U.S. and International Artist Grants & Funds

Integriti Arts & Culture Association:

Site: Integriti Mini Grants

Open to US citizens and permanent residents. There is an application fee of $10. They offer up to $500. More information on their website.

National Sculpture Society:

Site: Stanley Bleifeld Memorial Grant

They offer a $5000 grant to US sculptors. Deadline October 5, 2020.

Black Art Future Funds:

Site: Black Art Future Emergency Grants

They distribute emergency grants to small Black Arts organizations. More info on their application cycles on their website.

VSCO:

Site: VSCO Artist Initiative

They provide artists different resources (including financial) to pursue their creative careers.

RFOTOFOLIO:

Site: Rfotofolio Grants

They have different grants and awards offered to photographers. More information on their site.

CENTER:

Site: Center

They offer several grants for photographic projects with cash prizes.

W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund:

Site: Howard Chapnick Grant

The $10000 grant aims to support artists in fields ancillary to photojournalism, such as editing, research, education and management. The deadline is in May, 30 2020 and there’s an application fee of $50.

Lucie Foundation:

Site: Lucie Foundation 2020 Scholarship Program

They are offering four cash grants to support the work of emerging and established photographers. Applications open in May 2020.

International Photography Grant:

Site: International Photography Grant

This grant aims to support all photographers from all around the world. They only accept a series of photographs that share a common theme in the following categories: City, Fine Art, Outdoor, Story, People. The application requires no fees.

Puffin Foundation:

Site: Puffin Grant

The Foundation’s 2021 Grant Cycle will open in September 2020 for the fields of Fine Arts and Video/Film. More information on their website.

The India Center:

Site: South Asian Arts Resiliency Fund

They will distribute grants up to $2000 to assist United States based arts workers of South Asian descent.

Field of Vision:

Site: Documentary Freelancer Relief Fund

Open to freelancers within the documentary field (see site for specific roles). They will distribute funds up to $2000 to artists that have been impacted by COVID19. The application process opens again on May 6.

International Women’s Media Foundation:

Site: Journalism Relief Fund

This fund will provide grants of up to $2,000 and is open to women-identifying journalists in dire straits – journalists who have faced financial hardship due to COVID19.

Firecracker:

Site: Firecracker Photographic Grant

This grant is open to female and non binary photographers. Applications are open until 1 May 2020 and require a payment fee of £8.

National Geographic Society:

Site: Emergency Fund for Journalists

The fund will offer grants ranging from $1,000–8,000 USD for local coverage of the COVID19 impact. They are looking for writers, photographers, videographers, audio journalists, cartographers, filmmakers, and data visualization experts.

Prix Levallois:

Site: Prix Levallois

They support photographers under the age of 35. The winner will receive a €10,000 Grant. Applications are due on May 2 and no entry fee is required.

Equal Sound:

Site: Equal Sound Corona Relief Fund

They offer assistance to musicians that had a confirmed gig cancelled due to coronavirus.

NPPA:

Site: National Press Photographers Association

They have created a fund to help NPPA photojournalists who have been financially impacted by COVID19

Sony:

Site: Sony Press Release

The company announced a 100M relief fund to support people in different areas, including the creative and entertainment communities.

Local 802FM (NYC):

Site: Musicians Emergency Fund

They support Local 802 Member Musicians.

PATREON:

Site: Artists Fund

They set up a grant to support artists affected by Covid-19.

Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation:

Site: Will Rogers Emergency Grant

They are helping people in the motion picture entertainment industry.

Artist Relief Project:

Site: Artist Relief Project

They are assisting artists, musicians and performers impacted by COVID19.

Art House Dallas:

Site: Artist Relief Project

The Artist Care Fund is available to artists who are struggling with the devastating effects of the COVID-19 crisis. Artists may request up to $500 but must only ask for “greatest need funds”.

Artist Relief:

Site: Artist Relief Funds

They offer financial aid and informational resources to artists across the US during the COVID-19 crisis. Grants of $5,000 will be given to artists in five application cycles.

The Blues Foundation HART Fund:

Site: The Blues Foundation

The foundation assists Blues musicians and their family who are in financial need due to health issues.

