Deadline: Regular Grants January 27, 2025 Seed Grants January 31, 2025
Award Amount: $2,500 to $10,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Journalists
Description: This opportunity provides small grants for preliminary reporting that can lead to full investigations. The grants cover costs such as open-records requests and initial reporting trips. The maximum grant is $10,000. Grants cover out-of-pocket expenses such as travel, document collection and equipment rental. The Fund also considers requests for small stipends, as part of the budget. Reporters who do not yet have a full investigative proposal, but need support to do initial reporting to develop a story, an apply for seed funding to help cover the expenses of preliminary reporting. These grants range from $1,000 to $2,500. Emphasis on stories that break new ground and expose wrongdoing, such as corruption, malfeasance, or misuse of power – in the public and private sectors. To be considered, foreign-based story proposals must come from U.S.-based reporters or have a strong U.S. angle, involving American citizens, government or business. All stories must be published in English and have a media outlet in the United States.

Deadline: January 31, 2025
Award Amount: Noncompetitive- for severely capacity constrained organizations, $75,000, 1 year; Tier I Assessment, 1 year project, $150,000; Tier II Planning – 1-2 year project $250,000; Tier III Development – 3 year project $350,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Non-profit community based organizations
Description: The Transformative Environmental Awards for Members of Underserved Populations (TEAM UP) Grants Program of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University in Partnership with Achieving Community Tasks Successfully (ACTS) as the Region 6 Grantmaker for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grant Program ( U.S. EPA TCGP) , is accepting grant applications in response to this Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). A total of $40 Million will be granted over three years (2025-2027) in the region 6 geography of focus: Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana. A minimum of 80% of awarded projects will serve underserved and disadvantaged communities. A planned total of 244 grant awards will be made: 97 in year one, 97 in year two, and 50 in year three. Applications for the first application cycle will be open from December 18, 2024 – January 31, 2025 at 11:59 pm. Submitted applications will be reviewed following the close of the open application cycle , with decisions and funding issued as soon as possible following the cycle and within 6 months from the time of proposal submission.

Deadline: January 31, 2025
Award Amount: £20,000 £100,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Filmmakers
Description: The Film & TV Funding Award is awarded annually to an emerging filmmaker from anywhere in the world with the most promising pitch for a director-led documentary which fulfils the core criteria detailed below. With a main award worth £100,000 and a development award for the runner-up of £20,000, The Whickers Film & TV Funding Award is one of the most significant documentary awards in the world.

Deadline: March 27, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000 – $20,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Have been a nonprofit organization, exempt from Federal Income Taxes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; a public educational institution; or be a public agency, for a minimum of five (5) years (certain exceptions can be made to this, including: an organization operating with a fiscal agent or an organization spinning off from a parent nonprofit and establishing its own separate entity). Provide services to the people of the Greater Albuquerque Metropolitan Area (Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, and Valencia)
Description: Fields of interest include: animal welfare, education, arts & culture, environmental & historical preservation, economic & workforce development, health, and human services.

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.