Eligibility:
Focus area grants are provided to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations within the sponsor's company service territory through the foundation focus areas. The sponsor's service area includes: Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

The Getty--Funding Priorities
Sponsor: Getty (J. Paul) Trust
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The Getty Foundation supports individuals and institutions committed to advancing the understanding and preservation of visual arts locally and throughout the world. The majority of our funding is through initiatives that target a particular issue or region, and that are carried out in collaboration with the other Getty programs- the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, and the Getty Conservation Institute. We focus on the following four broad areas:

Access to Museum and Archival Collections
Art History as a Global Discipline
Advancing Conservation Practice
Leadership and Professional Development

The Getty also offers Residential Fellowships at the Getty Research Institute and the Getty Conservation Institute.

Restrictions:
Eligible applicants are nonprofit institutions that offer formal training programs integrating the history of art, science, and conservation practice. Eligible expenses may include support for visiting faculty, purchase of equipment or resource materials, and library acquisitions.

Inquiries for assistance should be in the form of a brief preliminary letter. If a project is eligible for consideration, the organization will be asked to submit a formal application and will be sent the necessary application forms.

Sponsor: Gottlieb (Adolph and Esther) Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
Grants are given to qualified artists whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.

Eligiblity:
An artist must be able to demonstrate a minimum involvement of ten years in a mature phase of his or her work. Artists must work in the disciplines of painting, sculpture or printmaking. The maximum amount of this grant is $10,000; an award of $4,000 is typical.

Sponsor: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts
Deadline(s): Februrary 25 for organizations and September 15 for individuals

Objectives:
The sponsor provides support of activities to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. In the past, the sponsor has supported a variety of endeavors, including innovative, thought-provoking investigations in architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and related fields of inquiry.

Restrictions:
In an effort to bridge communities and different fields of knowledge, we support a wide range of practitioners (such as architects, scholars, critics, writers, artists, curators, and educators) and organizations (such as non-profit galleries, colleges and universities, publishers, and museums). Individuals and institutions are eligible to apply. The average grant is less than $10,000-$30,000. The Graham Foundation offers two types of grants: Production and Presentation Grants to individuals and organizations and Research and Development Grants to individuals. Application guidelines are available.

Sponsor: Hagley Museum & Library
Deadline(s): March 31, June 30 and October 31

Objectives:
Grants-in-aid: Short-term grants-in-aid support visits to Hagley for scholarly research in the imprint, manuscript, pictorial, and artifact collections. They are designed to assist researchers with travel and living expenses while using the research collections. They are available to both degree candidates and senior scholars and writers working independently as well as college and university teachers, librarians, archivists, museum curators, and scholars from fields other than humanities. Stipends are for a minimum of two weeks, maximum of two months at no more than $1,600 per month.

Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship: These fellowships support access to and use of Hagley's research collections. hey enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the library, archival, and artifact collections of the Hagley Museum & Library. Stipends are for a minimum of two months and a maximum of six months at no more that $1,600 per month.

Restrictions:
Grants-in-Aid are available to both degree candidates and senior scholars and writers working independently as well as college and university teachers, librarians, archivists, museum curators, and scholars from fields other than humanities. Scholars are expected to participate in seminars which meet periodically, as well as attend noontime colloquia, lectures, and other public programs offered during their tenure.

Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship: Applicants must be from out of state and preference will be given to those whose travel costs to Hagley will be higher. Fellows are expected to participate in seminars which meet periodically, as well as attend noontime colloquia, lectures, and other public programs offered during their tenure.

Sponsor: International Music and Art Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor makes grants to projects that are well informed, that have clearly defined goals, and that are innovative and risk-taking, while acknowledging traditional standards of excellence and responsibility to the art form.  "Preservation" includes the conservation and restoration of individual works of art and architecture as well as cultural and environmental documentation and preservation. Specific current interests of the Foundation include, but are not limited to, the fine arts (painting, drawing, sculpture), music, theatre, and architecture.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are organizations in the performing and visual arts such as opera companies, symphony orchestras, chamber music groups, ballet companies, etc. Grants are also given for architectural restorations and for the conservation of art, to museums, and to educational institutions for research and publication on the history of art. Grants may be made to ecological organizations that work to protect the environment and nature.

Sponsor: Jerome Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor provides support for the creation and production of new artistic works by emerging artists, and contributes to the professional advancement of those artists. The Jerome Foundation supports programs in dance, literature, media arts, music, theater, performance art, the visual arts, multidisciplinary work and arts criticism.

Guidelines are available. All requests must be in writing.

Sponsor: Kress (Samuel H.) Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The Kress Foundation offers funding for projects that relate to the presentation and conservation of European art and to the practice of art history and conservation. The general areas in which applications are considered include: programs that document, care and display European art and architecture, and develop and utilize the skills and experience of trained professionals.

Restrictions:
Eligible applicants are non-profit, United States organizations.

