Funding Opportunities

• Foundation Grant

  The Barker Welfare Foundation

  Deadlines: 2/01/25, 8/01/25

  https://www.barkerwelfare.org/funding-inquiry/

  The mission of the Barker Welfare Foundation is to make grants to qualified charitable organizations whose initiatives improve the quality of life, with an emphasis on strengthening youth and families and to reflect the philosophy of Catherine Barker Hickox, the Founder. Proposals are reviewed by the Foundation Board twice per year.

• Public Project Grants

  American-Scandinavian Foundation

  Deadlines: 11/15/24, 2/15/25, 11/15/25

  http://www.amscan.org/fellowships-and-grants/public-project-proposal-guidelines/

  The American-Scandinavian Foundation promotes the cultures of the Nordic countries in the United States and American culture in the Nordic countries by encouraging programs that will enhance public appreciation of culture, art, and thought. In establishing priorities, the Foundation considers the lasting benefits that may be achieved by any grant, and favors projects where its contribution will complement support from other sources.

• Curatorial Fellowships—Travel and Research

  Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

  Deadlines: 3/01/25, 9/01/25

  http://www.warholfoundation.org/grant/curatorial_fellowships.html

  Launched in 2008, this program aims to encourage curatorial research leading to new scholarship in the field of contemporary art. Grants of up to $50,000 are designed to support travel, archival research, convening of colleagues, and interviews.

   

• Organization Support

  Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

  Deadlines: 3/01/25, 9/01/25

  http://warholfoundation.org/grant/overview.html

  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. Projects may include exhibitions, catalogues, and other organizational activities directly related to these areas. The program also supports the creation of new work through regranting initiatives and artist-in-residence programs. The work of choreographers and performing artists occasionally is funded when the visual arts are an inherent element of a production.

• Foundation Grants

  The Cowles Charitible Trust

  Deadlines: 12/01/24

  https://www.cowlescharitabletrust.org/take-action

  Our mission is to continue and further the philanthropic legacy of Gardner Cowles, Jr. and the Cowles family, which includes promotion of education, social justice, health, and the arts.

• Digital Art History Grants Program

  The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

  Deadlines: 3/01/25, 9/01/25

  http://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/Digital-Art-History

  The Digital Resources program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support will also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history. Please note that this grant program does not typically support the digitization of museum object collections.

• History of Art Grants Program

  The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

  Deadlines: 3/01/25, 9/01/25

  http://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/History-of-Art

  The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies. Grants are also awarded for activities that permit art historians to share their expertise through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, and other professional events.

• Visual Arts Grants

  Robert Lehman Foundation

  Deadlines: 4/01/25, 9/01/25

  https://robertlehmanfoundation.org/grant-guidelines/

  The Robert Lehman Foundation operates exclusively in the field of the visual arts. Grants are made on an individual basis to museums, arts organizations, educational institutions and other cultural organizations with the goal of enhancing the role of the visual arts within American and world culture. Within these broad parameters, the Foundation is open to a wide range of projects from art education programs, museum exhibitions and outreach to art history lectureships and scholarly publications.

• Performing Arts Organization Grants

  Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust

  Deadlines: 8/01/25

  http://fdnweb.org/sheafer/

  Project, capital and capacity building support for performing arts organizations in New York City.

• Translation Award

  American-Scandinavian Foundation

  Deadlines: 9/01/25

  http://www.amscan.org/fellowships-grants/translation-competition/

  The ASF Translation Award is an international competition for literary translations into English from any Nordic language and genre. The annual competition recognizes outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama or literary prose authored by a Scandinavian writer born after 1900. 

• Grants

  Charles R Wood Foundation

  Deadlines: 3/01/25

  https://charlesrwoodfoundation.com/grants-and-funding/

  The Charles R. Wood Foundation was founded in 1978 to provide assistance to areas of special needs in the Lake George Region and surrounding areas. Grants are awarded to organizations that focus their efforts to benefit children, healthcare, and the arts. The Foundation primarily focuses on requests from 501 (c) (3) public charities. Only requests which fall under these guidelines will be considered. Please note that funding is not provided for operational salaries or to institutions of higher education (colleges or universities).
  

  Requests from nonprofit organizations who are collaborating with other nonprofits and applying for assistance in areas of special need in the Lake George Region and surrounding areas with an emphasis on programs for children, healthcare and the arts. Preferential treatment for collaborating organizations will be considered in the review process. Please note that information on each of the organizations will be requested in the application.
  

• Performing Arts Program

  Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation

  Deadlines: 12/02/24

  http://www.samuels.org/

  The Foundation supports performing arts organizations in the City of New York, principally, but not exclusively, in the borough of Manhattan. The Foundation's primary mission is to support major dance, music and theatre companies of national or international importance.

• Arts Grants

  Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc.

  Deadlines: 9/15/25

  https://lilynyc.org/cycles-deadlines/

  The foundation supports art, preservation and community programs which serve to enrich the lives of the people of New York City. Grants are available for art, education, human services, and preservation/environment programs located within the city's five boroughs.

• Grants

  Hyde & Watson Foundation

  Deadlines: 2/01/25, 8/01/25

  http://fdnweb.org/hydeandwatson/application-procedures/

  The Foundation supports capital projects such as hard costs related to the construction or purchase of new facilities, building renovations and improvements, purchase of capital equipment and furnishings, and other one-time capital needs. Broad fields of support include education, social services, arts, health, religion, and humanities. The current geographic areas of grant support are primarily the five boroughs of New York City, and Essex, Morris, and Union Counties in New Jersey.

• Foundation Grants

  Park Foundation

  Deadlines: 1/08/25

  https://parkfoundation.org/applying/

  The Foundation supports public interest media that raises awareness of critical environmental, political and social issues to promote a better informed citizenry in the U.S. It supports quality, non-commercial media that is substantive, fair, and accurate. Program priorities include investigative journalism, media policy and public broadcasting.

  Investigative Journalism supports excellence in reporting on nationally-significant public affairs issues in the U.S. Competitive proposals will show evidence of groundbreaking content employing multi-platform media tools with potential to achieve broad distribution and social impact.

  Media Policy supports nationally-significant initiatives that promote fair and open media systems and policies in the U.S. The Foundation supports projects that advance universal access to communications, a "neutral" Internet, diverse and independent ownership, public interest media and the future of journalism.

  Public Broadcasting supports nationally distributed and aired television and radio programming. Preference is given to in-depth, investigative reporting projects that include diverse, public interest voices and perspectives.

  Documentary Films supports a very limited number of small grants to individual documentary projects related to civil society and democracy, environment and animal welfare. Requests for funding greatly exceed available resources and preference is given to projects with wide distribution and community engagement. Prior to submitting a proposal, prospective applicants should contact the Foundation via phone or e-mail to determine appropriate fit. Please be prepared to provide information regarding content and treatment, distribution, outreach, budget, funding sources (and fiscal sponsorship as appropriate).

• BKO Grants

  Brooklyn Org

  Deadlines: 4/15/25

  https://brooklyn.org/how-to-apply-for-bko-funding/

  the Invest in Youth grantmaking program supports Brooklyn-serving nonprofit organizations that are working with youth, ages 16-24, toward enabling their social and economic success by: Expanding opportunities for transformational youth development and authentic leadership; increasing educational and economic opportunities for court-involved youth; reducing school suspensions and preventing youth involvement in the criminal justice system; empowering immigrant youth to create and access necessary resources and services.   

• Foundation Grant

  Trust for Mutual Understanding

  Deadlines: 11/01/24, 5/01/25, 11/01/25, 5/01/26

  http://www.tmuny.org/applicants/#Information

  TMU provides grants specifically for international travel associated with professional exchanges in the arts and environmental sciences. Approximately two-thirds of TMU’s awards are for arts and culture and one-third for environmental projects. Arts and Culture: Creative artistic collaborations, curatorial research projects, performances given in conjunction with lecture/demonstrations and/or workshops, conservation and historic preservation projects, arts management programs, and cultural documentation activities.

• Artistic Production Grant

  VIA Art Fund

  Deadlines: 11/04/24

  http://viaartfund.org/apply/

  Our Artistic Production grants are awarded to fund the production, exhibition, (semi)permanent installation or institutional acquisition of new artistic commissions in the public realm. Information and guidelines for our Fall 2019 grant cycle will be posted by February 2019.

   

• Grants

  Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation

  Deadlines: 11/10/24, 5/10/25, 11/10/25, 5/10/26

  https://www.mvdreyfusfoundation.org/application-guidelines

  The Foundation will consider requests to support museums, cultural, and performing arts programs; schools, hospitals, educational and skills training programs, programs for youth, seniors, and the handicapped; environmental and wildlife protection activities; and other community-based organizations and their programs. 

• Carter Manny Award

  Graham Foundation

  Deadlines: 11/15/24

  http://grahamfoundation.org/grant_programs/?mode=award

  The Graham Foundation offers two Carter Manny Awards: a research award for a student at the research stage of the doctoral dissertation and a writing award for a student at the writing stage of the doctoral dissertation. The research award is acknowledged with up to $15,000 and the writing award is acknowledged with up to $20,000.

• Museum Grants for African American History and Culture

  Institute of Museum and Library Services

  Deadlines: 11/15/24

  http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=12

  Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) support projects that improve the operations, care of collections, and development of professional management at African American museums. Eligible applicants include museums with a primary purpose and focus on African American life, art, history, and/or culture, encompassing: the period of slavery; the era of Reconstruction; the Harlem renaissance; the civil rights movement; and other periods of the African American diaspora.

   

• Museums for America

  Institute of Museum and Library Services

  Deadlines: 11/15/24

  http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=11

  The Museums for America (MFA) program supports projects that strengthen the ability of an individual museum to serve its public. MFA has three project categories: Learning Experiences, Community Anchors, and Collections Stewardship.

• National Leadership Grants for Museums

  Institute of Museum and Library Services

  Deadlines: 11/15/24

  https://www.imls.gov/grants/available/national-leadership-grants-museums

  National Leadership Grants for Museums support projects that address critical needs of the museum field and that have the potential to advance practice in the profession so that museums can improve services for the American public. National Leadership Grants for Museums has three project categories:Learning Experiences, Community Anchors, and Collections Stewardship. Grant Awards range from $50,000 to $500,000 and the grant period is up to three years.

• The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Legacy Funds

  Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo

  Deadlines: 11/29/24

  https://www.cfgb.org/nonprofits/grants/ralph-wilson-legacy/

  The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation established endowment funds at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo to provide annual support for programs and initiatives that reflect the personal passions of Mr. Wilson. These areas of support are: Caregivers, Community Assets, Design and Access and Youth Sports.

  The grants made from these Legacy Funds held at the Community Foundation are distinct from the grants made by the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation directly. In most cases, the grants made from these Funds at the Community Foundation serve to support localized projects across the WNY region, for which a smaller grant can make all the difference. In some cases, it may also provide an opportunity to test out ideas and programs on a smaller, pilot level.

• Community Grants

  Actors Equity Foundation

  Deadlines: 11/30/24

  https://www.actorsequityfoundation.org/grant-application-form

  Since its inception in 1962, the Actors' Equity Foundation — a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization — has remained steadfast in its mission to support the professional theatre community, from emerging artists to seasoned vets, while promoting and investing in the theatre and the performing arts.

• Theatre Grants

  Shubert Foundation

  Deadlines: 12/04/24

  https://www.shubertfoundation.org/theatre

  Not-for-profit professional theatres in the United States are the primary recipients of Shubert Foundation general operating support grants. Theatres are evaluated individually and with appropriate allowance for size and resources. The standard for awarding these grants is based on an assessment of each organization's operation and its contribution to the field. Artistic achievement, administrative strength and fiscal stability are factored into each evaluation, as is the company's development of new work and other significant contributions to the field of professional theatre in the US.

• New Media Performance Art Grants

  mediaThe foundation

  Deadlines: 12/07/24, 12/07/25

  http://mediathe.org/

  mediaThe foundation inc. supports Not-for-Profit organizations focusing on new media performance arts, the development of new media content, humanitarian causes, and the environment, particularly alternative energy sources and nature preservation.

• Community Arts Grants

  The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes

  Deadlines: 12/13/24

  https://earts.org/grants/grants-for-organizations/community-arts/

  Community Arts grants enhance the artistic and cultural climate in our communities and make arts and culture accessible to all by supporting the activities of artists and community organizations.

• Individual Artist Grant

  The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes

  Deadlines: 12/13/24

  https://earts.org/grants/grants-for-individuals/individual-artist/

  Individual Artist grants support the creation of new work by an individual artist in a community setting. The goal of this grant is to support the creative work of individual artists in all disciplines while encouraging interaction between artists and community members. Projects may include exhibitions, site-specific works, installations, performances, or any other events or activities that are accessible to the general public.

