s) or project that's dedicated to health, safety, and welfare. [More...]

AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION

The Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the American-Scandinavian Society, which promotes international understanding through educational and cultural exchanges between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The Foundation promotes the cultures of the Nordic countries in the United States as well as American culture in the Nordic countries. [More...]

AMERICANA FOUNDATION

The Foundation seeks to promote knowledge, preservation, and accessibility of America’s heritage through increasing educational opportunities of future conservators and curators in the field of fine craftsmanship and through preservation and presentation of unique collections in alignment with the interests and collections of the Adolph and Ginger Meyer family. Funded projects include the preservation and/or acquisition of high style, classic, handcrafted furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries as well as supporting their placement with charitable and educational institutions, and/or the U.S. [More...]

AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS

With 5,000 organizational and individual members and stakeholders, the Organization is focused on three primary goals: fostering an environment in which the arts can thrive and contribute to the creation of more livable communities; generating more public- and private-sector resources for the arts and arts education; and building individual appreciation of the value of the arts. The Organization’s emergency relief fund was established in 2005 to provide timely financial assistance to victims of a major disaster. [More...]

AMPHION FOUNDATION

The Foundation encourages the performance of contemporary concert music, particularly by America composers. Grants are awarded to performing and presenting organizations that have demonstrated sustained artistic excellence. [More...]

ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION

The Foundation, named for contemporary visual artist, Andy Warhol, makes grants on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists’ organizations, and other cultural institutions to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts. Projects may include exhibitions, catalogues, and other organizational activities directly related to these areas. [More...]

ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS

The Foundation’s grantmaking focuses on curatorial programs at museums, artists organizations, and other organizations. Funding objectives include assisting in the innovative presentation of the visual arts with an emphasis on projects that cultivate new, expanded, and diverse audiences. [More...]

ART FOR FREEDOM

The Program is a global digital initiative designed to “fuel free speech, to address, respond, and protest persecution around the world.” Developed by the band Vice and Madonna, the initiative encourages creative expression that brings awareness to human rights violations. Last year, pop singer, Madonna, introduced a new grants program for artists who work in video, music, poetry, or photography in conjunction with the Program. [More...]

ARTIST RELIEF

The Organization is an initiative organized by the Academy of American Poets, Artadia, Creative Capital, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the MAP Fund, the National YoungArts Foundation, and United States Artists, all small to mid-sized national arts grantmakers, to help support the financial, professional, social, and mental well-being of artists impacted by the coronavirus public health crisis. The Initiative will distribute grants of $5,000 to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19, as well as a serve as an ongoing informational resource and co-sponsor. [More...]

ASCAP FOUNDATION

The Foundation is dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their development. The Foundation supports projects in music education and talent development that are consistent with its mission and objectives. [More...]

ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL

The Council supports cultural exchanges between Asia and the United States in the performing and visual arts. Support is given to artists, scholars, students, and specialists from Asia for study, research, travel, and creative work in the United States. [More...]

ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTERS

The Organization’s Cultural Exchange Fund is a travel subsidy program that assists U.S.-based presenters in building partnerships with international touring artists, companies and their collaborators. The program seeks to increase presenters’ knowledge of international performing artists based outside the U.S. [More...]

ASSOCIATION OF PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONALS

The Association is the national service, advocacy, and membership organization for presenters of the performing arts. The Association’s Cultural Exchange Fund is a travel grant program supported by the Andrew W. [More...]

BARNES AND NOBLE

The Company’s corporate contributions program supports local and regional organizations that focus on literacy, the arts, or K-12 education. Applicants must be located in the communities served by Company stores and should serve the greater good of the local community or region. [More...]

BLACK ROCK ARTS FOUNDATION

The Foundation, created by several partners responsible for developing Nevada’s Burning Man festival, funds highly interactive, community-driven works of art that prioritize community involvement in their development, execution, and display. The Foundation supports art that is accessible to the public, civic in scope, and prompts the viewer to act. [More...]

BLAKEMORE FOUNDATION

The Foundation focuses its grantmaking on the advanced study of Asian languages and improving the understanding of Asian fine arts in the United States. The Frances Blakemore Asian Art grants are made to nonprofits in the United States such as museums, universities, and other educational or arts-related institutions for programs, exhibits, or publications that improve the understanding of Asian fine arts. [More...]

BROOKS AND JOAN FORTUNE FAMILY FOUNDATION

Founded by a former executive vice president and member of the board of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, the Foundation was established to support the arts and education. While the Foundation has historically supported nonprofits in Florida and Indiana, it will consider requests from around the country. [More...]

BRUNER FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence is a national urban design award that seeks to promote innovative thinking about the built environment and advance conversation about making cities better. The Award discovers and celebrates urban places that are distinguished by quality deign along with their social and economic contributions to our nation’s cities. [More...]

BURNING MAN

The Organization’s 2021 Global Art grant funds highly interactive, community-driven works of art that prioritize community involvement in their development, execution, and display. The Organization seeks community-driven art that can be experienced in public spaces, where everyone has access to view and participate with the art free of charge; that can be touched, heard, and/or experienced; created by the community for the community; and those that allow participants to engage with the conception, creation, and presentation of art. [More...]

CAL HUMANITIES

The Organization’s California Documentary Project, a competitive grants program, supports documentary film, radio, and new media productions designed to enhance an understanding of California and its cultures, peoples, and histories. Projects should use the humanities to provide context, depth, and perspective, and be suitable for California and national audiences through public and educational screenings and presentations, broadcast, distribution, and/or online. [More...]

CARL AND MARILYNN THOMA ART FOUNDATION

The Foundation recognizes the power of the arts to challenge and shift perceptions, spark creativity, and connect people across cultures. The Foundation's Research and Travel Awards in Art of the Spanish Americas offers grants to scholars, curators, art historians, and advanced graduate students working on master of arts theses or Ph.D. [More...]

CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK/NEW YORK TIMES I LOVE MY LIBRARIAN AWARD

The Award, administered by the American Library Association, recognizes librarians throughout the United States for exemplary service to their communities. Librarians may be nominated in three categories: public librarians, school librarians, or college, community college, or university librarians. [More...]

CEC ARTSLINK

The Organization assists in international artists collaborations. It provides support to U.S. [More...]

CENTER FOR CRAFT

The Center's Craft Futures Fund will make unrestricted one-time grants of $5,000 to education projects throughout the United States that use crafts to boost community resilience during the pandemic. The grants will be disbursed to craft-based education projects that seed resilience, foster community, and amplify impact. [More...]

CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN

The Center’s Artist Fellowship awards funds to mid-career artists for projects that would not otherwise be possible. Mid-career artists, artisans, designers, makers, sculptors, and others who identify their practice within the field of craft are invited to submit proposals in a process that combines both external nominations and self-nominations. [More...]

CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY AND DESIGN

Supported by the Windgate Fund at the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, the Center’s Craft Research Fund program works to advance, expand, and support research about craft in the United States. The Fund supports innovative research on artistic and critical issues in craft theory and history, explores the inter-relationship among craft, art, design, and contemporary culture; fosters new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in the craft field in the United States, and advances investigation of neglected questions in craft history and criticism in the U.S. [More...]

CHAIM SCHWARTZ FOUNDATION

The Foundation is dedicated to preserving and enriching Yiddishkeit, the Yiddish language, culture, theater, and art. Named after Chaim Schwartz, a poet, Yiddishist, and social activist, the Foundation was created by his daughter, to carry on his life’s work. [More...]

CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA

The Organization’s Classical Commissioning Program provides grants to United States presenters and professional contemporary and world music ensembles for the commissioning and performance of new works by American composers. The program supports works scored for two to 10 musicians performing one per part and composed in any of the musical styles associated with contemporary classical music. [More...]

CLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION

The Foundation supports the studies that show that kids who play a stringed instrument score higher on standardized tests, enjoy more parental involvement at school, and develop better self-discipline. The Foundation’s matching grant program provides grants for the purchase of high-quality string instruments. [More...]

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION

The Association’s Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant Program awards up to $15,000 for book-length, scholarly manuscripts on the history of American art, visual studies, and related subjects that are already under contract with a publisher. The grant program defines “American art” as art (circa 1500 to 1980) of what is now the geographic United States. [More...]

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA

The Foundation has launched a program called Philanthropy Film Awards, a new competition for short documentary films featuring philanthropy in the North Louisiana region. The program’s goal is to leverage the creativity of film industry professionals to document the importance of philanthropy in the region. [More...]

CONDEV

The Organization’s Student Media grants support student photojournalists to cover difficult topics in conflict-affected countries through compelling photo stories. The grants are an annual program awarded to students interested in using innovative methods to research and chronicle issues facing fragile and conflict-affected nations. [More...]

COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES

The Council’s Recordings at Risk Program supports the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. Recordings nominated for reformatting through this program may be valuable for research or education in any field, not just fields normally considered as humanities disciplines. [More...]

CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND

The Fund awards small grants and loans to professional craftspeople experiencing career-threatening illness, accident, fire, theft, or natural disaster. Applicants must be a professional artist working in a craft discipline (pottery, metalwork, glass, woodworking, fiber, or furniture) who has had a recent career-threatening emergency and is a legal resident of the United States. [More...]

CREATIVE CAPITAL

The Organization supports artists pursuing adventurous and imaginative ideas, drawing on venture capital concepts to provide funding, counsel, and career development services. The Organization is currently offering Workshop Subsidy grants through its Professional Development program, which helps artists to manage the business side of their art with greater efficiency and results. [More...]

CULTURE AND ANIMALS FOUNDATION

The Foundation is an all-volunteer run, nonprofit that helps artists and scholars advance humanity's understanding of, and commitment to, animals. The Foundation awards grants to scholars and artists who use their intellect, creativity, and compassion to build a deeper understanding of human-animal relationships and a greater respect for animal rights. [More...]

DANCE/USA

The Organization, with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, has launched Engaging Dance Audiences (EDA), a $1.5 million pilot program to analyze current dance performance attendance and to research methods of engaging new audiences for dance, learning from peers, and sharing the learning nationwide. The EDA program consists of four components, three of which involve direct support to Dance/USA members. [More...]

DEDALUS FOUNDATION

The Foundation was formed by modern artist Robert Motherwell to foster the public understanding of modern art and modernism through its programs in arts education, research and publications, archives and conservations and exhibitions, as well as in the guardianship and study of Robert Motherwell’s art. The arts education grants support symposiums and lectures, K-12 programs, community-based programs, residencies, fellowship programs, and educational programs at museums, art schools, colleges, and universities. [More...]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

The Department’s National Park Service Tribal Historic Preservation Offices grants help identify, evaluate and preserve culture and history by such means as survey, education, archeology, planning and technical assistance to Native American tribal governments. These grants assist tribal offices in carrying out responsibilities as stated under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, which was amended in 2006. [More...]

DEVOS INSTITUTE OF ARTS MANAGEMENT

The Institute’s Fellowship in Arts Management is offered free of charge to arts managers from across the United States and around the world. Managers are selected through a competitive application process and attend a four-week program in residence at the University of Maryland each spring for three consecutive years. [More...]

DONALD KEENE CENTER OF JAPANESE CULTURE

The Center, located at New York's Columbia University, combines public outreach with interdisciplinary scholarship to introduce Japanese culture, in all its depth and diversity, to new audiences. The Center welcomes applications for two annual programs: the Japan-U.S. [More...]

DORIS DUKE CHAIRITABLE FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Fund for National Projects supports projects that strengthen the national infrastructure of the professional nonprofit dance, jazz, presenting, or theatre fields. The Fund also works to improve conditions for the national community of performing artists in professional nonprofit dance, jazz, and theater. [More...]

DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Arts Program is funding a new initiative to help strengthen the national performing arts sector. The program will support select national projects that strengthen the health of the dance, jazz, presenting, and/or theater fields. [More...]

E.A. MICHELSON PHILANTHROPY

Formerly known as Aroha Philanthropies (from the Māori word conveying ideas of selflessness, tolerance, kindness, and compassion), the Philanthropy seeks to champion programs that break barriers, build community, and spark creativity. The Philanthropy's mission is to awaken creative expression and build communities through the arts. [More...]

ELI LILLY AND COMPANY

Oncology on Canvas: Expressions of a Cancer Journey Art Competition and Exhibition is a program of the National Coalition of Cancer Survivorship and Eli Lilly and Company. The competition/exhibition was developed as a way to honor those who have been impacted by cancer. [More...]

ELIZABETH FIRESTONE GRAHAM

The Foundation is dedicated almost exclusively to fostering the production and appreciation of the contemporary arts, particularly the visual arts. The Foundation's grantmaking is focused on organizations in support of special projects which offer the public insights into the range of contemporary art that's being created by all populations and in all media. [More...]

ELIZABETH FIRESTONE GRAHAM FOUNDATION

The 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. Of particular interest are programs or projects that attempt to bring together artists and the community; those that support artists from marginalized populations; and those that provide exposure to contemporary art where it may not otherwise be seen. [More...]

