Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000

Who's eligible. Applicants must be creators of visual work with a professional portfolio of visual creative work, impacted by the 2022 invasion of Ukraine (i.e., either a refugee or an internally displaced person due to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a current resident of Ukraine, or someone financially supporting either of the former), able to communicate in English, are at least 18 years old (no advanced degree needed), and own a PayPal account or bank account in their name.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $15,000; most typically $5000

Who's eligible. The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. An artist must be able to demonstrate a minimum involvement of ten (10) years in a mature phase of their work. Artists must work in the disciplines of painting, sculpture or printmaking.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000

Who's eligible. The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Additional grants in a variety of categories or "chapters" are given out, including grants for projects taking place in specific global and U.S. cities.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000

Who's eligible. The Awesome Foundation is an ever-growing worldwide community devoted to forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe. Additional grants in a variety of categories or "chapters" are given out, including grants for projects taking place in specific global and U.S. cities.

For this chapter, The Awesome Foundation is interested in "proposals where a strong connection to the water has been established and where you can provide us with a clear sense of your project’s anticipated reach."

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $1000

Who's eligible. The Colorado Artist Relief Fund supports artists experiencing economic distress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Disciplines include visual, digital, film, music, performing, and teaching. Artists will need to show that their incomes are being adversely affected due to the cancellation of events, classes, performances, and other creative work.

Grant funding may be used for basic expenses including food, rent, medical costs, childcare. It may also be used for the development of skills, applications, or equipment that will allow you to transition your income-generating practices to online or virtual platforms or practices.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000–$500,000

Application fee. NA 

Who's eligible. Epic Games is looking to support anyone doing amazing things with Unreal Engine or for the 3D graphics ecosystem. Grants cover a variety of endeavors from game development, architecture projects, and film/TV production, to academic uses and software tool development.

Amount(s) rewarded. $500–$3000

Who's eligible. Emergency Grants is a multi-disciplinary program that supports visual and performing artists whose work is of a contemporary, experimental nature. Artists who apply must:

• Have unanticipated, sudden opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding.

• Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000

Who's eligible. Awarded on a bimonthly basis, the Community Impact Micro Grants (Micro Grants) provide funding to non-profit organizations or individual artists for arts & cultural projects and activities that enable Nassau and Suffolk communities to experience and engage with the performing, literary, media, and visual arts.

These Micro Grants provide year-round funding opportunities to arts-centered programs and projects that have a demonstrable impact on their community. Funding priorities include funding of immediate, stand alone, or short term projects; funding that supports materials, artist fees, venue rental, etc. for ongoing programming; and supporting programs/projects that include and serve underrepresented communities.

Amount(s) rewarded. $250, $500, $1000

Who's eligible. Any resident of the San Francisco Bay Area who has worked professionally or vocationally in local theatre or has been an active participant in the theatre community, regardless of the income derived from work in the theatre (with two years' experience minimum in the last five years), and has received a diagnosis of a terminal or life-threatening medical illness or condition is eligible to apply for the program.

Amount(s) rewarded. Reimbursement of up to 50% of the requested travel expenses, not exceeding $500.

Who's eligible. Artists currently in the creation or touring period of work supported by an NDP Production Grant; and curators, presenters, residency directors, or related staff (such as program or production staff) to either travel to see works currently eligible for NDP presentation support to determine if they will be able to present the NDP work in their community or to bring a currently-funded NDP artist to their community for meetings and advance planning to lay the groundwork for touring the NDP project.

Amount(s) rewarded. Reimbursement of up to 70% of the requested travel expenses (typically in the range of $700–$1000, but no maximum).

Who's eligible. Arts presenters and curatorial staff considering NTP projects are eligible to apply for travel support to see the project. Additionally, NTP Creation and Touring Grant recipients may apply for travel funds for themselves or invite others to apply for the purpose of promoting, publicizing, or otherwise advancing their NTP funded project.

Amount(s) rewarded. $2500

Who's eligible. Projects created by or for audiences of underserved communities, or offers an innovative approach to the arts, historic preservation, or King County heritage and offers public benefit to King County residents and visitors.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $30,000

Who's eligible. The Foundation provides financial resources for visual artists to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency and offset living expenses. The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $500–$1000

Who's eligible. smART ventures seeks to widen arts and culture participation, particularly of

diverse or underserved communities. Individuals (including youth), groups, organizations, or communities of interest that offer a potential arts or cultural impact within the city of Seattle and need start-up or final investment funds for proposed public events are able to apply. Organizations do NOT have to have 501(c)(3) non-profit status to apply.