In general, the sponsor prefers to fund projecst that meet a specifi need, implement an innovative idea, or provide a tangible benefit to the field as a whole. The Foundation does not consider grants for living artists, films, art history programs below the pre-doctoral level, or the purchase of works of art. Endowment support is available only in special circumstances.

Application guidelines are available. Faxed applications will not be accepted.

Sponsor :Lannan Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
Areas of interest in Contemporary Visual Art include funding artists for the creation of new work, scholarly publications that foster serious discussion of contemporary art, and organizations that bring new and sometimes experimental works of art to a wide audience. Funding has been provided for exhibitions, scholarly publications, residency programs, and special projects. Literary Arts supports the creation of exceptional English-language literature and seeks to develop a wider audience for contemporary poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Areas of interest include funding organizations that support diverse writers through publication, presentation, and distribution. Funding for projects in indigenous communities supports the resolve of Native people to renew their communities through their own institutions and traditions. Funding priority is given to rural community projects that are consistent with traditional values in the areas of environmental protection and advocacy, legal rights, language revitalization, traditional culture, and education.

Sponsor: Luce (Henry) Foundation, Inc.
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The sponsor awards grants and responsive grants in the following areas:

PROJECT GRANTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION--responsive grants are sometimes made to colleges and universities outside the context of the sponsor's other programs. Often, such projects have originated as requests for the establishment of Luce Chairs.

AMERICAN ART--grants to art museums across the country have recently represented a wide range of projects in the field of American art, including support for archival work, exhibition and catalogue support, and particular aspects of a museum's permanent collection. Grants have also been provided for research and scholarship in the field. Also in this category awards have been made for efforts directed at preserving and maintaining historic churches and synagogues. An important part of the sponsor's support recently has been support for doctoral candidates working on dissertations in American art.

Restrictions:
Grants are made three times a year. Letter requests may be submitted at any time. Eligible applicants are organizations operating within the fields of sponsor interest. The sponsor does not provide funds for endowments, general operating support, or annual fund drives. No grants are made to individuals outside of specifically designated programs, such as the Luce Scholars program. Interested applicants should submit a letter addressed to the appropriate program officer. There are no special forms.

Sponsor: MacDowell Colony
Deadline(s): January 15, April 15, and September 15 , annually

Objectives:
Residencies at the MacDowell Colony are offered to creative artists in the following disciplines: architecture, music composition, film/video arts, visual arts, literature, and interdisciplinary arts. The residencies are awarded for up to eight weeks with the goal of providing artists with time and space in which to create lasting works of the imagination.

Eligibility:
Artists with professional standing in their fields and emerging artists of recognized ability are eligible for residence. Artists collaborating on a project should apply individually but may submit a joint description of the intended work.

Sponsor: McKnight Foundation
Deadline(s): October 15, January 15, April 15, and July 15

Objectives:
The sponsor's goals are to further the development of communities in Minnesota by supporting high quality art that is broadly accessible. The sponsor has two goals in theirr Arts program—to foster an environment where professional artists thrive, and where all Minnesotans can participate in the arts.

Eligibility:
To be eligible for a McKnight grant, organizations must be classified by the Internal Revenue Service as taxexempt, nonprofit organizations that are not private foundations. Units of government may apply for funding for special projects that complement customary public functions. However, the sponsor will not fund activities that are traditionally the responsibility of government. The Foundation provides planning, operating, capital, and project grants and rarely makes grants to build endowments. Organizations may request up to $100,000 per year for operating support.

Sponsor: Millay Colony for the Arts
Deadline(s): October 1, annually

Objectives:
The sponsor provides supports one-month residencies to six visual artists, writers and composers each month between the months of April and November.

Restrictions:
The Millay Colony accepts residents on the basis of artistic merit. Our admissions policy does not discriminate with regard to race, sex, sexual preference, religion, marital status, disability or nation of origin.

Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: May 1, annually

Objectives:
NEH challenge grants help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for their humanities programs and resources. Challenge grants most commonly augment or establish endowments that support humanities activities in education, public programming, scholarly research, and preservation.

Eligibility:
Awards are made to museums, public libraries, colleges, research institutions, historical societies and historic sites, public television and radio stations, universities, scholarly associations, state humanities councils, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and other nonprofit entities.

Challenge Grant funds may be used for materials that enhance library or museum collections, construction or renovation of facilities, equipment, and fund-raising costs (totaling no more than ten percent of grant funds). Challenge Grant funds may not be used for direct expenditures for operations or programs, recovery of indirect costs, awards or stipends for students below the graduate level, or support for projects eligible for grants from other NEH programs.

Sponsor: Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
The Foundation‘s mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time.

Eligibility:
The Foundation encourages applications from artists who have genuine financial needs that are not necessarily catastrophic and that do not make grants to students or fund academic study. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time.The Foundation does not accept applications from commercial artists, photographers, video artists, performance artists, filmmakers, crafts-makers or any artist whose work primarily falls into these categories.

A crucial part of the application process is based on the Committee of Selection’s review of each artist’s slides. The Foundation urges artists to send the highest quality slides of their work.