Carnegie:

Site: Carnegie Fund For Actors

The applicant must be an American author who has published at least one full-length work that has been published by a mainstream publisher. Applicants must demonstrate need; the emergency may be because of illness or some other urgent need.

Gottlieb Foundation:

Site: Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant

This emergency grant provides financial help to painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an emergency.

Jazz Foundation:

Site: Jazz Foundation Emergency Grant

They assist musicians who have made a living playing blues, jazz, and roots music.

Pillars:

Site: Pillars Rapid Response Fund

This fund supports the personal expenses of Muslim artists and activists whose livelihoods are being negatively impacted by this current moment. They grant up to $500 to individuals through a short application process.

Sweet Relief:

Site: Sweet Relief Musicians Fund

This relief fund provides financial assistance to all musicians and music industry workers who are struggling due to COVID19.

Twenty Summers:

Site: Art Interrupted Relief Fund

This fund is for artists and arts organizations facing unmanageable financial loss as a result of the Coronavirus.

Artists can receive up to $500, while arts organizations can receive up to $1,000.

The Recording Academy and MusiCares:

Site: MusiCares Relief Fund

They are helping people in the music community affected by COVID19.

Artists Charitable Fund:

Site: https://pen.org/writers-emergency-fund/

This fund focuses on assisting painters and sculptors by paying a potion of emergency medical bills directly to the medical providers.They are not able to pay the artist directly.

Pen American:

Site: http://www.artistscharitablefund.org/

This fund focuses on helping writers. It will distribute grants of $500 to $1,000 based on applications that demonstrate an inability to meet an acute financial need, especially one resulting from the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Pen American:

Site: Emergency Grants

This fund focuses on helping writers. It will distribute grants of $500 to $1,000 based on applications that demonstrate an inability to meet an acute financial need, especially one resulting from the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Dramatists Guild Foundation:

Site: https://www.freelancersunion.org/resources/freelancers-relief-fund/

Freelancers Relief Fund will offer financial assistance of up to $1,000 per freelance household to cover lost income and essential expenses not covered by government relief programs, including food/food supplies, utility payments, cash assistance to cover income loss.

Netflix:

Press Announcement: Netflix Relief Fund

They announced a 100M fund for the Film and TV workforce.

The company needs to provide more details on how people can apply for it.

Women Photograph:

Site: https://www.womenphotograph.com/grants-2020

They offer several project grants and a new scholarship for women & non-binary photographers. Applications open on April 1, 2020. Deadline May 15, 2020

Soze Foundation Relief Fund:

Site: https://www.wearesoze.com/relief-fund

It supports artists and activists whose work has been impacted by COVID-19. They have already distributed $90,000 in grants to over 250 artists. At the moment they are raising more money to distribute funds again. Applicants can join the waiting list.

Broadway Cares Relief Fund:

Site: https://broadwaycares.org/our-grants/

They are offering grants specific for entertainment professionals who are in need of health care or financial assistance due to COVID19.

Authors League Fund:

Site: https://authorsleaguefund.org/

They assist professional authors, journalists, poets, and dramatists who find themselves in financial need because of medical, health-related problems, or temporary loss of income.

Musicians Foundation Relief Fund:

Site: http://www.musiciansfoundation.org/apply/

Although the application is temporarily closed due to extremely high volume, they are hoping to reopen some time this coming week once we are able to process the hundreds of submissions already received.

Actors Fund:

Site: https://actorsfund.org/services-and-programs/entertainment-assistance-program

The Actors Fund provides services and financial support to entertainment professionals facing personal or work-related problems. Any performing arts or entertainment professional may apply for funds. Requirements: A minimum of five years of industry paid employment with earnings of at least $6,500 for three out of the last five years, or 20 years of industry paid employment with a minimum of ten years of earnings of at least $5,000 for each of those years, and proof of financial need.

Magnum Foundation:

Site: https://www.magnumfoundation.org/news/2019/3/7/inge-morath-award-call-for-applications-2020

A $5,000 grant will be given to a female photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project.

