February 2025 Funding Opportunities for Journalists, Filmmakers, Artists and More!

🎉 Start the New Year with these grants!

Happy New Year, creators! 🎉 ✨

We wish you success, happiness, fulfillment, and funding in 2025!

I hope you had a restful holiday season and are ready to take advantage of all the opportunities that bear your name.

Now, let’s get into this newsletter with (90) grants for creatives totaling approximately $4,019,199. Plus, there are still (94) grants with January deadlines, too. Click here for our January 2025 grants list - we are adding more funding opportunities weekly.

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Grants or “free money with strings attached” exist and can support your creative pursuits. However, finding funding opportunities isn’t easy.

With a simple Google search, you’ll find a lot of expired grants, non-creative focused grants, and funding announcements. You can waste precious time researching with little to show for it.

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Helpful Tip: Our newsletter is chronologically ordered from February 1st to February 28th. To help you save time, we also call out who grants are for in titles. We will continuously share more February grants as we find them. Be on the lookout for our weekly emails with updates.

• Artists: #29 (New Hampshire), #35, #36, #37, #46 (Ceramics), #50 (Emerging), #51, #58 (Arkansas), #64 (New York City), #65, #68, #74, #81, #83 (Kentucky)

• Arts Organization: #53

• Authors/Writers: #56 (Black Women), #59, #66, #69, #72 (Asian), #78

• Choreographers: #33 (Emerging), #61, #79

• Climate Change: #34

• Community Leadership: #82

• Craft Artists: #57

• Creators: #85

• Curators: #73

• Dancers: #38, #61

• Designers: #60

• Entrepreneurs: #39 (Pennsylvania), #63 (Texas), #77 (Black)

• Filmmakers: #32 (Montana), #40 (Documentary), #42 (LGBTQIA+) #44 (Emerging), #45 (Emerging), #55, #62

• Journalists: #30, #41 (Early Career), #47, #49, #59, #71, #80 (Data)

• Musical Theater: #53

• Nonprofits: #28, #31 (Connecticut), #43, #53, #64 (New York City)

• Photographers: #54

• Podcasters: #75

• Poets: #48, #66, #67, #72 (Asian)

• Researchers: #70, #76

• Small Businesses: #84

• Youth Environmentalists: #27

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[FEATURED GRANTS]

1. NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards

This opportunity provides recognition — without subsidy from any professional or commercial interest — for investigative or interpretive reporting about the sciences and their impact on modern society. NASW primarily seeks to recognize science writing that is shaped by a variety of perspectives because such writing enables us to tell more broadly relevant stories that better serve the readers and communities. Therefore, they consider diversity in topics, sources, audience, and authors to be a critical component of excellence. A committee of accomplished peers judges the entries each year. NASW will award cash prizes of $2,000.

Deadline: February 1, 2025

Apply to this opportunity.

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2. Wave Farm Artists-in-Residence - For Radio Art

Wave Farm welcomes submissions from artists, researchers, tinkerers, and writers from a variety of disciplines who will embrace this opportunity to create work for a terrestrial radio station that celebrates risk-taking and prioritizes the uniquely urgent and intimate nature of the radio medium. Applicants should deeply consider the distinctive qualities of FM radio instead of online radio and/or podcasts. This opportunity is open to international applicants. Women, gender non-conforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply. Applicants will spend 10 days on-site at Wave Farm (Acra, NY) developing a new 55-minute radio artwork designed explicitly for terrestrial radio broadcast on Wave Farm’s creative community radio station WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears. Their radio artwork will also be included in Wave Farm’s weekly syndicated program, The Radio Art Hour, which is rebroadcast on dozens of additional radio stations across the U.S. A stipend of $1,000 will be provided to each resident artist.

Deadline: February 1, 2025

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3. Café Royal Performance Grant - For NYC Residents

This opportunity will award a Performance Grant to individuals who produce theatre, dance, and performance art (all of which can be accompanied by music). Grants awarded in this category do not fund costs associated with creating or composing new work. Applicants must reside in New York City to be eligible. The award amount is up to $10,000.

Deadline: February 3, 2025

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4. [NEW] The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund - For Artists & Art Workers

The Fund responds to the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires that began on January 7, 2025, and the ensuing financial needs of individuals resulting from this federally recognized “qualified disaster.” The Fund benefits Los Angeles County’s artists and arts workers in all disciplines impacted by the unprecedented wildfire crisis. Individuals may apply only once for up to $10,000. Funds are unrestricted and can be used in any way that alleviates financial hardship. They encourage artists and arts workers of low incomes, historically underserved populations, and those with disabilities to apply.

Deadline: February 18, 2025

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5. ArtsCONNECT - For Performing Arts Touring Nonprofits

This opportunity supports nonprofit performing arts touring projects collaboratively developed by presenters working together in the mid-Atlantic region: Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Native nations that share this geography. Engagement support of up to 50% of artists’ fees is provided at a maximum of $10,000. Other eligible expenses of up to $2,000 to support direct project expenses will be awarded.

Deadline: February 25, 2025

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