The Queens Community Arts Grant provides support to Queens-based community organizations, groups and collectives to hold arts and cultural projects or activities for the public in Queens to enhance the cultural climate in communities and neighborhoods where they live and operate - to make the arts accessible to all. 

Grant amount: $1,000 - $7,500 per project

Deadline: Thursday, December 18th, 2025

Applications open on September 3rd, 2025. For more information, click here. First-time applicants are required to attend an information session.  

The Artists in Queens Grant supports individual artists that live in Queens for the creation of new work in a community setting. These grants highlight the role of artists as important members of the community as they enhance the cultural climate in communities and neighborhoods where they live and work. 

Grant amount: $5,000 per artist

Deadline: Thursday, December 18th, 2025

Applications open on September 3rd, 2025. For more information, click here. First-time applicants are required to attend an information session.

The Awesome Foundation distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators. 

Deadline: Rolling

Application can be found here. 

Black women founders are the fastest growing demographic of entrepreneurs out of any throughout history. These founders are best equipped to solve some of the world’s largest unmet needs, and have a legacy of reinvesting in their communities and creating intergenerational wealth. However, Black women entrepreneurs are met with the greatest barriers to accessing capital.

This perpetual systemic discrimination, the unwillingness & inability of Silicon Valley and venture capitalists to effectively diversify their investments, the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on entrepreneurs of color, and generations of inequities against Black people are absolutely inexcusable.

SoGal Foundation has teamed up with Winky Lux, bluemercury, twelveNYC, Twilio, and other sponsors to make a small step towards progress by providing several $10K and $5K cash grants to Black women or nonbinary entrepreneurs.

Awardees will also receive tactical help navigating the fundraising environment at large so that they will have a more equitable opportunity at scaling the next billion dollar idea. They will also receive lifetime “ask-me-anything” access to the SoGal Foundation and SoGal Ventures teams. We know this is a small start, and we are hopeful that it will grow. We believe in a brighter future where the next world changing business does not go unrealized because of systemic discrimination.

To qualify, you should:

– self-identify as a Black woman or Black nonbinary entrepreneur (inclusive of multiracial Black women and multiracial Black nonbinary folks)

– have a legally registered business

– plan to seek investor financing in order to scale, now or in the future

– have a scalable, high-impact solution or idea with the ambition to be the next billion dollar business.

Deadline: Rolling

To apply, click here.

Grants for individual Native artists and culture bearers who are in need of quick financial assistance for an artistic opportunity, emergency situation and/or sudden unanticipated expense related to their art practice or business.

KEY INFORMATION

Grant amount: $100-$1,000

Application deadline: 3:00pm MT on the 10th of every month

For more information and to apply, click here. 

The Audience Innovations Fund is a new program that promotes fresh strategies to grow audiences for independent film releases. They do this through awarding grants for bold experiments around distribution and marketing, and by providing educational resources for film teams to encourage a renewed focus on audiences. They will also release case studies and data publicly so that the field as a whole can learn from the successes and failures of grantees.

Long term goals are simply larger audiences for independent cinema as well as audiences that are more representative of the US population. In a challenging time for our field, their strategy is to offset the risk of testing new methodologies to strengthen the engagement with thought-provoking films in our culture. You can apply for a grant amount from $5,000 to $50,000. The amount you apply for should not exceed 50% of the overall marketing budget for the film or films.

They are currently focused on US theatrical and non-theatrical releases.

Requirements

To apply for a grant, you must:

• Be a for-profit or nonprofit organization or entity that can demonstrate previous experience distributing and marketing independent feature films.
• Include a specific film or film slate in your proposal.
• Be willing to share back available data around the proposal’s success.
• They prioritize entities who have demonstrated that they value diversity in race, gender, sexual orientation, and those with disabilities, as well as applicants who look to expand audiences from traditionally excluded communities.
• Streamer/studio owned entities and vertically integrated companies (those that fund, produce and distribute films) are not eligible.
  