Who's eligible. Applicants must be based in the U.S., and self-identify as Trans (broadly defined by Life Jacket to include gender non-conforming, gender-expansive, and nonbinary individuals). Successful applicants will have a history of telling Trans stories onstage and have experience with weaving nonfictional stories into theatrical works.

Playwright will be commissioned to write a new, full-length verbatim play based on in-depth interviews with Trans people living throughout America. 

Playwright will receive $10,000 to be paid in installments: $2,500 upon signing an agreement; $2,500 upon submitting final transcripts; $2,500 upon submitting full play; and $2,500 post-reading.

Amount(s) rewarded. $10,000 to one (1) winner, $1250 to four (4) finalists

Who's eligible. Applicants must be based in the U.S., self identify as Black trans women or trans femmes, and be early-career visual artists. Artists with commercial gallery representation should not apply.

The Illuminations Grant defines visual art broadly to include art forms including, but not limited to: ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and fiber arts. While this grant is particularly interested in supporting artists working within 2D and 3D art forms, time-based mediums, such as performing arts and video/film may also be considered. 

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $5000

Who's eligible. Artists, humanists, community organizers, policy makers, journalists, and community advocates for projects that will take place anywhere in Illinois. Priority will be given to projects that are regional or statewide in scope, or that focus on communities that are a) the site of a prison or jail, b) include communities that are experiencing significant incarceration, and/or c) that have experienced significant demographic change as a result of the criminal legal system.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $600

Who's eligible. California artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, and cultural producers, and San Francisco/San Jose nonprofit arts administrators for professional development activities that build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and/or strengthen the financial resilience of the grantee’s practice, area of cultural production, or arts organization.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000 to $10,000 

Who's eligible. Individual artists are not eligible for grants through this program. Applicants must be an arts and culture organization incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (including fiscal sponsors applying on behalf of a sponsored arts group or filmmaker), and:

• Engaged in the production and presentation of new work by Bay Area artists in the disciplines of dance, music, theater, visual arts, interdisciplinary arts, or film.

• Located and primarily offering programming in San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Sonoma, San Mateo, and/or Santa Clara counties.

• Able to demonstrate an artistic presence in the Bay Area for at least three years.

• Of an annual budget size between $100,000 and $749,999 (or applying with a fiscal sponsor with an annual budget greater than $100,000; there is no upper limit for fiscal sponsors’ annual budgets).

• An organization that evidences strong support from the community and its Board of Directors. 

The Cycle 1 deadline of January 15, 2023 is for spring decisions. The Cycle 2 deadline of July 15, 2023 is for fall decisions.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $10,000

Who's eligible. Powered by Bertha and with support from our many supporters and partners, AXS Lab, through AXS Film Fund, provides funding to documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators of color living with disabilities.

Applicants must:

• NOT be enrolled in a full-time degree granting program.

• Be 18 years of age or older to apply.

• Be individuals, however they may have a fiscal sponsor.

Eligible projects must be in any stage of production (pre-production, production, post production, distribution), and:

• Preferably be led by a person of color who identifies as being a person living with a disability.

• Be a documentary film or nonfiction new media project. Documentary projects should be feature length films (experimental nonfiction will be accepted). Projects in languages other than English should have English subtitles.

Amount(s) rewarded. $1000, contributor copies, and quarterly profit-sharing

Who's eligible. Poets of book-length poetry. Eligible submissions include finished, English-language poetry collections, hybrid collections that are primarily poetry, and poetry translations.

Amount(s) rewarded. $75,000 over three (3) years

Who's eligible. Artists and culture bearers who are at least 18 years old with demonstrated practice in any discipline; identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color (BIPOC) living, working, and engaging in social change in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi; and have been AL, LA, or MS residents for at least five consecutive years.

Grants may support any phase of a project (research, development, production, etc.), including new initiatives or ongoing work, and a portion of funding should directly support the artist(s).

Amount(s) rewarded. $500

Who's eligible. The Diverse Writers grant is open to all levels of publishing experience, and open to speculative writers worldwide who are from underrepresented and underprivileged groups — such as writers of color, women, queer writers, disabled writers, etc. — and whose marginalized identities may present additional obstacles in the writing and publishing process.