ELIZABETH GREENSHIELDS FOUNDATION

The Foundation's primary focus is to honor the work of Elizabeth Greenshields, a Canadian-born figurative artist. Grants are awarded to both students and artists around the world. [More...]

EMILY HALL TREMAINE EXHIBITION AWARD

The Award was created in 1998 to honor the talent and artistic vision of the Tremaine Foundation’s founder. The Award honors the founder’s trailblazing spirit by supporting up to two thematic exhibitions of contemporary art that are fresh and experimental in nature. [More...]

EMILY HALL TREMAINE FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s exhibition award rewards innovation and experimentation at the curatorial level. Funding supports exhibitions that challenge audiences and the mainstream of contemporary art. [More...]

ENGAGE ART

The Organization's Contest seeks to empower artists by providing a platform to share original work. The Organization is a calling for Bill and Linda Bantz. [More...]

ENTERPRISE FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship is designed to promote architectural and community design in low-income neighborhoods. [More...]

EYEBEAM CENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM

The Center, underwritten by Craig Newmark Philanthropies, is the first initiative of its kind to directly facilitate artists' major media commissions in the realm of journalism. With the belief that artists are central in the invention and design of their shared future, and also critical in shifting public debate, the Center supports the execution of pieces that focus on reimaging the way stories are told, particularly around technology and society. [More...]

EYEBEAM CENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM PROGRAMME

The Center supports artists and artist-journalist teams producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. Underwritten by the Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the Center is the first of its kind to directly facilitate artists' major media commissions in the realm of journalism. [More...]

FIRST PEOPLES FUND

The Fund is accepting nominations for the Community Spirit Award, which recognizes American Indian artists who have made substantial contributions to their communities. The award will honor four individuals with $5,000 fellowships. [More...]

FORD FOUNDATION

With the Space for Change Planning and Pre-Development grants, the Foundation has launched a 10-year, $100 million initiative to support a new generation of arts spaces nationwide. In partnership with Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC) and the MetLife Foundation, the Ford Foundation will provide support for critical planning and pre-development activities that may precede partnering in or leading a facility project. [More...]

FRENCH-AMERICAN JAZZ EXCHANGE

The Program, a partnership of the Cultural Service of the French Embassy, the French American Cultural Exchange, and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, seeks to foster the creative and professional development of jazz artists from France and the United States. The Exchange promotes collaborative investigation of artistic practice and exposure to new audiences, musical concepts, and professional relationships. [More...]

FURTHERMORE

The Organization, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, is concerned with nonfiction book publishing about the city; natural and historic resources; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; and civil liberties and other public issues of the day. [More...]

FURTHERMORE FOUNDATION

The Foundation is an initiative of the J.M. Kaplan Fund. [More...]

GETTY FOUNDATION

The Foundation seeks to fund projects that support the conservation of modern architecture in its Keeping It Modern Initiative. The Foundation awards both Planning and Implementation grants. [More...]

GKV FOUNDATION

Named after Gary Knisely and his wife Varian, who died in 2011, the Foundation was created in 2017 to improve society by using the arts as educational tools. The Foundation supports individual development and related community impact through the use of a range of artistic media such as the visual arts, music, and dance. [More...]

GLADYS KRIEBLE DELMAS FOUNDATION

The Foundation promotes the advancement and perpetuation of humanistic inquiry and artistic creativity. It does this by encouraging excellence in scholarship and in the performing arts, and by supporting research libraries and other institutions dedicated to transmitting cultural heritage. [More...]

GRAHAM FOUNDATION

Supports individuals and institutions that are focused on architecture and the built environment. Of interest are activities that lead to the public dissemination of ideas through publication, exhibition, or educational programming. [More...]

GRAHAM FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN THE FINE ARTS

The Foundation makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Foundation offers two types of grants: Production and Presentation grants to individuals and organizations and Research and Development grants to individuals. [More...]

GUNK FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s grants for public art projects are intended to change the current market-dominated system of art production and move art out of the market and into the public realm. The Foundation’s primary goal is to support projects that move art out of museums, galleries, and alternative spaces, and into daily life. [More...]

HENRY LUCE FUND IN AMERICAN ART

The fund consists of three areas: the Luce Fund in American Art, which emphasizes scholarly exhibitions and publications; responsive grants, generally for institutional enhancement; and dissertation fellowships aimed at the next generation of art historians specializing in this field. Letters of request may be submitted at any time; the deadline is for the annual summer review of approximately 20 proposals. [More...]

HISTORY CHANNEL AWARDS

The Channel’s “Save Our History” grants program awards grants of up to $10,000 to organizations that partner with schools or youth groups on community preservation projects. Projects should engage youth in learning about, documenting, and preserving the history of their communities. [More...]

INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE

The Service’s Local Independents Collaborating with Stations (LINCS) program gives independent producers and public television stations an opportunity to form full production and presentation partnerships. LINCS is interested in projects that differ from standard television fare. [More...]

INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION

The Foundation is a national, community based organization serving American Indian nations and people in the recovery and control of their rightful homelands. The Foundation works to promote education, increase cultural awareness, create economic opportunity, and reform the legal and administrative systems that prevent Indian people from owning and controlling reservation lands. [More...]

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

The Institute’s Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Fellowship housed at Columbia University is designed for lawyers, journalists, teachers, social workers, community organizers, artists, scholars, and other human rights activities working on issues related to dealing with the past such as: transitional justice, historical dialogue, memory studies, historical justice, oral history and history education. The Fellowship provides opportunities to hone practical skills in fundraising, advocacy and leadership; to develop a deeper understanding of and engagement with the past; and to foster mutually beneficial relationships with their peers and with international and nonprofit organizations based in New York and Washington, DC. [More...]

INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES

The Institute’s Native American Library Services Enhancement grants program are awarded to support existing library services or implement new library services. Grants can be used to expand services for learning and access to information and educational resources in a variety of formats for individuals of all ages. [More...]

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION

The Association supports the vital work of documentary storytellers and champions a thriving and inclusive documentary culture. The Association's Enterprise Documentary Fund provides production funds for feature-length documentary films taking on in-depth explorations of original, telling, contemporary-relevant stories, and integrating journalistic practice into filmmaking. [More...]

IRVING HARRIS FOUNDATION

The Foundation seeks to enhance the quality of life for children, families, and communities by advancing human potential, social justice and equity, and creative experience and expression. The Foundation?s values of justice, risk-taking, collaboration, partnership, and persistence, all inspired by the founder, are infused in everything it does. [More...]

J-LAB: THE INSTITUTE FOR INTERACTIVE JOURNALISM

The Institute’s New Voices project supports interactive news ventures in various communities. Projects must serve a defined community, foster an open exchange of journalistically sound information, develop a publicly accessible, regularly updated Web site, and show creativity in the use of new digital technologies. [More...]

