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 Visual Arts
Getty Foundation
OVERVIEW: An iconic arts funder, the Getty Foundation funds a variety of projects in support of the visual arts, art museums, art conservation, and art history. While visual art is prioritized, Getty also funds culture and the humanities. Grantmaking … [Read more...] about Getty Foundation
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
OVERVIEW: The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts prioritizes architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The foundation gives grants to both individuals and organizations with this directive. IP TAKE: The … [Read more...] about Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation awards grants to early-career artists in painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking. IP TAKE: This funder supports individual artists, not organizations. However, grants can stack across multiple … [Read more...] about Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
Ford Foundation
Artist Trust
OVERVIEW: Artist Trust supports individual artists working in any discipline or disciplines of visual and/or performing arts in Washington state. IP TAKE: Artist Trust is a valuable funding and professional development resource for artists … [Read more...] about Artist Trust
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
Women Photograph
OVERVIEW: Women Photograph supports women, gender nonconforming, transgender, genderqueer and nonbinary photographers. IP TAKE: Women Photograph seeks to support documentary photography from a diversity of gender perspectives. While it is an … [Read more...] about Women Photograph
Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Family Foundation focuses its New York City grantmaking on the arts and education. The couple's largest sums go to arts and cultural institutions, particularly The Met. IP TAKE: The Brodsky Family … [Read more...] about Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Family Foundation
Winston Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Winston Foundation is a New York-based private foundation with broad interests spanning higher education, health, civil rights, arts and culture, the environment and human services. Its grantmaking has a strong New York and Northeast … [Read more...] about Winston Foundation
New York Foundation for the Arts
OVERVIEW: The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) provides artists and art organizations with cash grants, fiscal sponsorship, online resources and training. IP TAKE: The New York Foundation for the Arts is an unusually accessible arts funder, … [Read more...] about New York Foundation for the Arts
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
George A. & Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
Kohler Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Kohler Foundation supports arts and education programs primarily in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, with additional grantmaking in rural communities elsewhere in the state. It also operates significant scholarship and art preservation … [Read more...] about Kohler Foundation
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation supports professional visual artists around the world, primarily through unrestricted grants for painters, sculptors and artists working on paper. Its main artist grant program accepts applications year-round. … [Read more...] about Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Arcadia Fund
OVERVIEW: The Arcadia Fund’s grantmaking centers around environmental conservation, cultural heritage and open access media. IP TAKE: Arcadia is a major international funder with a relatively unusual grantmaking structure. Its direct strategic … [Read more...] about Arcadia Fund
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
Anonymous Was a Woman
OVERVIEW: Anonymous Was A Woman provides significant support to women, gender-nonconforming and trans artists, especially to those over 40 years old. IP TAKE: Anonymous Was A Woman is an unusual funder because its two main grant programs offer … [Read more...] about Anonymous Was a Woman
VIA Art Fund
OVERVIEW: VIA Art Fund supports contemporary visual art through artistic production grants and an annual curatorial fellowship. IP TAKE: VIA is considerably more accessible than a strictly invitation-only arts funder. Its core Artistic Production … [Read more...] about VIA Art Fund
Turing Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Amsterdam-based Turing Foundation's specific areas of giving include sustainble food systems, marine conservation, leprosy research, music education and visual arts. IP TAKE: The Netherlands' based Turing Foundation tends to refine … [Read more...] about Turing Foundation
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artadia
OVERVIEW: Artadia supports visual artists in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco and New York with unrestricted grants. IP TAKE: Artadia is a fairly transparent funder with a rigorous application process that includes two … [Read more...] about Artadia
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
Dobkin Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Dobkin Family Foundation supports Jewish organizations, women and girls, documentary film and media, and select arts, human rights and social justice organizations. Its giving has significant ties to New York, but also reaches national … [Read more...] about Dobkin Family Foundation
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation supports educational programs and advocacy for children with learning differences. It also makes grants for visual arts and the environment. IP TAKE: The Tremaine Foundation’s largest grantmaking … [Read more...] about Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
Amon G. Carter Foundation
OVERVIEW: This funder makes grants to promote and strengthen Tarrant County, Texas, which includes Fort Worth. IP TAKE: This approachable funder prioritizes grantmaking in Tarrant County, Texas almost exclusively; however, it does support a few … [Read more...] about Amon G. Carter Foundation
Deutsche Bank Americas
OVERVIEW: Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation supports community development, education, workforce and economic opportunity, social and creative enterprise, and related arts and cultural work. Funding is heavily concentrated in New York City, although … [Read more...] about Deutsche Bank Americas
Terra Foundation for American Art
OVERVIEW: The Terra Foundation for American Art makes broad grants for exhibitions and academic programs in order to increase access to and appreciation of American Art in the U.S. and around the world. The foundation has also run local grantmaking … [Read more...] about Terra Foundation for American Art
