The Latest Funding Opportunities

Written By Ariel Shelton

At CultureWorks, we are dedicated to providing you with access to information about the latest funding opportunities.

Do you have an opportunity to share? Reach out to Ariel at ashelton@cultureworksphila.org.

Bread & Roses Community Fund
Deadline: March 26, 2025  (Climate Justice)
Climate Justice Organizing Fund will fund groups organizing to advance climate justice in a variety of issue areas.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Deadline: March 28, 2025  (Arts Recovery)
PA Arts Recovery Program will provide $3,000 payment for working artists and arts and culture professionals in Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks and Chester counties who suffered financial losses due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Economy League of Greater Philadelphia
Deadline: March 28, 2025  (Neighborhood Revitalization)
The Fair City Challenge aims to identify and support community-based social entrepreneurs with great ideas for revaluing property in historically disinvested Philadelphia neighborhoods - while preventing displacement.

Sarah Ralston Foundation
Deadline:  April 1, 20205 (Elder Communities)
Provides general operating support for organizations serving vulnerable and underserved older adults residing in Philadelphia County. Organizations may be based outside of Philadelphia County.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center
Deadline: April 1, 20205 (Performing Arts)
Democracy Cycle will commission and develop 25 new performing arts works across the fields of theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance.

Creative Capital Foundation
Deadline: April 3, 2025 (Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, Literature)
Seeks proposals for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature from individual artists and will award unrestricted project grants from $15,000 up to $50,000.

Leeway Foundation
Deadline:  April 14, 2025  (Media Arts)
The Media Artist + Activist Residency provides grants of $25,000 to women, trans*, and gender nonconforming media artists working in close collaboration with social justice organizations to document, reframe, and/or amplify the issues and campaigns addressed by the organization.

New York Foundation for the Arts
Deadline:  April 15, 2025 (Environmental Art)
The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) provides grants of up to $20,000 to environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.

William Penn Foundation
Deadline:  April 25, 2025 (Arts, Education, Environment)
The next round of quarterly RFPs for William Penn Foundation include: Arts & Culture Programming, Caregiver Supports, Early Childhood Education, Improvement of Public Spaces, Reduce Environmental Burdens, and Reduce Sewage Overflows. Please see the WPF website for details about each RFP, and be sure to review the Info Sheet about how to apply as a fiscally sponsored project. 

The Lawrence Foundation
Deadline: April 30, 2025 (Environment, Human Services, and Disaster Relief)
Funds organizations that address the environment, human services, and disaster relief.  

The Bartol Foundation
Deadline: May 1, 2025 and site visit needs to be scheduled by April 3, 2025 (Arts Education)
The Bartol Foundation makes grants to Philadelphia arts organizations and/or projects that focus on arts education programs by and for the communities they serve through

Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation
Deadline: May 1, 2025  (Project-Based)
Provides project-based grants in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Sparkplug Foundation
Deadline: LOI - May 2, 2025  (Education, Community Organizing, Music)
Funds start-up organizations and new projects of established non-profits in the following areas: education, community organizing, and music.

The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
Deadline: May 10, 2025 (Arts, Culture, Youth, Seniors, Environment)
The Foundation will consider requests to support museums, cultural and performing arts programs; schools and hospitals; educational, skills-training and other programs for youth, seniors, and persons with disabilities; environmental and wildlife protection activities; and other community-based organizations and programs. 

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