Emergency Grants
Foundation for Contemporary Arts United States
Quick-turnaround grants for US-based visual and performing artists and poets who face unexpected costs tied to an upcoming exhibition, performance or publication.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your application narrative and project proposal for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
What it offers: $500–$3,000 (average about $2,200).
Also: monthly decisions.
Who can apply: Visual and performing artists and poets living and working in the US; projects may take place abroad.
Free to apply.
Year-round; about 15–20 grants awarded each month. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: project description, budget, work sample.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “Emergency Grants is a year-round, multi-disciplinary program”
Who can apply
- Open to creators and freelancers
- Visual and performing artists and poets living and working in the US; projects may take place abroad.
What you will need
- Project proposalOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
- Financial summaryUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Work samplesOnly you can supply it: upload it once and it is attached wherever it is asked for.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your application narrative and project proposal for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Foundation for Contemporary Arts without your tap.
Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.