December 2024 & January 2025 Funding Opportunities for Nonprofits, Artists, Writers and More!
đ Wrap up your year with these grants!
Happy Holidays! â¨
We understand the holiday season is busy, so we have decided to combine opportunities with the December 2024 and January 2025 deadlines again this year. We hope this will help you strategically plan ahead while enjoying the festivities!
Yes, (2) months of funding opportunities combined into (1) mega newsletter!
If you are specifically looking for nonprofit opportunities, tune in and take a look because this newsletter includes several grants available in that category.
So far, there are (172)opportunities: (82) with December 2024 deadlines totaling approximately $1,793,200, and (95) with January 2025 due dates totaling approximately $2,961,250.
We are adding more funding opportunities weekly as we find them.
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Grants or âfree money with strings attachedâ exist and can support your creative pursuits. However, finding funding opportunities isnât easy.
With a simple Google search, youâll find a lot of expired grants, non-creative-focused grants, and funding announcements. You can waste precious time researching with little to show for it.
Our small team of former professional grant administrators turned creative entrepreneurs spend dozens of hours scouring the web every week, so you donât have to.
We believe creators should receive the funding they need to impact their communities and ultimately change the world. We hope our resource makes the research task 10x easier.
Our free subscribers can preview a handful of grants; however, to access our complete list featuring grants due in December and January, we encourage you to join as a paid subscriber for $10 per month or $100 per year.
Given that this newsletter features (2) months instead of (1) month, now is a great time to try us and tap into funding opportunities you may miss out on otherwise.
We also still have dozens of grant opportunities with November deadlines. Click here for our November 2024 grant list, where we will continue to add more funding weekly.
Helpful Tip: Our newsletter is chronologically ordered from December 1st to January 31st. To help you save time, we also call out who grants are for in the titles. We will continuously share more December 2024 and January 2025 grants as we find them. Be on the lookout for our weekly emails with updates.
Artists: #149, #150 (Los Angeles), #153, #154 (Staten Island), #168 (Kentucky)
Authors/Writers: #139, #143 (Asian), #145, #155, #165
Creative Thinkers: #157
Credit Monitoring: #159
Entrepreneurs: #144 (Women), #162 (Women)
Filmmakers: #148 (Emerging), #156 (Midwest)
Journalists: #141, #161, #163, #165, #166, #167
Musicians: #142 (Emerging)
Nonprofits: #140, #146 (Houston), #160 (New York City)
Photographers: #164
Podcasters: #161
Small Businesses: #158
Sound Recording: #151
Visual Artists: #147, #152 (Painter)
[FEATURED GRANTS]
1. Scholarship America Dream Award
This opportunity is an established scholarship program to help students planning to enroll or currently enrolled in higher education programs (twoâor four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school). The applicant must be at least 17 years of age, have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (or its equivalent), and demonstrate financial need. Please note that high school seniors are not eligible. Award amounts will be up to $10,000 if selected as a recipient.
Deadline: December 6, 2024
2. The Queens Community Arts Grant - For Queens-Based Nonprofits
This opportunity supports Queens-based community organizations, groups, and collectives to hold arts and cultural projects or activities for the public in Queens to enhance the cultural climate in communities and neighborhoods where they live and operate - to make the arts accessible to all. Successful applications will show how the requested funds will strengthen community bonds, increase overall awareness and greater access to cultural activities in Queens, and advance the applicant organizationâs mission. First-time applicants are required to attend an information session before applying. Funding ranges from $1,000 to $5,000.
Deadline: December 12, 2024
3. The Arthur and Lila Weinberg Artist-in-Residence Fellowship for Independent Researchers
This fellowship is for writers, journalists, filmmakers, visual and performing artists, and other humanists who wish to use the Newberry collection to further their creative work. Preference is given to individuals working on projects focusing on social justice or reform. Applicants must be working outside of traditional academic settings. A $3,000 stipend will be provided.
Deadline: December 15, 2024
4. [NEW] The Fearless Fund Get Venture Ready 2025 Program - For Women Business Owners
This is a 12-week intensive training program for business owners to acquire the needed training, mentorship, knowledge, and skills to gain capital access. They will select 50 business owners to participate in this training cohort and provide $30,000 in grant funding.
Deadline: December 15, 2024
5. Pilot Pen's G2 Overachievers Student Grant
In recognition of an outstanding student who rises beyond the level of their everyday studies and utilizes their learnings to impact the world around them positively, one $15,000 grant will be awarded. Entrants for this award must submit 1,000 â 2,000 handwritten words explaining how they or the person theyâre nominating make a difference in the world and why they deserve to be recognized for these efforts.
Deadline: December 30, 2024
6. [NEW] Hurricane Helene Relief Grants for Nonprofit Organizations in Western North Carolina
In response to the losses sustained by the arts sector due to Hurricane Helene, the North Carolina Arts Council developed a grant category for nonprofit arts organizations in the impacted region. The goal is to distribute much-needed flexible funding that will assist arts organizations in their recovery. Examples of how funding can be used include salaries, wages, and fringe benefits for organizational staff. Repair and conserve artistic and cultural materials, including costumes, performance sets, instruments, etc. Purchase replacement supplies, equipment for administrative or artistic purposes, and projects, activities, and marketing designed to reengage with audiences. Organizations must be located in Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Clay, Cleveland, Gaston, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties. Funding ranges from $5,000 to $15,000.
Deadline: January 24, 2025
7. The Fund for Investigative Journalism Seed Funding
This opportunity provides small grants, up to $2,500, for preliminary reporting that can lead to full investigations. The grants cover costs such as open-records requests and initial reporting trips.
Deadline: January 31, 2025
8. [NEW] Citizens Small Business Community Champion Award
Small businesses are the heartbeat of our communities. They spread culture, provide jobs, and are owned and operated by our neighbors. To show appreciation for all they do and to help them find success, Citizens Bank created the Small Business Community Champion Award. This year, 25 businesses will win $10,000 and one year of professional support and networking through LuminaryÂŽ, worth $2,500.
*Note: This opportunity is exclusively for Citizens Business Banking customers.
Deadline: January 31, 2025
9. Etsy Emergency Relief Fund at CERF+
Etsy is committed to helping its creative entrepreneurs recover when disasters disrupt their businesses. Theyâve partnered with CERF+, a nonprofit organization focused on helping artists prepare for and recover from emergencies and disasters, to create a disaster relief fund just for Etsy sellers. Each quarter, they work with CERF+ to award grants to a select number of eligible sellers. Any Etsy seller who has experienced a federally declared disaster within the past year may apply for a grant as long as theyâve been active on Etsy for at least one year and their accounts with Etsy are in good standing. Grants of $2,000 are available to sellers when they apply.
Deadline: Rolling