Funding Opportunities

Supports Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian artists and cultural organizations.

Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian artists

Supports the performing arts in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, with a focus on artistic excellence and organizational health.

Performing arts organizations

Supports Boston-area arts organizations and artists, with a focus on building a vibrant arts ecosystem that is equitable and accessible.

Boston-area arts organizations and artists

Supports arts organizations and artists in California, with a focus on engaging diverse communities and developing new artistic work.

California-based arts organizations and artists

Fosters sustainable communities in the United States guided by principles of social justice through grants in arts, environment, and community development.

Nonprofit organizations

Supports exploration, research, and storytelling projects that illuminate and protect the wonder of our world.

Researchers, explorers, and storytellers globally

Supports scholarship, exhibitions, and programs related to American art and visual culture.

Museums, universities, and nonprofits

Supports the creation, development, and production of Latinx theater works and the artists who make them.

Latinx theater artists and organizations

Promotes the well-being of humanity throughout the world through grants focused on food, health, power, and economic mobility.

Nonprofit organizations and research institutions

Supports Black theater companies and artists through grants, residencies, and development programs.

Black theater companies and artists

Provides grants and fellowships to emerging theater, dance, and film artists in the United States.

Emerging US artists (nomination required)

Supports cultural exchange in the visual and performing arts between Asia and the United States.

Artists and scholars in visual and performing arts

Supports community development financial institutions that provide responsible, affordable lending to underserved communities.

CDFIs and mission-driven lenders

Provides communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs, including affordable housing, anti-poverty programs, and infrastructure.

State and local governments and entitlement communities

Supports emerging screenwriters developing feature-length fiction films through intensive labs and grants.

Emerging screenwriters

Provides seed funding and support to emerging social entrepreneurs launching bold new organizations or initiatives.

Emerging social entrepreneurs

Reaches underserved populations — including those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability.

Nonprofit organizations serving underserved communities

Supports the development of new American plays and musicals through residencies, grants, and development programs.

Playwrights and theater artists

Drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and innovators who help them solve the world's most pressing problems.

Social entrepreneurs with proven solutions

Provides grants for US scholars, artists, and professionals to conduct research, teach, and participate in professional development abroad.

US citizens who are scholars, artists, or professionals

Supports social entrepreneurs who have innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to change patterns across society.

Social entrepreneurs globally

The SBA's primary program for providing financial assistance to small businesses, offering loans for working capital, equipment, real estate, and business acquisition.

US small businesses meeting SBA size standards

Provides financial assistance and technical assistance awards to Community Development Financial Institutions serving economically distressed communities.

Certified Community Development Financial Institutions

Supports arts organizations that are experimenting with new approaches to engage audiences and strengthen their financial sustainability.

Arts organizations

Provides long-term, fixed-rate financing for major fixed assets such as land, buildings, and equipment that promote business growth and job creation.

US for-profit businesses meeting SBA net worth requirements

Supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world.

Nonprofit organizations

Supports justice, democratic governance, and human rights through grants to organizations working on systemic change.

Nonprofit organizations globally

Provides awards to emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama who demonstrate exceptional talent and promise.

Emerging US writers (nomination required)

Supports quality journalism and media innovation that informs and engages communities.

Journalism organizations and media startups

Provides competitive awards to small businesses for engaging in federal R&D with potential for commercialization.

US small businesses with fewer than 500 employees

Supports minority-owned businesses through technical assistance, access to capital, and market opportunities.

Minority-owned businesses

Supports emerging documentary filmmakers of color through grants and intensive professional development.

Emerging filmmakers of color

Supports research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

Scholars, nonprofits, and educational institutions

Supports open internet, digital literacy, and responsible technology through grants to organizations and individuals.

Organizations and individuals globally

Supports journalism innovation and helps news organizations adapt to the digital age.

News organizations and journalism startups

Expands opportunities in America's cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, and community development.

Nonprofit organizations

Works to build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States through grants focused on child welfare, juvenile justice, and community development.

Nonprofit organizations serving vulnerable youth

Provides grants, marketing services, and technology upgrades to small businesses owned by people of color.

Small businesses owned by people of color

Supports organizations working to reduce inequality and strengthen democratic values, free expression, and human achievement.

Nonprofit organizations

Annual competition awarding grants to small businesses that demonstrate innovation, community impact, and growth potential.

US small businesses

Supports women and non-binary nonfiction filmmakers who are making films that ignite change.

Women and non-binary filmmakers

Supports research that improves education through rigorous, high-quality studies of educational processes and outcomes.

Researchers and educational institutions

Provides funding to public television and radio stations to support their community service activities.

Public broadcasting stations

Supports children, families, and communities in becoming more thriving and equitable through grants in education, health, and economic security.

Nonprofit organizations in target regions

Works to build a culture of health in America, funding programs that address health equity, well-being, and the social determinants of health.

Nonprofits and research institutions

Monthly and annual grants awarded to women entrepreneurs to help fund their business ventures.

Women-owned businesses

Supports community-based organizations working to address environmental and public health issues in underserved communities.

Community-based organizations in underserved areas

Works to ensure all students in the United States have access to a high-quality education that prepares them for success in college and careers.

Educational organizations and institutions

Supports independent journalists and media organizations covering underreported global issues.

Independent journalists and media organizations

Provides grants to support targeted technical assistance, training, and other activities leading to the development or expansion of small and emerging private businesses in rural areas.

Rural businesses and organizations