J.M. KAPLAN FUND

The Fund’s Furthermore Program supports nonfiction book publishing about the city; art, architecture, and design; cultural history; civil liberties and other public issues of the day; and natural and historic resources. Grants are awarded for writing, research, editing, design, indexing, photography, illustration, and printing and binding. [More...]

JA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The Foundation seeks to identify and invest in solutions that meet the needs, interests, and concerns of the Japanese American and broader Asian American communities. It also works to promote programs that benefit those communities. [More...]

JAMES MARSTON FITCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

The Foundation provides mid-year grants to professionals working in the fields of historic preservation, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, decorative arts, architectural design, and architectural history. The Foundation will consider proposals for the research and/or the execution of the preservation-related projects in any of these fields. [More...]

JAPAN FOUNDATION

The Foundation was established to promote international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries. The Foundation’s Performing Arts Japan program is designed to help increase access to Japanese performing arts in the United States and Canada, especially outside of major metropolitan areas. [More...]

JEROME ROBBINS FOUNDATION

The Foundation, named for famed Tony award-winning choreographer Jerome Robbins, was established to support dance, theater, and their “associative” arts. In addition, some of the Foundation’s philanthropy is directed toward AIDS-related organizations. [More...]

JIM HENSON FOUNDATION

The Foundation, the legacy of the late puppeteer Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, awards grants for the creation and development of innovative works of puppet theater. The Foundation awards Project Grants of $5,000 for the continued development and production of new works ready to be presented in the coming year; Seed Grants of $2,000 for the development and workshopping of pieces in earlier stages of creation; and Family Grants of $3,000 for the development of new and innovative work specifically for children, families, and teens. [More...]

JOHN COTTON DANA AWARDS

The Awards, sponsored by H.W. Wilson Foundation, the American Library Association, and EBSCO Publishing, honor outstanding library public relations programs. [More...]

JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives program is accepting proposals for its 2011 documentary film grants program. The film grants Program seeks to fund documentary film projects that address the significant social challenges of our time or explore important, but underrepresented topics. [More...]

JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

The Foundation, funded by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, in memory of their 17-year-old son, Simon, in 1925, has sought to add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of the country and to provide for the cause of better international understanding. [More...]

JONATHAN LARSON PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION

Named after the late composer of the Broadway musical, “Rent,” the Foundation was created to provide encouragement and financial assistance to composers, lyricists, and “bookwriters” as well as nonprofit producing companies. Organizations may apply for project support for the development and/or production of a new music/theater piece. [More...]

JUDITH ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s grantmaking is focused on presenting, preserving, and interpreting work of the highest aesthetic merit by lesser-known American artists who have died after Sept. 12, 1976. [More...]

KALLIOPEIA FOUNDATION

In mythology Kalliopeia (Calliope) is first of the nine Greek muses. The Foundation’s mission is to contribute to the evolution of communities and cultures that honor the unity at the heart of life’s rich diversity. [More...]

KRESGE FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Arts and Culture program has announced the final call for preliminary grant applications for its Facility Investments and Building Reserves program. Drawing on the Foundation’s historical expertise as a funder of arts and culture facilities, the initiative seeks to help organizations maintain their important physical assets. [More...]

LANNAN FOUNDATION

This family Foundation is dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity supporting projects that aid exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities. Funding priorities include projects that that encourage freedom of inquiry, imagination, and expression. [More...]

LATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTING

The Organization is a leader in the development, production, acquisition, and distribution of non-commercial educational and cultural media that is representative of Latino people or addresses issues of particular interest to Latino Americans. Through its Current Issues Fund, the Organization is seeking proposals for sixty- or ninety-minute documentary films from the Latino American perspective. [More...]

LAURA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR AMERICA’S LIBRARIES

The Foundation, founded by former First Lady, Laura Bush, helps school libraries encourage and foster a love of reading, support student learning, and make books and reading materials available to students who otherwise would not have access to them. Eligible schools have to have been in operation for a minimum of one year prior to application; have a student body where 85 percent or more of the students qualify for free or reduced lunches, and meets the definition of a school library. [More...]

LIBRARIES AND AUTISM: WE’RE CONNECTED

The Organization promotes awareness of the needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families to the library community. Through the Organization’s annual Autism Welcome Here: Library Programs, Services and More Program grants will be awarded to projects and services for any age group. [More...]

LIVINGSTON AWARDS FOR YOUNG JOURNALISTS

The Awards recognize outstanding reporting and bolster the careers of journalist under the age of 35. Prizes of $10,000 will be presented in three categories: local, national, and international reporting. [More...]

MAURICE AMADO FOUNDATION

Named for Maurice Amado, a descendant of Sephardic Jews who settled in the Ottoman Empire after their expulsion from Spain in 1492, the Foundation works to ensure that Sephardic heritage is woven into the fabric of American Jewry. The Foundation has a special interest in integrating information about the religious life and culture of Sephardic Jews whose ancestors originated in the in the Iberian Peninsula into the education of all American Jews, with a special emphasis on reaching leaders, both present and future, of American Jewry. [More...]

METLIFE FOUNDATION

The Foundation and Theatre Communications Group, a national membership organization that works to strengthen, nurture, and promote the professional, nonprofit American theater, are accepting applications from Group member theaters for the A-ha! Program. [More...]

MOTOROLA FOUNDATION

The philanthropic arm of the global communications company, the Foundation will partner with the Chicago History Museum to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Grants will be awarded to projects that actively engage the public in lessons drawn from Lincoln’s life. [More...]

MULTI-ARTS PRODUCTION FUND

The Fund is administered by Creative Capital with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. [More...]

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission, part of NARA, supports projects that promote the preservation and use of America’s documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. Grants are available to improve the training and education of professionals in the archival and historical publishing communities. [More...]

NATIONAL ART EDUCATION FOUNDATION

The Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), is accepting applications from Association members for programs that support classroom-based art education. NAEF Research grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to support research in art education that advances knowledge in the field of art education and that advance the goals outlined in Creating a Visual Arts Research Agenda Toward the 21st Century. [More...]

NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s 2016 Innovations in Reading Prize supports individual and/or institutions or a partnership between the two that has developed innovative means of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading. Applicants should be VITAL demonstrating Vision, Ingenuity, Transformation, Achievement, and Leadership. [More...]

NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT

The Project provides a system of support for the living, growing discipline of contemporary dance by supporting the creation/production and engagement/touring of dance in the United States and beyond. The Project views touring as central to the vitality of dance as an art form and structures its granting process to link the creation and distribution of new work. [More...]

