(Above) Los Angeles Skyline"by Susan Logoreci.
Below are resources for artists and nonprofit organizations from LA County; local, state and federal agencies; arts service organizations; foundations; and more.
Grant Opportunities for Artists and Organizations
Grant opportunities for Artists in LA County Webinar
The Grant opportunities for Artists in LA County Webinar took place on Wednesday, April 25, 2023.
Please Note: The opportunities mentioned in this webinar are now closed. A link to the webinar is provided here for archival purposes only.
Government Resources
LA County Workforce Resources
LA County Department of Workforce Development, Aging, and Community Services - America's Job Center of California
Job search, business support, meal assistance, and more.
Federal Agencies
National Endowment for the Arts
A resource hub curated by the National Endowment of the Arts.
Accessibility Resources for Virtual Events
Best practices for creating an inclusive experience for virtual and digital events. NOTE: this is a high-level overview and not a detailed how-to guide.
Resource Hubs
Associations, Collectives, Unions, et al
One Degree
Community resource guide, including info about food programs, homeless support, childcare, and more. Also, organized by neighborhood.
Relief Funds, Awards & Fellowships
For Film/Media (Workers and Performers)
Emergency financial assistance to support everyone who works in performing arts and entertainment across the country.
Deadline: ongoing
Funding for entertainment technology professionals who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 and are in financial need.
Deadline: ongoing
Motion Picture and Television Fund
Temporary emergency financial assistance is available to qualified industry members experiencing financial hardship due to illness, disability, unemployment, or other reasons.
Deadline: ongoing
SAG-AFTRA
Provides financial assistance to eligible SAG-AFTRA members and their families. NOTE: Emergency financial assistance is available for people who are unable to pay their basic living expenses (food/housing/health care) over the next two months. SAG-AFTRA asks that if you have the resources to cover that period, please wait to apply.
Deadline: ongoing, but processing could take as long as three weeks
Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation
Provides both short-term and long-term assistance to veterans of the motion picture entertainment industry. NOTE: must meet the following requirements: 1.) You have been furloughed, you are on reduced pay (50% or more), or laid off due to COVID-19. 2.) You have an expense for housing, medical and/or basic household essentials (such as food and toiletries) that you do not have the means to pay. 3.) Your housing, medical, or basic household expenses exceed the total amount you are receiving from unemployment, federal stimulus funding, or other household income.
Deadline: ongoing
For Musicians
AGMA Relief Fund
A relief fund for members of the American Guild of Musical Artists.
Deadline: ongoing
HART Fund
A relief fund for blues musicians and their families in financial need due to a broad range of health concerns. The fund provides for acute, chronic and preventive medical and dental care as well as funeral and burial expenses.
Deadline: seems to be ongoing
Jazz Foundation of America Emergency Fund
Relief services for jazz and blues musicians requiring emergency assistance and social services.
Deadline: ongoing
Recording Academy Musicares
A relief fund for music industry professionals for basic living assistance (rent or mortgage).
NOTE: All funding has currently been exhausted. They plan to reopen the fund using donations, but no timeline has been given.
For Performers (including Choreographers)
Emergency financial assistance to support everyone who works in performing arts and entertainment across the country.
Deadline: ongoing
National Theater Project
Grant to promote the development of artist-led, ensemble, and devised theater work while extending the reach and life of these projects through touring.
Deadline: rolling
For Visual and Craft Artists
Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Emergency grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
Deadline: ongoing
CERF+ Emergency Relief Fund
A relief fund for craft artists who have experienced a recent, career-threatening emergency.
Deadline: ongoing
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
A relief fund for visual and performing artists who have 1.) Sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding; or 2.) Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates.
Deadline: ongoing
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
A relief fund for visual and performing artists.
Deadline: ongoing
For Writers (Journalists, Authors, Dramatists, Poets)
American Society of Journalists and Authors
A relief fund to help established freelance writers who, because of illness, disability, a natural disaster, or an extraordinary professional crisis are unable to work. NOTE: funds are not available to those who have lost work because publishers and/or clients are no longer assigning due to the pandemic.
Deadline: ongoing
Author’s Relief Fund
A relief fund for authors, journalists, poets, and dramatists who find themselves in financial need because of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income, or other misfortune.
Deadline: ongoing
Dramatists Guild Foundation
A relief fund supporting individual playwrights composers, lyricists, and book writers who are members of the Dramatist Guild Foundation.
Deadline: ongoing
Pen America Writer’s Emergency Fund
A small grants program for professional—published or produced—writers in acute or unexpected financial crisis. Depending on the situation and level of need, grants are in the range of $2,000.
Deadline: ongoing