Deadline: April 30, 2020

New York Foundation For The Arts:

Site: https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Anonymous-Was-A-Woman-Emergency-Relief-Grant

They offer up to $2500 grants.

Those that apply must be visual artists identifying as women (who work in Digital/New Media, Drawing, Film/Video, Installation, Painting, Photography, Sculpture). They also must be 40 years or older on the date their application is submitted. Artists must be able to demonstrate activity in their artistic discipline over the past 5 years and show documented losses of income for the period of February 1 – July 30, 2020. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents in any of the 50 states, District of Columbia or U.S. territories.

The Photographer Fund:

Site: https://www.format.com/photographer-fund

Self-employed photographers who are facing financial need are encouraged to apply.

They offer assistance up to $500 per person.

ConvertKit The Creator Fund:

Site: https://creatorfund.ck.page/

They offer assistance up to $500 per person.

Facebook Small Business Grant:

Site: https://www.facebook.com/business/boost/grant

The company will be offering different grants. People are required to sing up to receive updates on when and how these grants will be offered.

Who is eligible: people from over 30 countries where Facebook operates.

Artist Relief Tree:

Site: https://artistrelieftree.com/

This fund is intended to help those pursuing careers as artists in any field.

They offer assistance up to $250 per person on a first-come-first-served basis.

The fund changes its availability based on the amount of money raised.

Artist Fellowship

Site: https://www.artistsfellowship.org/finacial-aid

It provides emergency aid to professional fine art visual artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement or unexpected extreme hardship.

Applications will be reviewed until June. They start reviewing the process again in September.

Apply: https://www.artistsfellowship.org/financial-aid-application

Cerf Emergency Relief Grants:

Site: https://cerfplus.org/get-relief/apply-for-help/

This fund is intended to help artists who have been tested positive to the virus that requires intensive care.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts Relief Grants

Site: https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants

This fund is intended for artists seeking relief for a canceled performance or exhibition due to COVID-19.

They offer grants between $200 and $2500 and review applications once a month.

Behind The Scenes Grant

Site: https://wp.behindthescenescharity.org/who-is-eligible-for-a-grant/

They accept applications from anyone who has been hospitalized with Covid-19 and is in financial need. Must currently reside in the United States or Canada and have earned your living for at least five years in the entertainment technology industry. This means that your major source of income is from your work in this industry, which includes being directly involved with production: behind the scenes in any type of performance venue, or behind the camera, or on the road.

Kinkade Emergency Grant For Curators

Site: http://www.kinkadefamilyfoundation.org/emergencygrantforcurators

The program will provide one-time grants of up to $5,000 for unexpected emergencies related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. Applicants must have committed performance or exhibition opportunities and be able to provide a specific time window at the time of application. Applicants must be a curator or art historian with a track record of producing scholarly curatorial projects. Artists are not eligible to apply.

Applications will be accepted until April 12, 2020.

Freelancer Covid19 Emergency Fund

Site: https://freelancecoop.org/emergencyfund/

Apply: https://freelancecoop.org/emergencyfund//

As part of the application, you will agree that if you receive funding you will “pay it forward.” This means that when you are back on your feet, whether it’s 5 days or 5 months, you will either 1) contribute back to the fund or 2) contribute the same amount to a charity that supports creative freelancers. They review applications on a rolling basis as long as the fund is solvent.

Spokane Artists & Creatives Fund:

Site: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/677MN8G

The focus of this fund is to support individual creatives who rely on income from gigs, performances, teaching opportunities, workshops and classes to cover basic expenses like housing, food, and medical care. They offer up to $500.

Harpo Grant For Visual Artists:

Site: http://www.harpofoundation.org/apply/grants-for-visual-artists/

DEADLINE: April 17, 2020

Applicants must be US citizens.

This grant is for self-defined under-recognized visual artists 21 years and older.

To apply a $15 application fee is required.

Bloom Fund:

Site: https://www.bloomfund.org/faq

This fund provides unrestricted $1,200 grants in visual arts, literature, small business, non-profit, research, and education for individuals who identify as black, indigenous, and/or person of color. There are different deadlines depending on the kind of application.

