Explore the list below for a glimpse of the most commonly contacted arts funders. 

Multidisciplinary:

• American Council of Learned Societies
• Anita Wetzel Residency Grant
• Arts Council Santa Cruz County
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• California Arts Council
• California Council for the Humanities
• Creative Work Fund
• Ford Foundation
• Fulbright Scholar Program
• The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• The Getty Institute
• Library of Congress
• MacArthur Foundation
• MAP Fund
• Mellon Foundation
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Science Foundation
• NXTHVN
• Packard Foundation
• Smithsonian Institution
• Social Science Research Council
• WESTAF's Emerging Leaders of Color program
• WESTAF grant programs

Film and Film Studies:

• Chicken and Egg Pictures 
• Doc Society 
• Frameline Completion Fund 
• Just Films Granting Program
• New Media Funding List
• POV's Resource List of Funding for Filmmakers
• San Francisco Film Society
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Awards list
• Sundance Institute
• Tribeca Film Institute

Visual Arts and Art History

• College Art Association Awards for Distinction
• College Art Association Publishing Grants
• College Art Association Support and Travel Grants
• Getty Foundation
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Programs

Music and Theater

• American Musicological Society
• National Theater Project Creation and Touring Grant 
• New Music USA