Sponsor: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Deadline(s): January 15, May 15, and September 15, annually

Objectives:
At the VCCA there are twelve studios available for writers, eight for visual artists, and three for composers. Fellows are free to use the academic and recreational resources of Sweet Briar college, located nearby.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are writers, visual artists, composers, performance artists, filmmakers, and atrists whose work crosses the disciplines. The basis for admission is professional achievement or promise thereof. A non-refundable $20 filing fee is required. Applicants may not apply for more than one funding period at a time.

Sponsor: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Deadline: May 15, annually

Objectives:
Support is provided to writers, visual artists, and composers for residential fellowships of two weeks to two months in a rural setting where they may work, free from the distractions and responsibilities of day-to-day life. At the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts there are 22 studios available: 11 for writers, eight for visual artists, and three for composers. Every fellow has a private studio.

Eligibility:
The men and women who come to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts are mature artists of noteworthy achievement, or the most promising younger artists. Many of them teach at universities, art schools, and conservatories. Because admission is highly competetive, the artist who come to the center are ofter the leading artists in America. They are selected on the basis of their past achievements or future promise. A non-refundable $20 filing fee is required.

Sponsor: Rothschild (Judith) Foundation
Deadline: Proposals will not be accepted until further notice

Objectives:
The unique mission of the grant program focuses on encouraging interest in recently deceased American painters, sculptors, and photographers whose work is of the highest quality but lacks adequate recognition. The grant program is dedicated to ensuring that the work of under-recognized, deceased artists has meaningful opportunities for public viewing and critical reassessment.Grants include support for: the organization of an exhibition; the acquisition of works of art for display and study in museums and public galleries; the development of accompanying public programs, films or videos; the preparation of publications; scholarly and critical pursuits; and the conservation, cataloguing and safe-keeping of works of art.

Eligibility:
Requests for support are welcome primarily from tax-exempt, publicly supported, not-for-profit institutions. The sponsor will consider favorably those organizations such as, but not limited to, museums, public galleries, art schools and academic institutions.

Sponser :Rubin Foundation
Deadline: Open

Objectives:
The sponser is primarily interested in supporting the inclusion of art from non-Western European cultures into the mainstream of scholarship and display. In addition, the sponser is interested in the study of the relationship between art, culture and humanity. In particular, the sponser's interest is the collection, care, preservation, study and public display of the ancient art of the Himalayas, with the related goal of exploring the relationships between this art and that of other cultures. In addition, the sponser supports research, action and other projects designed to reveal and understand barriers to the full access of all people to Americal society and the larger international community. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to: access to health care, AIDS and its effects on society's institutions, the celebration of ethnic and cultural diversity which simultaneously encourages inter-group understanding, and cultural and arts programs which encourage individual and community identity.

Art related projects eligible for funding most often fall within the areas of enhancing the Foundation's web site, tibetart.org, preserving Himalayan art, supporting educational activities reaching a broad constituency, supporting Himalayan art and architecture restoration projects as well as traveling exhibits bringing Himalayan art to new audiences.

Eligibility:
Only proposals from qualified not-for-profit organizations will be considered.

Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
Deadline: Open

Objectives:
The Spencer Foundation provides funding for investigations that promise to yield new knowledge about education in the United States or abroad. The Foundation funds research grants that range in size from smaller grants that can be completed within a year, to larger, multi-year endeavors.

Eligibility:
Principal Investigators applying for a Research Grant must be affiliated with a school district, a college or university, a research facility, or a cultural institution. The Foundation accepts proposals from institutions and/or researchers from the U.S. and internationally. Researchers must also have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field or appropriate experience in an education-related profession.

Sponsor: Vermont Studio Center
Deadline(s): The sponsor accepts applications on a rolling basis with the exception of Full Fellowship applications. Full fellowship applications are accepted at three deadlines per year: February 15, June 15, and October 1.

Objectives:
VSC supports serious artists and writers at all levels of professional development who come from across the U.S. and around the world for 2 to 12 week residencies. VSC offers private studios, housing, 3 meals daily and access to Visiting artists and Writers. VSC has studio space for 24 painters, 12 writers, 12 sculptors, 2 photographers and 3 printmakers each month.

Eligiblity:
Admission to a Vermont Studio Center Residency is based on a review of each applicant's portfolio or manuscript and supporting material. VSC Residents are selected on merit, without regard to financial considerations. The Vermont Studio Center's admissions policies and practices guarantee fair opportunity in concert with existing federal and state laws against discrimination for reasons of race, color, sex, age, religion, disability, or national origin.

Sponsor: Wolinsky Family Foundation
Deadline: Open

Objectives:
The sponser will consider applications for support in areas of need, including, but not limited to education, health and human services, arts and culture, social welfare, and community development. Special regard will be given to Jewish-related projects or organizations, but all worthy causes will be given due cosideration.

Eligibility:
Applicants must have tax-exempt status.