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

The Endowment’s Access to Artistic Excellence grants encourage and support artistic excellence, preserve our cultural heritage, and provide access to the arts for all Americans. Grants in this category support projects that provide short-term arts exposure or arts appreciation for children and youth as well as intergenerational education projects. [More...]

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS: AMERICAN MASTERPIECES

Through the American Masterpieces: Presenting presentations of the performing, visual, media, design, and literary arts, the Endowment will sponsor performances, exhibitions, tours, and educational programs across all art forms that will reach large and small communities in all 50 states. Presenting organizations of all genres, sizes, and aesthetics are encouraged to apply. [More...]

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

The Endowment’s Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants Program is designed to encourage scholars with new ideas to get their digital humanities projects into the public square. Grants are awarded for the planning or initial stages of digital humanities initiatives in all areas of the Endowment’s interest: research, publication, preservation, access, teacher training, and dissemination. [More...]

NATIONAL FUND FOR SACRED PLACES

The Fund, a program of Partners for Sacred Places in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, provides support to community-serving congregations to aid in the stewardship of their historic facilities. The Fund offers grants for the planning and execution of urgent capital projects at historic churches that are valued for their cultural importance as well as their role in providing human services, strengthening communities, and revitalizing neighborhoods; and training, capacity building, and technical assistant to ensure that grant-funded projects are successfully planned and implemented. [More...]

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

The Society’s All Roads Film Project awards seed grants to indigenous filmmakers for film projects by and about indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture filmmakers from all reaches of the globe. Of particular interest are projects where filmmakers bring their lives and communities to light through first-person storytelling. [More...]

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS COMMISSION

The Commission promotes the preservation and use of America’s documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. Its Electronic Records grant program supports projects leading to sustainable electronic records archives that preserve digital records with enduring historical value. [More...]

NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION

The Foundation offers culture and heritage grants that are available to individuals or organizations pursuing projects to promote, research, educate, or preserve Italian culture, history, or heritage. Project examples include documentaries, doctoral research, exhibits, conferences, books, media stereotyping/anti-defamation surveys, campaigns, plays, and course syllabi. [More...]

NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY

The Society promotes excellence in sculpture that’s inspired by the natural world. The Society’s Dexter Jones award is presented annually to a sculptor for an outstanding work of sculpture in bas-relief. [More...]

NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

The Society’s Special Grants Program provides local community grant funding to support projects exemplifying the organization’s mission areas of Historic Preservation, Education, and Patriotism. Under the Historic Preservation category, grants are awarded for the restoration of historic buildings or sites; preservation of documents or records including cataloging and digitization, conservation of cemetery monuments or gravesites, and erection of history site markers. [More...]

NATIONAL STORYTELLING NETWORK

The Network’s Brimstone Award for Applied Storytelling is given for projects that promote understanding of the ways storytelling can promote change in individuals and communities. Grants will be awarded in support of storytelling projects that are service-oriented, based in a community or local organization, and replicable in others places and situations. [More...]

NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION

The Trust is committed to saving American's diverse historic environments and to preserving and revitalizing the livability of communities nationwide. The Trust's African American Cultural Heritage Fund is designed to advance ongoing preservation activities for historic places such as sites, museums, and landscapes representing African American cultural heritage. [More...]

NATIONAL YOUNGARTS FOUNDATION

The Foundation provides emerging artists (ages 15-18 or grades 10-12) with opportunities to work with renowned mentors, apply for scholarships, and gain national recognition throughout their careers. Through its 2018 Young Artists Prize, the Foundation will support 10 artistic disciplines this year: cinematic arts, dance, design, jazz, music, photography, theater, visual arts ,voice, and writing. [More...]

NATIVE AMERICAN LIBRARY SERVICES

A division of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Program’s Basic Grants support existing library operations and maintain core library services. Indian tribes, Alaska native villages, regional corporations, and village corporations are eligible to apply for funding under this program. [More...]

NATIVE ARTS AND CULTURES FOUNDATION

The Foundation is a Native-led nonprofit dedicated exclusively to the perpetuation of American Indiana, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian arts and cultures nationwide. The Foundation has two grants programs: the Fellowship Program and the Community Inspiration Program. [More...]

NEH-DOCUMENTING ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

The Documenting Endangered Languages Program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Awards support fieldwork and other activities related to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. [More...]

NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS

The Foundation’s National Dance Project is one of the country’s major sources for funding for dance. The Project invests in artists to make new work and provides grants to the organizations that present those works on tour in their communities. [More...]

NEW VOICES

The Program, administered by J-Lab at the University of Maryland, is a pioneering program with the objective to seed innovative community news ventures in the United States. The Program will provide grants of $12,000 to help fund the start-up of 10 micro-local news projects. [More...]

OAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATION

The Foundation's mission is to perpetuate and share the gifts of Rachel "Bunny" Lambert Mellon, including her residence, garden, estate, and the Oak Spring Garden Library, to serve the public interest. The Foundation is dedicated to inspiring and facilitating scholarships and public dialogue on the history and future of plants, including the culture of gardens and landscapes and the importance of plants for human well-being. [More...]

OPEN SOCIETIES FOUNDATION

The Foundations’ Human Rights Photography Audience Engagement Grant program supports photographers to take an existing body of work on a social justice or human rights issue and devise an innovative and effective way of using that work as a tool for social change. Of particular interest are projects that serve as interventions on pressing problems and provide concrete ways for photographers, organizations, and their target audiences to create a positive impact. [More...]

OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE

The Institute’s Documentary Photography Project will fund documentary photographers who propose new ways of using photography as an advocacy tool. The grant will enable photographers who have already completed a significant body of work on issues of social justice to collaborate with a partner organization and present the work to targeted audiences to stimulate positive social change. [More...]

PEN AMERICA

The Organization stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. Its mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible. [More...]

PETER NORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION

Created by the founder of Norton Utilities, the Foundation’s grantmaking focuses primarily on the support of contemporary visual art. The Foundation also targets a small amount of funds to programs dealing with women and children, education, and parenting projects. [More...]

PHOTOGRAPHY 4 HUMANITY GLOBAL PRIZE

The Prize is an international initiative that calls on amateur and professional photographers around the world to bring to life the power of human rights through their images. Priority is given to photographs that are compelling, dynamic, and impactful. [More...]

POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION

The Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the late modern artists Jackson Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner, aids individuals who have worked as artists over a significant period of time. The Foundation’s dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal, or both. [More...]