Alexia Foundation Grant:

Site: https://www.alexiafoundation.org/grants

The applications for this grant start in September 2020. There is a grant for students and one for professionals. Professionals will be prompted to pay a $50 application fee within the application system; there is no entry fee for students.

Art for Assistants by Tim Tadder:

Site: https://www.gofundme.com/f/art-for-assistants

PHLEARN Friend and Artist Tim Tadder is selling select works and donating 100% of the profits to artist assistants who are currently out of work.

Aaron Siskind Grant:

Site: http://www.aaronsiskind.org/grant.html

They need to announce the deadline details for this year’s application. Grant for photographers. Limited amount of fellowship grants up to $15000. Applicants must be at least 21 years of age. There’s an entry fee of $25.

The Awesome Foundation Grant:

Site: https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/about_us

Unrestricted microgrants on a monthly basis for projects in multiple disciplines. They have chapters in different locations around the world. The grants are 1000 dollars (or local equivalent)

Kinkade:

Site: http://www.kinkadefamilyfoundation.org/emergencygrantforcurators

They are offering relief funds for curators.

The program will provide one-time grants of up to $5,000 for unexpected emergencies related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant is available to curators who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents in the United States, District of Columbia, or U.S. Territories.

Artist Relief Funds for Specific Geographic Areas

Utah Division of Arts and Museums

Site/Apply: UA&M Emergency Funding

They are offering funding to Utah-based individual artists/creative workers and Utah-based nonprofit arts organizations.

516 ARTS

Site/Apply: Fulcrum Fund

They offer emergency relief grants to small, artist-run and alternative art spaces throughout New Mexico and will provide 12 grants of $5,000 totaling $60,000 as part of an effort to help sustain these spaces until they can reopen after the pandemic.

Regional Arts & Culture Council

Site/Apply: RAAC Relief Funds

The Regional Arts & Culture Council is modifying the Arts Impact Fund to address the urgent needs of artists whose creative practices and incomes are being adversely impacted by COVID-19. The fund is open to artists at all levels of their careers, in a broad variety of disciplines. Applicants must legally reside in RACC’s service area – Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties, Oregon.

Gimme Shelter

Site/Apply: Performers Emergency Fund

This fund is open to Oregon independent contractor performers in any format who have lost wages due to the Novel Coronavirus/COVID-19.

Portland Area Theater Alliance

Site/Apply: The Valentine Fund

They offer assistance to members of the Portland-area theatre community who have been affected by COVID19.

Lane Arts

Site/Apply: Lane County Artist Relief Fund

This fund is open to any individual who works as a freelance artist/musician, teaching artist, production technician, or producer; lives in Lane County (Oregon).

Jameel Arts Center

Site/Apply: Art Jameel Research and Practice Platform

They are awarding grants between $1000 to $2000 (if a project shows exceptional scope and need may be awarded an extended allocation of up to $3000). Applications are accepted from April 1, 2020 to June 7, 2020. Open to all practitioners based in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Oolite Arts

Site/Apply: Olite Arts Relief Fund

They offer up to $500 to cover lost income due to the novel Coronavirus. Artists must reside in Miami.

NYC Dancers Relief Fund

Site/Apply: NYC Dancers Relief Fund

This fund helps freelance dance artists who have suffered financial losses due to COVID19. For more info you can contact TheDanceUnionPodcast@gmail.com

Portland Artist Relief Fund

Site/Apply: Portland Artist Relief Fund

They are offering assistance to artists affected by COVID19. The application is paused at the moment, but they are planning to resume soon.

Center for Cultural Innovation

Site/Apply: Arts & Artist Relief Fund

They are assisting artists, teaching artists, cultural producers, etc. Individuals must be San Francisco residents and can apply for up to $2,000.

Theater Bay Area

Site/Apply: Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund

They are assisting performing arts workers who are facing a loss of income due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Artists must reside in the Bay area.

4 Culture

Site/Apply: Cultural Relief Fund

This fund is assisting artists in the Kings County, Washington, area who are affected by loss of work due to COVID-19.

