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.

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

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.

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.

American Masterpieces: Dance (AMD)

National Dance Project

National Theater Pilot will select six theater project in each of two pilot years. Participation will include support for the development and touring of the work over an 18-36 month period. Awards range from $80,000-$130,000. Considers projects submitted by U.S.-based nonprofit organizations as well as individual artists who have identified collaborators.

Native Arts

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.

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, on a three-year cycle.

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 Pew Charitable Trusts

Pew Fellowships in the Arts are substantial grants to artists in the Philadelphia area. These fellowships and other grants are administered through the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.

Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour

This organization has had to discontinue their programs as they have lost their funding. Check the webpage below for updates.

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 $40,000.

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.

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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: