June 2026 Grants for Entrepreneurs, Artists, Authors, and More!
Funding to support your ideas and creative work.
Who’s ready for summer? ☀️🕶️😎 As we gear up for all the summer activities, longer days, and fun in the sun, there are a variety of grants to look through to help you along your journey!
In June, dozens of funders are offering funds to bring our dream projects to life. Will you answer the call?
➡️ This newsletter currently features (83) grants for U.S.-based creatives totaling approximately $1,612,299. We are continually adding more funding opportunities weekly, so stay tuned.
➡️ Click here for our July 2026 Grants Roundup!
How To Find Grants via Our Newsletter
New here? Our grants list is chronologically ordered from June 1st to June 30th.
To help you save time, we also indicate who grants are for in award titles, and we’ve included a numbered index below summarizing featured opportunities.
We will continuously share more June grants as we find them.
Artificial Intelligence: #75 (Santa Barbara, Ventura & Los Angeles County), 76
Artists: #1 (Featured), 2, 7, 10 (Miami-Dade), 11 (Hartford), 16 (Texas), 22 (Bay Area), 24 (Newark, NJ), 26, 35 (California), 40 (Tulsa), 45, 49 (Washington State), 61 (Christian), 64, 68, 72 (New Haven), 75 (Santa Barbara, Ventura & Los Angeles County)
Authors/Writers: #4 (Featured), 14 (Emerging), 15, 17, 23 (New England; Emerging), 25 (New England; Emerging), 65 (Indigenous/Writers of Color)
Ceramics: #56
Choral Arts: #73 (New Hampshire & Vermont)
Choreographers: #18
Community Enhancement Leadership: #1 (Featured), 50 (Massachusetts)
Craft Artists: #53
Creatives: #69 (Young)
Curators: #29
Dance Organizations: #21 (New York City-Based)
Editors: #15
Entrepreneurs/Small Businesses: #6 (Featured), 9 (Black), 30 (Blue Collar), 31, 38 (Women), 41, 42 (Women Owned), 46 (Women), 52, 54 (San Jose), 58, 66 (Tourism)
Faith-Based Organizations: #62
Filmmakers: #6 (Documentary), 51, 60 (Native; Emerging)
Graphic Artists: #3 (Featured - Rhode Island)
Humanities: #1 (Featured), 39 (Nonprofit; Nebraska), 44 (Maine)
Jewish Book Arts: #5
Journalists: #20, 36, 63
News Organizations: #3
Nonprofits: #1 (Connecticut), 7, 12, 19, 32 (Chicago), 33 (New Orleans), 34 (Mississippi), 39 (Nebraska), 44 (Maine), 48 (Visual & Performing Arts), 59, 68
Performing Artists: #71 (Emerging)
Photographers: #5 (Featured), 8, 13, 27 (Black Women), 70 (Women & Nonbinary)
Playwrights: #7 (Featured), 43 (New York State), 47 (HIV), 67
Podcasters: #51
Poets: 37
Radio Programs: #51
Researchers: #55, 63
Scholarships: #74 (Women)
Screenwriters: #43 (New York State)
Sculptors: #2 (Featured - Rhode Island)
Starups: #28 (Sacramento Region)
Venture Captial: #57
Visual Artists: #4 (Oklahoma)
[FEATURED GRANTS]
1. Fiber Art Now 2026 Community Enrichment Grants
These grants will be awarded to individuals and groups who teach, mentor, or provide opportunities to help bring fiber art into their communities. The awards for these grants will be $1,000.
Deadline: June 1, 2026
2. [NEW] Warren Arts and Cultural Commission - For Sculptors in Warren, Rhode Island
This is a call for a visually engaging and dynamic public sculpture to be showcased along the bike path at Child Street and Railroad Avenue in Warren, Rhode Island. The selected sculpture will be on display from July 2026 through June 2027. The artist will receive a $2,000 honorarium.
Deadline: June 1, 2026
3. [NEW] PVDFEST Boston Globe Poster Design - For Rhode Island Artists
Graphic artists are invited to create an original poster design for the 2026 PVDFest. The selected image will be printed on posters that get distributed throughout the region and at the festival. The awarded finalist will receive $3,000 as the total design fee. Open to graphic artists, designers, and illustrators with a proven track record of creating works of similar scale.
Deadline: June 1, 2026
4. The Blackstone Publishing Novel Initiative - For Authors/Writers
The Black List and Blackstone Publishing have announced The Blackstone Publishing Novel Initiative, a new partnership to identify an unpublished manuscript for a $25,000 publishing deal. This program is open to manuscripts in all genres, but Blackstone is particularly interested in genres that elevate familiar themes from fresh, compelling perspectives, with a particular emphasis on thrillers, high-concept mysteries and romances, and horror stories. You must post an original manuscript on www.blcklst.com, with at least one (1) evaluation, and opt-in to the Program during the Submission Period.
*NOTE: For the avoidance of doubt, no feature, pilot, play, or musical submissions will be eligible for this Program.
Deadline: June 9, 2026
5. The Deloitte Photo Grant
This grant is open to all photographers under age 35. Entrants will be required to submit an idea for a project related to the theme of the Award. The theme of the 2026 edition of Deloitte’s Photo Grant is Proximities, an invitation to tell and investigate the new forms of distance that characterize our era, a distance that is not only physical but arises from economic polarization, technological mediation, and social fragmentation.
Photography can reveal these separations by observing how bodies inhabit spaces and how communities retreat behind screens and rhythms that reduce attention and relationships, highlighting the micro-relationships that endure in everyday life and what remains or disappears in the visible. The theme also invites reflection on what holds communities together despite the pressures of the present, and how photography can make these forms of proximity and distance legible.
The winner will receive a mention in the exhibition dedicated to the winner of the nomination section and €25,000 towards the execution of their project idea. The resulting work will become an exhibition when the next edition of the Award is held.
Deadline: June 14, 2026
6. Business Freedom Grant - For Entrepreneurs
This opportunity provides $1,000 in funding to help you achieve what matters most: financial independence through business ownership. Whether you’re launching your first business or scaling an existing business, this grant covers the essentials: startup costs, marketing, equipment, or digital tools that transform ideas into income. This isn’t charity. It’s an investment. Investment in founders who are ready to build wealth, claim independence, and create lasting freedom.
Business ownership isn’t just a revenue stream. It’s reclaiming your power, building equity, and creating options where none existed before. The Business Freedom Grant isn’t just money; it’s belief in you and your business when you need it most.
Deadline: June 30, 2026
7. The Vanguard Arts Fund - For Playwrights
This opportunity provides developmental support to diverse teams of artists interested in creating theatrical works. They are interested in supporting the development of new full-length plays and musicals, as well as the reimagining of pre-existing stories. They emphasize process over product and will work to create an environment in which you can do your best work. Vanguard is proud to have supported many projects led by BIPOC generative artists and encourages artists of every background to submit their work to them. Most projects are funded between $10,000 and $20,000, which includes payment for creatives, actors, housing, and transportation.
Deadline: June 30, 2026
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