• Teaching Artist Grant

  The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes

  Deadlines: 12/13/24

  https://earts.org/grants/grants-for-individuals/teaching-artist/

  Teaching Artist grants support sequential, arts education projects that take place in-school, after school, or in community centers. Grants ranging from $500 to $5,000 are available to artists and nonprofit organizations.

• Capital Grant Program

  Office of Manhattan Borough President

  Deadlines: 12/14/24

  http://manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/budget/capital-funding.shtml

  Every year the Manhattan Borough President provides funding in support of various important capital projects throughout Manhattan. Capital grants are available to city agencies, nonprofit organizations, cultural institutions, and public schools for projects serving a defined City purpose. Capital projects include real property projects, such as acquisition, construction, or reconstruction of land/building, and movable property projects, such as equipment or furniture purchases

• Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award

  Dedalus Foundation

  Deadlines: 12/15/24

  http://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/exhibition_catalogue

  The Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award is awarded annually to the author or authors of an outstanding exhibition catalogue published in a given calendar year that makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of modern art or modernism. Eligibility for the 2020 award is limited to catalogues published in 2019, in English, that make a significant contribution to the understanding of modern art or modernism.

• The Robert Motherwell Book Award

  Dedalus Foundation

  Deadlines: 12/15/24

  http://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/book_award

  The Robert Motherwell Book Award is given annually and carries a prize of $10,000 awarded to the author of an outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts—including the visual arts, literature, music and the performing arts. Nominations are normally made by publishers, and the winner is chosen by a panel of distinguished scholars and writers. Eligibility for the 2020 award is limited to books about modern art and/or the history and criticism of modernism in the arts that were first published in 2019, in English. 

• Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions

  National Endowment for the Humanities

  Deadlines: 1/09/25

  https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-assistance-grants-smaller-institutions

  Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized organizations preserve and manage humanities collections, ensuring their significance for a variety of users, including source communities, humanities researchers, students, and the public, by building their capacity to identify and address physical and intellectual preservation risks. These collections may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials.

• Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections

  National Endowment for the Humanities

  Deadlines: 1/10/25

  http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/sustaining-cultural-heritage-collections

  Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration and prolong the useful life of collections. Libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country face an enormous challenge: to preserve collections that facilitate research, strengthen teaching, and provide opportunities for life-long learning in the humanities. Ensuring the preservation of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art, and historical objects requires institutions to implement measures that slow deterioration and prevent catastrophic loss. This work is best accomplished through preventive conservation, which encompasses managing relative humidity, temperature, light, and pollutants in collection spaces; providing protective storage enclosures and systems for collections; and safeguarding collections from theft and from natural and man-made disasters.

• Charitible Giving for Organizations in the Upper Hudson Valley

  Bank of Greene County Charitable Trust

  Deadlines: 1/15/25, 1/15/26

  https://www.thebankofgreenecounty.com/about/giving/

  The Bank of Greene County is proud to support local communities through grants and volunteer work. In 1998, we created a Charitable Foundation, which coordinates funding for non-profit groups such as institutions, schools, and other community organizations.

  To date, we have contributed more than $1.5 million in support of our neighbors! Grants are awarded based on eligible requests received. Requests are accepted each year between December 1 and January 15.

• Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation

  Nieman Foundation

  Deadlines: 1/31/25

  http://nieman.harvard.edu/fellowships/nieman-berkman-fellowship-in-journalism-innovation-2/

  The Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation brings individuals to Harvard University to work on a specific course of research or a specific project relating to journalism innovation. Proposals from Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship candidates may deal with any issue relating to journalism’s digital transformation. Examples include ideas for new revenue streams to fund journalism, the construction of new tools for reporting, or research into news consumption patterns.

• Arts & Culture

  Booth Ferris Foundation

  Deadlines: 2/01/25, 2/01/26

  https://www.jpmorgan.com/solutions/private-bank/foundations/boothferris

  The Foundation supports arts and culture organizations located in New York City and working directly to enhance the vibrancy and cultural richness of New York City. Arts and culture organizations eligible to apply include performing, presenting, education, intermediary, advocacy, public policy and capacity-building organizations. Support is available for capacity building or capital projects. The Foundation does not provide general operating support or support for ongoing programs or activities.

   

   

• Education

  Booth Ferris Foundation

  Deadlines: 2/01/25, 2/01/26

  https://www.jpmorgan.com/solutions/private-bank/foundations/boothferris

  The K-12 Education Program provides capacity building support for organizations working directly with or on behalf of district public schools in the New York City school system.

• Strengthening New York

  Booth Ferris Foundation

  Deadlines: 2/01/25, 2/01/26

  http://fdnweb.org/boothferris/funding-interests-nonprofit-sector/

  The Foundation supports organizations which build the capacity and infrastructure of New York City’s nonprofit sector and work to address issues of systemic inequity. Support is available for an organization’s own capacity building or for its capacity building activities on behalf of the field.

• Organization Grant

  Graham Foundation

  Deadlines: 2/25/25

  http://grahamfoundation.org/grant_programs?mode=organization

  For organizations, our priorities are to: Assist with the production and presentation of significant programs about architecture and the designed environment in order to promote dialogue, raise awareness, and develop new and wider audiences; support them in their effort to take risks in programming and create opportunities for experimentation; recognize the vital role they play in providing individuals with a public forum in which to present their work; help them to realize projects that would otherwise not be possible without our support. Overall we are most interested in opportunities which enable us to provide critical support at key points in the development of a project or career.

• Preservation and Access Education and Training Grants

  National Endowment for the Humanities

  Deadlines: 5/20/25

  http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-education-and-training

  The Preservation and Access Education and Training program is central to NEH’s efforts to preserve and establish access to cultural heritage collections. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture collections, electronic records, and digital objects. The challenge of preserving and making accessible such large and diverse holdings is enormous, and the need for knowledgeable staff is significant and ongoing. Preservation and Access Education and Training grants are awarded to organizations that offer national or regional (multistate) education and training programs. Grants aim to help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections.

• Digital Projects for the Public

  National Endowment for the Humanities

  Deadlines: 6/11/25

  http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/digital-projects-the-public

  NEH’s Division of Public Programs supports activities that engage millions of Americans in understanding significant humanities works and ideas. The Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects such as websites, mobile applications, games, and virtual environments that significantly contribute to the public’s engagement with humanities ideas. Projects must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship in a discipline such as history, religion, anthropology, jurisprudence, or art history.

• Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

  National Endowment for the Humanities

  Deadlines: 7/15/25

  https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources

  The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation.

ONGOING AND UPCOMING DEADLINES NOT YET ANNOUNCED

• Cash Flow Loans

  A.R.T. / New York

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.art-newyork.org/loan-programs

  A.R.T./New York members with 501(c)(3) status and that are considered to be in good standing with A.R.T./New York (no overdue rent, loan, or membership dues balances) are eligible to apply for short-term Cash Flow Loans. The term of a loan is not to exceed six months, and loans can be made in amounts of up to $50,000.

• The Elizabeth Steinway Chapin Real Estate Loan Program

  A.R.T. / New York

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.art-newyork.org/loan-programs

  The Elizabeth Steinway Chapin Real Estate Loan Fund is a longer-term loan program that provides up to $200,000 for theatre renovation, purchase, or construction. Real Estate loan requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis, depending on availability of loan funds and the viability of the applicant’s project.

• Public Understanding of Science and Technology and Digital Information Technology Grants

  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.sloan.org/major-program-areas/

  The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants year-round. Project areas include grants to expand the public understanding of science and technology through the use of books, radio, film, television, theater, and new media; and grants to advance the creation, dissemination, and democratization of access to knowledge through the use of new developments in digital information technology.

• Arts & Culture Grants

  Altman Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.altmanfoundation.org/grants/cultural-engagement

  The Foundation supports programs and institutions that enrich the quality of life in New York City. Arts & Culture grants support initatives that increase sustained engagement and participation of underserved populations in high-quality programming at established arts and cultural organizations; strengthen the arts infrastructure in the city and build capacity at critical junctures for organizations providing high-quality arts and cultural programming; significantly increase mastery of program-specific competencies and developmentally appropriate life skills; and prepare participants to transition successfully to post-secondary and/or professional opportunities, including employment in the creative economy.

• Arts and Cultural Heritage

  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.mellon.org/programs/arts-and-cultural-heritage/

  The Arts and Cultural Heritage program seeks to nurture exceptional creative accomplishment, scholarship, and conservation practices in the arts, while promoting a diverse and sustainable ecosystem for these disciplines. The program supports the work of outstanding artists, curators, conservators, and scholars, and endeavors to strengthen performing arts organizations, art museums, research institutes, and conservation centers.

• Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities

  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://mellon.org/programs/higher-learning/

  Through the program in Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities, the Foundation assists select colleges, universities, and research institutes in the work of training scholars and producing scholarship in the humanities broadly conceived, and thereby contributing to culture and society. In practical terms, this means helping institutions and professional organizations respond to the economic, demographic, financial, and technological challenges affecting higher education, supporting initiatives designed to enhance the learning experience of both undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities, and fostering collaborations within and among institutions that support disciplinary innovation, foster practices of diversity and inclusion, and promote the social value of the humanities.

• Program Support Grants

  Charles Hayden Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.charleshaydenfoundation.org/about.php?view=about

  The Charles Hayden Foundation makes contributions only to institutions that serve children and youth ages 3 to 18 from the metropolitan areas of New York and Boston. Grants are also made to institutions that support youth activities outside these areas when a substantial majority of the youth served comes from within the Foundation's defined geographic catchment areas.

  Program Support grants are focused on efforts to help youth develop the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in school and lay the foundation for satisfying and productive lives. We concentrate support on youth development and education programs that present evidence of program impact on young people and plans for making measurable progress toward well-defined goals in a specific time frame. 

• Irving and Gloria Schlossberg Family Fund Grants

  Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://communityfoundationshv.org/Grants/Irving-and-Gloria-Schlossberg-Family-Fund-Grants

  This fund supports tax-exempt organizations primarily established to preserve and strengthen Jewish culture and Jewish institutions in Dutchess County. Grants will be given for programs and organizations that promote this goal. Please review the grants criteria for specific guidelines.
  
  Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

• Foundation Grant

  Conrad and Virgina Klee Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://kleefoundation.org/guidelines/

  The Foundation also funds grants in: the arts, humanities, education, health, human services. Grants are limited to qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations located in Broome County, New York or almost exclusively serving its residents. The Foundation is particularly interested in assisting programs which meet an urgent community need, which do not unnecessarily duplicate programs of other organizations, which have explored alternative funding sources, and which have some reasonable assurance of ongoing support. A meeting with Klee staff will determine the eligibility of a proposal for submission.

• Collaborative Operations and Services

  Corporation for Public Broadcasting

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.cpb.org/grants/collaborative-operations-and-services-grant-program

  The Collaborative Operations and Services ("COS") grant program is intended to support multi-station initiatives to fully develop and implement collaborations, strategic alliances and other forms of partnerships that will increase stations' abilities and capacities to achieve more together than each can accomplish alone.

• The Creative Impact: Capital Region Artist Fund

  cting with Aaron, Albany Barn, Albany Center Gallery, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Collectiveffort, Creative Action Unlimited, D. Colin, Youth FX, with support by Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region and United Way of the Greater

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.unitedwaygcr.org/creative-impact?fbclid=IwAR2_UK6nmd43-0eDRniFcRIxr3OLBKHs8uSZiuCK1jE5IuoLCxDi6YJKm4U

  Applicants to the fund will receive a $100 Visa Gift Card, the opportunity to sell their artwork on the Albany Barn’s website, and/or be a part of Collectiveffort’s TV live stream.

  The Creative Impact: Capital Region Artist Fund is presented by Acting with Aaron, Albany Barn, Albany Center Gallery, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Collectiveffort, Creative Action Unlimited, D. Colin, Youth FX, with support by Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region and United Way of the Greater Capital Region. As we continue to navigate these uncertain times due to the detrimental impact of COVID-19, many artists across all disciplines have found themselves without work altogether or with a substantial part of their income gone. Demands for gigs, gallery work, performances, exhibitions, commissioned projects, workshops, and art sales have all rapidly declined over the past couple weeks and for the unforeseeable future. This fund was created to help alleviate some of the financial stress many are enduring. Payments to artists will be in the form of $100 Visa Gift Cards and will continue to be distributed to artists until funds have been depleted. At this time, there is a limit of one payment per artist to ensure fair opportunity for the magnitude of artists in the region. The more that is raised, the more that can be given to artists.

• International Research Programme (Visual Arts)

  Danish Arts Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.kunst.dk/english/funding-1

  Curators, directors of art institutions and other art professionals from abroad may apply for funding for travel and accommodation in Denmark. The research programme is primarily aimed at applicants who already have contacts on the Danish art scene or candidates who wish to develop a project involving specific Danish artists or institutions. Applicants must be able to organize meetings and studio visits on their own.

