Deadline: January 15, 2026
Award Amount: Up to $325,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Film/Media
Description: This grant supports the National Digital Newspaper Program, which funds the development of a comprehensive digital archive of historic American newspapers. It encourages collaboration between state-level programs and the Library of Congress to enhance public access to newspaper holdings. Projects are intended to preserve and make searchable a diverse body of historical news publications.

Deadline: Monthly on the 10th
Award Amount: $100 and $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Film/Media, Arts/Creatives, 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: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000 to $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Film/Media, Arts/Creatives, 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: Film/Media, Arts/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: Film/Media, Arts/Creatives, 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: $5,000 to $50,000. Amount applied for should not exceed 50% of the overall marketing budget for the film(s).
Match: 50%
Eligible Entities: Businesses and Nonprofits that can demonstrate previous experience distributing and marketing independent feature films.
Description: The Audience Innovation Fund is a new program that promotes fresh strategies to grow audiences for independent film releases by awarding grants for bold experiments around distribution and marketing, and by providing educational resources for film teams to encourage a renewed focus on audiences. In a challenging time for film, the Fund’s strategy aims to offset the risk of testing new methodologies to strengthen the engagement with thought-provoking films in media culture.

Deadline: Dependent upon grant.
Award Amount: Dependent upon grant.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Dependent upon grant.
Description: The media is not truly free and representative without the equal voice of women and nonbinary people. IWMF seeks to empower women and nonbinary journalists with the training, opportunities, and support to become leaders in the news industry through various forms of grant funding.