FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
ARTS 305 RESILIENCY GRANTS
Include a list of grants and other resources for non-profit arts organizations and cultural institutions, as well as for individual artists seeking funding and opportunities to support artistic and environmentally focused programs, projects, and practices. This list includes grants, residencies and open calls with May, June, and July deadlines, as well as opportunities offered on a rolling basis. Please feel free to send us other opportunities that you may be aware of and we will add them to this list (forward opportunities to culture@miamidade.gov.)
GRANTS FOR ORGANIZATIONS
February 2025
The Miami Foundation 2025 Community Grants
Deadline: February 28, 2025
To support nonprofits addressing a variety of community issues. Among several categories, note Inspiring Arts and Culture. This category will catalyze work that champions the diversity of our community, expands access to arts and culture experiences for residents, or increases opportunities for artistic expression.
Community Giving Program 2025
Deadline: February 28, 2025
The Coral Gables Community Foundation awards grants to deserving local non-profit organizations that address issues within our focus areas and serve those who live, work, learn and play in Coral Gables.
March 2025
Brabson Family Foundation
Deadline: March 1, 2025
The purpose of this program is to support innovative ideas that may have a significant and long-term impact especially in education, sciences, and the arts. Eligibility is limited to organizations with an active 501c3 status. Award Ceiling: N/A.
NEA Grants for Arts Projects
Deadline: March 11, 2025 (GAP 1); July 10, 2025 (GAP 2)
NOTE: Projects funded through the Challenge America program are also eligible in Grants for Arts Projects. If you are planning an Artist Community or Design program, be aware that applications for these disciplines are accepted at the March Grants for Arts Projects deadline only. The Challenge America opportunity is canceled for FY 2026.
Mellon Foundation Community-Based Archives
Deadline: March 12, 2025
The purpose of this program is to provide support in one or more of the following areas of need: operational costs, including staff, space, and utilities; collections care, including the acquisition of new materials, physical and digital storage fees, and access and preservation efforts; and programming activities, including events, exhibitions, and increased community usage. Eligibility is limited to community-based archives. Community-based archives are defined as organizations that gather and share materials as members of under-documented communities to preserve and celebrate their collective histories. Award Ceiling: $100,000.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Research Grants in the Arts (RGA)
Deadline: March 24, 2025
The purpose of this program is to support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecosystem or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Eligibility is limited to city, township, county, special district, and state governments; Native American tribal governments (federally recognized); independent school districts; private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher education; and nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education. Award Ceiling: $100,000.
April 2025
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Native American Library Services Enhancement Grants
Deadline: April 1, 2025
The purpose of this program is to assist eligible Native Communities in sustaining and improving library services with their communities. Eligibility is limited to Native American tribal governments (federally recognized). Award Ceiling: $150,000.
U.S. Department of State (DOS) Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Grants Program (AFCP)
Deadline: April 30, 2025
The purpose of this program is to help protect historic buildings, archaeological sites, museum collections, and traditional cultural expressions like indigenous languages and crafts around the world. Eligibility is limited to Foreign Institutions of Higher Education, Foreign-Based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Foreign Public Entities (where permitted), Public International Organizations and Governmental Institutions, U.S. Institutions of Higher Education, U.S. Non-Profit Organizations (IRS section 501(c)(3)). Award Ceiling: $500,000.
May 2025
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archives Collaboratives
Deadline: May 7, 2025
The purpose of this program is to support three or more repositories working together to make their collections more readily available for public discovery and use. The Commission welcomes collaborations that target institutional advancement for small and underserved local archives and repositories, especially those with collections that focus on the voices and perspectives of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Eligibility is limited to city, township, county, and state governments; Native American tribal governments (federally recognized); private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher education; and nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education. Award Ceiling: $120,000.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions
Deadline: May 7, 2025
The purpose of this program is to support projects to publish online editions of historical records. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio. Eligibility is limited to city, township, county, and state governments; Native American tribal governments (federally recognized); private, public, and state controlled institutions of higher education; and nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education. Award Ceiling: $125,000.
June 2025
Vilcek Foundation Grants
Deadline: June 30, 2025
The purpose of this program is to support nonprofit organizations that work with immigrant artists and communities, and that promote diversity in the arts, sciences, education, and humanities. Eligibility is limited to nonprofit organizations operating under U.S. IRS Section 501(c)(3) based in the United States or within the U.S. territories. Award Ceiling: N/A.
GRANTS FOR ORGANIZATIONS ON A ROLLING BASIS
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports grantees within four defined program areas: Higher Education and Scholarship in Humanities; International Higher Education and Strategic Projects; Scholarly Communications; and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Prospective grantees should review program area guidelines before inquiring about grant support.
If an organization believes that strong alignment exists with Oak Foundation’s funding priorities, the foundation encourages the organization to submit an unsolicited letter of enquiry. The Foundation will invite the organization to apply for a grant if they also find alignment with their funding priorities and if there is available budget.
The Awesome Foundation, Miami Chapter
Deadlines are the 15th of every month.
Applications are reviewed on a monthly basis and grants are up to $1,000.
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) accepts Letters of Inquiry year-round. NCF is a multigenerational family foundation, rooted in the Jewish tradition of social justice, working to create a more just, vibrant, sustainable, and democratic society through its grantmaking in the United States and Israel. Over the last 27 years, NCF has awarded half a billion dollars in grants to support movements, organizations and individuals pursuing justice for people and the planet.
GRANTS FOR ARTISTS & ARTIST RESIDENCIES
March 2025
Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Grants Program
Deadline: March 3, 2025
The Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Grants Program provides merit-based awards to individual artists of all disciplines in Miami-Dade County on a competitive basis to support their artistic development and practice. In recognition of the contributions of Miami-Dade’s outstanding artists to the fundamental vitality and creativity of our cultural community, the MIA Grants Program strongly encourages applications from professional artists of the highest caliber with a recognized body of artwork and who are deeply rooted in Miami’s diverse cultural life.
