• Upcoming Artist Grants and Opportunities

  • Check out this helpful list of upcoming grants. List put together by Mass Cultural Council.

• Resist! Rapid Response Grants

  • ​Resist offers $1,000 Rapid Response grants to better meet the needs of frontline groups and organizations. This grant is decided on by Resist staff and generally has a one week turn around.​​​

  • Learn more and apply here!

• Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants

  • Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. To meet artists’ last-minute needs in a timely manner, FCA’s Emergency Grants panel meets monthly to review requests.Each month FCA receives an average of 95 Emergency Grant applications and makes approximately 12-18 grants. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,900.

  • Applications are rolling. Learn more and apply here!

• The Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation

  • BJFF primarily provides funds to support education, art, and outreach programs and projects. In general, the foundation desires to support specific activities that result in a defined outcome rather than general operating funds or fundraising campaigns. Funding requests between $1,000 and $10,000 will receive greater consideration.

  • Deadline is rolling. Learn more and apply here!

• Music Drives Us

  • ​Music Drives Us strives to accomplish its mission to inspire New England’s musicians of tomorrow by supporting their music opportunities today by offering Instrument, Performance, and Organizational grants.

  • Deadlines on each of these grants are rolling. Learn more and apply here!​​

• The Shubert Foundation

  • ​The Foundation provides unrestricted grants for general operating support, with a particular emphasis on theatre and a secondary focus on dance. The minimum grant amount is $15,000.

  • Theatre applications are due December 14. Learn more and apply here!

• Cultural Facilities Fund

  • ​Grants to support the acquisition, design, repair, rehabilitation, renovation, expansion, or construction of nonprofit cultural facilities. Nonprofit cultural organizations, municipalities, and colleges or universities that own or lease cultural facilities are eligible to apply. Grants range from $7,000 to $200,000.

  • Deadline to apply is December 19. Learn more and apply here!

• Cultural Sustainability Grant

  • ​Cultural Sustainability is a one-time grantmaking and learning program nationally funded by The Wallace Foundation and delivered regionally by the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations. NEFA is delighted to offer substantial, non-matching operating support grants up to $100,000 to arts organizations of color with annual operating expenses under $500,000.

  • Deadline to apply is November 21. Learn more and apply here!

• Public Art for Spatial Justice

  • ​Public Art for Spatial Justice aims to support public artmaking that helps us see, feel, experience and imagine spatial justice now, while we are still on this journey towards realizing more just futures for our public spaces and public culture.

  • Deadline to apply is December 2. Learn more and apply here!

• Gaming Mitigation Fund

  • ​Grants to Massachusetts nonprofit and municipal performing arts centers to spend on touring shows or touring artist fees. Grants start at $6,000.

  • Deadline to apply is January 9. Learn more and apply here!

• Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation

  • Applications for the 2025 Individual Support Grants program will award $25,000 in support of mature painters, sculptors, and printmakers who have been creating art for at least 20 years and who are in financial need. Twenty grants are awarded per year. Applicants must demonstrate that they have been working in a mature phase of their art for at least 20 years. ​

  • Deadline to apply is January 15. Learn more and apply here!

• National Endowment for the Arts Big Read​

  • The NEA Big Read is a grant of up to $20,000 to help bring communities together around the shared activity of reading and discussing the same book. Each applicant organization selects one of 22 available books from the NEA Big Read library; engages with community partners to develop, conduct, and promote engaging literary and artistic programs that illuminate the book and theme; and offers events and activities related to the theme and chosen book.

  • LOI is due January 23. Learn more and apply here!​

• The Robert F. Schumann Foundation

  • ​Giving is primarily available to support environmental sustainability, education, and the arts and humanities. The foundation typically does not fund requests for general operations. There are no geographic limitations; however, organizations located in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and East Coast regions generally will be given special consideration. 

  • Deadline to apply is February 28. Learn more and apply here!

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