• International Visitors Programmes and Networking Activities

  Danish Arts Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.kunst.dk/english/funding-1?tx_lftilskudsbase_general%5Baction%5D=show&tx_lftilskudsbase_general%5Bcontroller%5D=Grants&tx_lftilskudsbase_general%5Bgrant%5D=160&cHash=1579f504725d6fc336284ae958c49aec

  The prime aim of the Danish Arts Foundation is to promote the arts in Denmark and Danish art abroad. Grants available for Danish embassies and institutes that sponsor events related to international cultural exchange. International partners interested in initiating a collaboration on international cultural exchange can contact their local Danish mission. 

• Emergency Grants for Writers

  Dramatists Guild Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://dgf.org/grants/grants-for-writers/

  The Dramatists Guild Fund awards one-time emergency grants to individual playwrights, lyricists, composers and bookwriters in need of temporary financial assistance due to unexpected illness or extreme hardship. To be considered for personal grant, you must have had a play or musical either presented for a paying audience anywhere in the United States or Canada, and/or published by a legitimate publishing/licensing company; or be an active member of The Dramatists Guild.

• Mini-Grant Program

  Dyson Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.dysonfoundation.org/mini-grant-program

  The Mini-Grant Program helps Mid-Hudson Valley nonprofits improve their internal operations, program development, administration, and management to better achieve their missions. Mini-grants enable nonprofit board, staff, and volunteer leaders to develop new skills by providing organizations with financial support to hire consultants to lead specific capacity building activities. Mini-grants may also be used to defray the cost of conferences, seminars, and other training opportunities for staff and board.

• Grants

  Ford Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/idea-submission/

  Funding to fight inequality.

• JustFilms Grant

  Ford Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/justfilms/

  The Ford Foundation seeks to reduce inequality in all of its forms, and artist-driven documentary and emerging media projects are crucial to this effort. As part of the Creativity and Free Expression program, JustFilms funds social justice storytelling and the 21st-century arts infrastructure that supports it. The projects and people we support inspire imaginations, disrupt stereotypes, and help transform the conditions that perpetuate injustice and inequality.

• Emergency Grants

  Foundation for Contemporary Arts

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/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 have unanticipated, sudden opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding; or incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates. Grants range in amount from $500 to $2,500.

• Community Grantmaking

  Gifford Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://giffordfoundation.org/grants/community-grantmaking/

  The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation (The Gifford Foundation) is a private foundation dedicated to the stewardship of the funds entrusted to its care. The Foundation is committed to using its financial and human resources to build the capacity of individuals and organizations to enhance the quality of life for the people of Central New York.

  Community Grantmaking is our way to have reactive grant funds available for nonprofit organizations. Instead of having an open application and grant deadlines, we emphasize a personal approach, where we discuss with organizations their potential project or program before deciding on next steps.

• Humanities Program

  Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://delmas.org/programs/#humanities

  The Humanities Program is primarily directed to institutions of higher education and humanistic enterprises such as learned societies, museums, and major editorial projects. The program may also consider, on a selective basis, projects that increase the exposure of those outside these institutions to the humanistic experience or that strengthen preparation for the humanistic disciplines in secondary education.

• Performing Arts Program

  Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://delmas.org/programs/#performing_arts

  The principal mission of the Performing Arts Program is to provide core program and special project support to organizations of quality in the fields of dance, music and theater that perform or produce work in New York City.

• Research Libraries Program

  Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://delmas.org/programs/#research_libraries

  The overall objective of the Research Library Program is to improve the ability of research libraries to serve the needs of scholarship in the humanities and the performing arts, and to help make their resources more widely accessible to scholars and the general public. Wherever possible, grants to libraries seek to promote cooperative cataloging projects, with an emphasis on access to archival, manuscript, and other unique sources; some elements of interpretation and exhibition; scholarly library publications; bibliographical and publishing projects of interest to research libraries; and preservation/conservation work and research.

• Culture Funding

  Hearst Foundation, Inc.

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.hearstfdn.org/funding-priorities/culture/overview/

  The Hearst Foundations fund cultural institutions with a minimum $1 million operating budget that offer meaningful programs in the arts and sciences, prioritizing those which enable engagement by young people and create a lasting impression. The Foundations also fund select programs nurturing and developing artistic talent.

• Education Funding

  Hearst Foundation, Inc.

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.hearstfdn.org/funding-priorities/education/overview/

  The Hearst Foundations fund educational institutions with a minimum $1 million operating budget demonstrating uncommon success in preparing students to thrive in a global society. The Foundations’ focus is largely on higher education, but they also fund innovative models of early childhood and K-12 education, as well as professional development.

• American Art Exhibition Competition

  Henry Luce Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.hluce.org/programs/american-art/

  This category supports scholarly scholarly loan exhibitions that significantly advance the study and understanding of art of the United States, including all facets of Native American art. Eligible projects may address any time period and/or medium, excepting performance art, film, and the work of emerging artists, and must result in substantial exhibitions and accompanying publications.

   

• Community Support

  Hodgson Russ LLP

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.hodgsonruss.com/about-community.html

  For nearly 200 years, Hodgson Russ has had a philosophy and tradition of giving generously of our time, talent, and finances to the communities we serve. Our attorneys and staff serve on the boards of directors of more than 100 organizations, including those devoted to health care, education, the arts, civic and business interests, and social issues. At all levels, we encourage attorneys and staff to support community organizations with their time, skills, and passion. In addition to the hours we devote to charities, the firm is pleased to provide financial support to more than 250 worthy organizations.

• Quick Grants

  Humanities New York

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://humanitiesny.org/our-work/quick-grants/

  Quick Grants are $500 implementation grants for in-person public humanities projects that encourage audiences to reflect on their values, explore new ideas, and engage with others in their community. Available to organizations whose total yearly operating expenses are $250,000 or less.

• Vision Grants

  Humanities New York

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://humanitiesny.org/our-work/vision-grants/

  Vision Grants offer up to $1,500 in support of brainstorming, researching, and professional development for organizations working collaboratively to develop new ideas and strategies for public-facing humanities projects.

• Unrestricted Giving

  Indie Theater Fund NYC

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.indietheaterfund.org/funding-process/

  The funding process and the focus for the unrestricted giving will be determined on an annual basis by the Board of Directors. The goal of this giving is to support the needs directed by the participants in the Fund. If the need is for general operating we will try and accommodate that. If the need is for artist pay we will do our best to accommodate that as well. The process will be radically transparent and not judged by the board of directors. Applicants will submit a fact sheet and it will be reviewed for eligibility only. If applicants are eligible their name will be entered into a lottery to receive a grant. There may be opportunities, through social media or other creative means, to increase your chances to win.

• Documentary Grants Directory - 500+ opportunities

  International Documentary Association

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://airtable.com/shrXiCFbXtjL04ZQY/tbl71vFUL804eGbkz/viwVFi9vq6VX91oQq?blocks=bipAYwMBX1SLS05m0

  The International Documentary Association (IDA) supports the vital work of documentary storytellers and champions a thriving and inclusive documentary culture.

  The IDA's Documentary Grants Directory lists over 500 funding opportunities from external organizations for documentary development and production.

• Connecting Art Histories Scholar Grants

  J. Paul Getty Trust

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/cah/index.html

  Connecting Art Histories seeks to strengthen art history as a global discipline by fostering new intellectual exchanges among scholars in targeted regions whose economic or political realities have previously prevented collaboration. Connecting Art Histories also seeks to enhance the preparation of younger scholars in countries where art history is an emerging discipline. Foundation grants are supporting visiting professorships in select art history departments and research centers, as well as intensive research seminars. Our current focus is on Latin America and the greater Mediterranean, with occasional demonstration projects in other parts of the world.

• Digital Art History Scholar Grants

  J. Paul Getty Trust

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/dah/index.html

  The term "digital art history" has become a shorthand reference to the potentially transformative effect that digital technologies hold for the discipline of art history. Advanced technologies are making research materials more widely accessible and allowing scholars to ask and answer new questions. The latest tools and techniques allow researchers to handle large volumes of digitized images and texts, trace patterns and connections formerly hidden from view, recover the past in virtual environments, and bring the complex intricacies of works of art to light as never before, to name just a few opportunities. Through its new initiative, the Getty Foundation is providing grants that allow art historians to explore the opportunities and challenges presented by these technologies. Grants support training to prepare art historians to work with new technologies, innovative research and publication projects that will establish new models for the field, and convenings to address key issues in digital art history.

• Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative

  J. Paul Getty Trust

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/current/osci/index.html

  Publishing scholarly collection catalogues is a critical part of a museum's mission. Based on meticulous research, these catalogues make available detailed information about the individual works in a museum's collection, ensuring the contents a place in art history. Yet printed volumes are costly to produce and difficult to update regularly; their potential content often exceeds allotted space. One could say they are like thoroughbred horses confined to stock pens.
  
  

  Digital publishing presents an alternative, and the Getty Foundation's Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) is helping museums make the transition from printed volumes to multimedia, web-based publications freely available to anyone with a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

• Expanding the Role of Arts, Culture and Heritage in Regional Development

  John R. Oishei Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://oishei.org/grants/what-we-fund/fund:the-role-of-arts-culture-and-heritage-in-regional-development/

  The Foundation will support efforts that increase the number of local visitors and tourists at cultural, natural and heritage sites throughout the region in order to expand their role in regional development. Support is provided in three broad categories: Expansion or improvement of existing, demonstrably successful programs; Creation and implementation of new, innovative approaches to issues related to the Foundation’s interests; and Core Operations Improvement to strengthen the internal operations of organizations to better fulfill their missions.

• Arts Program

  John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.knightfoundation.org/what-we-fund/fostering-arts

  Through its arts program, the foundation seeks to weave the arts into the fabric of Knight resident communities to engage and inspire the people living in them. The foundation believes that the arts are a catalyst for public dialogue and that shared cultural experiences contribute to a sense of place and communal identity. The foundation seeks innovative ways to reach, engage and increase audiences for the arts, including through the use of technology.

• Community and National Initiatives

  John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.knightfoundation.org/what-we-fund/engaging-communities

  In our Community and National Initiatives program we support the success of our communities through investments that attract, retain and harness talent; that expand opportunity by increasing entrepreneurship and economic mobility; and that build places that accelerate the growth of ideas and bring people from diverse social and economic backgrounds together. Promoting civic innovation and robust engagement will enable our communities to succeed in a rapidly changing world.

• Fellowship to Assist Research and Artistic Creation

  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://competition.gf.org/applicant/

  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 and irrespective of race, color, or creed. The Foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications each year. Although no one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition, there is no prescreening: all applications are reviewed. Approximately 175 Fellowships are awarded each year.

• Grant Program

  JP Morgan Chase & Co.

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corporate-Responsibility/grant-programs-us.htm

  JPMorgan Chase works with community partners to create pathways to opportunity by supporting workforce development, financial capability, small business development and community development in the regions where we do business.

• Grants for Not-for-profit Organizations

  Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://officespacestatenisland.com/the-lois-richard-nicotra-foundation/

  The Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundation provides support for non-for-profit organizations primarily located in the Borough of Staten Island and aids in the support of higher education for the children and grandchildren of the employees of The Nicotra Group, LLC. Average awards range from $750–$1500.

• M&T Charitable Giving

  M&T Bank

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.mtb.com/aboutus/community/Pages/TheMTCharitableFoundation.aspx

  At M&T Bank, we recognize that our corporate success is directly related to the health and vitality of the communities we serve. So, as a corporate citizen, we believe in providing resources to not-for-profit organizations that make our communities better places to live and work. Through our philanthropic arm, The M&T Charitable Foundation, we support a diverse range of civic, cultural, health and human service organizations with financial grants, employee volunteerism and in-kind services. For information on how to apply for support, please review our charitable guidelines.

• Foundation Grants

  Max and Marian Farash Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.farashfoundation.org/grantseeker-resources/

  We bring together inspired and passionate organizations to collaborate on innovative new solutions. Whether you’re long-established or in “start-up” mode, we want to partner with those trying to create bold new initiatives that align with our areas of strategic focus. As a private charitable foundation, we make grants to secular organizations within Monroe and Ontario counties, as well as Jewish initiatives both locally and globally. Our strategic focus targets areas that both contribute to the wellbeing of our community and provide a point of entry to solve its greatest challenges. Our programs focus on three key areas: arts & culture, education, and Jewish life.

• NYC Dance Grants

  Mertz Gilmore Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.mertzgilmore.org/nyc-dance

  The Foundation provides general operating support for presenters of small to mid-sized dance companies in New York City that facilitates exchanges between New York City’'s artists and audiences through creative performance opportunities. Grants are available only to groups that present contemporary dance (exclusively or as a part of multi-disciplinary programs). On a limited basis and for opportunities that meet strategic concerns of the Foundation, organizations may submit proposals for discrete advocacy/support services projects to advance the dance field by improving conditions for individual dance artists.

