December 2025 Grants To Fund Your Big Ideas: For Artists, Writers, Entrepreneurs and More!
🎁 Wrap up your year with these grants!
Happy Holidays! ✨
We understand the holiday season is busy, so we have decided to send out the December newsletter early, giving you time to focus on scratching off a few more goals on your list.
So far, we’ve found (62) grants with December 2025 deadlines totaling approximately $639,190 in potential funding.
How To Find Grants via Our Newsletter
Our grants list is chronologically ordered from December 1st to December 31st.
To help you save time, we also indicate who grants are for in award titles, and we’ve included a numbered summary below.
We will continuously share more December grants as we find them.
Artists: #1 (Featured), 2 (Alaska Native), 8, 19 (Arkansas), 19, 26, 27, 29 (Worcester, MA), 30, 31 (North Berkshire, MA), 34, 37, 40 (Chattanooga), 42 (Ceramics), 49 (New York City)
Authors/Writers: #6 (Featured; High School Seniors), 9, 10 (Teen), 15 (Emerging), 17, 25 (Nonfiction), 45 (New York City; Middle & High Schoolers)
Dancers: #18
Entrepreneurs/Small Business: #1 (New York City; Women), 22, 28 (Alaska), 43 (Women), 48, 50 (Midlife)
Filmmakers: #4 (Featured), 3 (Short), 13, 20, 53 (Mid-Atlantic Region), 54
Founders: #51 (Early Stage; New York City)
Journalists: #3, 11, 16 (The South), 21, 23 (Early Career; Women), 46, 56
Musicians: #4 (Bowed String Instruments)
Nonprofits: #1 (Featured), 5 (Connecticut), 6 (Connecticut), 7 (Connecticut), 24 (Sacramento), 37, 55 (Montgomery County, PA)
Performing Arts: #36
Photographers: #14, 47
Playwrights: #39 (Queens & The Bronx), 41 (New York City; Minneapolis)
Researchers: #32
Scholarships: #5 (Featured; College)
Storytellers: #35 (Visual), #38 (Social Media)
Textiles: #33 (New York City)
Visual Artists: #12, 44, 52 (New Mexico)
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1. Terra Foundation Convening Grants - For Nonprofits
This opportunity seeks to generate knowledge and nurture relationships across local and global networks, in service of broader efforts to engage in intercultural dialogues and transform practices in the field of American art. They welcome requests to support convenings at any stage of a project—whether in early planning or more developed phases. In-person, virtual, and hybrid formats are eligible for funding. Funding ranges between $10,000 and $25,000.
Deadline: December 1, 2025
2. [NEW] Adirondack Experience Artist-in-Residence Program
This opportunity will offer four artists a one-month residency, a $5,000 stipend for the duration of the residency, and $500 travel allowance. During the residency, the artist will focus on creating their own body of work in the museum's public areas at least 3 days per week. The intention during public hours is for artists to spend time pursuing their own creative work, inspired by the natural areas that comprise and surround the museum’s campus, as well as key objects and stories within the collection. Interactions with the public are intended to be short and informal, and to introduce museum visitors to the artist and the artistic process. Museum staff will work with the selected artists to identify a location(s) suitable for their work.
Deadline: December 12, 2025
3. [NEW] The Shaufler Prize in Journalism
This is the premier contest recognizing the best journalism in the country and advancing understanding of issues affecting underserved people in society, including communities of color, immigrants, people who identify as LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities. Any working professional may enter the professional category. Students entering the competition must be enrolled in an accredited journalism program at the time the entry was published or broadcast. Cash prizes range from $2,000 to $10,000.
Deadline: December 15, 2025
4. The Sony Future Filmmaker Awards
These awards celebrate the filmmakers shaping the cinematic landscape of tomorrow. Free to enter and aimed at independent filmmakers worldwide, the program consists of five categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Animation, Student, and Future Format. The shortlisted filmmakers are flown to Los Angeles for an industry-immersive program. Funding ranges from $2,500 to $5,000.
Deadline: December 16, 2025
5. Financial Goals Scholarships - For College Students
Do you have an awesome financial goal? Is college your first step in getting there? 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: December 31, 2025
6. Penguin Random House Creative Writing Awards Program - For High School Seniors
This scholarship program was established for high school seniors with outstanding creative writing skills who plan to pursue higher education. Through this program, Penguin Random House will award college scholarships of up to $10,000 each to six public U.S. high school seniors, nationwide. Applicants must be current high school seniors at a public high school in the United States graduating Spring of 2026, 21 years of age and under, and plan to enroll in an accredited two-year or four-year college, university, or approved vocational-technical school Fall 2026.
*Note: Only the first 1,000 applications will be accepted.
Deadline: January 15, 2026
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