OVERVIEW: The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation is a broad, nationally oriented funder that awards relatively modest grants to a large and varied group of nonprofits. Its interests include arts and culture, education, health and human services, … [Read more...] about Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
Grants for Creative Writing
Ford Foundation
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation offers three-month residencies to visual artists, writers and composers on its 15-acre campus in Taos, New Mexico. IP TAKE: The Wurlitzer Foundation does not award traditional grants. Its philanthropy … [Read more...] about Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
OVERVIEW: The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity supports Jewish causes, education and human rights causes around the world. IP TAKE: The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity is singularly focused on issues important to its founder, the Holocaust … [Read more...] about Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Whiting Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Whiting Foundation supports grants for ambitious creative fiction projects in a wide variety of subject areas. These grants are awarded to emerging writers so they can fully devote themselves to their literary work. It also … [Read more...] about Whiting Foundation
Women in Film
OVERVIEW: Women in Film supports early-stage women, nonbinary and trans filmmakers and industry professionals with workshops, fellowships and other career development programs. IP TAKE: Women in Film is an important resource for women, nonbinary … [Read more...] about Women in Film
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
OVERVIEW: The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music supports performance, scholarly output and professional development related to the work and lives of Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya and Marc Blitzstein. IP TAKE: This is a niche music funder that limits … [Read more...] about The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Penguin Random House Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Penguin Random House Foundation runs awards programs for students, teachers and libraries. It also sponsors and donates books to events and organizations related to literature and reading. IP TAKE: Grant seekers should understand … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House Foundation
Poetry Foundation
Puffin Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Puffin Foundation makes small grants to artists and arts organizations “who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities.” It also funds annual awards for human rights activism and “creative citizenship” and provides ongoing support … [Read more...] about Puffin Foundation
Haven Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Haven Foundation provides emergency financial assistance to professional freelance artists whose careers and livelihoods have been disrupted by illness, injury, disability, natural disaster or other serious hardship. Founded by author … [Read more...] about Haven Foundation
George A. & Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
Hawthornden Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Hawthornden Foundation supports contemporary writers and literary arts organizations in the United States, United Kingdom and internationally. Its work includes invitation-only grants to literary nonprofits, writer residencies in … [Read more...] about Hawthornden Foundation
PEN America
OVERVIEW: In addition to its prestigious awards program, PEN America offers grants and fellowships to writers working in various styles and genres. It has recently established two grantmaking programs for community projects concerning press freedom … [Read more...] about PEN America
Gloria’s Foundation
OVERVIEW: Gloria’s Foundation is a New York City-based private operating foundation established around the home, archives and organizing legacy of feminist activist and writer Gloria Steinem. The foundation supports feminist and social justice work … [Read more...] about Gloria’s Foundation
Gates Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Gates Foundation funds nonprofit and for-profit organizations in dozens of issue areas. Grantmaking is global in scope, with partnerships in over 130 countries. IP TAKE: The Gates Foundation remains one of the most powerful … [Read more...] about Gates Foundation
Ohioana Library Association
OVERVIEW: The Ohioana Library Association prioritizes the work of Ohio writers. IP TAKE: Ohioana is a niche prospect for writers rather than a traditional foundation prospect. Its clearest funding opportunity is the $1,000 Walter Rumsey Marvin … [Read more...] about Ohioana Library Association
Greater Cincinnati Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation supports youth, arts and culture, health, women and girls, safety net, environmental sustainability, inclusivity and other community needs in eight counties surrounding Cincinnati, Ohio. IP TAKE: Greater … [Read more...] about Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Playwrights’ Center
OVERVIEW: The Playwrights’ Center supports playwrights in all stages of their careers. The state of Minnesota is an area of grantmaking priority. IP TAKE: The Playwrights’ Center focuses on “inclusive theater-making” and envisions “an equitable, … [Read more...] about Playwrights’ Center
United States Artists
OVERVIEW: United States Artists provides unrestricted grants and professional support to artists and cultural practitioners across the United States and its island jurisdictions. Its flagship fellowship supports 10 creative disciplines, while … [Read more...] about United States Artists
Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
OVERVIEW: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage awards grants exclusively to organizations and individuals in the five-county Philadelphia area. IP TAKE: Described by its Executive Director as an organization with a “dual identity as both a … [Read more...] about Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
PayPal Giving Fund
OVERVIEW: The PayPal Giving Fund supports a wide variety of causes in the United States and around the world, including health, education, the environment, LGBTQ, veterans, global development, humanitarian relief, immigrants and refugees, and … [Read more...] about PayPal Giving Fund
Seattle Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Seattle Foundation is a large community foundation that pursues racial and economic equity through community-led grantmaking, policy and advocacy, impact investing and cross-sector partnerships. IP TAKE: The Seattle … [Read more...] about Seattle Foundation
Arts Midwest
OVERVIEW: Arts Midwest’s grant, fellowship and residency programs support a broad range of artistic and cultural programs and events in the Midwest. IP TAKE: Arts Midwest is a significant arts funder and intermediary with a broad reach, but … [Read more...] about Arts Midwest
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Bonfils-Stanton Foundation is a Denver-based private foundation supporting arts, culture and leadership. Its grantmaking is strongly place-based, with most core arts funding concentrated in the city of Denver, although several programs … [Read more...] about Bonfils-Stanton Foundation
Anderson Center
OVERVIEW: The Anderson Center offers two-week and one-month residency programs to artists working in a diverse range of disciplines. IP TAKE: The Anderson Center welcomes artists "who are divers in every way" from anywhere in the world to its two- … [Read more...] about Anderson Center
American Association of University Women
OVERVIEW: This funder supports women undergraduate and graduate higher education, as well as those pursuing careers in academia. Women from underrepresented backgrounds are a priority. IP TAKE: AAUW offers more grantseeker access than many … [Read more...] about American Association of University Women
American Antiquarian Society
OVERVIEW: AAS funds fellowships that support research on American history, arts and culture through the year 1876. IP TAKE: The American Antiquarian Society’s prestigious fellowships are limited to research that involves the holdings of the … [Read more...] about American Antiquarian Society
Amazon
OVERVIEW: Amazon supports affordable housing, STEM and technology education, food access, disaster relief, climate and nature, literary organizations, nonprofit technology projects, scientific research and place-based community initiatives. Its … [Read more...] about Amazon
Authors Guild
OVERVIEW: The Authors Guild Foundation is the charitable arm of the Authors Guild, a professional association for writers. The Foundation supports advocacy for writers’ rights and free expression, educational programs for writers and aspiring … [Read more...] about Authors Guild