POP CULTURE COLLABORATIVE

The Collaborative is dedicated to catalyzing just and authentic narratives abut people of color, Muslims, immigrants, and refugees through entertainment and mass media. The Collaborative’s “Pop Up” Rapid Response grants are designed to support a short-term project developed in connection to a recent or upcoming acute political or cultural time hook, and must be intended to reach an audience of more than a million people or engage artists, producers, and/or organizers that do so. [More...]

PRESERVE AMERICA

The Organization is a White House initiative in cooperation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and in partnership with a variety of federal offices. First Lady Laura Bush is the initiative’s honorary chair. [More...]

PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION-USA

The Foundation, named for actress and princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly, seeks to identify and assist emerging theater, dance, and film artists at the outset of their careers or who are at an early stage of their professional development. The Foundation’s Theater Grants Program supports scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships for early-stage actors to further their professional training and to partner with a nonprofit theater company. [More...]

PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM

The Association/Museum accepts applications for its Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant Program. Awarded annually to under-recognized American painters over the age of 45 who demonstrate financial need, the grant aims to promote public awareness of and commitment to American art, and to encourage interest in artists who lack adequate recognition. [More...]

RIGHTEOUS PERSONS FOUNDATION

The Foundation, created by Stephen Spielberg with profits from his movie, “Schindler’s List,” is dedicated toward supporting efforts to build a diverse and vibrant Jewish community in the United States. The Foundation has developed a particular focus on supporting efforts that promote the development of Jewish arts, culture, and media. [More...]

ROBERT LEHMAN FOUNDATION

The Foundation was incorporated in 1943 to serve as a vehicle for its Founder’s philanthropic work in the visual arts. The Founder was the former chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [More...]

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Responsive Grant Program allows the Foundation to respond to opportunities outside of its formal grant guidelines which resonate with its mission and values as well as to respond to emergency needs. Named for the famous artist, priority is given to the following requests: those that relate to the preservation, expansion, and scholarship of artists who worked during Rauschenberg’s lifetime; those that address art as a vehicle for community renewal; those that answer how we may creatively approach the protection of the environment; or those that provide evidence of the use of art in international peacekeeping efforts. [More...]

ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVE CENTER

The Center offers a competitive grant-in-aid program each year. The Program is designed to foster, promote, and support research by serious scholars in the collections located at the Center, which includes the records of the Rockefeller family, Rockefeller, University, Rockefeller Foundation, and other Rockefeller-associated philanthropies and individuals. [More...]

RPM FOUNDATION

The Foundation is the educational and philanthropic arm of America’s Automotive Trust. It provides the pathway to careers for the next generation of automotive, motorcycle, and marine restoration and preservation craftsmen and artisans. [More...]

SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION

Projects and programs that promote the understanding and enjoyment of European art and architecture from antiquity to the 19th century, especially in relation to its historical context are the Foundation’s grantmaking priorities. The Foundation nurtures excellence in study, conservation, and preservation. [More...]

SANTA FE NATURAL TOBACCO COMPANY FOUNDATION

The Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the tobacco Company. It awards grants to nonprofits throughout the United States that support the preservation, promotion, and advancement of Indian self-sufficiency and culture. [More...]

SCHUBERT FOUNDATION

The Foundation earmarks its funding for projects that build and perpetuate the live performing arts, particularly the professional theater, in the United States. It supports theatrical organizations, dance companies, and arts-related institutions that maintain and support the theater. [More...]

SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIAN DEVELOPMENT

The Fund is an indigenous nonprofit dedicated to promoting and maintaining the uniqueness of Native peoples throughout the Americas. Named for a precept of the Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy), which mandates that chiefs consider the impact of their decisions on the seventh generation yet to come, the Fund supports projects in the following areas: arts and cultural expression, environmental health and justice, human rights, intergenerational leadership, sacred earth, sustainable communities, and women’s leadership. [More...]

SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES

The Program, an Initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest, seeks to reach middle and high school students in underserved schools throughout the United States with high quality, professional productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Matching grants of $25,000 will be awarded to up to 40 theater companies to support performances and related educational activities for students from 10 or more schools. [More...]

SHUBERT FOUNDATION

The Foundation supports nonprofit, professional theater and dance companies in the United States. Nonprofit professional resident theater companies are the primary recipients of Shubert Foundation funding, with an emphasis on producing rather than presenting organizations. [More...]

SIDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION

The Foundation honors journalists, writers, and public figures who pursue investigative journalism and public policy in service of the common good. Named for the founding president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America who was also an architect of the New Deal, the Foundation's Hillman Prize awards grants in support of investigative journalism, and commentary in service of the common good. [More...]

SNAPDRAGON BOOK FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s mission is to foster children’s literacy by providing grants to school libraries serving disadvantaged youth. Grants are awarded to public, private, and experimental schools throughout the United States. [More...]

SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS FOUNDATION

The Foundation works to promote the value and diversity of archives and archivists. The Foundation's Strategic Growth grant Program awards grants for work that meets strategic planning priorities and/or the mission and goals of the Foundation such as research and reporting about the archival profession, its practices and its practitioners; development of professional growth opportunities; recognition of archivists via scholarships, travel assistance, and awards; programs to enhance the performance of repositories; and efforts to persuade influential external organizations to create or promote archives. [More...]

SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

The Awards provide those working in photography on the global stage to showcase their work. The Awards are given through four competitions: professional, open, youth, and student. [More...]

SOUTH ARTS

Headquartered in Georgia, the Organization is a nonprofit regional arts organization empowering artists, organizations, and communities and working to increase access to arts and culture. The Organization's Jazz Road Tours supports small, three- to six-site tours at an array of venue types, often in rural communities and other areas traditionally underserved by the genre. [More...]

STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Guest Artist Initiative provides grants to American colleges and universities to encourage them to hire professional stage directors and choreographers as guest artists. The Initiative will provide a selected school with funds up to $5,000 to match the fee budgeted for the guest artist. [More...]

STAMPS SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

The School, housed at the University of Michigan, annually accepts applications for its Roman J. Witt Residency Program. [More...]

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE

The Institute’s Documentary Fund is dedicated to supporting United States and international documentary films that focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression, social justice, civil liberties, and exploring the critical issues of our time. Development grants provide seed funds to filmmakers whose projects are in the early research or pre-production stage. [More...]

SURDNA FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Thriving Cultures program seeks to foster just and sustainable communities throughout the United States. Letters of inquiry are accepted in three lines of work: Teens’ Artistic Advancement; Artists Engaging in Social Change; and Community Driven Design. [More...]

SUSTAINABLE ARTS FOUNDATION

The Foundation's mission is to provide financial awards to parents pursuing creative work. The Foundation's individual artist program provides unrestricted cash grants to up to 20 artists and writings with children under the age of 18. [More...]

