Funder: Chicago DPD: Neighborhood Opportunity Fund, Q3
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $250,000
Application Closes: August 14, 2026
Funding Area: Capital (Organization)
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Funder: Avalanche Theatre- Next Draft Series
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $150 Artist Stipend (6-8 rehearsals over the course of three months with actors, a director, and a new play development dramaturg assembled to help the playwright experiment with their script.)
Application Closes: August 15, 2026
Funding Area: Playwriting & New Play Development (Individual)
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Funder: Kimball Arts Center - Artist in Residence Open Call
Opportunity: Exhibition & Studio Space + Stipend (see guidelines for details)
Application Closes: August 16, 2026
Funding Area: Visual / Craft / Installation (Individual Artist)
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Funder: Literary Arts Fund - Innovation Project Grants
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $100,000
Application Closes: August 17, 2026
Funding Area: Literature (Literary Arts Organizations, Publishers, & Press)
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Funder: Co-Prosperity - Open Call for Solo Exhibitions
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $1,500
Application Closes: August 17, 2026
Funding Area: Multiple Disciplines (Individual Artist)
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Funder: Co-Prosperity - Open Call for Group Exhibitions
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $5,000
Application Closes: August 17, 2026
Funding Area: Multiple Disciplines (Artist Collaboration)
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Funder: Arts Midwest - Midwest Culture Bearers Award
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $5,000
Application Closes: August 18, 2026
Funding Area: Folk Arts, Cultural Practices (Individual Artist)
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Funder: Conant Family Foundation - Community Organizing for Racial Justice
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $50,000
Application Closes: August 21, 2026
Funding Area: Racial Justice (Organization)
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Funder: Queer | Art
Maximum Grant: $10,000
Funding Area: Design (Individual Artist)

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Funder: Chicago DPD/SBIF(43rd/Cottage Grove|Clark/Montrose |Goose Island |Northwest Industrial Corridor |West Woodlawn)
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $150,000 commercial | $250,000 industrial
Application Closes:August 30, 2026
Funding Area:Capital (Organization)
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Funder: Liu Shiming Art Foundation - Artist Grant
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $5,000
Application Closes: August 31, 2026
Funding Area: Traditional cultural or historical influences and contemporary artistic practice (Visual Artist)
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Funder: hasOptimization - Doing More Good
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: Brand Package
Application Closes: August 31, 2026
Funding Area: Marketing, digital identity, and brand development (Nonprofit)
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Funder: LATITUDE - Artist-In-Residency Program
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $1,000 ink stipend, dedicated studio + lifetime lab access (see guidelines)
Application Closes: September 1, 2026 (*opens August 1)
Funding Area: Multiple Disciplines (Artist)
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Funder: Andy Warhol Foundation - Exhibition Support
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $100,000 (*request should be no more than 25% of project budget)
Application Closes: September 1, 2026 (next round 3/2027)
Funding Area: Visual Art (Nonprofit)
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Funder: Andy Warhol Foundation - Multiyear Program Support
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $100,000 (*request should be no more than 25% of operational budget)
Application Closes: September 1, 2026 (next round 3/2027)
Funding Area: Visual Art (Nonprofit)
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Funder: Andy Warhol Foundation - Project Grants for Small-Scale Organizations (*operating budgets under $200K)
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $30,000
Application Closes: September 1, 2026 (*next round March of 2027)
Funding Area: Visual Art (Nonprofit)
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Funder: Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) - Black and/or Indigenous Writers Fellowship
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: 1 week-long, fully-funded farmhouse writing residency
Application Closes: September 1, 2026
Funding Area: Literature (Black & / or Indigenous Writer)
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Funder: Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) - SmokeLong Quarterly Fellowship for Trans Writers
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: 1 week-long, fully-funded farmhouse writing residency
Application Closes: September 1, 2026
Funding Area: Literature (Individual Trans Writer)
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Funder: Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) - LGBTQIA+ Writers Fellowship
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: 1 week-long, fully-funded or 50% -funded farmhouse writing residency
Application Closes: September 1, 2026
Funding Area: Literature (LGBTQIA+ Writer)
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Funder: Prince Charitable Trusts - Together We Flourish
Maximum Grant: $15,000
Application Closes: September 2, 2026
Funding Area: Multiple Disciplines (Organization)
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Funder: National Trust for Historic Preservation - Preserving Black Churches Grant
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $500,000 (Active Congregations) / $250,000 (Non-Active Congregations)
Application Closes: September 11, 2026
Funding Area: Capital, Endowments, & Capacity (Organization / Historically Black Churches)
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Funder: Elevated Chicago - Elevating Culture Near Transit RFP
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: To Be Determined / Not Specified (Covers creative placekeeping project costs) - Need an Organizational profile in Grant Central
Application Closes: September 14, 2026
Funding Area: Arts, Culture, & Creative Placekeeping Near Transit (Organization / Community-Led Collaborations)
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Funder: Graham Foundation - Individual Artist Grants
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $20,000 (Production & Presentation) & $10,000 (Research & Development)
Application Closes: September 15, 2026 (LOI)
Funding Area: Production and Presentation grants and Research and Development grants (Individual)
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Funder: PEN America - U.S. Writers Aid Initiative (multi-cycle)
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: varies - see guidelines
Application Opens: Sept. 15th (fall cycle)
Funding Area: Emergency Relief for Writers (Individual)
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Funder: New York Foundation for the Arts - Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants (multi-cycle)
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $5,000
Application Closes: September 15, 2026 (next cycle due 11/2026)
Funding Area: Medical Emergency Relief for artists in visual arts, digital/electronic arts, video/film, and choreography (Individual)
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Funder: The Amphion Foundation - Amphion Grant Program
Maximum Grant: $7,500
Application Opens: September 24, 2026
Funding Area: Music/Performance (Organization)
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Funder: Chamber Music America - Presenter Consortium for Jazz
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $15,000 (*see guidelines for details)
Application Closes: September 26, 2026
Funding Area: Music - Jazz (Organization / Venue Collaboration )
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Funder: Terra Foundation - Convening Grants
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $25,000
Application Closes: September 28, 2026 (*Letter of Inquiry)
Funding Area: Visual Art (Organization)
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Funder: Chicago DPD/SBIF (107th/Halsted | Fullerton/Milwaukee |LaSalle Central | Madison/Austin |Woodlawn)
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $150,000 commercial | $250,000 industrial
Application Closes: September 30, 2026
Funding Area: Capital (Organization)
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Funder: David Amarri Foundation - David Amarri Foundation Grant
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: TBD (see website for details)
Application Closes: October 4, 2026
Funding Area: Multiple Disciplines (Individual Artist / Cultural Producer)
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Funder: Illinois Arts Council - Creative Accelerator Fund
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $10,000
Application Closes: October 14, 2026
Funding Area: Multiple Disciplines (Individual Artist)
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Funder: Chicago DPD/SBIF (Englewood Neighborhood | Greater Southwest Industrial (East) | South Chicago| Stevenson/Brighton | Pilsen Industrial Corridor)
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $150,000 commercial | $250,000 industrial
Application Closes: October 30, 2026
Funding Area: Capital (Organization)
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Funder: Luminarts Cultural Foundation - Fellowship Program
Maximum Grant/Opportunity: $10,000 Unrestricted Award
Application Closes: January 15, 2027
Funding Area: Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Classical Music, & Jazz Improvisation (Individual / Age 18–30)
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