Deadline: Rolling

For more information and to apply, visit here.

We Are Moving The Needle has launched a new MicroGrants Fund for Wildfire Relief to provide targeted support for producers, engineers and creators affected by the Greater Los Angeles Wildfires. Grants will be available on a sliding scale from $100 to $1,000 based on demonstrated need. Support is aimed at those whose livelihoods and careers have been significantly impacted by loss of a studio, gear, or other critical infrastructure related to your career in audio.

Requirements

• In alignment with We Are Moving The Needle’s mission to advance equity in the music industry, this specific MicroGrants initiative will provide targeted support for early and mid-career audio professionals affected by the Los Angeles wildfires.
• To be eligible, you must be a U.S. citizen or have permanent U.S. residency status.

Apply online. Deadline: Rolling.

Each month FCA receives an average of 100 Emergency Grant applications and makes approximately 12-21 grants. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,900.

Created in 1993 to further FCA’s mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who: 

• Have sudden, unanticipated 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.

Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.

Requirements

• Applicants must be living in the United States or U.S. territories and have a U.S. Tax ID Number (SSN, EIN, ITIN, or other)
• Applicants must have committed performance or exhibition opportunities, and be able to provide specific dates at the time of application.
• Applicants must be individual artists, or an individual representing an artist collective, ensemble, or group. Curators, producers, workshop organizers, organizations, or arts presenters are not eligible to apply.
• Applicants may not reapply for a project for which they have previously been denied funding.
• There is a three-year (36-month) waiting period between grants. Emergency Grants and Grants to Artists recipients must wait three years from the time of their grant before applying for an Emergency Grant.
• If you were a lead artist on a project that received an Emergency Grant in the last three years, or if a primary collaborator on your current project received a Grants to Artists award or an Emergency Grant in the last three years, you are not eligible to apply.
  

Application instructions here. 

Deadline: Rolling

The US Writers Aid Initiative (USWAI) is intended to assist fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, playwrights, translators, and journalists in addressing short-term financial emergencies. To be eligible, applicants must be professional writers based in the United States, and be able to demonstrate that this one-time grant will be meaningful in helping address a short-term emergency situation. The fund is limited, and not every application can be supported. Grant decisions are made on a quarterly basis by a volunteer committee of literary peers in consultation with PEN America staff.

Requirements

Writers currently enrolled in degree-granting programs are also not eligible. Writers do not have to be Members of PEN America to receive a grant, but all recipients of emergency funding will be given a complimentary one-year PEN America membership.

Application Instructions

Questions may be addressed to [email protected]
For application instructions, please visit here.

Deadline: Rolling

Grantees will be selected monthly through a weighted lottery and announced from August 2025 through April 2026.The DWR Fund provides one-time $1,000 grants to freelance dancers for eligible, contracted dance work completed between January 1, 2025 and April 30, 2026.

Dance/NYC is proud to introduce the Dance Workforce Resilience (DWR) Fund, a new regranting program for freelance dancers in the NYC metropolitan area. Made possible through support from the Ford Foundation, The New York Community Trust, and other generous funders, the DWR Fund is designed to promote fair labor practices and address wage inequities across the dance field.

The Fund intends to:

• help close the gap between what freelance dancers earn and what it costs to live in the NYC area
• encourage fair working practices by supporting the use of written contracts
• support those most impacted by systemic inequities, including African, Latina/o/x, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA), disabled, immigrant, older adults, women-identifying, gender nonconforming/nonbinary/genderqueer, and transgender dancers

Requirements
You may be eligible if you:
* Are 18 or older
* Live in the NYC metro area (includes the five boroughs, Long Island counties, Westchester, Rockland, Bergen and Hudson counties)
* Worked under a contract as a dancer on project-based work between January 1, 2025 and April 30, 2026
* Can provide proof of contract
* Contracts must include terms such as pay rate, contract period, working hours, dancer role, and independent contractor status. Full details on eligibility requirements can be found online.

Deadline: Mar 03, 2026