Creative Industry Relief Fund

Site/Apply: Creative Industry Relief Fund

This fund helps support musicians, artists, performers and filmmakers in the Tarrant County area in Texas who have lost work due to COVID19.

Artist Trust

Site/Apply: Artist Trust Relief Fund

They offer grants supporting artists in Washington state whose lives have been impacted by COVID19.

Frederick Arts Council

Site/Apply: The Frederick Artist Relief Fund

They will award grants up to $500 to individual artists who live in Frederick County (Maryland) and whose creative practices and incomes are being impacted by COVID19.

Michigan Music Alliance

Site/Apply: Michigan Artist Relief Fund

This fund is for Michigan based musical artists whose incomes are being adversely impacted by COVID-19.

Season Of Concern Chicago

Site/Apply: Season Of Concern Chicago

They offer emergency assistance for any member of the Chicago theater community who is dealing with serious medical issues, including those that may result from COVID-19 infection. Proof of testing positive for the virus is required.

Colorado Artist Relief Fund

Site/Apply: Colorado Artist Relief Fund

This fund provides grants of up to $1,000 to individual artists who live in Colorado who are experiencing immediate needs due to COVID-19.

Dallas Low-Income Artist Relief Fund

Site/Apply: Low-Income Artist Relief Fund

This funds low-income, BIPOC, queer, trans/GNC/NB and disabled artists and freelancers residing in Dallas.

Hawaii Artists and Entertainment Fund

Site/Apply: Hawaii Artists and Entertainment Fund

This fund is for Working artists or entertainment professionals in the Hawaii area in need of assistance due to COVID19.

Trickle Up

Site/Apply: Trickle Up NYC

Trickle Up NYC enlists artists who are suffering from lost income, by sharing work on the platform. Every month they can give $10,000 commissions (for further video content) to 10 different artists affected by the Covid-19 cancelations. Every time they get to $10,000, another artist will be hired to create content.

Untitled Art

Site/Apply: Untitled Art

Applicants must have graduated from a Bay Area institution or have lived in the Bay Area for two years as a working artist. Funds are distributed quarterly.

Santa Fe Relief Fund

Site/Apply: Santa Fe Artist Relief Fund

They are helping artists who reside in Santa Fe County. Funds up to $1000, but accepted artists must submit a W9 to receive funds.

AIRF

Site/Apply: https://artsforillinois.org/donate-and-apply

Fund provides financial relief to workers and organizations in the creative industries impacted by COVID-19. This includes all artists and artisans, including stage and production members and part-time cultural workers, and large to small arts organizations in all disciplines. Individuals are encouraged to apply for one-time grants of $1,500, which are awarded expediently and based on a lottery system.

Applications open at noon on April 1, 2020.

Atlanta Artist Relief Fund

Site/Apply: https://www.atlartsrelief.org/

They are delivering free home-cooked, nutritious meals to the doorsteps of artists who are unable to leave their home or out of work.

Jerome Foundation Grants

Site/Apply: https://www.jeromefdn.org/

It supports the artistic and career development of early career artists in Minnesota and the five boroughs of New York City. They offer different kind of grants and support a diverse range of artistic disciplines and forms, created in a variety of contexts and for different audience.

Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant

Site/Apply: https://www.kfw.org/grants/artist-enrichment/

It provides opportunities for feminist artists and arts organizations to further their artistic development to create art for positive social change. Applicants must reside in the state. Amounts vary.

Chicago Artist Coalition Grants

Site/Apply: https://chicagoartistscoalition.org/resources/cac-grants

Their four grants honor visual artists based in Chicago, and offer varying levels of financial support. For each grant there is a $10 application fee. Deadlines are different for each application.

Artadia

Site/Apply: https://artadia.org/

Grants on a rotating basis to visual artists in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Deadlines vary depending on the city.

Mayer Foundation Grant

Site/Apply: http://fdnweb.org/mayer/

Artists in the New York City area. The grant also provides healthcare to those who cannot afford it or whose health insurance or financial resources are insufficient to cover their medical needs. The grant is up to $2,500 and is reviewed on a quarterly basis.

Indy Arts & Culture COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund.

