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Funding Resources/Funding Lists

Geographically Targeted Funders for Theatre

 

Florida

Kentucky

Minnesota

New England/Boston

New York

Philadelphia, PA

San Francisco/Bay Area

Washington, DC

 

 

Woman's Exchange, Inc. of Sarasota

Support to organizations and individuals involved in theater and the performing arts located in the Sarasota and Manatee counties, Florida.

Woman's Exchange Inc.

539 S. Orange Ave.  

Sarasota, FL   34236-7501

Phone: (941) 955-7859, Ext. 400

Email: info@WomansExchange.com

Website: www.womansexchange.org

 

 

Kentucky Foundation for Women

Promotes positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts in Kentucky. Grant awards range from $1,000 to $7,500

Kentucky Foundation for Women

1215 Heyburn Bldg.  

332 W. Broadway  

Louisville, KY   40202

Phone : (502) 562-0045

Fax: (502) 561-0420

Email: webmaster@kfw.org  

Website: www.kfw.org

 

 

Bush Foundation Artist Fellowships

Provides artists with significant financial support that enables them to further their work and their contribution to their communities. Fellows may decide to take time for solitary work or reflection, engage in collaborative community projects, embark on travel or research, or pursue any other activity that contributes to their lives as artists. Applicants must be residents of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, or one of the 26 counties of northwestern Wisconsin.

Bush Foundation 

332 Minnesota Street, East 900

St. Paul, MN 55101

Phone: (651) 227-0891

Fax: (651) 297-6485

Email: info@bushfoundation.org
Website: www.bushfoundation.org

 

 

LEF Foundation

LEF New England's Contemporary Fund supports innovative work of high creative merit in all contemporary art disciplines, excluding film and video. Application to the General Fund is open to both nonprofit organizations and to individuals applying through a fiscal agent. New England only.

LEF New England

Post Office Box 382066
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238
Phone: (617) 492-5333
Fax: (617) 868-5603

Email: kathryn@lef-foundation.org

Website: www.lef-foundation.org/main.htm

 

New England Foundation for the Arts

The Fund for the Arts awards grants to Boston-based artists, pairing the artist with a nonprofit community organization to create public artworks of lasting impact in the Greater Boston area.

Expeditions funds the development and presentation of cross-disciplinary touring projects for New England communities. Grants are made to New England-based nonprofit organizations to support planning or touring of projects with performing, literary, and/or visual arts components.

New England States Touring (NEST) provides support to New England-based nonprofit organizations for performances, readings, and related community activities by artists on the New England States Touring roster.

Presenter Travel Fund provides monetary assistance to arts programmers or curatorial staff in New England so that they may investigate new or unfamiliar work outside of their home community. Applicants may apply for funding to help cover the expense of attending festivals, showcases, conferences, or other cultural events.

Art and Community Landscapes addresses local and regional environmental concerns by funding site-specific art projects and artist residencies. Artists receive grants to work in pre-selected regions across the United States.

New England Foundation for the Arts
145 Tremont Street, 7th Floor
Boston, MA 02111
Phone/TTY: (617) 951-0010  
Fax: (617) 951-0016  

Email: info@nefa.org
Website: www.nefa.org

 

 

Starving Artist Award

Studio 42 and the Starving Artist Award Committee present cash grants for emerging artists living in and around New York City to create a new piece of work. Disciplines rotate.

The Starving Artist Award

Studio 42, Attn: Laura von Holt
208 Thompson Street #3
New York, New York 10012

Phone: (212) 330-7122
Email: starvingartists@studio-42.org (subject line 'SAA Inquiry') 

Website: www.StarvingArtistAward.com

 

New York Foundation for the Arts Artists' Fellowships

Artists' Fellowships are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. Disciplines alternate each year. SOS Grants of $100 - $600 are available to help artists take advantage of unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their work or career development.

New York Foundation for the Arts

155 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10013-1507

Phone: (212) 366-6900

Email: nyfaafp@nyfa.org

Website: www.nyfa.org

 

 

The Leeway Foundation
The Leeway Foundation’s grantmaking programs honor the transformative work of women and trans artists. The Art and Change Grants and the Leeway Transformation Awards fund women and trans people in the Delaware Valley region (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties) who create art for social change.

The Leeway Foundation

123 South Broad Street
Suite 2040
Philadelphia, PA 19109
Phone: (215) 545-4078
Fax: (215) 545-4021
Email: info@leeway.org

Website: www.leeway.org

 

The Pew Charitable Trusts

Pew Fellowships in the Arts are substantial grants to artists in the Philadelphia area.

Pew Charitable Trusts

1 Commerce Sq.  

2005 Market St., Ste. 1700  

Philadelphia, PA   19103-7077

Phone : (215) 575-9050

Fax: (215) 575-4939

Email: info@pewtrusts.com

Website: www.pewtrusts.com

 

 

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 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Emphasis on 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   
Telephone: (415) 597-3545   
Email: SerpSource@aol.com    
Website: http://home.flash.net/~serpents/    

 

The Creative Work Fund

The Creative Work Fund invites artists and nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area to create new art works through collaborations. It celebrates the role of artists as problem solvers and the making of art as a profound contribution to intellectual inquiry and to the strengthening of communities. Grants range from $10,000 to $35,000.

The Creative Work Fund

One Lombard Street, Suite 305

San Francisco, CA 94111-1130

Phone: (415) 398-4474

Website: www.creativeworkfund.org

 

The Melton Arts Foundation

Support for individual artists to improve or enhance skills, or to fund public performances, exhibitions, recordings or publications. Awards also in recognition of exceptional literary, artistic, musical or similar past achievement. Washington, DC only.

The Melton Arts Foundation

2086 Hunters Crest Way  

Vienna, VA   22181

 

 

* Many state arts councils also provide fellowships to individual theatre artists. For an alphabetical listing of state and regional councils with links to web sites go to: 

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


The Fund for Women Artists
3739 Balboa Street #181
San Francisco, CA 94121
Phone: (415) 751-2202
Website:  www.womenarts.org
Email:  info@womenarts.org