• HueArts NYC Directory (Launching December 2021)

  Museum Hue

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.museumhue.com/hueartsnyc

  HueArts NYC will be a comprehensive map, online directory, report, and hub for New York City’s arts entities that have been created by and center Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and all People of Color. Covering all five boroughs and featuring nonprofits, fiscally sponsored, and for profits, this map aims to highlight these performing and presenting arts entities’ work, amplify their impact, and increase support for their critical contributions to city life. HueArts NYC will provide a rich and living visual and textual record that helps advance racial and cultural equity. The map, directory, and report will be completed and publicly released in December 2021.

• Community Grants

  National Grid

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.nationalgridfoundation.com/apply-for-a-grant.html

  The National Grid Foundation makes grants to non-profit organizations for programs and projects within our major focus areas of Education and Environment. Funding priorities include classroom-based education, innovative scholarship and university partnerships that support and advance underserved members of our community, and skills training for people of all ages to lead more productive lives​. We also fund programs and projects that support the sustainability of our natural resources and inspire and educate young people about their connection to and responsibility for preservation of the environment.​

   

• Capital Funding

  New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dcla/cultural-funding/capital-funding.page

  DCLA, through its Capital Projects Unit, supports design and construction projects and major equipment purchases at the 33 City-owned cultural institutions and approximately 200 other cultural facilities throughout the five boroughs.

  The goals of the capital program are to assist the nonprofit cultural community in providing increased public service, provide greater access for the disabled, enhance exhibition or performing space, better maintain and preserve of historic buildings and increase protection of botanical, zoological and fine art collections.

• City-Owned Institutions

  New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dcla/cultural-funding/city-owned-institutions.page

  The Department of Cultural Affairs' mission of fostering dynamic public partnerships with private cultural organizations has its most dramatic expression in its relationship with the Cultural Institutions Group (CIG). The 33 members of this group are each located on City-owned property, and receive significant capital and operating support from the City to help meet basic security, maintenance, administration and energy costs. In return for this support, these institutions operate as publicly-owned facilities whose mandate is to provide cultural services accessible to all New Yorkers.

• Film Incentives

  New York City Economic Development Corporation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.nycedc.com/opportunities/film-event-spaces

  New York State’s 2010-2011 Executive Budget includes a multi-year agreement to extend New York State’s Film Production Tax Credit Program for an additional five years and expand the Program to include a New York State Post Production Credit. The New York State Post Production Credit was created as an incentive to encourage post production in New York for projects produced outside of New York or that do not otherwise qualify for the New York State Film Production Tax Credit. Eligible productions that complete 75% of their post production in New York State can now apply for a 10% credit for such post production work.

• Arts & Culture Grants

  New York Community Trust

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.nycommunitytrust.org/information-for/for-nonprofits/what-the-trust-funds/

  We make grants in all artistic disciplines through projects that help arts organizations attract broader audiences and provide opportunities for artists from diverse backgrounds, build the capacity of small and mid-size arts groups (priority given to non-Manhattan and ethnic groups), help cultural groups integrate arts into the curriculum of needy public schools and advance arts advocacy on critical policy and funding issues Our board reviews grants three times a year.

• Arts and Culture Loans & Grants

  Nonprofit Finance Fund

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://nff.org/financing

  For over 30 years, NFF has been helping arts and cultural organizations solve their financial challenges and plan for a more vibrant, healthy future. We have worked with more than 1,300 arts organizations across the country, from small neighborhood-based community centers to large performing arts organizations and museums. Our team of arts experts assist organizations facing a range of artistic and business opportunities, from change, to growth, to collaboration, customizing our approach to individual circumstances and organizational sizes. For nonprofits, we provide sector-specific financial consulting services and access to capital, both loans and grants.

• Natural Heritage Trust Grants

  NYS Parks and Recreation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://parks.ny.gov/natural-heritage-trust/default.aspx

  The NHT's mission is to receive and administer gifts, grants and contributions to further public programs for parks, recreation, cultural, land and water conservation and historic preservation purposes of the State of New York. The NHT accomplishes its mission by accepting donations, raising funds, and through cooperative programs and projects with its agency partners: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP), Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Department of State (DOS). The NHT is dedicated to building and sustaining relationships with organizations that share mission compatible goals and purposes.

• Grants

  Pinkerton Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.thepinkertonfoundation.org/grant-guidelines

  Our grants are solely to programs operating in New York City or directly serving the City’s youth. We favor programs with engaging activities, professional environments, high expectations for the participants and opportunities for young people to serve, learn and lead. We believe that young people in the poorest neighborhoods should have the same kinds of opportunities to develop their potential that are available to children in better circumstances. We believe in academic research, but we leave its support largely to others. We are open, however, to occasionally supporting community-based “laboratory” programs designed to validate promising theories, test new ones or help grantees monitor the efficacy of their programs.

• Foundation Grants

  Robert D. Bielecki Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://rdbf.org/grants/

  The Robert D. Bielecki Foundation provides financial grants, awards and donations to emerging, under-recognized, and deserving artists and organizations across the United States and internationally. The Foundation seeks to enrich fine art culture while expanding opportunities for individual artist development and audience cultivation.

• Photography Grants

  Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.mapplethorpe.org/faq/

  The Foundation provides support for museums and other public institutions to create or expand photography departments, including the acquisition of photographs, as well as study and exhibition facilities related to photography. Support is also available for exhibitions, which ideally will be accompanied by quality catalogues to insure the documentation of photography as a fine art. In the appropriate circumstance, the Foundation will also assist independent curators in developing photography exhibitions. The Board does not weigh photography projects based on the causes, subjects, and themes linked to Robert Mapplethorpe’s name. Rather, the quality of the work is the main criterion for the Board.

• Arts - Core Fund

  Scherman Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.scherman.org/arts#anchor%204

  New York City’s world-leading arts sector plays a critical role in the city’s life, enriching its spirit, attracting emerging and established artists from around the world, and creating significant economic activity and benefits. The Foundation funds a broad variety of professional performing arts organizations, as well as a limited number of visual arts groups. Its primary criteria are excellence, innovation, and intellectual relevance. Within those criteria, it values creative diversity without cultural boundaries. The Foundation seeks to support generative artistry—the composers, playwrights, and choreographers creating new work and the musicians, actors, dancers, and artist-driven companies that bring their work to life.

• Rosin Fund

  Scherman Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.scherman.org/guidelines-and-schedule

  The Rosin Fund’s Arts Program will support a limited number of innovative, short-term and high-impact projects that support and strengthen the city’s performing, visual, and literary arts fields. The Foundation has chosen to initially do this in collaboration with the City’s many excellent art service organizations (ASOs) that support the creative process, provide the infrastructure that sustains artistic life, and help artists develop skills necessary for their creative pursuits.

• QuickARTS Grants

  The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://earts.org/grants/grants-for-individuals/quickarts/

  QuickARTS grants support short-term community focused arts and cultural activities in Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben counties. QuickARTS grants are administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes with funding from the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes. Awards are given three times a year and amounts range from $50 to $500. Individuals, artists, groups, and organizations may apply. Previously funded projects include workshops, readings, festivals, concerts, plays, and more.

• Hasty Pudding Grant

  The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://hastypudding.org/apply-for-a-grant

  The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 seeks, broadly, to support art and artists that otherwise wouldn’t have a voice. To this end, the organization is looking to support organizations that provide access and opportunities in the arts, with a focus on satire and social commentary.

• Foundation Grant

  The Nathan Cummings Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.nathancummings.org/how-apply

  In order to address inequality, the Nathan Cummings Foundation invests in work with strong potential to create pathways to economic opportunity, particularly for women and people of color. We will address climate change as a consequence of progress in human development and economic prosperity, and will fund promising work that helps activate American ingenuity.

• Arts Grants

  The Reva and David Logan Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.loganfdn.org/apply.html#

  We support individuals and organizations that use the creative process as a tool for liberation, social change, conveying information and fact, and as non-violent protest.· The majority of our funding is focused on those companies and troupes based in our hometown of Chicago as they weave the fabric of joy, wonder, diversity and hope throughout our city.

• Foundation Grant

  The Stavros Niarchos Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.snf.org/en/grants/information-for-applicants-how-to-apply/

  The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) makes grants to nonprofit organizations within four program areas: arts and culture, education, health and sports, and social welfare.

• Arts & Culture Exchange Programs

  U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://exchanges.state.gov/us/special-focus-areas

  The U.S. Department of State sponsors multiple programs for educational, cultural, and professional exchanges across the world. Arts & Culture programs include American Arts Incubator, American Film Showcase, American Music Abroad, Arts Envoy, Cairo International Art Exhibition, Community Engagement Through the Arts, DanceMotion USA, Fulbright Scholar and Travel Grants, Venice Bienalle, and Museums Connect.

• Capacity Grants

  Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.umez.org/cultural-investments-grants#capacity-grant

  Capacity Grants are multi-year, matching grants for organizations that are expanding their staff and operations, based on a strategic plan for growth. Requests may be made to execute selected portions of an organization’s strategic plan or other long-term effort to expand and strengthen the organization’s resources. Funding in this category may support new, non-program staff positions and consultancies; components of new fundraising, marketing, and/or earned income initiatives; and capital projects.

• Catalyst Grant

  Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.umez.org/cultural-investments-grants#catalyst-grant

  Catalyst Grants are one-time matching grants designed to support a singular, transformative project that will have a sustained and measurable positive impact on Upper Manhattan’s cultural ecology. The project will be developed by at least three organizations working in partnership, leveraging their group resources to gain increased impact. Eligible cultural projects must have the potential to attract significant visitorship and thereby position Upper Manhattan as a destination for cultural tourism. Funds may support joint marketing, fundraising, and production costs, and artistic fees for the implementation of the project. As management of a partnership effort tends to be outside the normal course of business, selected administrative costs may also be covered.

• Infrastructure Grant

  Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.umez.org/cultural-investments-grants#infrastructure-grant

  Infrastructure Grants are multi-year grants to improve an aspect of an organization’s operations without requiring the addition of new staff positions. The project request should be driven by a business or strategic plan. Funding in this category may support a software upgrade (e.g., fundraising, financial, or marketing analytics), hardware, web site upgrade, marketing campaign, redesign brand image, sales and inventory management, capital improvements and accessibility improvements, among other examples, as well as the implementation costs associated with the project.

• Technical Assistance Grant

  Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  https://www.umez.org/cultural-investments-grants#technical-assistance-grant

  Technical Assistance Grants allow organizations to work with a consultant to address a specific issue or challenge. Technical Assistance Grant projects are self-determined; organizations may seek expertise in fundraising, marketing, governance, business plan development, or similar critical needs. A Technical Assistance Grant may prepare the recipient to apply for a Capacity Grant or Infrastructure Grant. Grantees will work with UMEZ staff to develop a Request for Proposal based on the organization's specific needs, and to make a selection from among a list of pre-approved consultants.

• Charitable Giving

  Walt Disney Company

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/citizenship/act-responsibly/community/charitable-giving

  Giving back to communities is one of Disney’s founding principles. Today, we continue that tradition as we seek to do our part in improving and enriching the lives of children and families, as well as contributing our time, resources and energies to communities around the world. We dedicate financial resources and in-kind gifts to bring positive, lasting change to kids and families in need around the world. As we endeavor to strengthen communities and support the well-being of kids and families, we do so with special emphasis on three key areas that are core to Disney: compassion, conservation and creativity. 

• Thriving Communities Arts & Culture Grants

  Westchester Community Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://www.wcf-ny.org/grant-programs

  Our Arts & Culture grants seek to broaden access to the arts for all and to provide professional development opportunities for Westchester artists from diverse backgrounds. We provide funding support to organizations that provide post-baccalaureate education and training fellowships to promising young, economically disadvantaged artists that will help them make the transition to professional careers. Recipients are generally age 30 or younger with demonstrated financial need.

  We also fund programs that bring to life the rich cultural history of Germany, including scholarships, research, and programs that promote Germanic arts, folklore, language, literature, and music.

• Foundation Grant

  William Talbott Hillman Foundation

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://hillmanfamilyfoundations.org/foundations/william-talbott-hillman-foundation/

  The geographic focus of the Foundation’s grantmaking program is New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Foundation’s grant program primarily focuses on projects within the following areas: Cultural Advancement/Arts, Education, Environment/Conservation, and Human/Social Services.

PAST OPPORTUNITIES

• Technical Assistance Grants

  Preservation League of New York State

  Previous Deadline: 10/18/24

  https://www.preservenys.org/technical-assistance-grants

  Grants of up to $3,000 are available to not-for-profit arts and cultural groups and municipalities managing historic sites, museums, arts facilities and other culturally important institutions that are located in historic buildings and structures open to the public. Eligible groups compete for funds for technical studies carried out by preservation and design professionals including building conditions surveys, engineering/structural analyses, feasibility/reuse studies and specialized building conservation studies.