Amount(s) rewarded. $500

Who's eligible. The SLF Diverse Worlds Grant is open to speculative fiction writers of all levels of publishing experience. It is intended to support work that best presents a diverse world, regardless of the writer’s background.

Amount(s) rewarded. $20,000–$35,000

Who's eligible. Filmmakers of short film projects who are current residents of, or originally from (i.e. was born in), South Carolina, and who will commit to using Trident Tech students on their film crew.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5,000 for Emerging, $8,000 for Established, and $12,000 for Masters

Who's eligible. Applicants must be a resident of Delaware, at least 18 years old, must remain a Delaware resident during the grant period, and must be practicing any one of 20 eligible disciplines that span visual, performing, media, folk, and literary arts.

Amount(s) rewarded. $5000 to one winner, $500 or more to three finalists

Who's eligible. Writers who are at least 18 years old, are U.S. residents, and either haven't published a book or have published fewer than five books, including chapbooks.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $2500

Who's eligible. Women, Trans, and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers who are at least 18 years old and who've lived in the greater Philadelphia area for the past two years (i.e., Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia County).

Amount(s) rewarded. $25,000

Who's eligible. In 2020, The Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant was established by Northwest Film Forum alongside Duplass Brothers Productions, and with major support from COLOR and Eliza Flug, to honor Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton, who passed away on May 16th, 2020.

Filmmakers who identify as either disabled, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Person of Color), LGBTQ2IA+, or who live in rural areas are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants must: 

• Have “director” credit on at least one short film or feature documentary and have a desire to work in the narrative space. Filmmakers with “director” credit on a feature-length (70+ min) narrative film will not be considered.

• Be a woman, non-binary, and/or transgender individual, and be 39 years or older at the time of their application.

• Be able to receive income in the U.S.

• Be at a point in their career where such recognition would be meaningful and provide needed support.

Amount(s) rewarded. Up to $15,000 for new projects; up to $10,000 for continuing projects

Who's eligible. South Arts welcomes proposals from partnering entities working together on a project that addresses arts and community impact through cross-sector partnership. Projects must utilize the arts as a tool in creative approaches to address and advance an issue that is of importance in their community. Projects should also establish or advance relationships across at least two different sectors, one being in the arts.

Arts disciplines may include, but are not limited to:

• Performing arts, including dance, music, theater, musical theater, opera; 

• Literary arts, including fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry;

• Visual arts, including craft, drawing, experimental, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media; 

• Film or media;

• Traditional and folk arts, including music, craft, storytelling, dance; or

• Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary artforms.

Examples of eligible partnerships include:

• A non-profit arts organization or unit of government and a non-profit organization or unit of government from a non-arts sector.

• An individual artist or ensemble and a non-profit organization or unit of government from a non-arts sector.

• A non-profit arts organization or unit of government and an organization from a non-arts sector.

• A university arts department and an organization from a non-arts sector.

Amount(s) rewarded. $3500 

Who's eligible. In addition to being a full-time and current Oregon resident, writers must self-identify as a writer of color, and write in at least one of the following categories: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama (includes scripts for television or film), and young readers’ literature. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $3500

Who's eligible. In addition to being a full-time and current Oregon resident, writers must self-identify as a woman or gender non-conforming, and write in at least one of the following categories: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama (includes scripts for television or film), and young readers’ literature. 

Amount(s) rewarded. $7500–$10,000

Who's eligible. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and an enrolled member, or able to provide proof of lineal descendancy, of a U.S. federally recognized tribe, a state recognized tribe, or be an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian.

The program's purpose is to develop independent, satisfied, and credible Native artist entrepreneurs who are generous in spirit. Through the Artist in Business Leadership Program, artists get the technical support, professional training, and working capital they need to pursue arts business development goals for themselves and their families as they seek to start or grow a thriving arts business.

Amount(s) rewarded. $7500–$10,000

Who's eligible. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and an enrolled member, or able to provide proof of lineal descendancy, of a U.S. federally recognized tribe, a state recognized tribe, or be an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian.

Through First Peoples Fund’s Cultural Capital Program, culture bearers in tribal communities receive financial and technical support to further their important work of passing on ancestral knowledge and cultural practices within their tribal communities.