Deadline: Monthly on the 10th
Award Amount: $100 and $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Media, Art/Creative, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity supports the growing number of Native artists and culture bearers who need financial assistance with a professional development opportunity or a hardship hindering their creative practice. Applicants must be enrolled members of, or provide proof of lineal descendency from, a U.S. federally recognized or U.S. state-recognized tribe or be able to provide evidence of ancestry as an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian. This program offers grants between $100 and $5,000.

Deadline: May 15, 2025
Award Amount: $100,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity empowers artists, curators, and community collaborators to address social change issues through a Native lens. The program supports innovative community-driven projects created in partnership with an organization that uplifts Native communities, promotes self-determination, and drives transformative change, paving the way for a resilient and thriving Indigenous future. SHIFT provides multi-year support, including a $100,000 two-year award, professional development, project evaluation, documentation, and marketing support.

Deadline: May 15, 2025
Award Amount: $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity seeks to provide funding to nonprofits focusing on one of three areas: Meeting Basic Needs, such as hunger, shelter, and adult-self sufficiency; Supporting Community Vitality through community development, cultural enrichment, or disaster relief and recovery; or Volunteer-Driven Causes.

Deadline: May 31, 2025
Award Amount: $2,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Arts/Creatives, Media, Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: This is a unique photography competition and a renowned platform for discovering and exhibiting contemporary photography. Gain widespread exposure, have your work exhibited worldwide, and win cash prizes. The theme for this competition is “Youth.” Life is an exploration, and we’re molded in our youth: dreams, fears, freedom, experimentation, and play. The theme is as broad as you want it to be. The only limitation is to capture a scene or a detail that shows the young’s habits, experiences, or behavior. Portraiture, studio, candid, conceptual, documentary, street. All genres are welcome. Show youthhood from any perspective! $2,000 will be awarded to the first-prize winners. All winners receive a written review. All entrants can request detailed, constructive feedback written by industry professionals. Choose how many images to enter (Entry Fee: $20 for one image, $30 for three images, $40 for six images.)

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: $1,000 to $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Media, Arts/Creative, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity is for a journalist seeking grant funding for a book project.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $500 to $5,000, depending on project.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Media, Art/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity is for a journalist seeking grant funding for a news story, narrative feature, investigative report, documentary, nonfiction comic or illustrated work, photo essay, podcast, or radio feature. Small grants are currently distributed that are not intended to cover the entire cost of these projects.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $750 to $1,500
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Media, Art/Creative, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity is for a journalist seeking grant funding for a completed or close-to-completed personal essay or op-ed. The grants for personal essays range from $750–$1,500, depending on your experience and the amount of reporting involved. First-time contributors to EHRP typically receive $750.

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.