grants 101: April 2024
Bill Fischer Award
https://form.jotform.com/louisvillevisualart/2023-fischer-award-for-visual-art
Deadline: 8 April 2024
$10,000
The Bill Fischer Award for Visual Artists is a $10,000 cash prize designed to make a meaningful impact on the career of a visual artist residing in the Louisville Metro Area by providing support in the form of grants for the execution and exhibition of artwork and other efforts to foster a professional career as a visual artist. Recipients of the Fischer Award must show a commitment to experimentation and the creative use of materials and techniques, and a commitment to pursuing a career as a professional working visual artist.
Dream Makers Founder Grant
https://nancytwine.com/thegrant/
Deadline: 30 April 2024
The Dream Makers Founder Grant is a $1 Million grant fund that has been established by Nancy R. Twine to drive a dedicated effort to support female entrepreneurs, particularly spotlighting the talents and innovations of Black and BIPOC founders in the consumer goods industry. This grant aims to bridge the resource gap and help emerging businesses flourish, reach new audiences, and achieve their full potential.
Y Combinator
https://www.ycombinator.com/apply
Deadline: 22 April 2024
The batch will take place in-person in San Francisco. It kicks off with a 3-day, in-person retreat and features weekly meetups in San Francisco.
CFL Sparking Change Mini-Grant
https://cflouisville.formstack.com/forms/2024_sparking_change_mini_grant
Deadline: Rolling
Supported by the Foundation's Action Areas, the Community Foundation of Louisville will award three $1,000 grants each month to organizations whose operating budgets are under $250,000. This grant is open to any verified nonprofit, and organizations only need to apply once within a calendar year to be considered each month thereafter. An organization can only be awarded this $1,000 grant once in one calendar year.
Small Business Association
https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/grants
Note: SBA does not provide grants for starting and expanding a business; SBA provides grants to nonprofits, Resource Partners, and educational organizations. These grants aim to support entrepreneurship through counseling and training programs; SBA only communicates from email addresses ending in @sba.gov. If you are contacted by someone claiming to be from SBA, check their address. If they are not using an official SBA email address, you should suspect and report fraud.
Step Grant
https://kyexports.com/step-grant/
State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) grant is available to reimburse for allowable development expenses.
Fearless Fund
https://www.fearless.fund/apply
Deadline: Rolling
Venture funding for women of color
Polluck Krasner Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Artists can apply to The Pollock-Krasner Foundation by submitting an online application. Requirements for consideration are the application form, a cover letter, a current resume including an exhibition record, and ten digital images of current work with a corresponding identification list. All applications will be promptly acknowledged and considered.
FCA Emergency Grant
https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants/
Deadline: rolling
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.
Pollination Project
https://thepollinationproject.org/
Deadline: rolling
$1,000-$10,000
Our network of sixty five grant advisors and five country coordinators, each an expert in their respective fields, leads our funding decisions.
This participatory grantmaking process aligns with our ethos of empowering individuals on the front lines to effect positive change within their communities, cultures, and countries.
The Awesome Foundation
https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en
Deadline: rolling
$1,000
Have a crazy brilliant idea that needs funding? We award $1,000 grants every month. It couldn't be simpler! Your idea is yours alone. We don't want a stake in it. We just want to help you make it happen!
Thank Offering Grant
https://www.pcusa.org/resource/thank-offering-grant-application-word-versio-19139/
Deadline: 15 September 2024
Thank Offering grants range from $5,000 to $50,000. Grant requests come from a variety of sources including PC(USA) governing bodies, health agencies, overseas churches, ecumenical councils, community groups, educational institutions and church related groups. The offering funds projects such as agricultural development, child care, community organization, criminal justice, drug counseling, economic justice, elderly care, employment training, homelessness, literacy, violence and women’s concerns. At least 40 percent of this offering supports health ministries throughout the world. Projects must meet the criteria established by Presbyterian Women.
Venmo Small Business Grant
https://venmo.com/business/small-business-grant/
Deadline: August 2024
Eligibility: can promptly provide all government (i.e., secretary of state) documentation requested by Sponsor or Administrator to show proof of business status;is active and has sold at least $500 worth of goods or services within the three (3) months prior to the start of the Grant Program Period (defined in Section 4 below); and employs ten (10) employees or less with less than $50,000 in annual sales.
Youth Services Center Partnership Grant
https://cflouisville.formstack.com/forms/2024_youth_services_center_grant_application
Deadline: 19 April 2024
The Community Foundation of Louisville is looking to support organizations with grants of up to $20,000 that enhance the safety, well-being, and educational outcomes of JCPS middle and high school students. This grant is supported by the Fund for Louisville - Louisville's People Action Area. View frequently asked questions and Info Session recording.
