Discover grants supporting arts and cultural initiatives, including those for artists, performing arts, music, and dance. Additional funding covers visual arts, graphic arts, theatre, written works, and film. Grants are also available for accessible arts and cultural activities, museum programs, arts education, and career advancement in the arts.
Arts funding looks different depending on who's applying, from individual artist fellowships to museum capital campaigns. The recipient, location, and funding source filters above help match your project to the right list. GrantWatch helps organizations manage the entire funding process, from grant prospecting to post-award reporting, with tools such as the Grant Prospecting Dashboard, Grant Funding Pipeline, GrantWatch Intelligence™, and the AI Grant Writing Tool - built for creative projects, from artist fellowships to museum campaigns.
Opportunity for USA, Canada, and International nonprofit organizations in the technology sector to participate in a business development program. The program will include funding and support to improve organizational operations, including networking opportunities,...
Award of $1,000 to a USA, Canada, or International individual artist, artist group, or nonprofit organization to recognize creativity in contemporary sculpture. Funding is intended to honor applicants who advance and broaden the field. Priority will be given to ap...
Fellowships to USA, Canada, and International artists in various disciplines to pursue projects and teach at a university in New Jersey. Funding is intended for applicants who show noteworthy potential in their artistic practice. For the current cycle, application...
Fellowships to USA, Canada, and International MDs, PhDs, JDs, and artists to support creative scholarly projects in a variety of disciplines. The fellowships are intended to promote multidisciplinary collaborations through workshops and conferences. Fellows will b...
Grants of up to $75,000 to USA and territories nonprofit arts organizations for curator-led visual arts projects. Funding is intended to support hosting existing exhibits and adapting them to develop new programs and modifying the exhibition checklist. Eligible pr...
Grants to USA, Canada, and International filmmakers to support independent cinema. Funding is intended to support projects at a range of stages: development, production, or post-production. The goal of the funding is to encourage filmmakers to create projects of h...
Grants of up to $50,000 to USA and territories nonprofit organizations for community benefit initiatives. Funding is intended for proposals in the areas of education, humanitarian support, disadvantaged children, environment, arts and culture, and animal welfare. ...
Opportunity for USA, Canada, and International artists, photographers, and videographers to participate in a visual storytelling contest. Eligible genres include fashion, multimedia projects, documentary, fine art, portraiture, and experimental practices. The purp...
Grants to USA and territories nonprofit organizations focused on the visual arts for general operations and arts programs and projects. Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to art museums, artist residency programs, university visual arts departments, ...
Grants of $10,000 to USA, Canada, and International explorers for multidisciplinary fieldwork. Funding is intended for applicants that are connecting history to the future, advancing science, and deepening the global understanding of the environment. In addition t...
Fellowships to USA, Canada, and International scholars with advanced degrees for research projects. Funding is intended to support research in the areas of social sciences and humanities. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome. The f...
Grant of up to $1,000 to a USA, Canada, or International K-12 English language arts teacher to support research projects that enhance the quality of education in the field. Proposals must address a specific question or problem to be studied and provide a clear tim...
Grants of up to $5,000 to USA and territories visual artists, choreographers, and artists working in the film, video, digital, or electronic arts for urgent and unanticipated health care needs. Funding is intended to offset the financial impact of mental, dental, ...
Fellowships of up to $5,000 to USA, Canada, and International individuals to research an American folk singer and songwriter at an Oklahoma center. Research projects may take the form of audio or video presentations, writing, exhibitions, or other formats. The fel...
Award of $1,000 to a USA, Canada, or International individual to recognize lifetime achievement in the field of public folklore. Award criteria include public engagement, community impact, quality of scholarship, publications, artistry, and impact on the disciplin...
Grants of up to $1,000 to USA, Canada, and International cultural organizations, museums, archives, historic houses, and libraries for activities to advance awareness of collections conservation. Funding is intended for programs and projects that assist underresou...
Grants to USA and territories nonprofit organizations, government agencies, tribal governments, and IHEs for the translation and preparation of humanities texts. Applications are encouraged for long-term and short-term editorial projects, as well as projects that ...
Grants to USA and territories nonprofit organizations, government agencies, IHEs, and tribal governments for joint research projects on humanities-related topics. Applicants are advised that required registrations may take several weeks to complete. Funding is int...
Fellowships to USA and territories PhD scholars for academic research projects in the humanities and eligible social sciences. Fellowships are intended to support projects at all stages of development. Eligible proposals for social science research must utilize pr...
Grants of up to $20,000 to USA, Canada, and International artists and teams to design public murals for eligible locations. Funding is intended to beautify crosswalks throughout the city. The goal of the program is to utilize art as a means for calming traffic, en...
Cooperative agreements to USA and territories nonprofit organizations, tribes, for-profit organizations, states, IHEs, schools, and agencies to develop digital projects. Applicants must complete registrations before applying. Funding is intended for creative arts ...
Grants to USA, Canada, and International nonprofit music presenting and performing organizations for musical performances, operating support, and professional development. New applicants are required to create an account, and some applicants require approval prior...
Fellowships to USA, Canada, and International individuals to study, write, and work in a library in New York. This program is open to scholars, academics, translators, writers, and visual artists. The goal of this fellowship is to promote dynamic conversations abo...