Site/Apply: https://indykeepscreating.org/apply/

The fund provides rapid-response $500 grants; can apply for a grant once every 30 days. Artists must work in at least one of the following disciplines: Music, Literature, Dance, Theater, Visual, and/or Media. They must also show loss of income due to canceled events, projects, and/or organization temporary closure. Applicants must live in Marion (Indianapolis) or one of the seven surrounding counties.

North Carolina Artist Relief Fund

Site/Apply: https://vaeraleigh.org/artist-relief-fund

The fund is dedicated to artists in North Carolina that have been impacted by COVID19.

Boston Artist Relief Fund

Site: https://cityofbostonartsandculture.submittable.com/submit/af2153eb-2d87-4e9d-9ebc-5861eb135999/boston-artist-relief-fund

This fund will award grants of $500 and $1000 to individual artists who live in Boston whose creative practices and incomes are being adversely impacted by COVID19

DEADLINE: April 30, 2020

Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund

Site/Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfv4AazvLFVUNAgXoxqBqfZ7jJVkrMroa-CET6Vt6XygR-CaQ/viewform?fbzx=-1350547368519960039

This emergency fund can provide up to $200 for people of color that are either working artist or art administration and are affected by COVID-19.

The Safety Net Fund

Site/Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1hohQ84yDYosDiN_Z6YuEJwYvzZzD1quJyIC6ip0iEc-Iog/viewform

Non-profit designed to help support artists in the Bay Area during the COVID-19 crisis.

Applicants must provide proof of an artistic endeavor in the last six months, cannot be eligible for unemployment insurance from the state, and must have earned less than $1,000 of income in the last 30 days.

Max’s Kansas City Project

Site: https://maxskansascity.org/emergency-grants/

It provides emergency funding and resources to professionals in the creative arts who live in New York state. Individuals who have made their living through their art form, either professionally or personally, and demonstrate a financial need for medical aid, legal aid, or housing. The maximum grant is $1,000.

Artist Fellowship

Site: https://www.artistsfellowship.org/finacial-aid

It provides emergency aid to professional fine artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement or unexpected extreme hardship. Primarily serving artists in New York.

For The People Artist Collective

Site: https://www.forthepeoplecollective.org/

The fund offers emergency microgrants of up to $500 to Illinois-based artists and freelancers of color whose income has been affected during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The fund is temporarily closed due to the high amount of requests. Yet, they are planning to reopen as soon as they get new funds.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Emergency Fund

Site: https://www.pittsburghartscouncil.org/programs/artist-services/emergency-fund

The Emergency Fund for Artists will now provide up to $500 in assistance to artists experiencing loss of income due to the coronavirus outbreak. Artists must reside in the Greater Pittsburgh area.

Erie Arts and Culture Fund

Site: https://www.erieartsandculture.org/programs-and-services/funding/emergency-financial-assistance-fund/

Creatives and cultural professionals, which includes artists of all disciplines, who have experienced a disruption to their income stream can request up to $500 in assistance.

Artists must reside in the Erie region. Artists can apply more than one time.

Cambridge Artist Relief Fund

Site: http://cambridgecf.org/artist-relief-fund/

Grant sizes will range up to $1,000 and be provided on a first-come, first-served basis for as long as the fund can sustain requests. One-time relief to arts organizations and artists who live, work, create, and/or perform in Cambridge.

Crosshatch Artist Emergency Fund

Site: https://www.crosshatch.org/emergency

Artists may apply once, with a maximum request of $500. These are emergency funds to be used for hardship. Artists must reside in the 5-county area of Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska and Leelanau (Michigan)

Apply: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9BXYWGW

Springboard Personal Emergency Relief Fund

Site: https://springboardforthearts.org/additional-resources/personal-emergency-relief-fund/

The fund is limited to artists residing in Minnesota. Artists can request up to $500 to compensate for canceled work that was scheduled and lost. At the moment they are prioritizing: artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, Native and/or People of Color; artists who live in rural communities; artists in the disability community, including immunocompromised artists; artists who identify as LGBTQIA+

Greater Columbus Arts Council Emergency Relief Grants

Site: https://www.gcac.org/press-release/greater-columbus-arts-council-announces-covid-19-emergency-relief-grants-for-artists/

Artists are eligible to request up to $1,000, with priority being given to those in need of shelter, food, and other essentials. The program is designed to assist artists of all disciplines living in Franklin County.

