Funding for Individual Artists
This is a list of foundations that provide funding to individual artists. Please contact them directly for more specific information about their programs.
The Roy W. Dean Writing Grants
The Roy W. Dean writing grants have been created just for filmmakers, writers and artists like you. The grants take you to New Zealand for 30 days to write in the quiet of the South island. The grants provide housing at Wye Cottage, food and gas money, a round trip ticket for the time that best suits you and you will be in the beautiful rolling hills of Marlborough County. You may be in the country but you are connected to the world via your Mitsubishi RUV, fast computer, internet, Phone, fax and SKY TV! They are looking for writers who need uninterrupted time to create.
The Roy W. Dead Writing Grants
1455 Mandalay Beach Rd.
Oxnard, CA 93035-2845
Phone: (805) 984-0098 (Carole Dean)
Email: general@fromtheheartproductions.com
Website: www.fromtheheartproductions.comArtist Trust
Offers grants and fellowships to Washington State artists in all disciplines.
Artist Trust
1835 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122-2437
Phone: (206) 467-8734
Toll Free: 1 (866) 21-TRUST
Fax: (206) 467-9633
Email: info@artisttrust.org
Website: www.artisttrust.orgCreative Capital
Offers grants to individuals in the performing & visual arts, media, new fields. Grants: Up to $20,000
Creative Capital
65 Bleecker Street; Seventh Floor
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 598.9900
Fax: (212) 598-4934
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Website: www.creative-capital.org/Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.
Grants of up to $1,500 to poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, visual artists, and for a mixed-genre category (illustration and text) to feminist women in the arts. Application fee is $20. Two application deadlines each year: December 31 (art and fiction) and June 30 (nonfiction and poetry). Fund does not maintain email, phone, or website. To request application materials, write to the postal address and be sure to include a SASE.
Susan Pliner, Executive Director
Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc.
P.O. Box 309
Wilton, NH 03086The Puffin Foundation
Grants to individuals in Literature, photography, performing arts.
Grants: Up to $2,500The Puffin Foundation
20 Puffin Way
Teaneck, NJ 07666
Phone: (201) 836-8923
Fax:(201) 836-1734
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Website: www.puffinfoundation.orgThe Kentucky Foundation for Women
Grants to feminist artists in Kentucky.
Grants: Up to $5,000; most $3,000The Kentucky Foundation for Women
1215-A Heyburn Building
332 West Broadway
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 562-0045
Fax: (502) 561-0420
Email: kfw@kfw.org
Website: www.kfw.orgIndependent Television Service (ITVS)
Grants for independent film and video for television.
Grants: $20,000 - $250,000ITVS
651 Brannan St., Ste. 410
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: (415) 356-8383
Fax: (415) 365-8391
Email: itvs@itvs.pbs.org
Website: www.itvs.orgXeric Foundation
Publishing support for comic book creators
Grants: Up to $5,000Xeric Foundation
351 Pleasant Street, Suite 214
Northampton, MA 01060
Phone: (413) 585-0671
Email: xericgrant@aol.com
Website: www.xericfoundation.orgLambda Literary Foundation
Awards for published work only.
Lambda Literary Foundation
5482 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: (213) 568-3570
Email: info@lambdaliterary.org
Website: www.lambdaliterary.org/Film Arts Foundation
Grants to Bay Area filmmakers only.
145 9 th Street, #101
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 552-8760
Fax:(415) 552-0882
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Website: www.filmarts.orgThe Leeway Foundation
For Philadelphia area women artists. Disciplines rotate each year.
Grants: $5,000 to $50,000The Leeway Foundation
The Philadelphia Building
1315 Walnut St., Ste. 832
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: (215) 545-4078
Fax: (215) 545-4021
Email: info@leeway.org
Website: www.leeway.org/Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation (LVF) provides one-time grants to individuals working in the fine arts (excluding photography, film, and video) and in the literary arts, including playwriting. Also supports certain unaffiliated scholarly and/or research projects. Grants ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 are awarded on the criteria of merit and need; the foundation is especially concerned with those who have no other source of funding. Send email or SASE to request current guidelines (email is preferable and quicker).
Diana Braunschweig, Executive Director
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation
4001 Inglewood Ave., Suite 101-309
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
Email: lvf@earthlink.net
No phone callsNOTE: Many state arts agencies also fund individual artists.