August 2025 Funding Opportunities: Grants for Visual Artists, Authors/Writers, Filmmakers, Entrepreneurs, and More!
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Summer is in full swing—and while you're soaking up the sun, spending time with loved ones, and enjoying the season, we’re bringing fresh funding opportunities straight to your inbox. Perfect for jumpstarting your next big idea, creative project, or business move.
So far, we’ve already found (93) new grants totaling approximately ($799,350) in potential funding—and there’s still time to apply for plenty of July deadlines.
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How To Find Grants via Our Newsletter
Our grants list is chronologically ordered from August 1st to August 31st.
To help you save time, we also indicate who the grants are for in the titles, and we’ve included a numbered summary below.
Note: We are adding more awards, so the numbering below may be a little off. We should be all done with this week’s update by Monday, August 11th.
We will continuously share more August grants as we find them.
Activists: #44
Artists: #6 (Featured), 3 (Philadelphia), 5, 11 (Maine), 15 (Minnesota), 16 (New Hampshire), 18 (New York City), 20, 21 (Charlotte), 28 (Emerging & Mid-Career), 31, 33 (Arizona), 38, 39 (Boston), 43 (California), 44, 51 (New York City-Based), 56 (Florida), 57 (Florida), 60 (North Carolina), 84 (Printmaking), 86
Authors/Writers: #1 (Featured), 9, 14 (Nonfiction), 18, 30 (Oregon), 25, 44, 49 (New England), 58, 71 (Michigan), 76, 80
Climate & Environmental Reporting: #42, 54 (New England)
Community Leadership: #47 (Connecticut)
Composers: #76
Conservationists: #65
Craft Artists: #6 (Featured), 38
Creatives: #21 (Charlotte), 72 (Photography & Video)
Curators: #78 (DMV)
Dancers: #21 (Charlotte), 79, 85 (New York City Metro Area)
Entrepreneurs: #16 (New Hampshire), 19 (Chicago), 26 (Early Stage), 67 (Women)
Filmmakers: #2 (Featured), 24 (Short), 27, 34 (South Carolina), 53 (Documentary), 61, 77
Founders: #14 (Women tech), 68 (Young)
Health Equity: #2
Journalists: #12, 25, 35, 44
Multi Media: #3 (Featured), 7, 83 (BIPOC DeafBlind)
Musicians: #20, 21 (Charlotte), 59 (Philadelphia), 64, 79, 80
Music Research & Preservation: #65
Newsroom: #54 (New England)
Nonprofits: #5 (Featured), 1, 4, 10 (Missouri), 21 (Charlotte), 29 (California), 37 (Massachusetts), 45 (Alaska), 64, 73
Photographers: #3 (Featured), 9 (Youth), 23 (Climate Justice), 50 (New York City-Based), 62 (Alaska), 72
Photojournalists: #50 (New York City-Based)
Playwrights: #48 (Emerging), 81 (Unpublished)
Podcasters: #2 (Featured), 12, 63
Poets: #1 (Featured), 8 (Women of Color), 21 (Charlotte), 30, 49
Scholarships: #7 (Featured), 69 (Black Business), 74 (High School Students)
Small Businesses: #40, 55, 82 (North Carolina)
Songwriters: #59 (Philadelphia)
Startups: #14 (Women), 68 (Social Impact)
Storytellers: #2 (Featured), 4, 7 (Multi Media), 21 (Charlotte), 36 (Black Appalachian), 62 (Alaska), 79
Visual Artists: #3 (Featured), 6, 22 (Chicago), 41 (Rhode Island), 60 (North Carolina), 62 (Alaska), 66 (Emerging), 70 (Tennessee), 71(Michigan), 75 (Early Career), 79, 83 (BIPOC DeafBlind)
[FEATURED]
1. Granum Foundation Prizes - For Writers
This award is to help U.S.-based writers complete substantive literary works, such as poetry books, essays, or short story collections, novels, and memoirs, or to help launch these works. One winner will be awarded $5,000. Up to three finalists will be awarded $500 or more.
Deadline: August 1, 2025
2. [NEW] Next Narrative Africa Fund - Podcasters, Filmmakers, TV Producers
A mission driven content and media fund to invest in commercially viable audio-visual content made on the Continent by African and African-diaspora storytellers (US residents eligible with a connection to the continent).
This fund invests in narrative shifting audio-visual projects that grapple with and/or challenge prevailing stereotypes about Africa and people of African descent focused on select social impact storytelling themes. Includes feature films, television series, podcasts, and interactive content, including gaming.
Development grants range from $20,000 to $100,000.
Deadline: August 1, 2025
3. [NEW] “Wish You Were Here” Archtober Postcard Competition - NYC Residents
Submit your vision in the form of a postcard, featuring the phrase “Wish You Were Here.” The expression should conjures place, memory, and longing—a space worth sharing. Whether it’s an art museum that feels like home or a waterfront that offers some respite, they want to see the public spaces you would invite them into. Cash prize $500. All are invited to submit—architects, illustrators, design enthusiasts, etc.
Deadline: August 12, 2025
4. [NEW] Tom Harris Boys Play Field Hockey Grant
This $4,000 grant aims to foster the growth of boys’ field hockey by creating sustainable “Boys Field Hockey Hot Spots” across the United States. These hot spots are communities where boys can discover, play, learn, compete, improve, and excel as players, coaches, umpires, and fans.
Deadline: August 15, 2025
5. The Sky Is Not the Limit Social Impact Grant - For Nonprofits
At Bombshell Impact Design Agency, they believe the world’s most powerful brands are those driven by purpose. That’s why they created this grant, an exclusive opportunity for social impact brands to access up to $10,000 in professional design, marketing, and “AI for Good” strategy services. If your brand exists to make a difference, they’re ready to help you amplify your message, elevate your brand, and harness technology to drive measurable impact.
Deadline: August 19, 2025
6. The Chrysalis Award - For Emerging Mixed-Media Craft Artists
This opportunity promotes and inspires emerging mixed-media craft artists based in the US. The ideal candidate demonstrates excellence in their work and a commitment to developing in unique and dynamic ways. Applicants must have completed a four-year academic program or equivalent training within the past five years and have not been curated into an exhibition at a major institution. The awardee will receive a $5,000 unrestricted award, a one-year membership to JRACraft, and the opportunity to give a formal presentation about their work at a JRACraft event.
Deadline: August 24, 2025
7. Financial Goals Scholarships - For College Students
Do you have an awesome financial goal? Is college your first step toward achieving your goals? Then, you can enter the Financial Goals Scholarship and win $2,000 to help make your dreams a reality. Available to U.S. citizens and Permanent Residents 18 or older, enrolled or planning to enroll in college.
Deadline: August 31, 2025
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