September 2025 Funding Opportunities: Grants for Visual Artists, Nonprofits, Filmmakers, and More!
The latest grant funding: time to get this money!
Q4 is the busiest grant cycle of the year.
We hope you are as excited about what’s in store as much as we are!
This newsletter has several funding opportunities for journalists and nonprofits, so if this is your area of interest, this is your time to shine! ✨
So far, we’ve already found (155) grants with September deadlines totaling approximately ($3,015,720) in potential funding—and there’s still time to apply for plenty of August grants too.
➡️ Click here for our updated October 2025 Grants List — we notify you of new additions every week.
How To Find Grants via Our Newsletter
Our grants list is chronologically ordered from September 1st to September 30th.
To help you save time, we also indicate who the grants are for in titles, and we’ve included a numbered summary below.
We will continuously share more September grants as we find them.
Audio/Podcast: #1 (Featured), 40, 74
Artists: #2 (Featured), 4 (Featured), 12 (Featured), 2 (North Carolina), 8 (Alaska), 20 (Nevada), 23 (North Carolina), 24 (Maine), 28 (Kansas), 30, 31 (Colorado), 33 (North Carolina), 36, 37 (North Carolina), 39 (Vermont), 42 (St. Pete), 43, 45 (Early Career), 50, 56 (Minnesota), 61, 63 (California), 72 (Kentucky), 77 (New York), 78 (Boston), 79 (North Carolina), 80 (North Carolina), 85 (Manhattan), 86 (Manhattan), 87 (Manhattan), 90 (Minnesota), 101 (Philadelphia), 102 (Indigenous), 106 (Oregon), 104 (New Mexico), 114 (Houston), 115 (Houston), 116 (Chicago), 117 (Brooklyn), 118 (Boulder, Colorado), 120 (Public Art), 126, 136
Authors/Writers: #3 (Featured), 4 (Featured), 10, 16, 34, 43, 58, 61, 62, 64 (Black), 71, 94 (Travel), 108, 128, 139
Choreographers: #4, 33 (North Carolina), 52, 80 (North Carolina)
Circus Artists: #75 (People of Color)
Community Leadership: #140 (Providence)
Composers/Lyricists: #9 (Featured), 12 (Featured), 33 (North Carolina), 61, 64 (Black)
Craft Artists: #24 (Maine), 37, 100 (Black), 105 (Emerging)
Creatives: # (Culinary), #12, 37 (North Carolina), 63 (California), 97 (San Jose), 101
Dancers: #8 (Alaska Native), 21 (New York City), 28, 32 (The Bronx), 52, 72 (Kentucky), 79 (North Carolina), 136
Designers: #45, 77 (New York)
Dreamers: #122
Entrepreneurs/Small Business: #5 (Featured), 10 (Featured; Nevada Women), 1 (Women), 44 (Women), 49 (Education & Technology), 81 (NYC veterans), 84 (Connecticut Women), 89, 99 (Minneapolis-St. Paul LGBTQIA+), 110, 111 (Startup), 112, 123, 129, 132, 134, 135
Event Organizers: #140 (Rhode Island)
Female Athletes: #131 (Youth)
Filmmakers: #8 (Featured), 4, 29 (Texas), 35 (Women & Nonbinary), 38 (Short), 45, 46 (Mental Health; Short), 70 (Los Angeles), 79 (North Carolina), 88, 95, 125 (Women of Color), 121, 136
Games: #83 (tabletop game)
Humanities: #7 (Featured), 47 (Vermont Nonprofits), 127 (Virginia Nonprofits)
Journalists: #1 (Featured), 7 (Featured), 5 (Mid & Late Career), 11 (Person of Color), 19, 26, 27, 50, 57, 59 (Jewish), 60, 119, 133
Migraine Sufferers: #18
Musicians: #4, 8 (Alaska), 15 (Pre-Collegiate), 25 (Nonprofits), 28 (Kansas), 32 (the Bronx), 33 (North Carolina), 61, 79 (North Carolina), 80 (North Carolina), 82 (Music Venues), 113 (Preservation and Scientific Research), 136
Nonprofits: #14, 25, 31 (Colorado), 47 (Vermont), 48 (Maine), 65 (Midwest), 66 (Midwest), 68 (South Carolina), 69 (Washington State), 87 (Manhattan), 92, 106 (Oregon), 107 (Music), 114 (Houston), 115 (Houston), 124, 127 (Virginia)
Performance Artists: #4, 21 (NYC Venues), 32 (The Bronx), 45, 61, 79 (North Carolina), 109 (Nonprofit), 139
Photographers: #6 (Featured), 12 (Featured), 3, 17 (Professional & Emerging), 67, 79 (North Carolina), 142
Photojournalists: #9
Poets: #7 (Emerging), 16, 28 (Kansas), 45, 61, 71, 128, 137 (Pittsburgh youth)
Publishers: #93 (Independent press)
Scholars: #50, 62, 108
Scholarships (College Students): #12 (Featured)
Sculptors: #3 (Featured), 13, 96
Social Good Organizations & Individuals: #53
Sponsorships: #138 (Kentucky)
Theaters: #9 (Musical; Featured), 21 (New York City), 28 (Kansas City), 32 (the Bronx), 79 (North Carolina), 109 (Nonprofit), 136
Visual Artists: #2 (Featured), 2, 4, 6, 8, 23, 24 (Maine), 25 (Nonprofits), 28 (Kansas City), 33 (North Carolina), 37 (North Carolina), 45, 55 (Providence), 56 (Minnesota), 61, 64 (Black), 76 (Newark), 79 (North Carolina), 80 (North Carolina), 98 (New York City Emerging), 103 (Los Angeles), 101, 126, 130 (Columbus, Ohio)
Veterans: #56 (Minnesota), 81 (NYC)
Youth Leadership: #73 (San Francisco), 91 (San Francisco)
[FEATURED]
1. The David Nyhan Emerging Talent Journalism Prize - For Early Career & Student Journalists
This Award honors early-career and student journalists who show great early success, potential, and drive to do the kind of journalism the prize honors. U.S.-based journalists working in any medium (including print, digital, audio, video, or a combination) and for any type of organization, including freelancers and self-employed journalists, are eligible. This work should be substantive, human-centered, talented, and fearless. One winner receives $1,000.