SYDNEY HILLMAN FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Hillman Prizes honor excellence in investigative journalism and commentary and celebrate reporting that highlights social or economic injustice and leads to meaningful public policy change. Prizes are awarded in the following categories: nonfiction books, print or online newspaper reporting, print or online magazine reporting, broadcast journalism that includes story/series/documentary of at least 20 minutes in total package length that has aired on television, radio, or podcast; Web journalism that includes a story or series that appeared online but not in print (this category is open to blogs, photojournalism, and other multimedia projects as well as text) and opinion and analysis journalism that includes commentary and analysis in any medium. [More...]

TEIGER FOUNDATION

Named for David Teiger, who, in his lifetime, championed professionals who pursued their own paths in making exhibitions, leading organizations, conducting research, and pursuing other aspects of curatorial practice, the Foundation supports contemporary visual art with a primary focus on curators. The Foundation funds exhibitions, commissions, performances, public program series, related publications, and other curator-led initiatives in the U.S. [More...]

TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART

The Foundation supports exhibitions that enlarge the understanding and appreciation of historical American art made between 1500 and 1980. To be eligible for funding, exhibitions that take place internationally or in Chicago may be aimed at the general public, scholars, or both. [More...]

TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ARTS

The Foundation supports exhibitions that enlarge the understanding and appreciation of historical American art made between 1500 and 1980. The Exhibition grants support exhibitions that take place internationally or in Chicago. [More...]

THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Academy’s institutional grants foster educational activities between the public and the film industry while encouraging the appreciation of motion pictures as both a vocation and an art form. Institutional grants are awarded to nonprofit film organizations and to film programs in schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions and nonprofits. [More...]

THE ADOLPH AND ESTHER GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION

The artist, Adolph Gottlieb, was one of a small group of artists who initiated the movement known as Abstract Expressionism. He became a successful artist and left his estate to create a foundation that would benefit “mature, creative painters and sculptors.” The Foundation’s Individual Support grants are awarded in support of painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have been creating mature art for at least 20 years and who are in current financial need. [More...]

THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS

The Foundation focuses its grantmaking on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them. Grants are made on a project basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists’ organizations, and other cultural institutions to originate innovative and scholarly presentations of contemporary visual arts. [More...]

THE BIG READ

The Program, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, seeks to revitalize literature’s role in popular culture. A secondary goal is to introduce literature’s transformative power into the lives of ordinary Americans. [More...]

THE DANA FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Rural Initiative program supports professional development programs in the arts in rural communities. The Foundation funds professional artists teaching performing arts in public schools as well as in-school arts specialists who teach performing arts in the public schools. [More...]

THE DEDALUS FOUNDATION

The Foundation, founded by the artist Robert Motherwell, fosters public understanding of modern art and modernism. It does this by facilitating research, education, publications, and exhibitions in this field. [More...]

THE FLEDGLING FUND

The Fund supports innovative media projects that can play critical roles in igniting social change. The Fund supports media projects that are timely, tell compelling and important stories, represent a unique perspective or an intriguing solution to an entrenched social problem, and have strong potential as a vehicle for social change. [More...]

THE GETTY FOUNDATION

The Foundation focuses its grantmaking on the visual arts. The museum conservation grants are designed to assist institutions in caring for their permanent collections. [More...]

THE GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION

Founded by Adolph Gottlieb, who along with a handful of artists, initiated the movement known as Abstract Expressionism, the Foundation focuses its grantmaking in two areas: Artist Individual Support Grants and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant. The Individual Support Grants are awarded to painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have been creating mature art for at least 20 years and who are in current financial need. [More...]

THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCE STUDIES IN THE FINE ARTS

The Foundation fosters the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Under its Grants to Organizations in the United States Program, the Foundation offers Production and Presentation grants. [More...]

THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN THE FINE ARTS

Founded in 1956 by a bequest from prominent Chicago architect Ernest R. Graham, the Foundation focuses its grantmaking on architecture and related spatial practices that address a wide range of cultural, social, political, technological, environmental, and aesthetic issues. [More...]

THE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES

The Organization’s Museum Grants for African American History and Culture are intended to enhance institutional capacity and sustainability through a variety of tools including professional training, technical assistance, internships, and outside expertise. Successful proposals will focus on one or more of these three goals: developing or strengthening knowledge, skills, and expertise of current staff at African American museums; attracting and retaining professionals with the skills needed to strengthen African American museums; and attracting new staff to African American museum practice and providing the expertise needed to sustain them in the field. [More...]

THE JAPAN FOUNDATION

The Foundation seeks to promote international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries. Funds are targeted in three areas: arts and cultural exchange, Japanese language education overseas, and Japanese studies and intellectual exchange. [More...]

THE JEROME ROBBINS FOUNDATION

The Foundation, named for the world-renowned choreographer of ballets, theater productions, movies, and television, supports dance, theater, and their associative arts. Priority is given to projects in dance and theater. [More...]

THE JIM HENSEN FOUNDATION

The Foundation, created by the late puppeteer, awards annual grants for the creation and development of innovative works of puppet theater. The Foundation offers three types of grants: Production grants ($7,000), which are awarded for the production of new works ready to be presented in the coming year; Workshop grants ($3,000), which are awarded for the development and workshopping of those new works; and Family grants ($4,000) which are awarded for the development of new and innovative 3works specifically for children, families, and teenagers. [More...]

THE JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

The Foundation awards fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields including the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. The only exception it makes to this list is that it does not provide fellowships for the performing arts. [More...]

THE JUBILATION FOUNDATION

The Foundation, created in March 2008, seeks to help young people feel fully alive through rhythm found in dance, music, and poetry. The Foundation strives to bring forth the joyful side of human nature to strengthen communities. [More...]

THE KRESGE FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s Arts and Culture Program is offering a new grant opportunity for organizations integrating arts and culture into specific community revitalization work. Through the program’s Harvesting Leading Practices focus area, the Foundation supports efforts that deepen, capture, and share knowledge from established creative placemaking work in disinvested communities. [More...]

THE LIBERACE FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING AND CREATIVE ARTS

The Foundation’s main mission is to utilize scholarship assistance to help talented students pursue careers in the performing and creative arts. Scholarships are not awarded to individuals but to higher educational institutions for distribution to individuals. [More...]

THE MAURER FAMILY FOUNDATION

This family Foundation, founded in 1996, seeks to provide financial help to organizations and institutions that have as a goal, enriching their communities and the lives of their patrons through programs of cultural value. This includes, but is not limited to, fine art, experimental art, applied and decorative art, film, television, music, literature, poetry, architecture, theatre, dance, opera, and folk traditions. [More...]

