Grants For AAPI, Native American & Indigenous Creators
Funding to support AAPI, Native American, and Indigenous creative pursuits.
This resource shares funding opportunities specifically for Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and Indigenous creatives and entrepreneurs.
Currently, (12) grants are listed, and we will continue sharing updates, so we encourage you to bookmark this page on our website.
AAPI funding opportunities (3)
Dancers: #3 (New York City Metro Area)
Filmmakers: #1, 2 (Women of Color)
Native American/Indigenous funding opportunities (9)
Artists: #1 (Minnesota), 2, 4, 8 (Emerging)
Dancers: #9 (New York City Metro Area)
Filmmakers: #3 (Women of Color), 6
Journalists: #5
Nonprofits: #7
Storytellers: #7
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AAPI Grants (3 Awards)
1. [NEW] Firelight Fund - For BIPOC Filmmakers
This fund supports Black, Brown, and Indigenous documentaries at any stage and feature-length from development through distribution, with a focus on those who are telling urgent stories and using their craft to advance social justice. Initial grant sizes will range up to $50,000 per project.
Deadline: September 18, 2025
2. Reel Sisters Micro Budget Film Fellowship - For Women of Color
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series, the first Academy-qualifying festival devoted to women filmmakers, will offer you an opportunity to produce a short film or pilot for your web series! You will have one year to complete your short film project. You will receive $5,000 to produce a short film or the first episode of your web series, which you can use as a calling card to attract a producer and other film opportunities.
Entry Fee: $20 - $30
Deadline: September 30, 2025
3. Dance Workforce Resilience Fund - For NYC-Metro Area Freelance Dancers
This opportunity promotes fair labor practices and addresses wage inequities and precarious working conditions for individual freelance dancers by providing $1,000 awards tied to formal contracts to dancers within the New York City dance ecosystem.
The DWR Fund intends to reduce the wage gap between individual freelance dancers and living wage standards in the NYC metropolitan area; incentivize equitable labor practices by promoting the widespread use of contracts; and address systemic inequities by prioritizing the most underpaid and underprotected groups of dance workers including African, Latina/o/x, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA); disabled; immigrant; older adults; women-identifying; gender nonconforming/nonbinary/genderqueer; and transgender dancers.
Applicants must live in the metropolitan NYC area (including the five boroughs of NYC, as well as Nassau, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester counties in New York State, and Bergen and Hudson counties in New Jersey) and be able to provide proof of address.
Deadline: Rolling
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