Deadline: May 7, 2025
Award Amount: $15,000 to $50,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Arts, Tribal Governments, and Nonprofits
Description: A program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Arts Writers Grant Program supports emerging and established writers writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—grants will support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The foundation also supports arts writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles. Applicants may be an art historian, artist, critic, curator, journalist, or writer in another field who is strongly engaged with the contemporary visual arts. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply. The program defines “contemporary visual art” as visual art made since World War II. Projects focused on post-WWII work in related fields—architecture, dance, film, media, music, performance, sound, etc.—will only be considered if the project directly and significantly engages the discourses and concerns of contemporary visual art. To be eligible, applicants must be a published author, at least 25 years old, a citizen or permanent resident of the United States, or an individual with an O-I visa.

Deadline: Rolling Basis
Award Amount: $2,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: All Etsy sellers are eligible for a grant if they have experienced a federally declared natural disaster within the past year, have been an active seller on Etsy for at least one year, and their accounts with Etsy are in good standing.
Description: Etsy is committed to helping its creative entrepreneurs recover when disasters disrupt their businesses. They’ve partnered with CERF+, a nonprofit organization focused on helping artists prepare for and recover from emergencies and disasters, to create a disaster relief fund just for Etsy sellers. Each quarter, they work with CERF+ to award grants to a select number of eligible sellers. Any Etsy seller who has experienced a federally declared disaster within the past year may apply for a grant as long as they’ve been active on Etsy for at least one year and their accounts with Etsy are in good standing. Grants of $2,000 are available to sellers when they apply.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: You can apply for a grant amount from $5,000 to $50,000. The amount you apply for should not exceed 50% of the overall marketing budget for the film or films.
Match: 50%
Eligible Entities: Be a for-profit or nonprofit  organization or entity that can demonstrate previous experience distributing and marketing independent feature films. We do not accept applications from individuals, or individual film LLCs at this time.
Description: We are a new program that promotes fresh strategies to grow audiences for independent film releases. We do this through awarding grants for bold experiments around distribution and marketing, and by providing educational resources for film teams to encourage a renewed focus on audiences. We will also release case studies and data publicly so that the field as a whole can learn from the successes and failures of our grantees. Our long term goals are simply larger audiences for independent cinema as well as audiences that are more representative of the U.S. population. In a challenging time for our field, our strategy is to offset the risk of testing new methodologies to strengthen the engagement with thought-provoking films in our culture. We are currently focused on U.S. theatrical and non-theatrical releases. One recent example is the theatrical “pay-it-forward” model used by Angel Studios which allowed viewers to purchase a ticket for others as a gift to see the film free in theaters. The model was aimed at expanding accessibility to audience members who could not afford a ticket.  This technique has now been launched in a new form by Gathr which added a feature to provide the purchaser with transparent real-time data as to when and how that ticket is being used.  This innovation is a particularly successful example in demonstrating how one experiment can be used as a model to benefit other releases and therefore has the potential to strengthen the entire distribution ecosystem.

Deadline: Various
Award Amount: Undisclosed
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Depends on program
Description: The media is not truly free and representative without the equal voice of women and nonbinary people. Through our programs and grants we empower women and nonbinary journalists with the training, opportunities, and support to become leaders in the news industry. We unleash the potential of women journalists as champions of press freedom to transform the global news media.