Dancers’ Group maintains this calendar of grants, residencies, and opportunities that support dance and dance-makers in the Bay Area. This calendar is not exhaustive and details can change – please confirm details with each grant/opportunity.
Deadline for LOI: Thu, Nov 27
Deadline: Sun, Nov 30
Deadline: Sun, Nov 30
Nava has been facilitating the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program, a virtual program that funds and supports South Asian dance and movement artists from many different backgrounds, genres, and identities. Many of these artists are challenging the status quo, which often prevents us from witnessing certain stories or points of view. The artists self-define what challenging the status quo means to them and then show up with their art in the most beautiful, deep, and personal ways.
The cohort will have 6 monthly meetings while working on their projects separately, and the residency will culminate in a virtual Work In Progress Sharing in September. Each cohort member receives an award of $1500, and up to $2500 in production support for US based artists, and up to 40,000 INR for India based artists.Deadline: Mon, Dec 1
Annual grantmaking in this program now takes place once each year at the Foundation’s spring Board meeting. Letters of Inquiry are generally due by December 1, and applications are generally due by January 15.
Arts Performance and Exhibition Spaces (APEX) Grants (formerly Special Arts) are awarded to anchoring arts and culture nonprofit organizations with annual budgets between $500,000 and $2 million that produce and present new work by professional Bay Area artists and that also operate performance venues or exhibition spaces in San Francisco, Alameda, or Contra Costa counties and meet the other eligibility criteria listed below.
Deadline: Tue, Dec 2
Deadline: Wed, Jan 7
Deadline: Mon, Jan 12
Francisco Gella, founding artistic director of the New Century Dance Project (NCDP), invites choreographers to submit their work to be considered as part of the 2026 Festival held from July 24 - August 2. Choreographers selected will create a new work in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Specifically, NCDP is seeking choreographer fellows who are upper-level collegiate (Junior and above) through established career professionals. Selected choreographers will create a new work in six days on advanced preprofessional dancers which will be performed at the end of the NCDP festival.
Deadline: Thu, Jan 15
The Fleishhacker Foundation’s Small Arts Grants program provides general, unrestricted support to small and mid-sized arts and culture organizations in San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties that produce and present new work by professional Bay Area artists in the disciplines of dance, music, theater, visual arts, interdisciplinary arts, or film.
The program also provides post-production support for film projects directed by filmmakers who reside in these counties.
Applications are open to the following:
- Nonprofit arts and culture organizations with annual expense budgets between $100,000 and $499,999 that meet the eligibility criteria below;
- Fiscally sponsored arts and culture organizations with annual expense budgets under $500,000 that meet the eligibility criteria below;
- Film projects with budgets under $750,000 that meet the eligibility criteria in the For Filmmakers section below.
There are two review cycles each year: spring and fall. Application deadlines are generally January 15 for spring decisions and July 15 for fall decisions.
The deadline for applications for the fall review cycle was July 15, 2025. The application portal for the spring 2026 review cycle will open in November 2025. Proposals are due January 15, 2026.
Deadline: Mon, Feb 2
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- Open to U.S. based artists currently living and working in the United States. Applicants who are not U.S. citizens must have permanent work authorization from USCIS
- All applicants must be nominated by a non-profit university, organization, media arts center or previous Princess Grace Award winner. Self-nominations are not allowed.
- An artist can only be nominated by 1 organization or individual in a given year. Applications are evaluated on the individual artist’s artistic merits
Deadline: Wed, Feb 25, 2026 11:59 EST
Deadline: Mini-Grants are offered monthly and applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Submit your application before the end of the month to be considered for the next month’s award.
Deadline: Applications are reviewed and grants are awarded monthly based on available funds. Apply by the 10th of every month.
Deadline: Monthly, visit each chapter’s page for their guidelines.
Deadline: Applications for residencies at different parks are continuously updated and rotated throughout the year. Visit the website for current listings and deadlines.
More info at https://www.nationalparksartsfoundation.org/allresidencies
Deadline: Applications are open periodically throughout the year.
Provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.
Deadline: Ongoing; Applications must be received by the JFLA at least 3 months prior to the beginning date of the project.
Deadline: Ongoing; For online projects, applications are accepted on a rolling basis and must be received by JFNY at least 1 month prior to the project start date. For in-person/hybrid projects, applications must be submitted at least 3 months prior to the project start date.
Deadline: Ongoing. Recommended to apply 6-8 weeks before your presentation date.
$500 - $3,000. Provides urgent funding for visual and performing artists who:
- Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding
- Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates.
Deadline: Ongoing; funding decisions are generally made within eight weeks of submitting an application.
Deadline: Ongoing; funding decisions are generally made within eight weeks of submitting an application.
