Funding Resources/Funding Lists

Geographically Targeted Funding for Film/Video

Kentucky

New England

New York

San Francisco/Bay Area

Texas

Western States

Kentucky Foundation for Women

Grants to Kentucky feminist film/video artists.

Kentucky Foundation for Women, Inc.

1215 Heyburn Bldg. 
332 W. Broadway 
Louisville, KY  40202
(phone) 502-562-0045
(fax) 502-561-0420
Email: kfw@kfw.org
Website: www.kfw.org

 

Moving Image Fund

Grants are awarded for the production of single-channel work by individual artists living and working in the six New England states.

LEF Foundation
P.O. Box 382866
Cambridge, MA  02238-2866
(phone) 617-492-5333
Email: kathryn@lef-foundation.org
Website: www.lef-foundation.org
  

Haymarket People's Fund

New England only for films with strong connection to community organizing work.

Haymarket People's Fund
42 Seaverns Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
(phone) 617-522-7676
(fax) 617-522-9580
Email: info@haymarket.org
Web Site: www.haymarket.org
 

Jerome Foundation

A grant program for individual media artists who reside within the five boroughs of New York City and work in the genres of experimental, narrative, animation and documentary production.

New York City Media Arts Program
125 Sibley Street
Saint Paul, MN 55101-1928
(phone) 651-224-9431
(toll-free) 800-995-3766
(fax) 651-224-3439
Email: info@jeromefdn.org
Website: www.jeromefdn.org/IV~Grant_Programs/D~

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Experimental Television Center

New York only. Finishing funds (up to $1,500) to help with the completion of electronic media and film art works which are currently in progress. Presentation funds (up to $1,000) to organizations.  Media Arts Technical Assistance Funds (Up to $2,000) to organizations. 

Experimental Television Center
109 Lower Fairfield Road
Newark Valley, NY 13811
(phone) 607-687-4341
Email: etc@experimentaltvcenter.org
Website: www.experimentaltvcenter.org

 

Film Arts Foundation
Grants to encourage new and diverse works by film and video artists who have little likelihood of being supported through traditional funding sources.

Film Arts Foundation
145 Ninth Street, #101
San Francisco, CA 94103
(phone) 415-552-8760
(fax) 415-552-0882
Email: info@filmarts.org
Website: www.filmarts.org/services.php?function=grants
 

Bay Area Video Coalition

Grants to San Francisco Bay Area artists, though the Phelan Award is available to artists born in California, regardless of current residence. Programs include the Women's High Definition Artist-in-Residency.

Bay Area Video Coalition
2727 Mariposa Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110
(phone) 415-861-3282
(fax) 415-861-4316
Email: awards@bavc.org
Website: www.bavc.org/media/grants/index.htm
 

Columbia Foundation

The foundation gives priority to Bay Area filmmakers; to films or videos that will be used by Columbia Foundation-funded public-interest organizations to further their work in human rights and sustainable communities and economies; and to projects for which a grant of $5,000 to $25,000 makes a difference in getting the project started or completed.

Columbia Foundation
1016 Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 205
San Francisco, CA 94129
(phone) 415-561-6880

(fax) 415-561-6883
Email: info@columbia.org
Website: www.columbia.org/index.htm

Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists
The foundation funds women artists, musicians, writers, crafts women, film and video artists, actresses, dancers, and nonprofit supporters and promoters of women artists. Its purpose is to emphasize funding women from poverty and working-class origins, women of color, disabled women, and those whose work embodies a political and social-change focus.

Serpent Source Foundation for Women Artists
3311 Mission Street, #176
San Francisco, CA  94110
(phone) 415-597-3545
Email:  SerpSource@aol.com
Website: http://home.flash.net/~serpents/

Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund

An annual grant awarded to emerging film and video artists in the state of Texas. Funds films in all genres in the production, post-production or distribution stages.

Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund
Austin Film Society

1901 E. 51st Street
Austin, TX 78723
(phone) 512-322-0145

(fax) 512-322-5192

Email: tfpf@austinfilm.org
Website: www.austinfilm.org/tfpf
 

 Lilla Jewel Award for Women Artists

Oregon only. The artistic categories rotate and include Media and Multi-Arts, Visual Arts, and Music and/or Dance. Grants up to $4,000. Emphasis on women of color and lesbians.

MRG Foundation
2705 E. Burnside, Suite 210
Portland, Oregon 97214
(phone) 503-289-1517

(fax) 503-232-1731
Email: info@mrgfoundation.org
Website: www.mrgfoundation.org

Women’s Vision Film Grants

Supports female filmmakers in Oregon and SW Washington who tell engaging stories that increase social awareness and tolerance, both within and beyond our immediate communities. Eligible projects must be directed by a woman and must include at least two women in key roles – producer, writer, cinematographer or editor. Documentary and narrative projects eligible.

Women’s Vision Film Grants

Film Action Oregon

4122 NE Sandy Boulevard

Portland, OR  97212

(phone) 503-493-1128

Email: ellen@filmaction.org

Website: www.hollywoodtheatre.org/calendar/womensvisionfilmgrants.html

Agape Foundation

Western states only. Funds for distribution of films/videos that address peace and justice issues.

Grants: $500 - $2,000.

Agape Foundation
1095 Market Street, Suite 304
San Francisco, CA 94103
(phone) 415-701-8707
(fax) 415-701-8706
Email: info@agapefn.org
Website: www.agapefn.org
 

Pacific Pioneer Fund

Funds in the range of $1,000 to $10,000 to support emerging CA, WA, and OR documentary filmmakers. Projects must have non-profit fiscal sponsors, which may be based anywhere in the United States.

Pacific Pioneer Fund
P.O. Box 126

College Park, MD 20741
(phone) 650-996-3122

Email: armin@stanford.edu
Website: www.pacificpioneerfund.com

Artist Trust

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.org

* Many state arts councils also provide grants for film/video and/or fellowships for individual media artists. For an alphabetical listing of state and regional councils with links to web sites go to: 

www.arts.gov/partner/state/SAA_RAO_list.html

* Likewise, state humanities councils provide support for public programming that interprets the arts and humanities. An alphabetical list of state councils with links can be found at: 

www.neh.gov/whoweare/statecouncils.html