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 (118) grants with September deadlines totaling approximately ($1,584,970) in potential funding—and there’s still time to apply for plenty of August grants too.
➡️ Click here for our updated August 2025 Grants List — we add new opportunities every Monday.
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, 70, 95
Artists: #2 (Featured), 4 (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), 41, 43 (Early Career), 47, 52 (Minnesota), 59 (California), 68 (Kentucky), 73 (New York), 74 (Boston), 76 (Manhattan), 77 (Manhattan), 86 (Philadelphia), 93 (Houston),94 (Houston), 109
Authors/Writers: #4 (Featured), 4, 10, 16, 27, 34, 41, 54, 57, 58, 60 (Black), 67, 90, 102, 107
Choreographers: #4, 49
Circus Artists: #71 (People of Color)
Community Leadership: #107 (Providence)
Composers/Lyricists: #7 (Featured), 57, 60 (Black), 88 (Nonprofits)
Craft Artists: #24, 37, 85 (Black), 87 (Emerging)
Creatives: #12, 37 (North Carolina), 59 (California), 95
Dancers: #8 (Alaska Native), 21 (New York City), 28, 32 (The Bronx), 49, 68 (Kentucky)
Designers: #43, 73 (New York)
Dreamers: #95
Entrepreneurs/Small Business: #5 (Featured), 1 (Women), 42 (Women), 75 (Connecticut Women), 84 (Minneapolis-St. Paul LGBTQIA+), 92, 97, 104
Female Athletes: #102 (Youth)
Filmmakers: #2 (Featured), 4, 29 (Texas), 35 (Women & Nonbinary), 38 (Short), 43, 44 (Mental Health; Short), 66 (Los Angeles), 82, 98 (Women of Color)
Humanities: #6 (Featured), 45 (Vermont Nonprofits), 100 (Virginia Nonprofits)
Journalists: #1 (Featured), 6 (Featured), 5 (Mid & Late Career), 11 (Person of Color), 19, 26, 27, 40, 53, 55 (Jewish), 94
Migraine Sufferers: #18
Musicians: #15 (Pre-Collegiate), 25 (nonprofits), 28 (Kansas), 32 (the Bronx), 33 (North Carolina), 57, 88 (nonprofits)
Nonprofits: #14, 20 (Ohio), 25, 31 (Colorado), 45 (Vermont), 46 (Maine), 61 (Midwest), 62 (Midwest), 64 (South Carolina), 65 (Washington State), 79, 88 (Music), 92, 93, 97, 100 (Virginia)
Performance Artists: #4, 21 (NYC Venues), 32 (The Bronx), 43, 57, 88, 108
Photographers: #3, 17 (Professional & Emerging), 63, 110
Photojournalists: #9
Poets: #7 (Emerging), 16, 28 (Kansas), 43, 57, 67, 101
Publishers: #80 (Independent press)
Scholars: #47, 58, 89
Scholarships: #8 (Featured)
Sculptors: #3 (Featured), 13, 58
Social Good Organizations & Individuals: #50
Sponsorships: #105 (Kentucky)
Theaters: #7 (Musical; Featured), 21 (New York City), 28 (Kansas City), 32 (the Bronx), 90 (Nonprofit)
Visual Artists: #2 (Featured), 2, 4, 6, 8, 23, 24 (Maine), 25 (Nonprofits), 28 (Kansas City), 33 (North Carolina), 37 (North Carolina), 43, 48 (Minnesota), 51 (Providence), 57, 60 (Black), 72 (Newark), 83 (New York City Emerging), 89, 99
Youth Leadership: #69 (San Francisco), 78 (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. 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
7. 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
8. 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
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