Artists’ Benevolence Fund

Site: https://sawdustartfestival.org/about/artists-benevolence-fund/

This fund is for any working artist in the city of Laguna Beach, CA. The maximum amount awarded is $1000.

Apply: https://sawdustartfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-Benevolence-Fund-Application-MASTER.pdf

Imagine 2020 Artist Assistance Fund

Site: http://www.artsandvenuesdenver.com/about-imagine-2020/imagine-2020-artist-assistance-fund

The fund supports individual artists who are experiencing immediate, unforeseen emergency needs due to COVID-19. They give up to $1,000 to individual artists who live in Denver, CO. The fund is temporarily closed while they process the first batch of applications, but they are planning to accept new ones soon.

Martha Kate Thomas Fund for Artists

Site: https://www.bouldercountyarts.org/thomas_fund_grant_guidelines

Grants from this fund will be awarded to artists who live or work in Boulder County, CO and meet any one or more of these priority groups: artists with unforeseen needs due to special circumstances, Artists of Color, Artists with disabilities, Indigenous artists, New generation artists (18-30 years old). Grant awards will not exceed $3000

Greensboro Artist Relief Fund

Site/Apply: https://www.artsgreensboro.org/emergency-fund-artist-application/

For artists in need of support due to cancellations from the outbreak of COVID-19.

Artists must reside in the Greater Greensboro area (NC). Funds distributed are directly correlated to dollars raised.

Durham Artist Relief Fund:

Site: https://www.northstardurham.com/artistrelief

Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEJKTP91h5e7MuUITHj96J6eKWeZjgVLZjLG4Wp-WMhyQ4mg/viewform

Fund for artists and arts presenters in Durham, NC who have been financially impacted by cancellations due to COVID-19, with priority given to BIPOC artists, transgender & nonbinary artists, and disabled artists.

New Orleans Business Alliance Fund:

Site: https://www.nolaba.org/relief-fund/

This fund provides up to $1000. Artists must show proof of residency in Orleans Parish, Louisiana + proof that? 60% of income is generated via “gig-work” + demonstrated loss of income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic + At or below 100% Annual Median Income (AMI) Guidelines.

Tamarack Emergency Relief Fund:

Site: https://tamarackfoundation.org/fund-your-ideas/emergency-relief-funds/

The foundation offers grants and bridge loans of up to $5,000 for artist businesses on a rolling basis to help with these events. These funds are available to artists juried into the Tamarack: The Best of West Virginia retail facility in Beckley, WV.

Contact Executive Director Renee Margocee at renee@tamarackfoundation.org with a brief summary of your situation to receive more information about obtaining funds.

Artist Relief Funds for Specific Geographic Areas Through GoFundMe

Site: https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=homepage_norma/search&term=artist%20relief%20fund%20covid19

The site has several relief funds dedicated to specific areas/cities. The fundraisings are created by different organizations/people, not by GoFundMe. Below are a few that have raised the most:

Chicago Artists Relief Fund:

The fund is dedicated to Chicago artists affected by the coronavirus.

The fund is distributing money to the first applicants and will reopen the application process soon.

Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeI6qpAK__IsFww_3UlgS9NQPHE9efxxL1W2Mz7cUMdOvnekw/closedform

Seattle Artist Relief Fund:

The fund is dedicated to artists who live in the greater Seattle area.

Apply: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LHJNLQV

NYC Low Income Artist/Freelancer Fund:

Site/Apply: https://www.gofundme.com/f/nyc-lowincome-artistfreelancer-relief-fund

Fund is in pause, but they are planning to reopen applications as soon as they get more funding.

Chicago Musicians Emergency Relief Fund:

Site: Chicago Musicians Emergency Relief Fund

This fund helps Chicago based musicians who have been affected by COVID19.

You can fill your application here.