THE MAXINE GREENE FOUNDATION

Founded in 2003, the Foundation directs its primary attention to the intersections among various modes of social action and engagements with the arts. Social imagination most often finds expression in diverse art forms: film, literature, theatre, and dance. [More...]

THE NATIONAL ART EDUCATION FOUNDATION

The National Art Education Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the National Art Education Association, is accepting applications from NAEF members for programs that support classroom-based arts education. For 2013, grants will be awarded to qualified arts educators for professional development; for projects that promote arts education as an integral part of the curriculum; for research in arts education; for equipment and/or instructional resources, and for training. [More...]

THE NATIONAL YOUNGARTS FOUNDATION

The Foundation identifies and supports the next generation of artists in the visual, literary, design, and performing arts; assists them at critical junctures in their educational and professional development; and raises appreciation for the arts in American society. Young artists are defined as those 15-18 (grades 10-12). [More...]

THE REA CHARITABLE TRUST

The Foundation supports a variety of charitable causes with priority given to the promotion of the arts. There are no geographic limitations; however, the Foundation has a preference of supporting organizations in the states of Texas, New York, and Virginia. [More...]

THE SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION

The Foundation supports projects that illuminate European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. The Foundation’s Conservation grants program supports the professional practice of art conservation, including conservation research, scholarly publications, international conferences, and symposia, with a focus on European art of the pre-modern era. [More...]

THE SANTA FE NATURAL TOBACCO COMPANY FOUNDATION

The Foundation grants financial assistance to organizations that support the preservation, promotion, and advancement of American Indian self-sufficiency and culture in the United States. Of particular interest are programs for the development of American Indian entrepreneurism, facilitating American Indian education (particularly college, graduate and post-graduate education), and the preservation and enhancement of American Indian culture. [More...]

THE SCHUBERT FOUNDATION

The Foundation is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States. Preference is given to theater with a secondary focus on dance. [More...]

THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION

The Foundation's grantmaking is focused on building and perpetuating the live performing arts, particularly the professional theater in the United States. The Foundation funds theatrical organizations, dance companies, and arts-related institutions that maintain and support the theater. [More...]

THE TINKER FOUNDATION

The Foundation seeks to promote the development of an equitable, sustainable, and productive society in Latin America and to enhance the understanding in the U.S. of Latin America and how U.S. [More...]

THE VILCEK PRIZES FOR CREATIVE PROMISE

The Prizes honor foreign-born scientists and artists living in the United States who have demonstrated outstanding early achievement in their careers. The Program was established to encourage and support young immigrants who have already demonstrated exceptional achievements and who often face significant challenges early in their careers. [More...]

THE WYETH FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART

The Foundation provides financial support to encourage the study, appreciation, and recognition of excellence in all aspects of historical American art. The Foundation’s goal is to fund programs and proposals that serve as catalysts to achieve greater recognition and understanding of excellence in American art. [More...]

THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP

The Group’s Global Connections Program, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, encourages U.S.-based theater organizations and individual artists to apply to one of two initiatives. [More...]

TIFFANY & CO. FOUNDATION

Established in 2000, the Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the well known New York jeweler. The Foundation focuses its grantmaking on two areas: the arts and the environment. [More...]

TINKER FOUNDATION

The Foundation focuses its grantmaking on Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and more recently, Antarctica. Founded in 1959 by Dr. [More...]

TRI-M FOUNDATION

Originally organized to support student performance projects at Texas State University-San Marcos, the Foundation seeks to cultivate and promote the production and presentation of regional performing and media arts through grants and gifts to new and established arts organizations and educational institutions, and through the Foundation's own salons and publications. The Foundation's Performing Arts Grant Program supports the development and presentation of innovative, high-quality performing arts projects, events, and festivals by regional nonprofit arts organizations. [More...]

TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE

The Institute’s Latin America Media Arts Fund supports documentary, animation, or hybrid feature-length films from innovative film and video artists living and working in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America. The Fund looks for films that bravely push the boundaries of artistic storytelling and show a new and exhilarating side to the Latino identity. [More...]

TRUST FOR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING

Established in 1984 by an anonymous American philanthropist, the Trust awards grants to American nonprofits to support the international travel component of cultural and environmental exchanges conducted in partnership with institutions and individuals in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe. Priority is given to projects that involve direct, in-depth professional interaction, with the potential for sustained collaboration; that show evidence of professional accomplishment and innovation; and/or that respond to social contexts and engage local communities. [More...]

USARTISTS INTERNATIONAL

The Organization’s objective is to ensure that the range of U.S. performing arts is represented at international festivals abroad. [More...]

VENTUROUS THEATER FUND

The Fund supports ambitious and challenging new work by creating room for the experimentation and risk in new play production by small-and medium-sized nonprofit theaters in the United States. The Fund's Venturous Capital Grant Program supports the production of text-based, author-driven new plays that are challenging in form, controversial in subject matter, ambitious in scale or scope, audacious and irreverent, and/or experimental in concept. [More...]

VIA ART FUND

The Fund has two grantmaking programs that accept unsolicited Letters of Inquiry: Artistic Production grants and Incubator Fund grants. Artistic Production grants are awarded to projects that best exemplify three core values: Artistic Production, Thought Leadership, and Public Engagement. [More...]

VILCEK FOUNDATION

The Foundation raises awareness of immigrant contributions in America and foster appreciation of the arts and sciences. Founded in 200 by Jan and Marica Vilcek, immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia, the Foundation was inspired by the couple’s respective careers in biomedical science and art history as well as their person experiences and appreciation for the opportunities offered to them as newcomers to the United States. [More...]

W. EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND

The Fund, named for the late LIFE Magazine photographer, seeks to honor and support documentary photographers. The Fund offers three grants: the W. [More...]

WILBUR FOUNDATION

The Foundation’s purpose is to enhance, preserve, and protect the transcendent and permanent values of civilization and our temporary society through the support of the humanities. It concentrates its grantmaking on the field of humanities. [More...]

WILLIAM H. JOHNSON FOUNDATION

The American artist is known for his Scandinavian landscapes as well as his witty and poignant depictions of African American daily life. The Foundation awards grants to African American artists who work in the following media: painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, installation, and/or new genre. [More...]

WILLIAM H. JOHNSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS

The Foundation was established in 2001 in honor of William H. Johnson, an American artist known primarily for his Scandinavian landscapes and his witty and poignant depictions of African American daily life. [More...]

WINDGATE FOUNDATION

The Foundation, established in 1993, is a private, family Foundation based in Little Rock, AR. The Foundation strives to advance contemporary craft and strengthen visual arts in the United States. [More...]



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