The Latest Funding Opportunities

Written By Ariel Shelton

At CultureWorks, we are dedicated to providing you with access to information about the latest funding opportunities.

Do you have an opportunity to share? Reach out to Ariel at ashelton@cultureworksphila.org.

Scattergood Foundation
Deadline: April 10, 2025  (Wellness, Immigrant Communities)
Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness serves diverse immigrant communities throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania by providing financial support and capacity building to organizations that remove barriers and provide opportunities for individuals to live with dignity and joy.

Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation 
Deadline:  April 15, 2025  (Project-Based)
The Foundation will fund projects in the Greater Philadelphia area that can be accomplished by a single grant in a relatively brief period of time.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center
Deadline: April 16, 20205 (Performing Arts)
Democracy Cycle will commission and develop 25 new performing arts works across the fields of theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance.

Leeway Foundation
Deadline:  April 14, 2025  (Media Arts)
The Media Artist + Activist Residency provides grants of $25,000 to women, trans*, and gender nonconforming media artists working in close collaboration with social justice organizations to document, reframe, and/or amplify the issues and campaigns addressed by the organization.

New York Foundation for the Arts
Deadline:  April 15, 2025 (Environmental Art)
The Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants (AWAW EAG) provides grants of up to $20,000 to environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories.

William Penn Foundation
Deadline:  April 25, 2025 (Arts, Education, Environment)
The next round of quarterly RFPs for William Penn Foundation include: Arts & Culture Programming, Caregiver Supports, Early Childhood Education, Improvement of Public Spaces, Reduce Environmental Burdens, and Reduce Sewage Overflows. Please see the WPF website for details about each RFP, and be sure to review the Info Sheet about how to apply as a fiscally sponsored project. 

The Lawrence Foundation
Deadline: April 30, 2025 (Environment, Human Services, and Disaster Relief)
Funds organizations that address the environment, human services, and disaster relief.  

The Bartol Foundation
Deadline: May 1, 2025 and site visit needs to be scheduled by April 3, 2025 (Arts Education)
The Bartol Foundation makes grants to Philadelphia arts organizations and/or projects that focus on arts education programs by and for the communities they serve through

Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation
Deadline: May 1, 2025  (Project-Based)
Provides project-based grants in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Sparkplug Foundation
Deadline: LOI - May 2, 2025  (Education, Community Organizing, Music)
Funds start-up organizations and new projects of established non-profits in the following areas: education, community organizing, and music.

The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
Deadline: May 10, 2025 (Arts, Culture, Youth, Seniors, Environment)
The Foundation will consider requests to support museums, cultural and performing arts programs; schools and hospitals; educational, skills-training and other programs for youth, seniors, and persons with disabilities; environmental and wildlife protection activities; and other community-based organizations and programs. 

Leeway Foundation
Deadline:  May 15, 2025  (Art for Social Change)
The Transformation Award (LTA) provides unrestricted annual awards of $15,000 to women, trans*, and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia who create art for social change and have done so for the past five years or more, demonstrating a long-term commitment to social change work.

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Deadline: LOI is due May 15, 2025 and new applicants (or organizations that have not applied since 2019) must meet with Center staff by May 9, 2025.  (Performing Arts, Exhibitions)
Creative Project Grants support artistically and programmatically excellent, distinctive, and substantive performances, exhibitions, and interpretation projects designed for diverse publics.  Have a minimum annual budget of $150,000 (as of FY24, at least, and continuing into FY25).

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