• Dance Grants

  Shubert Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 10/16/24

  https://www.shubertfoundation.org/dance

  Not-for-profit, professional dance companies in the United States are the primary recipients of Shubert Foundation general operating support grants. Companies are evaluated individually and with appropriate allowance for size and resources. The standard for awarding these grants is based on an assessment of each organization's operation and its contribution to the field. Artistic achievement, administrative strength and fiscal stability are factored into each evaluation, as is the company's development of new work and other significant contributions to the field of professional dance in the US.

• Arts Related Organization Grants

  Shubert Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 10/16/24

  http://www.shubertfoundation.org/grantprograms/arts.asp

  Some organizations that help support the development of theatre and dance are eligible for funding. Grants to these organizations are based principally on an assessment of their work, as demonstrated by past and current performance. Impact, administrative strength and fiscal stability are factored into each evaluation. The Shubert Foundation awards unrestricted grants for general operating support, rather than funding for specific projects.

• Ann and Abe Effron Donor Advised Fund Grants

  Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley

  Previous Deadline: 10/15/24

  https://communityfoundationshv.org/Grants/Ann-and-Abe-Effron-Donor-Advised-Fund-Grants

  The Community Foundation exists to enhance the quality of life for all citizens of the Greater Hudson Valley and supports a broad and diverse range of issue areas including the arts, education, community development, conservation, health, and human services. The Anne and Abe Effron Donor Advised Fund supports organizations involved in arts, culture and education in Dutchess County with special consideration given to grants that would make facilities and events more available to young people and senior citizens.

• Grants to Individuals

  Graham Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 9/15/24

  http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grant_programs/?mode=individual

  Since 1956, the Graham Foundation has provided direct funding to individuals for projects that foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. As one of the few funders of individuals in the field of architecture, the foundation's grants provide important support for the work of emerging and established architects, scholars, writers, artists, designers, curators, filmmakers, and other individuals. To apply for an individual grant, applicants must submit an Inquiry Form—the first of a two-stage application process. The online Inquiry Form is currently available on our website. Inquiry Form deadline: September 15, 2017 Invitation to advance to the second stage: after December 15, 2017 Grant decision notification: April 2018 Earliest start-date for a funded project: June 1, 2018.

• Senior Fellowships

  Dedalus Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 9/15/24

  http://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/senior

  The Dedalus Foundation’s Senior Fellowship program is intended to encourage and support critical and historical studies of modern art and modernism. Under this program, fellowships are awarded to writers and scholars who have demonstrated their abilities through previous accomplishments and who are not currently matriculated for academic degrees. Applicants must be citizens of the United States. Fellowship stipends vary according to the needs of the specific project, with a maximum of $30,000.

• UMEZ Arts Engagement

  Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

  Previous Deadline: 9/10/24

  https://lmcc.net/resources/manhattan-arts-grants/umez-arts-engagement/

  UMEZ Arts Engagement is a grant program designed to enhance the diversity and frequency of arts and cultural presentations in Upper Manhattan. The program provides direct support for these activities to Upper Manhattan’s artists and nonprofit arts organizations under the guiding principle that support for artists of diverse disciplines, practices, cultural backgrounds, and career stages contributes to the vibrancy and sustainability of the communities in which they live and work.

• Creative Learning

  Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

  Deadlines: Annual

  http://lmcc.net/program/creative-learning/

  Creative Learning is a grant program designed to support and develop the capacity of Manhattan’s teaching artists and small arts organizations to provide in-depth, community-based arts education and enrichment projects and programming to participants of all ages including youth, adults, and seniors. The program aims to support effective and innovative approaches to artist-led, age- and skills-appropriate instruction outside of the school setting, as well as education-based approaches to participatory arts projects. Emphasis is placed on quality and depth of the creative process through which participants learn through and about the arts. Creative Learning strongly supports the payment of artist fees.

• Creative Engagement

  Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

  Previous Deadline: 9/10/24

  http://lmcc.net/program/creative-engagement/

  Creative Engagement is an arts funding program that provides seed grants to individual artists and nonprofit organizations for projects and activities that offer Manhattan communities diverse artistic experiences. Each year, the program supports over 170 arts projects in Manhattan, including concerts, performances, public art, exhibitions, screenings, festivals, workshops, readings and more.

• Community Grants

  Central New York Community Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 9/06/24

  https://cnycf.org/receive/grants/communitygrants/

  We offer a wide variety of funding opportunities, the largest of which is our Community Grants program. Nonprofit organizations in Onondaga and Madison counties are encouraged to apply for grants to fund innovative projects in the areas of: arts and culture, civic affairs, education, health, human services and the environment.

• Manhattan Community Grant Program

  Office of Manhattan Borough President

  Deadlines: Ongoing

  http://manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/budget/community-grants.shtml

  The participatory process of the Manhattan Community Grant Program (MCGP) provides small discretionary grants to nonprofit organizations and public schools for programmatic and operating expenses. The grants are contracted through five city agencies: Department for the Aging (DFTA), Department of Corrections (DOC), Department of Education (DOE), Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), and Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR). The average grant size is between $3,000 and $5,000.

• Exhibition of Danish Art Abroad

  Danish Arts Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 8/15/24

  https://www.kunst.dk/english/funding-1?tx_lftilskudsbase_general%5Baction%5D=show&tx_lftilskudsbase_general%5Bcontroller%5D=Grants&tx_lftilskudsbase_general%5Bgrant%5D=264&cHash=f907187de855dcde632a7f2d00a06c7c

  The prime aim of the Danish Arts Foundation is to promote the arts in Denmark and Danish art abroad. Grants for Danish artists' travel, accommodation and transport of works in connection with the exhibition of Danish contemporary art outside Denmark. Accepting applications from international museums, art galleries, biennials, private galleries, small exhibitions and international curators who wish to exhibit Danish contemporary art.

• Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions

  National Endowment for the Humanities

  Previous Deadline: 8/14/24

  http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowship-programs-independent-research-institutions

  Grants for Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) support fellowships at institutions devoted to advanced study and research in the humanities. Recognizing that at times scholars need to work away from their homes and institutions, the FPIRI program offers fellowships that provide scholars with research time, a stimulating intellectual environment, and access to resources that might otherwise not be available to them. Fellowship programs may be administered by independent centers for advanced study, libraries, and museums in the United States; American overseas research centers; and American organizations that have expertise in promoting research in foreign countries. 

• Public Humanities Projects

  National Endowment for the Humanities

  Previous Deadline: 8/14/24

  https://www.neh.gov/grants/public/public-humanities-projects

  Public Humanities Projects grants support projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. NEH encourages projects that involve members of the public in collaboration with humanities scholars or that invite contributions from the community in the development and delivery of humanities programming.

• Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program

  Aaron Copland Fund for Music

  Previous Deadline: 6/12/24

  https://grants.coplandfund.org/recording-program

  The program’s objectives are to document and provide wider exposure for the music of contemporary American composers, develop audiences for contemporary American music through distribution of recorded performances in physical and online media, and support the production of new recordings of contemporary American music and the reissuance of significant recordings that are no longer available.

• MAAF Forward Fund for Organizations

  Wave Farm

  Previous Deadline: 10/01/24, 5/01/24

  https://wavefarm.org/grants-services/nysca-regrants/maaf-orgs/about

  For organizations, the Media Arts Assitance Fund (MAAF) provides funds to support technical strategies for online development as well as to hire outside consultants to support organizational and professional development. Eligible organizations have missions specific to the media arts, dedicate the majority of their programming to technology as an art form, and are current NYSCA grantees. Priority will be given to NYSCA Electronic Media and Film grantees, applications from multi-disciplinary organizations, which incorporate technology as an art form will be considered on a case-by-case basis.The Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) is a Regrant Program of NYSCA Electronic Media/Film and Wave Farm.

  NYSCA supported organizations may apply for support in two categories:
  Technical Strategies for Online Development
  Outside Consultants for Organizational Development

  A maximum request for each application is $2,500. Organizations may submit one request per application deadline. Each application must be for a separate and distinct request.

• HFPA Grant

  The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust

  Previous Deadline: 3/31/24

  https://www.goldenglobes.com/grant-applications

  The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Charitable Trust (the HFPA Trust) was established to provide financial support for educational and cultural non-profit organizations whose primary focus is the entertainment industry. The HFPA Trust is the philanthropic arm of the HFPA. Funding for HFPA Fellowships and Grants is derived from HFPA's income from the Golden Globe Awards. Since 1989, the HFPA Trust has bestowed more than $44 million in fellowships and grants to film schools and non-profit organizations.

• Performing Arts Grants

  Howard Gilman Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 8/19/24, 3/04/24

  https://howardgilmanfoundation.org/funding-process/

  The Howard Gilman Foundation supports a cross-section of New York City-based performing arts organizations of varying structure, style, and budget size. Above all, we are committed to serving geographically and culturally diverse organizations devoted to excellence in both artistic achievement and audience experience.

• Conservation Grants Program

  The Samuel H. Kress Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 3/01/24

  http://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/Conservation

  The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation, especially as it relates to European art of the pre-modern era. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, exhibitions and publications focusing on art conservation, scholarly publications, and technical and scientific studies. Grants are also awarded for activities that permit conservators and conservation scientists to share their expertise with both professional colleagues and a broad audience through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, exhibitions that include a prominent focus on materials and techniques, and other professional events.

• Moving Image Fund

  LEF Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 1/19/24

  LEF New England launched the Moving Image Fund (MIF) in 2001 to support new film and video work. The Moving Image Fund provides funding across all phases of production, supporting films from the early risk-taking stage, through a film’s completion. In this way, MIF offers a continuum of support for selected projects while also identifying new talent. The peer review panel process lies at the heart of LEF’s grant review. We believe that incorporating peer reviewers at various stages of the Moving Image Fund is a valuable step toward creating a more inclusive and dynamic grant decision-making process.

  Through MIF, LEF New England champions work that is provocative, heartfelt, and challenging in style and substance. Since its inception, LEF’s Moving Image Fund has awarded approximately 450 grants to New England-based independent filmmakers with over $5 million in funding. The overarching goal of LEF New England’s philanthropic investment is to help build a sustainable and strong community of support for artists and their work.

• MAAF for Artists

  Wave Farm

  Previous Deadline: 1/15/24

  https://www.wavefarm.org/mag/artists

  For individual artists, the Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) provides support for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist artists in completing new work, reaching public audiences, and advance artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts. New York State Artists may apply for up to $7,500 to support the completion and/or public presentation of a new media artwork. The Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) is a Regrant Partnership of NYSCA Electronic Media/Film and Wave Farm.

• Tasveer Film Fund

  Tasveer

  Previous Deadline: 8/19/23

  https://tasveer.org/filmfund/

  Tasveer is excited to present the 4th year of the Tasveer Film Fund (TFF). This fund is created for people of South Asian origin, and for South Asian-based films. The Tasveer Film Fund aims to empower South Asian filmmakers to bring their scripts to life with monetary grants and year-long support with resources and mentorship access. We believe that our support can help to take some of the fundraising burdens away from filmmakers while helping to connect them with important resources to get their projects made. These films, which bring necessary representation and social justice issues to light, deserve to be fully resourced and widely seen. TFF, with support from Netflix, will once again offer awards for US-based filmmakers, which includes increased grants in the Short Narrative, LGBTQIA+ Short, and Documentary (under 40 min) categories. We will host a live pitching session to determine the award winners in each category. The top 3 finalists from each category will be invited to pitch their short film, LGBTQ+ films, or their documentary treatment.

• Our Town Grants

  National Endowment for The Arts

  Previous Deadline: 8/03/23

  https://www.arts.gov/grants/our-town/program-description

  Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. These grants support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into strategies for strengthening communities.

• Performance Program

  Aaron Copland Fund for Music

  Previous Deadline: 7/07/23

  https://grants.coplandfund.org/performing-ensembles-program

  Funds are available for General Operating Support for professional performing ensembles and presenting organizations with a history of substantial commitment to contemporary American music and with plans to continue that commitment. The program also provides Project Support for exceptionally important activities relating to contemporary American music proposed by professional performing ensembles and presenting organizations that do not normally feature contemporary American music in their programming.

• Project Grants

  New Music USA

  Previous Deadline: 6/12/23

  https://newmusicusa.org/program/project-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. We’re especially interested in having our funds go towards paying artists directly for their work; whether that’s creating, engaging, performing, or something else. We place special emphasis on funds towards the creation of new musical work, new live music for dance, recording costs, residency and community outreach activities.

