April 2025 Funding Opportunities: Grants for Artists, Small Businesses, Filmmakers and More!
Spring into action with these opportunities.
Spring is on the horizon, and with more daylight hours, we can feel the stirring of new and exciting days ahead!
April is filled with opportunities for everything from artists, filmmakers, small businesses, and so much more.
Now, let’s get into this newsletter with (59) grants for creatives totaling approximately $635,200. Plus, there are still (112) grants with March deadlines, too. Click here for our March 2025 grant list - we are adding more funding opportunities weekly.
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Helpful Tip: Our newsletter is chronologically ordered from April 1st to April 30th.
To help you save time, we also call out who grants are for in the titles.
We will continuously share more April grants as we find them. Be on the lookout for our weekly emails with updates (typically on Mondays).
Artists: #2 (Rhode Island), #9, #12 (Ceramics), #19, #23, #29 (Ceramics), #30, #32 (Vermont), #34, #40 (Clay), #42 (Washington State)
Authors/Writers: #6, #12, #16, #45, #46 (Nonfiction), #47
Community Leadership: #11, #31, #56
Curators: #23, #43
Filmmakers: #25, #26 (New York City), #45
Humanities: #55 (Alaska)
Indigenous Storytellers: #54
Journalists: #20, #28, #49, #51 (Community Colleges), #52
Music: #3
Nonprofits: #8, #18 (New York City), #22 (Tennessee), #27 (Massachusetts), #33, #36 (Maine), #37 (Virginia), #39 (Wisconsin), #41, #48
Painters: #21
Performing Artists: #15
Photographers: #1 (Central New York), #9, #45
Poets: #4, #9, #10, #14, #47
Radio Production: #17
Researchers: #38 (History), #44
Small Businesses: #24, #53
Study Abroad Scholarships: #35
Theater Arts: #5
Visual Artists: #7, #16, #50
[FEATURED GRANTS]
1. The Make Art Grant - For Rhode Island Residents
This grant supports artists in creating or continuing specific artwork in any discipline. Projects must have specific goals, though completion and public showing of the art are not required. They must also be artist-instigated and organized outside of institutional support and structures. The opportunity is open to projects in all arts disciplines from artists of all levels. Funds can support experimentation, materials, space rental, paying collaborators, documentation, and artist stipends. $1,000 to $5,000 will be awarded.
Deadline: April 1, 2025
2. The Minnesota Film Production Grant - For Minnesota Directors
This grant supports eligible Minnesota-based early career film directors whose work takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or re-imagining filmmaking with production grants of up to $30,000.
The Foundation seeks to fund filmmakers who take creative risks, seek innovative approaches, have a clarity of purpose and vision for imaginative storytelling, are engaged directly with those involved in their filmmaking, and work to build relationships with and impact their creative community and the field.
Deadline: April 3, 2025
3. NEH Fellowships - For Individual Scholars
These competitive awards are granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. Fellowships are six to twelve months long, and provide $5,000/month.
Deadline: April 9, 2025