Deadline: September 1, 2025
2. Arts Recovery Grant - For Artists Impacted by Hurricanes Helene or Milton
This grant provides $1,000 grants to artists in South Arts’ nine-state region residing in the FEMA disaster areas of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee impacted by Hurricanes Helene and/or Milton. Artists working in craft, traditional arts, design, literary, media/film, performing arts, visual arts, and interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary arts may apply for a grant to safeguard their studios, protect their practices, and prepare for emergencies.
This opportunity is open to professional artists 18 years or older whose artistic practice generates any portion of their income. This recovery grant is for individual artists only who have not received relief or recovery funding from South Arts, ArtsAVL, CERF+, or any other arts agency or organization providing financial assistance to artists impacted by Hurricane Helene or Hurricane Milton.
Deadline: September 3, 2025
3. [NEW] Mavis Batey Essay Prize - For Students
Open to any student, worldwide, submissions must be 5,000 to 6,000 words and must be relevant to garden history which could include explorations of little-known gardens, or botany, ecology, horticulture, archaeology, social history, architecture, design, art history or sculpture. The prize includes an award of £500 and consideration for publication in a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal.
Deadline: September 7, 2025
4. Monson Arts’ Residency Program - For Artists & Writers
This program supports emerging and established artists and writers by giving them time and space to devote to their creative practices. The stipend is $250 for the 2-week residency, and the 4-week residency includes a $500 stipend.
Deadline: September 15, 2025
5. [NEW] New York Small Business Grant
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is recognizing small businesses in New York who are making an impact in their local communities with a $10,000 grant.
Deadline: Extended until September 16, 2025
6. [NEW] The Bob and Diane Fund - For Photographers
Seeking submissions from visual storytellers on stories about Alzheimer's Disease or dementia. They are specifically looking for photography (still only) projects that need support to complete, publish, or exhibit. These can be intimate stories of loss, as well as those that point out the urgency of a growing medical crisis for Alzheimer's and/or dementia. $5,000 in funding is available.
Deadline: September 21, 2025
7. The 2026-2027 Berlin Prize Fellowship in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Law & Journalism
The American Academy in Berlin is an independent, nonprofit institute for advanced study in the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, journalism, and public policy. Its primary mission is to strengthen the cultural and intellectual ties between the United States and Germany. The Academy welcomes applications from a broad range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, law, journalism, and various areas of public policy.
Fellows receive monthly stipends of $5,000, round-trip airfare, accommodation at or near the Hans Arnhold Center, partial board, and access to in-house library services and professional networking opportunities. Fellows present their work to audiences in and around Berlin via lectures, readings, public discussions, performances, and film screenings. They should also be willing to engage with relevant German institutions, organizations, and the media.
Deadline: September 22, 2025
8. [NEW] Sound & Scene: NewFest + Concord QTBIPOC Short Film Initiative
This program is for passionate QTBIPOC filmmaker who understands the transformative power of music in storytelling, and has been designed for folks who have a vision that can captivate and inspire audiences.
Receive $20,000 to produce your short film. Must have directed at least (2) LGBTQ+ short films, music videos or episodic works of content since 2014.
Directors who have completed feature-length films (over 60 mins), commissioned shorts and/or received paid distribution support for any of their directorial work are ineligible.
Deadline: September 23, 2025
9. The Jonathan Larson Grant - For Musical Theatre Composers, Lyricists & Writing Teams
This grant is an unconditional annual investment in individual talent, and is awarded to musical theatre composers, lyricists, and librettists, or writing teams, early in their career, to support artistic endeavors and safeguard long-term music writing careers. ATW is committed to serving artists who are creating new, fully producible works for the theatre and advancing the art form. The grants do not honor a specific piece or project. The funding amount is not disclosed.
Deadline: September 26, 2025
10. [NEW] Business of Her Small Business Grant - For Nevada Residents
Women-founded business in existence for more than a year with an impact facing component can win $10,000 for their small business.
Deadline: September 26, 2025
11. 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: September 30, 2025
12. [NEW] The Luxembourg Art Prize
With prizes ranging from €5,000 to €20,000 this award aims to launch or boost the careers of artists across the globe. Open to any artist, amateur or professional, with no limits on age, nationality, or place of residence. You are free to use this money however you please. Eligible media include: drawing, printing, installation, painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art (textiles and materials, glass, wood, metal, ceramics, mosaic, paper, or other techniques).
Deadline: September 30, 2025
13. [NEW] Ox-Bow Culinary Artist in Residency - For Culinary Artists
This program is designed to support and elevate artists working at the intersection of food and art. Application and participation is not limited to creators with traditional fine arts training, but open to anyone who identifies as having a creative practice that considers food material – whether as research, or as a conceptual, sculptural, performative, and/or event based practice. Successful applicants receive: room and board, $1,500 artist fee, a $600 travel stipend, and $200 materials budget for the winter residency.
Deadline: September 30, 2025
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