• Avant Garde Masters Grant

  National Film Preservation Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 5/30/23

  https://www.filmpreservation.org/nfpf-grants/avant-garde-masters-grants

  The National Film Preservation Foundation invites applications for the Avant-Garde Masters Grants. These cash preservation grants, made possible in partnership with The Film Foundation, support laboratory work to preserve significant examples of America's avant-garde film heritage. The grants are available to nonprofit and public archives. Funding is generously provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

  By its very nature avant-garde film is hard to define. Avant-garde film is generally produced and distributed outside mainstream film channels. Often created by a single filmmaker or a small team, these films are intended as artistic expressions. They often experiment with the film medium in unique and personal ways.

  This grant supports the preservation of a film or films by a single filmmaker or from a cinematic group significant to the development of avant-garde film in America. Works made within the last twenty years are not eligible. Applications should show how the proposed titles have made a significant contribution to American experimental film or, if the works are lesser known today, demonstrate how the films will contribute to a better understanding of avant-garde film history. Proposals must also explain why the proposed films are in need of preservation and include plans detailing how the films will be made available to the public and the scholarly community.

• The Community Arts Grant

  Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, Inc.

  Previous Deadline: 5/12/23

  https://www.asiwny.org/dec-grants/

  The Community Arts DEC Grant is a competitive grant that provides financial and technical assistance for community-based arts activities offered by eligible nonprofit organizations and/or individual artists with community partners. Arts activities must be the primary driving force of project requests. All requests must have a public component—one that is available to the entire community.

• The Arts Education Grant

  Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, Inc.

  Previous Deadline: 5/12/23

  https://www.asiwny.org/dec-grants/

  The Arts Eductation DEC Grant is a competitive grant that provides financial and technical assistance to eligible organizations and/or individual artists to support arts education projects in K-12 public school and publicly funded charter school settings and after-school programs. Funds can support arts education projects that take place in-school during the school day and/or in after-school settings for youth.

• Individual Artist Commission Grant

  Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, Inc.

  Previous Deadline: 5/12/23

  https://www.asiwny.org/dec-grants/

  The Individual Artist DEC Grant is a grant intended to support the creation of new work that engages the community through the artists’ creative process. Artists residing in Erie and Niagara Counties are eligible to apply for this grant for community-based projects. The goal of this grant is to support the creative work of individual artists in all disciplines while encouraging interaction between artists and community members to highlight the role of the artist as a community resource.

• USArtists International

  Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 3/30/23

  http://www.midatlanticarts.org/grants-programs/grants-for-artists/#usartists-international

  USArtists International (USAI) supports performances by ensembles and solo artists invited to perform at important cultural festivals and performing arts marketplaces anywhere in the world outside the United States and its territories. Grants provided of up to $15,000 towards support of artist fees, travel, accommodations, per diem, shipping and visa preparation. Current applications are for projects taking place between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020. 

• Museum Assessment Program

  Institute of Museum and Library Services

  Previous Deadline: 2/01/23

  http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=10

  The Museum Assessment Program (MAP) is supported through a cooperative agreement between the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the American Alliance of Museums. It is designed to help museums assess their strengths and weaknesses, and plan for the future. MAP assessment types include: Organizational Assessment, Collections Stewardship Assessment, and Community Engagement Assessment.

• NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship

  New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)

  Previous Deadline: 1/25/23

  https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Artists'%20Fellowships

  NYFA is committed to supporting artists from diverse cultural backgrounds at all stages of their professional careers. NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships, awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period, are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. These fellowships are not project grants but are intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, regardless of the level of his or her artistic development. Applications in the current award cycle are being accepted in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Choreography, Music/Sound, Photography, and Playwriting/Screenwriting.

• Hatched

  Chicken & Egg Pictures

  Previous Deadline: 1/17/23

  https://chickeneggpics.org/programs/#project-hatched

  Project: Hatched provides grants to support filmmakers from around the world who have premiered or have a confirmed world premiere of a short, medium, or feature-length documentary film taking place between April 2022 and March 2023. Filmmakers must have plans to strategize, build, and launch an impact campaign. The grant funds can be applied towards expenses related to project completion and impact strategy.

• Individual Artist Commissions

  CNY Arts

  Previous Deadline: 12/16/22

  https://cnyarts.org/grants/individual-artist-commissions/

  Individual Artist Commissions support the creation of new work with exceptional community involvement in the creative process in Cortland, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, and Oswego counties. 

• Community Arts Grants

  CREATE Council on the Arts

  Previous Deadline: 12/15/22

  http://www.greenearts.org/upcoming-grants/

  Community Art Grants are available to not-for-profit organizations legally registered in Columbia, Greene, or Schoharie County, Collectives or Individuals in partnership with a non-profit. Community Art Grants provide funding for cultural and art programs taking place in the county of registration. 

• Community Arts Grants

  CNY Arts

  Previous Deadline: 11/16/22

  https://cnyarts.org/grants/community-arts-grants/

  Community Arts Grants provide support for accessible arts and cultural projects that enhance the cultural climate in our neighborhoods and communities. Grants range from $500 to $5000. Eligible for nonprofit organizations and individual artists.

• Arts Education Grants

  CNY Arts

  Previous Deadline: 11/16/22

  https://cnyarts.org/grants/arts-education-grants/

  Support the role the arts play in engaging K-12 public school students in rich artistic learning experiences in Cortland, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, and Oswego Counties.

• NYU Community Fund

  NYU Community Fund

  Previous Deadline: 5/20/22

  https://www.nyu.edu/community/nyu-in-nyc/combined-campaign/community-fund.html

  Through generous donations from NYU employees, the Community Fund awards grants from $500 to $2,500 to local nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving the health and well-being of the neighborhoods surrounding NYU.

  Since the Fund’s inception in 1982, over $3 million has been raised and distributed through over 1600 grants to hundreds of organizations. In the 2019-2020 fundraising year, $90,000 was raised and over 80 grants were distributed to local organizations.

• NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA) Grants

  National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC)

  Previous Deadline: 5/18/22

  https://nalac.org/grants/

  As the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) approaches its 30th anniversary in May 2019, it announced the latest round of grant opportunities for Latino artists and arts organizations working in all creative disciplines across the United States and Puerto Rico.

  Grants will support projects taking place in 2019, and applications are due Thursday, September 6, 2018. 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).

  Grants are available for both Latinx Artists and Organizations.

• Cultural Development Fund

  New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

  Previous Deadline: 5/16/22

  https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dcla/cultural-funding/programs-funding.page

  The Cultural Development Fund (CDF) enables qualifying cultural organizations to apply for grants from the Department of Cultural Affairs. The agency encourages participation in the process by the widest possible representation of the City’s diverse cultural constituency. Currently, we receive applications from more than 1,000 organizations and administer grants to more than 880 nonprofit arts and cultural organizations representing a wide range of disciplines and providing cultural experiences for the City’s residents and visitors.

• Dutchess Partner in the Arts

  Arts Mid-Hudson

  Previous Deadline: 5/10/22

  https://artsmidhudson.org/grants-and-funding/

  Arts Mid-Hudson (formerly the Dutchess County Arts Council) is requesting proposals that will establish partnerships for arts programming to enhance the Dutchess County region. We seek partners that have a history of achievement in the arts, good management and stable finances; and self-sustaining programs with the potential to make a measurable impact.

• Artist Fellowships

  Jerome Foundation

  Deadlines: Annual

  https://www.jeromefdn.org/apply/artist-fellowship

  The Jerome Foundation's Artist Fellowship program offers flexible, two-year grants to support the creative development of early-career generative artists in the five boroughs of New York City. Artists may apply individually or together with other members of ongoing collectives or ensembles.The Jerome Foundation makes a distinction between generative artists (those artists responsible for artistic control in generating entirely new work, including writers, choreographers, film directors, visual artists, composers, playwrights, etc.) and interpretive artists (those who interpret or execute the work created by others, including actors, editors, dramaturgs, singers, dancers, musicians, designers, etc.). The Foundation recognizes that some artists do both generative and interpretive work. Nevertheless, the Fellowship program supports only those artists with a significant history of generative work.

• Grants for Visual Artists

  The Harpo Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 4/29/22

  http://www.harpofoundation.org/grants-for-visual-artists/

  The Grants for Visual Artists award provides direct support to under-recognized artists 21 years or older. 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.

• Challenge America Grants

  National Endowment for The Arts

  Previous Deadline: 4/21/22

  http://arts.gov/grants-organizations/challenge-america/grant-program-description

  The Challenge America category offers support primarily to small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations—those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Grants are available for professional arts programming and for projects that emphasize the potential of the arts in community development.

• Soros Justice Fellowships

  Open Society Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 3/22/22

  https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/soros-justice-fellowships

  The Soros Justice Fellowships Program’s Media Fellowships support writers, print and broadcast journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices proposing to complete media projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, and catalyze change on important U.S. criminal justice issues. The Media Fellowships aim to mitigate the time, space, and market constraints that often discourage individuals from pursuing vital but marginalized, controversial, or unpopular topics in comprehensive and creative ways. Media Fellowships are 12 months in duration, and fellows are expected to make their projects their full-time work during the term of the fellowship. Projects can begin in either the spring or fall of 2016.

• Puppet Theatre Grants

  Jim Henson Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 3/07/22

  http://www.hensonfoundation.org/grant-application/artist-grants

  The Jim Henson Foundation awards grants each year for the creation and development of innovative works of puppet theater. Production Grants of $7,000 are awarded for the production of new works ready to be presented in the coming year. Workshop Grants of $3,000 are for the development and workshopping of these pieces. Family Grants of $4,000 fund the development of new and innovative work specifically for children, families, and teenagers. 

• Artadia Awards

  Artadia

  Previous Deadline: 3/01/22

  https://artadia.org/awards/

  Artadia Awards programs are open to all visual artists living and working in the following cities: Greater Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Juried awards are based on merit, defined as a rigorous engagement with a set of ideas embodied in materials, a depth of practice and a clearly articulated and developed voice.

• Creative Capital Award

  Creative Capital

  Previous Deadline: 2/28/22

  https://creative-capital.org/award/about/

  Creative Capital's venture philanthropy approach helps artists working in all creative disciplines realize their visions and build sustainable practices. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding and career development services valued at $50,000, for a total commitment of up to $100,000 per project.

• The Reporting Award

  The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU

  Previous Deadline: 2/22/22

  https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awards-and-fellowships/the-reporting-award/

  The Reporting Award provides support of up to $12,500 for a work of journalism in any medium on significant underreported subjects in the public interest. In establishing the award, the Carter Journalism Institute’s faculty cited the need for encouraging enterprise journalism during a time of extensive layoffs and budget cuts throughout the journalism industry. 

• Queens Arts Fund Grant

  Queens Arts Council

  Previous Deadline: 2/14/22

  https://www.queenscouncilarts.org/qaf

  The Queens Arts Fund (QAF) offers grants to Queens-based individual artists and nonprofit organizations offering distinctive arts and cultural programming that directly serves the community members of Queens.

  The Queens Arts Fund is committed to supporting emerging artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, working within all disciplines to create work that provides open and equal access for audiences in all communities of Queens, to further racial and cultural equity.

• Grants for Arts Projects

  National Endowment for The Arts

  Previous Deadline: 2/10/22

  https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects

  Grants for Arts Projects is the National Endowment for the Arts’ principal grants program. Through project-based funding, we support public engagement with, and access to, various forms of excellent art across the nation, the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. Projects may be large or small, existing or new, and may take place in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. 

• Cultural Tourism Development Grant Program

  Office of Manhattan Borough President

  Previous Deadline: 1/28/22

  http://manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/budget/cultural-tourism-grants.shtml

  Projects eligible for funding under the program shall include, but are not limited to, the following on behalf of one or more not-for-profit 501(c)(3) cultural organization(s) in the borough: development, production, and distribution of a cultural organization’s promotional materials (brochures, posters, maps, videos and slides); special cultural events or projects supported by the Borough President and designed to bring visitors to the borough and the borough’s not-for-profit cultural assets; cultural advertising targeted to the inbound visitor market(s); research to determine visitor profiles, identify markets or measure economic impact of cultural organizations’ tourism outreach initiatives.

• Moon and Stars Project Grants

  American Turkish Society

  Previous Deadline: 1/15/22

  https://www.americanturkishsociety.org/moon-and-stars-project-grants

  Moon and Stars Project grants are dedicated to highlighting Turkey's arts and culture scene and establishing a two-way cultural interaction between the United States and Turkey. The American Turkish Society awards competitive grants to support emerging and established artists in an effort to promote this cross-cultural dialogue. Project-specific grants in support of travel and lodging are provided for projects exhibited in the U.S. The grant program is advised by Binnaz Saktanber and Kaan Nazli, former directors of The Moon and Stars Project and The Society's Art & Culture Committee.

  The budget for the MASP grant is determined annually. The amount is typically divided between 3-4 projects. It is expected that the applicants secure other funders or sponsors to ensure the completion of their project.