Community Safety & Healing Fund
https://cflouisville.formstack.com/forms/cshf_round4
Deadline: 13 May 2024
The Community Safety & Healing Fund is now accepting grant applications from 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations working in Louisville, KY, that can expand their capacity for summer violence prevention programming with continued support for young people ages 15-24. An informational webinar will be held on April 19th at 10:30 a.m. This Fund is supported by the Fund for Louisville - Louisville's Well-Being Action Area.
Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation – 2024 Grant for Writing on Sculpture
Committed to supporting the field of sculpture, in 2024 the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation will award a $20,000 grant to a writer who demonstrates fresh thinking on the history, aesthetics, and/or purposes of sculpture.
Deadline: May 31, 2024 | jonathanandbarbarasilverfoundation.org
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation – Curatorial Advancement Grants
Contemporary art curators can apply for funding ranging from $500 to $10,000, with terms of up to one year (no match is required). Up to 25% of the request can include staff time and overhead.
Deadline: May 1, 2024 (11:45pm EDT) | tremainefoundation.org
Fundación Botín – Art Grants 2024/2025
DeadlineL 3 May 2024
Artists from around the world can apply for €23,000 in funding to support individual projects that may require training (academic or otherwise), non-academic research, and production.
Queer | Art – Illuminations Grant
Awarded to draw attention to an existing body of work, this annual $10,000 grant is intended to support and shed light on Black trans women visual artists. Four finalists will also each receive $1,250.
Deadline: June 30, 2024 | queer-art.org
Sound Art + Experimental Music Open Call: 2025
Omaha, NE
Deadline: 8 April 2024
This opportunity offers a unique experience for two artists working in sound, composition, voice, and experimental genres and tools. National and international artists participating in the program receive financial, technical, and administrative support, along with dedicated facilities for rehearsing, recording, and performing new works that expand the field of sound art and music. Selected artists will enjoy a generously sized, private live/work studio.
Artist in Residence at The Latinx Project
Deadline: 15 April 2024
The Latinx Project Artist-in-Residence program is open to emerging and mid-career artists based in the United States. The selected artist will present a solo exhibition on campus with the option of curatorial support and a public program. The most compelling applications engage with larger contemporary or historic dialogues in Latinx Studies.
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
Deadline: 15 April 2024
The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. Among the largest awards offered to young poets in the US, the $27,000 prize is intended to support exceptional U.S. poets between 21 and 31 years of age.
Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants
Deadline: 16 April 2024
The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) will distribute a total of $300,000 in funding—up to $20,000 per project—to support environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Digital Publication
Deadline: 17 April 2024
Fellowships for Digital Publication are competitive awards granted to individual scholars to support interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. Competitive submissions embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
Strokes of Genius Fellowship
Deadline: 21 April 2024
Invested in the creativity and cultural production of Black artists and arts professionals, this open application program provides artists, curators, journalists and scholars with funding to develop new creative projects.
National Academy of Design Abbey Mural Prize
Deadline: 22 April 2024
Artists, architects, designers, arts and community-based organizations, and other nonprofits can apply for grants ranging from $10,000 to $40,000 to create or restore public murals in the U.S.
Sista Creatives Rising The Sistas Uprising Fund
Deadline: 5 May 2024
Sista Creatives Rising (SCR) is a project founded by Black, invisibly disabled mother-daughter duo Claire Jones and Amaranthia Sepia. Seven women of color and femme-expressing creatives of color in any medium, based in the US and Canada, will receive a $200 micro-grant by submitting a two-minute video about how funds will help, artwork, and additional details.
Hopper Prize
Deadline: 14 May 2024
The Hopper Prize provides unrestricted cash grants in the amount of $3,500 and $1,000 to artists around the globe. We view the field of visual art in its broadest and most inclusive sense and therefore make awards available to artists working in any media.
James Laughlin Award
Deadline: 15 May 2024
The James Laughlin Award recognizes and supports a second book of poetry forthcoming in the next calendar year. The winning poet receives $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution of the winning book to approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.
Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2024 Grant for Writing on Sculpture
Deadline: 31 May 2024
This grant from the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation encourages and supports sculptors, whether emerging or established, and writers about sculpture. In 2024 the Foundation will award a $20,000 grant to a writer who demonstrates fresh thinking on the history, aesthetics, and/or purposes of sculpture.
Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grants
Deadline: Rolling
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program provides interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident. The maximum amount of this grant is $15,000; an award of $5,000 is typical.