• Upcoming Artist Grants and Opportunities

  • Check out this helpful list of upcoming grants. List put together by Mass Cultural Council.

• Ben and Jerry's Foundation

  • ​The foundation invites applications to its National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO), which offers two-year, unrestricted, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year—with an average grant size of $20,000 per year—to small, constituent-led grassroots organizations across the United States and its territories. While the foundation’s broad goals are to further social and environmental justice, its primary purpose is to support the local leadership and grassroots organizing activities of our grant partners rather than any specific issues the organizations are addressing. 

  • Applications are rolling. Learn more and apply here!

• Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants

  • Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. To meet artists’ last-minute needs in a timely manner, FCA’s Emergency Grants panel meets monthly to review requests.Each month FCA receives an average of 95 Emergency Grant applications and makes approximately 12-18 grants. Grants range in amount from $500 to $3,000, and the average grant is now $1,900.

  • Applications are rolling. Learn more and apply here!

• Age Strong Commission 

  • ​Through the Age Strong Rolling Grants, Mayor Michelle Wu and the City of Boston’s Age Strong Commission seek to fund projects that are small in scale to support organizations serving Boston’s older adults. The Age Strong Rolling Grants are designed to ensure that financial barriers do not stand in the way of an organization’s ability to meet the needs of older adult programs throughout the year. 

  • Applications are rolling. Learn more and apply here!

• Emergency Relief Grants

  • ​CERF+ offers $3,000 Emergency Relief Grants to craft artists who experienced a recent and substantially disruptive emergency or disaster.

  • Deadline is rolling. Learn more here!

• Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund

  • You do not need to submit a project proposal with your application. If selected, you will receive US$10,000 from the Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund. 

  • Deadline is rolling. Learn more and apply here!

• The Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation

  • BJFF primarily provides funds to support education, art, and outreach programs and projects. In general, the foundation desires to support specific activities that result in a defined outcome rather than general operating funds or fundraising campaigns. Funding requests between $1,000 and $10,000 will receive greater consideration.

  • Deadline is rolling. Learn more and apply here!

• Mattina R. Proctor Foundation

  • The Mattina R. Proctor Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations primarily in Maine and Massachusetts. Grantmaking focuses on education, including educational opportunities in music, performance, and traditional trades and crafts; the arts, including organizations and initiatives that bring fine music, arts, and media to the people of Maine and Massachusetts, with a special focus on opera; healthcare initiatives; and environmental stewardship. Grants are typically made for a specific project in a single year. Grants up to $50,000.00.​

  • Applications are rolling. Learn more and apply here!​

• New Commonwealth Fund Immediate-Need Investments

  • ​Currently accepting applications. Investments will not exceed $2,500 and decisions are made quarterly. 

  • Learn more and apply here!

• The Awesome Foundation

  • ​The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time.

  • Deadline is rolling, learn more and apply here!​​​

• Wyeth Foundation for American Art

  • ​The Wyeth Foundation for American Art  reviews funding proposals from nonprofit institutions to support research, conservation, and exhibition programming in American art. Grants from the Foundation typically support innovative exhibitions that explore new research about American art; innovative and important museum catalogues and books; and conservation and restoration of American masterpieces. Grant are typically $5,000 to $25,000.

  • Deadline to apply is January 26. Learn more and apply here!

• YouthReach

  • ​Grants to Creative Youth Development programs that integrate substantive and ongoing arts, humanities, and science opportunities into a collaborative community response.

  • Opens February 5, 2026. Deadline to apply is April 2, 2026. 
     

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