• Arts Alive Project Grant

  Arts Westchester

  Previous Deadline: 1/13/22

  https://artswestchester.org/grants/arts-alive-grant-program/

  Arts Alive Project Grant constitute the largest component of the Arts Alive funding category. These grants support community-based arts and cultural projects developed by arts organizations, groups, collectives, individual artists, and a limited number of other nonprofits that offer open-to-the public arts activities as part of their on-going operations.

• Arts Alive Arts Education Grant

  Arts Westchester

  Previous Deadline: 1/13/22

  https://artswestchester.org/grants/arts-alive-grant-program/

  Arts Alive Arts Education Grant (formerly called Arts Partners Challenge Grant) provides support for partnerships between individual artists, or arts organizations, and Westchester public schools (grades K-12). Projects must focus on the exploration of art and the artistic process. ArtsWestchester encourages projects that integrate the arts into the curriculum, but curriculum integration is not requires. The primary goal is to provide students with rich artistic learning experiences.

• Arts Alive Artist Grant

  Arts Westchester

  Previous Deadline: 1/13/22

  https://artswestchester.org/grants/arts-alive-grant-program/

  Arts Alive Artist Grant provides commissioning support to individual artists for the creation of new work presented in a community setting.  This funding supports artist-created work rather than work created by the community under an artist direction.  However, an essential element of this funding is the inclusion of community involvement in the development and creative process.

• Individual Artist Grant

  CREATE Council on the Arts

  Previous Deadline: 12/17/21

  https://www.greenearts.org/upcoming-grants/

  The Individual Artist Tier will award selected artists in each county a grant in the amount of $2,000. The primary goal of this support is to significantly advance the work of the artist. The project must result in the creation of new work and the local community must be actively engaged or involved in some way with the artist’s creative process. “Community” can be defined as geographic, racial, ethnic, or philosophical. “Community engagement” can be accomplished through interaction between artist & public, public participation & input, presentation, etc.

• Arts Education Grants

  CREATE Council on the Arts

  Previous Deadline: 12/17/21

  http://www.greenearts.org/upcoming-grants/

  Greene County Council on the Arts is offering funds provided by the NYS Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for in-school arts programming in Columbia, Greene & Schoharie Counties through the Arts Education (AE) Partnership grant program. These grants provide funds for artists/arts groups or cultural organizations to work in a K-12 public school setting in their county in collaboration with subject teachers.  Artists from outside the county may apply through a nonprofit conduit.  Projects need to address NYS Learning Standards.

• Artist Grants

  Puffin Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 12/15/21

  http://www.puffinfoundation.org/grants-info/prospective-applicants.html

  The Puffin Foundation Ltd. continues to make grants that encourage emerging artists whose works might have difficulty being aired due to their genre and/or social philosophy. We're interested in art that educates the public on topical issues. For example, projects that seek to enrich and inform the public on important subjects such as the environment, social justice, civil rights and other contemporary issues facing the country (and the planet), that some organizations might hesitate to fund. The Foundation does not have the means to fund large film/documentary proposals, grants for travel, continuing education, or the writing or publishing of books. For the 2019 cycle we will review grants only in the following fields: Fine Arts and Video/Film. 

• Local Arts Support

  Brooklyn Arts Council

  Previous Deadline: 9/17/21

  https://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/what-we-do/grants/local-arts-support

  Brooklyn-based nonprofit organizations and artist-nonprofit partnerships are invited to apply for up to $5,000 to support community-based, high-quality arts projects in all disciplines, genres and styles. This Brooklyn Arts Council opportunity is funded by New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program.

• Brooklyn Arts Fund

  Brooklyn Arts Council

  Previous Deadline: 9/17/21

  https://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/what-we-do/grants/brooklyn-arts-fund

  Brooklyn-based 501c3 organizations, collectives and individual artists are invited to apply for up to $5,000 to support high-quality arts projects in all disciplines, genres and styles. This Brooklyn Arts Council opportunity, is funded by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

• Individual Artists Grants (IND)

  New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)

  Previous Deadline: 9/01/21

  http://www.arts.ny.gov/programs/individual-artists

  Individual Artists (IND) offers support for the creation of new work by New York State artists through artist-initiated projects in electronic media (video, sound art, installations, and new technologies) and film production, and the commissioning of new work by composers, choreographers and theatre artists. Artists at various career stages are welcome to apply.

• Electronic Media and Film (EMF)

  New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)

  Previous Deadline: 9/01/21

  http://arts.ny.gov/programs/electronic-media-and-film

  Electronic Media and Film (EMF) advances artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts. EMF is dedicated to experimental and creative expression in all genres of time-based and moving image media, including emergent technology. Support is provided for projects that employ technology as an art form, including historical and rarely seen works that enable media arts appreciation. EMF does not support projects where technology is employed solely as a communications medium. Priority is given to programs that combine strong curatorial vision and innovation.

   

  EMF does not accept applications from individual artists. Production funding for independent film and media artists is available through the NYSCA Individual Artists Program.

• Ulster County Cultural Services and Promotion Fund

  Arts Mid-Hudson

  Previous Deadline: 8/25/21

  http://artsmidhudson.org/grants-and-funding/

  The Ulster County Fund is dedicated to capacity building and strategic collaborations within the arts community in Ulster County. Financial resources for this program have been provided by the Ulster County Legislature. Since 2008, these funds have been made available to nonprofit arts and cultural organizations incorporated in Ulster County. Established nonprofit organizations, working in all arts disciplines, are eligible to apply for funding.

• IDA+XRM Media Incubator

  International Documentary Association + XRM Media

  Previous Deadline: 8/02/21

  https://www.documentary.org/incubator

  The IDA+XRM Media Incubator supports short character-driven vérité documentary films from around the globe, with an emphasis on emerging filmmakers. The Incubator provides production and post-production grants and mentorship from Academy and Emmy award-nominated directors. In 2021, grantees will be paired with award-winning directors Nadia Hallgren, Skye Fitzgerald and Smriti Mundhra, who will provide advice and guidance on crafting character-driven immersive shorts.

  The Incubator will award three films a total of $25,000 each. 

   

• Public Media Content Fund

  Latino Public Broadcasting

  Previous Deadline: 6/28/21

  https://lpbp.org/public-media-content-fund/

  The Public Media Content Fund (PMCF) is an open invitation to independent producers to submit proposals for documentaries and/or limited series or that meet LPB’s Content Priorities and are appropriate for public television.

  Projects applying to the PMCF can be in the genres of the arts, history, science, biography, health, personal storytelling, and mixed genre. We are particularly interested in cultural and arts documentaries to balance submissions to the Current Issues Fund. Projects should present a range of subjects, issues and viewpoints that complement and challenge existing public media offerings. Projects should integrate strong story-telling techniques that give voice and provide a lens to the diverse Latino community. While projects can take creative risks and reflect personal or individual experience, they must ultimately appeal to a national U.S. audience.

• Digital Media Fund

  Latino Public Broadcasting

  Previous Deadline: 6/28/21

  https://lpbp.org/digital-media-fund/

  Digital Media Fund is an open invitation to independent producers to submit proposals for digital short form programs fiction or non-fiction (no longer than 20 minutes) for primary distribution online via an existing public television platform, and can be in the form of a short film, web series and other mixed digital media content. CONTENT PRIORITIES Programs applying to the Digital Media Fund can be in the genres of the arts, history, science, biography, health, personal storytelling, cultural documentary, mixed genre and narrative. Projects should bring new audiences to public media and present a range of subjects, issues and viewpoints that complement and challenge existing public media offerings. Programs should integrate strong story-telling techniques that give voice and provide a lens to the diverse Latino community. While projects can take creative risks and reflect personal or individual experience, they must ultimately appeal to a national U.S. audience.

• Current Issues Fund

  Latino Public Broadcasting

  Previous Deadline: 6/28/21

  https://lpbp.org/current-issues-fund/#

  The LPB Current Issues Fund (CIF) provides production and post-production funding to documentary films from the Latino American perspective (60 or 90 minutes only) that explore contemporary civic and social justice issues, incorporate a journalistic approach into the filmmaking process, and have resonance for a U.S. national audience. Journalistic practice must be integral to the project, with commitment to fairness, objectivity and accuracy. Journalistic practice is broadly defined and may include, but is not limited to, extensive research, accessing public records and data, public accountability or investigative approach, transparency of sources, and a reliance on facts. LPB is looking for stories that explore timely issues, demonstrate artistic storytelling and have potential to engage communities in civic discourse beyond the broadcast. LPB will accept applications for production and post-production funding; R&D applications are not accepted for the CIF. Funding requests may range from $40,000 up to $100,000. Applicants are not eligible to submit applications for additional funds from the Public Media Content Fund.

• Moving Image Fund

  LEF Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 6/04/21

  https://www.lef-foundation.org/DefaultPermissions/MovingImageFund/tabid/160/Default.aspx

  The goal of LEF New England is to fund the work of independent documentary film and video artists in the region, and to broaden recognition and support for their work, both locally and nationally. It also supports programs that highlight the rich history and ongoing legacy of innovation within New England’s independent film community.

  LEF New England launched the Moving Image Fund (MIF) in 2002 to support new film and video work. The Moving Image Fund provides funding across all phases of production, supporting films from the early risk-taking stage, through a film’s completion. In this way, MIF offers a continuum of support for selected projects, while also identifying new talent. The peer review panel process lies at the heart of LEF's grant review, inviting non-fiction filmmakers and professionals from a diversity of perspectives in the field to evaluate and make recommendations on LEF's production and post-production applications. This panel is anonymous, and changes every year.

  Through MIF, LEF New England champions work that is provocative, heartfelt, and challenging in style and substance. Since its inception, LEF’s Moving Image Fund has supported over 300 independent filmmaker projects with approximately $4 million in funding. The overarching goal of LEF New England’s philanthropic investment is to help build a sustainable and strong community of support for artists and their work.

• General Operating Support

  CNY Arts

  Previous Deadline: 6/04/21

  https://cnyarts.org/grants

  The County has historically funded several mid-sized arts organizations and larger cultural institutions. General Operating Support Grants are available by invitation only.

• New Perspectives Fellowship

  Doc Society

  Previous Deadline: 5/10/21

  https://docsociety.org/new-perspectives/

  Doc Society's New Perspectives Fellowship is a two year artist development opportunity supporting daring new works by US-based directors, including Puerto Rico and U.S. territories, who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and/or as members of historically underrepresented communities including race, religion, geographic region, physical ability, or citizenship status who dedicated to the art and craft of creative nonfiction. This vital program combines key project funding, mentorship, and in-depth impact strategy to provide holistic support to the maker at every level. We want your most ambitious films, wildest dreams, and biggest questions. Grants are non-recoupable $30,000-$45,000 over the course of two years with all rights retained by the filmmaker.

• County Initiative Program

  CREATE Council on the Arts

  Previous Deadline: 5/04/21

  https://www.greenearts.org/greene-county-initiative-program/

  The purpose of the County Initiative Program (CIP) is to provide general operating or programmatic support from the Greene County Legislature to major Greene County arts and cultural institutions that offer quality professional services and programs of benefit to the residents of Greene County. The Greene County Council on the Arts (GCCA) has administered this fund since its establishment in 1983. CIP funding is intended to promote the development, growth and viability of major Greene County organizations. With invaluable support from the Greene County Legislature, these goals continue to be met, producing a positive impact on the state of the arts and quality of life in Greene County.

• Foundation Grant

  The Bender Family Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 5/01/21

  http://www.cfgcr.org/benderff/application.html

  The Bender Family Foundation works to foster, preserve and fund arts, culture, education, history and environmental projects primarily in the City and County of Albany. However, applications from organizations within a radius of 60 miles from the site of the New York State Capitol building in the City of Albany will also be considered. 

• Film, Video and Digital Production Grants

  Jerome Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 5/01/21

  https://www.jeromefdn.org/film-video-production-grants

  This program supports production costs and post-production costs connected to the creation of new narrative, documentary, experimental or animated works in film, video or digital formats. The program does not support pre-production work or marketing, distribution, duplication, and other post-completion costs. Applications are accepted from Minnesota or New York City-based early career film directors who have already completed and released at least two works.

• Cultural Funds

  Erie County Department of Environment and Planning

  Previous Deadline: 4/28/21

  https://www2.erie.gov/culturalfunding/funding-overview

  501(c)(3) organizations located and providing services in Erie County may review our site for additional eligibility apply for Cultural Funding contracts.

• The Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund

  A.R.T. / New York

  Previous Deadline: 4/27/21

  http://www.art-newyork.org/design-enhancement-fund

  Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes created their namesake foundation to support the design and production costs of New York City-based nonprofit theatre companies. Grants from the foundation are intended to give a theatre company additional resources, beyond what the company can afford on its own, to more fully address the design needs of a specific project. It was the Bel Geddes’ desire that these awards have a significant impact on the production capabilities and creative life of designers. These are enhancement grants intended to augment the artistic needs of a production and allow a designer to more fully realize his/her artistic vision. In order to have the most significant impact, these funds must supplement the current production budget.