National Endowment for the Arts: Creative Writing Fellowships
Deadline: March 13, 2025
The (NEA) Literature Fellowships program awards grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.
The Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort
Deadline Date: March 17, 2025
The purpose of this program is to provide mid-career craft artists who teach an opportunity for artistic and teaching career development programs, mentorship, and peer-to-peer learning creating an enriching impact on the communities they engage, developing a network of teaching craft artists. Eligibility is limited to applicants 21 years of age or older who are eligible to receive taxable income in the U.S. and are residing and working in the U.S. for the last two years and the duration of the Grant period. Applicants must have a studio practice for a minimum of five years and work as a teaching artist for a minimum of three years. Award Ceiling: $10,000.
Japanese American National Museum (JANM) Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship
Deadline Date: March 17, 2025
The purpose of this program is to support emerging arts writers of color who write critically about music. Eligibility is limited to applicants that are a U.S. citizen or currently live in the United States; at least 18 years of age; identify as a member of a community with ancestry in one of the original peoples of Africa, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, or Pacific Islands; have less than two years of publication experience, which may include a blog or self-publishing; and demonstrate an ongoing commitment to writing about music. Award Ceiling: $5,000.
Vermont Studio Center
Deadline Date: March 31, 2025
VSC’s residency program welcomes artists and writers working across all mediums and genres for two, three, and four week sessions. All accepted applicants will receive either a full or partial fellowship. Fee: $25.
April 2025
PAC NYC The Democracy Cycle
Deadline: April 1, 2025
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) and Galvan Initiatives (Galvan) launched The Democracy Cycle, a new commissioning program designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy. Proposals are requested for new performing arts works following that theme from artists working in theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance. The Cycle will provide $60,000 in support to each awarded project, consisting of a $30,000 commission as well as an additional $30,000 towards each commissioned project’s development process (research, readings, workshops etc.).
2025 Wavemaker Grants
Deadline: April 1, 2025
WaveMaker Grants at Locust Projects supports Miami’s visionary artists with incubator grants to research, kick off or re-energize innovative artist-driven projects that are shared with the public in unconventional spaces. Grantees receive up to $6,000 each in three categories: New Work / Projects, Long-Haul Projects, and Research & Development + Implementation. In the spirit of Locust Projects’ artist-driven, experimental mission, WaveMakers experiment and take risks, creating innovative work that is shared in unconventional public spaces.
Creative Capital State of the Art Prize
Deadline: April 3, 2025
The purpose of this program is to recognize and support one artist from every U.S. state and inhabited territory with an unrestricted artist grant. Eligibility: N/A. Award Ceiling: $10,000.
Creative Capital Award
Deadline: April 3, 2025
The purpose of this program is to support the creation of bold, innovative, original, and imaginative new artistic works. Eligibility: N/A. Award Ceiling: $50,000.
Native Arts + Cultures Foundation (NACF) LIFT: Early Career Support for Native Artists Program
Deadline: April 8, 2025
The purpose of this program is to provide support for early-career Native artists to develop and realize new projects. The program invests in emerging Native artists to cultivate fresh voices, foster communal meaning-making, and envision the future of Native practices. Eligibility is limited to individual Native artists working in dance/choreography, fiction/poetry writing, film/video, multi-disciplinary arts, music, performance art, theater and screenplay writing, traditional arts, or 2D + 3D visual arts. Artists must be enrolled members or citizens of federally recognized or state-recognized American Indian tribes, Alaska Native corporations, or of Native Hawaiian ancestry. Award Ceiling: $15,000.
May 2025
Native Arts + Cultures Foundation (NACF) SHIFT: Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts Program
Deadline: May 15, 2025
The purpose of this program is to support Native artists, curators, and collectives to develop innovative, community-driven projects in partnership with organizations. Eligibility is limited to Native artists, collectives, or curators with experience in community-focused work. Award Ceiling: $100,000.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES/GRANTS ON A ROLLING BASIS
WomenArts Foundation List Index
Looking for funding for an individual artist? WomenArts has compiled a list of foundations and other sources who provide funding support for artists.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
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 assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Grants range in amount from $500 to $2,500.
Stochastic Labs Summer Residency
Deadline: Rolling Basis
The Stochastic Labs offers fully-sponsored residencies to engineers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Residencies include a private apartment at the mansion, co-working and/or dedicated work space, shop access, a $1k monthly stipend and a budget for materials.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time.
National Parks Arts Foundation Residencies
DATES: Check for individual residency dates
The National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) works directly with select artists and The National Park Service (and their affiliates) to create unique Artist in Residency programs within the wonders of the National Parks. The NPAF also works closely with museums, galleries, and curators to keep the residency programs relevant to the Art World beyond
Art & Ecology Residency Program
Our program has been around for 17 years, being one of the first residencies worldwide to focus on Art and Ecology. We grant space and production support for people who are doing innovative work worldwide, across the arts and sciences.
OTHER RESOURCES
Artist Communities Directory of Residencies
https://artistcommunities.org/residencies/directory
The Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts is a Think Tank for Sustainability in the Arts and Culture
https://sustainablepractice.org/
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) – List of Residencies, Grants & Workshops
https://www.asle.org/research-write/residencies-grants-workshops/
Artists and Climate Change
https://artistsandclimatechange.com/
Theatre in the Age of Climate Change on Howlround:
Organizations might find this website helpful, and there are tons of articles out there on how to “green your festival, event or organization”: https://www.broadwaygreen.com/about-us