Award of $10,000 and in-kind support to a USA, Canada, or International artist in eligible locations to recognize outstanding artistry. In addition to a $10,000 unrestricted monetary grant for the winner, the winner and runners-up will receive studio visits from s...
Grants to USA and territories state arts agencies and regional arts organizations for public arts programming. Applicants are advised that required registrations may take several weeks to complete. Funding is intended to allow agencies to meet local and regional g...
Grants of up to $10,000 to USA, Canada, and International nonprofit organizations, festivals, museums, and biennials for exhibits featuring artists from Israel. Funding is intended for a range of exhibitions, including institutional or independent projects, events...
Grants to USA, Canada, and International nonprofit cultural institutions and museums for artwork preservation projects. Funding is intended for the conservation of works of art that are of cultural and historical significance. Eligible artwork includes sculptures,...
Fellowships of $10,000 per month to USA, Canada, and International journalists, scholars, and other individuals to research global issues at a program in Washington, DC. The purpose of the program is to afford researchers the opportunity to engage with US policyma...
Opportunity for USA, Canada, and International amateur artists to enter a competition for science fiction and fantasy illustrations. The purpose of the contest is to provide fledgling artists with professional feedback and to expose their artwork to a larger audie...
Grants to USA, Canada, and International nonprofit organizations for arts-based projects and scientific research. Eligible organizations align themselves with one of the following areas of interest: art exhibitions, art preservation, art education, and general adv...
Opportunity for USA, Canada, and International artists to participate in a residency in eligible regions. Artists will have use of a darkroom to process their work on location. The purpose of the residency is to enable artists to produce site-specific images, incl...
Grants to U.S. Virgin Islands nonprofit arts organizations and individual artists for a range of arts-related projects and programs. Applicants must attend an application workshop before applying. Funding is intended to support general operations, projects, and te...
Fellowships to USA, Canada, and International scholars to pursue studies in the humanities. Funding is intended for scholars focusing on any area of humanities, as well as the arts, the professions, public life, and natural and social sciences. The residencies wil...
Residencies for USA, Canada, and International artists and scholars to perform research in France. Funding is intended for artists, scholars, and thinkers researching arts, culture, and the humanities. Applicants must be able to attend a ten-week residency, where ...
Grants of $10,000 to USA, Canada, and International publishing houses to support continued endeavors. Funding is intended to sustain independent artists' book publishers. Priority will be given to publishers that feature underrepresented and emerging artists and t...
Fellowships of $2,200 to USA, Canada, and International individuals for research, discussion, and the creation of works related to pre-twentieth-century American history, culture, and literature. Eligible applicants include filmmakers, performing artists, writers,...
Residencies for USA, Canada, and International artists to develop their artistic abilities. The opportunity is available to artists within the following disciplines: printing, book arts, and papermaking. In addition to a stipend, participants will have access to t...
Grants of up to $5,000 to USA, Canada, and International organizations, groups, and individuals for workshops and music programs that provide coaching and support to eligible amateur musicians. Funding may be used only for educational chamber music programs and wo...
Grants of up to $3,000 to USA and territories professional dancers for support in facing financial challenges caused by circumstances beyond their control. Eligible uses of funding include expenses related to food, housing, medical, transportation, and other essen...
Awards to USA, Canada, and International practitioners and scholars for exceptional work in the historical disciplines. The awards are intended for early and mid-career PhDs and individuals who have published at least one significant piece of work. Eligible discip...
Grants to USA and territories nonprofit arts organizations for operating support. Funding is intended to support and expand the performing arts, with a particular focus on theater and dance. Arts organizations that help support the development of theater and dance...
In-kind grants to USA, Canada, and International artists for the production of sculptures. The purpose of this program is to help artists in need engineer large-scale art sculptures by providing mechanical and structural engineering services. Services may include ...
Grants to USA, Canada, and International nonprofit organizations, for-profits, churches, municipal organizations, and individuals for projects to promote writing in the speculative fiction genre. Funding is intended for a wide range of activities, including semina...
Grant of $750 to a USA graduate student for medieval art and architecture research. Applicants should be early-stage graduate students that focus on art that coincides with the medieval world. Eligible uses of funds include research and the dissemination of findin...
Grants to USA and territories nonprofit, independent, academic, and community-based organizations for the creation of digital representations of unique historical and cultural materials. An initial application must be submitted prior to the final application. Fund...
Opportunity for USA, Canada, and International individuals to participate in an art contest to depict the impact of diabetes. Eligible applicants are anyone whose life has been affected by diabetes, whether they have the condition themselves or are supporting some...
Fellowships to USA, Canada, and International university-affiliated scholars for Greek history research projects. Fellows will have access to library resources, school archives, special collections, and rare books with material related to the subject of Greece in ...
Fellowships of $40,000 to USA and territories early mid-career artists and scholars for independent projects related to arts, architecture, and culture. Fellowships are intended to provide time to complete independent works and are frequently used to supplement sa...
Fellowships of up to $2,000 to USA, Canada, and International scholars for research related to government, history, arts, and legal and public policy related to Arizona, the West, and northern Mexico. Funding is intended to offset the costs of travel, living expen...
Grants to USA, Canada, and International nonprofit organizations, theater companies, educational organizations, and individuals for musical performances and projects. Funding is intended for a broad range of expenses related to performances, research, and publicat...