• Impact Campaign Fund

  Firelight Media

  Previous Deadline: 4/15/21

  https://www.firelightmedia.tv/programs/impact-campaign-fund

  In 2020, Firelight Media launched the Impact Campaign Fund to address a resource gap in the nonfiction space for impact and audience engagement-related projects by and for communities of color in the U.S.

  The Impact Campaign Fund supports the creation of audience engagement and impact campaigns by Firelight supported artists and fellows. The Fund is intended to support projects that are socially relevant, address or engage underrepresented issues or communities, and are accountable to the impacted communities their films represent.

• 2021 Uprise Grant Fund

  Sundance Institute

  Previous Deadline: 4/05/21

  https://apply.sundance.org/prog/2021_uprise_grant_fund/

  As part of the Sundance Institute's continued commitment to supporting artists from underrepresented communities, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Uprise Grant Fund. Acknowledging the disproportionate effects the pandemic and racial terror have had on storytellers of color and other systematically marginalized groups, our goal is to provide financial support at key moments in an artist's career by supporting their personal livelihoods and creative projects. This is a need-based artist-support grant where need will be partially determined by the response to the pandemic impact question. To apply, please submit a letter of inquiry (LOI) here. Finalists will later be invited to submit a complete application.

• Matching Grants

  National Film Preservation Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 3/26/21

  https://www.filmpreservation.org/nfpf-grants/matching-grants

  The National Film Preservation Foundation invites applications for its federally funded Matching Grants. Matching grants fund complex, large-scale preservation, reconstruction, or restoration projects involving a single film or film collection of special cultural, historic, or artistic significance. The grants may be requested by nonprofit or public institutions with film preservation experience and the current capacity to carry out large preservation efforts. Applicants may request cash stipends of between $20,001 and $75,000 to fund laboratory work and must "match" the NFPF grant with outside cash support equal to one-fifth of the total project costs. Applicants may not apply for a Basic Preservation Grant during the same grant cycle.

• Basic Preservation Grants

  National Film Preservation Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 3/26/21

  https://www.filmpreservation.org/nfpf-grants/basic-preservation-grants

  The National Film Preservation Foundation invites applications for the spring round of its Basic Preservation Grants. These grants are awarded to nonprofit and public institutions for laboratory work to preserve culturally and historically significant film materials. The cash award ranges from $1,000 to $20,000.

• Two-Year Capacity-Building Program

  New Music USA and The New York Community Trust

  Previous Deadline: 3/18/21

  https://newmusicusa.smapply.io/prog/new_music_capacity_building_program_-_nyc/

  Thanks to support from New York Community Trust, New Music USA is leading a two-year capacity-building program for a diverse cohort of small sized groups committed to presenting, performing, or promoting new music by living music creators on a regular basis. The New Music Capacity Building Program will combine financial support with professional development opportunities to aid ten NYC-based organizations as they navigate their way through the next stages of COVID-19 and beyond. The program will offer a flexible approach to the selected groups or organizations; each will receive $5,000 per year for two years, for a total of $10,000 each, in order to implement organizational plans that they will design in consultation with New Music USA staff and industry experts. Program content will be dictated by the participating organizations.

• NEA Research Labs

  National Endowment for The Arts

  Previous Deadline: 3/08/21

  https://www.arts.gov/grants/research-awards/nea-research-labs/program-description

  The National Endowment for the Arts’ five-year research agenda aims to build public knowledge about the arts’ contributions to individuals and society. Through NEA Research Labs, we extend this agenda and its impact by cultivating a series of transdisciplinary research partnerships, grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts and also for non-arts sectors such as healthcare, education, and business or management. Institutions of higher education and/or nonprofit research and policy organizations may submit applications to be NEA Research Labs.

• Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

  New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 3/01/21

  https://www.nyfa.org/awards-grants/rauschenberg-medical-emergency-grants/

  New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is proud to partner with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to administer a new emergency grant program called Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants. Robert Rauschenberg was committed to assisting fellow artists in need of emergency medical aid, ultimately establishing the nonprofit foundation Change, Inc. in 1970. In this spirit, this program is designed to serve artists in financial need who otherwise may delay critical treatment or incur substantial and perhaps overwhelming debt. And in this moment, we recognize the urgency of caring for and helping one another. While artists are famously self-sufficient, this is a time to ask for support when needed, and to offer support when possible. The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies experienced by artists in the past six months. Please review our artistic discipline definitions to determine that you are eligible before applying. If you have questions, please contact the grants administrator. This project is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

• Grants for Media Art of the Foundation of Lower Saxony

  Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art

  Previous Deadline: 2/10/21

  https://www.edith-russ-haus.de/en/grants/grants/current.html

  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. The grant is valid for a duration of six months (July–December 2019). It cannot be prolonged and residency is compulsory; grant recipients can expect to stay in Oldenburg at least one month. Grant recipients are expected to be involved in the activities of the Edith-Russ-Haus, including, for example, running workshops and giving presentations and artist talks. The dates of such activities will be arranged in consultation with the Edith-Russ-Haus. Beyond the grant amount of EUR 10,000 and the possibility of using one of the guest apartments at the Edith-Russ-Haus, no further costs will be covered during the residency (such as technical means, production means, travel expenses, and living expenses incurred during the grant period).

• 360+ Incubator

  Black Public Media

  Previous Deadline: 1/01/21

  https://blackpublicmedia.org/incubator-360/

  The 360 Incubator+ is a professional development and fellowship program that builds a critical and wholistic ecosystem of support for content creators and their projects.

  The program is designed for independent producers of broadcast and digital projects centered on the Black experience. An intensive 3-month program, the Incubator provides filmmakers with workshops, network building, tools for a successful pitch, and one-on-one mentoring from seasoned media makers.

  The 360 Incubator+ helps to accelerate the production of projects in a supportive environment.

  After participating in the 360 Incubator+ accelerators, projects are invited to participate in our pitching forum, PitchBLACK. Winning teams are awarded up to $150,000 in production funding.

• The Individual Artist Commission

  Arts Mid-Hudson

  Previous Deadline: 11/12/20

  http://artsmidhudson.org/grants-and-funding/

  The Individual Artist Commission provides support in the amount of $2,500 directly to selected individual artists for the creation of new work based on a particular community, which may include its members, history, folklore, natural environment or a significant structure. Artists in all disciplines may apply for funding.  Projects must be initiated by the artist, and reflect local community life or culture, as well as directly involve the community in the artist’s creative process. Note that this grant supports the creation of work, not the presentation of existing work.

• Project Grants

  Arts Mid-Hudson

  Previous Deadline: 11/12/20

  https://artsmidhudson.org/grants-and-funding/

  Project Grants provide support for arts and cultural activities of non-profit organizations, community-based groups, collectives and individual artists that meet the eligibility criteria as listed in these guidelines. This support enables emerging artists and organizations to grow professionally and provides Dutchess, Orange and Ulster county communities opportunities to experience and engage with the arts. Project Grants may include, but are not limited to: exhibitions, studio tours, workshops, performances, concerts, festivals, screenings, readings, multi-discipline collaborations and public programming whose central focus is the arts. Project must include a public component: an opportunity to access and engage with the arts that is promoted and available to the general public. In the case of workshops and participatory programs, participant recruitment must be open to the general public and reflected accordingly in outreach and promotional plans.

• Fendrick Theatre Fund

  Arts Services Initiative of Western New York, Inc.

  Previous Deadline: 8/24/20

  https://www.asiwny.org/service-programs/fendrick-theatre-fund/

  The grant is designated in support of one creative theater artist. The selection committee will consider all proposals that support the writing or production of new works, the new production of an existing work, experimental and multi-media theatrical productions or the completion of works in progress. Eligible applicants include actors, directors, writers, designers, performance artists, musicians or any person, regardless of descriptive title or relationship to a particular institution, who contributes to the creative process of theatre.

• The Ravenal Foundation Grant

  NYWIFT

  Previous Deadline: 3/06/20

  https://www.nywift.org/ravenal/

  The NYWIFT Ravenal Foundation Grant will support a woman second-time feature film director who is over 40 years of age in the production of a dramatic feature film with $7500. Grant funds may be used for pre-production, production or post-production.

• United Cultural Fund

  Broome County Arts Council

  Previous Deadline: 1/15/20

  https://broomearts.org/who-we-are/grants-2/

  Established in 1987, the UCF is a locally-funded combined campaign for the arts in Broome County. The annual campaign is supported by Broome County government appropriations, local foundation grants and charitable donations from businesses, corporations and individuals. Grants funded by the UCF Campaign provide general operating support and project grants to non-profit arts organizations, community non-profits and individual artists in Broome County.

• Economic Development and Project Support

  CNY Arts

  Previous Deadline: 10/16/19

  https://cnyarts.org/onondaga-economic-development/

  CNY Arts administers Economic Development and Project Support grants for eligible agencies in Onondaga County. 

• Nancy Malone Marketing and Promotion Grant

  NYWIFT

  Previous Deadline: 9/27/19

  https://www.nywift.org/fund-for-women-filmmakers/the-nancy-malone-marketing-promotion-grant/

  This grant will award $5,000 to a recently completed—or currently being completed—dramatic feature film directed by a woman. First or second-time, US-based feature filmmakers are eligible. Films co-directed by a woman and a man are not eligible. The Nancy Malone MAP Grant may be used for festival entry fees, marketing materials, video duplication, publicists, promotion at the film's opening, or other approved marketing and promotional expenses.

• In-Kind Post-Production Grants

  NYWIFT

  Previous Deadline: 9/27/19

  https://www.nywift.org/fund-for-women-filmmakers/in-kind-post-production-grants/

  New York Women in Film and Television is offering grants of in-kind post-production services to documentary films directed and produced by New York area–based women filmmakers.

• Project Support

  Arts Westchester

  Previous Deadline: 4/17/19

  https://artswestchester.org/grants/project-support/

  Project Support makes our grants-making more flexible and enables us to better align funding to the wide variety of arts and cultural organizations in Westchester County. ArtsWestchester defines “project” broadly: you may apply for support for a series of related events such as a film series or summer concert series; for an individual program or event; for a special program or pilot project. This funding category is primarily intended for organizations with modest incomes that are run by volunteers; for cultural organizations whose public programming is developed and funded by a friend’s groups; and cultural organizations that offer a relatively limited season of arts programs/activities.

• Arts Organization Grants

  Jerome Foundation

  Previous Deadline: 2/05/19

  https://www.jeromefdn.org/arts-organization-grants

  Jerome Foundation offers two-year grants to organizations in support of ongoing programs, services and activities for early career artists in New York City and Minnesota. Grants awarded in Dance; Literature; Media, including film, video, and digital production and new media; Music; Theater; and Visual Arts, support a diverse range of programs in each artistic discipline. This includes both development (artistic or career development and/or technical assistance) and production programs.

• Global Connections—On the Road

  Theatre Communications Group

  Previous Deadline: 9/18/18

  https://www.tcg.org/Grants/GrantsAtAGlance/GlobalConnections/Description.aspx

  Global Connections—On the Road: This initiative will award 12 grants of up to $5,000 each to foster new relationships with international colleagues that will inspire each other’s work and aesthetics by creating opportunities for cultural exchange. To date, many U.S.-based theatre organizations and individual artists have made substantial strides in learning and developing projects with colleagues abroad. As a result of this work, many require additional resources to further the relationships established from their initial travels and first encounters. In addition, TCG recognizes the importance in continuing to seed new relationships by building a solid foundation for fruitful cultural exchanges. Please contact global@tcg.org for additional information.

• Global Connections—In the Lab

  Theatre Communications Group

  Previous Deadline: 9/18/18

  https://www.tcg.org/Grants/GrantsAtAGlance/GlobalConnections/Description.aspx

  Global Connections—In the Lab: This initiative will award six grants of $10,000 each to further pre-existing international collaborations by supporting residencies that either advance the development of a piece or explore elements leading up to a full production. To date, many U.S.-based theatre organizations and individual artists have made substantial strides in learning and developing projects with colleagues abroad. As a result of this work, many require additional resources to further the relationships established from their initial travels and first encounters. In addition, TCG recognizes the importance in continuing to seed new relationships by building a solid foundation for fruitful cultural exchanges. Please contact global@tcg.org for additional information.

• Basic Program Support

  Arts Westchester

  Previous Deadline: 4/07/17

  https://artswestchester.org/grants/basic-program-support/

  Basic Program Support Grants are directed toward ongoing activities of eligible, Westchester-based arts organizations and historic sites. When considering the provision and level of Basic Program Support, the panel examines all aspects of your operation, including artistic merit, financial stability, the strength and involvement of the board, scope of programming, geographic area and number of people served, and inclusiveness at all levels of operation (including board, staff, audience).