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This is an extensive, but not exhaustive, list of funding opportunities for informational purposes only. Click on an entry for more details. Please be sure to verify competition guidelines, eligibility, and deadlines on the sponsor’s website.  

  • If you are a faculty member in the College of LAS and are applying for funding from federal agencies and/or funding that is awarded to the institution, you must contact the LAS Office of Research at las-research@illinois.edu a minimum of four weeks prior to the sponsor deadline to notify them you plan to apply.
  • All faculty (regardless of college/department) applying for funding from federal agencies and/or funding that is awarded to the institution must work with Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) for proposal preparation, review, and submission. Please note that internal deadlines (set by SPA and your department) are earlier than the sponsor deadline.
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Opportunity Summary Rolling Submissions Cycle Funding Categories Funding Type
Academy of American Poets Since 1934, the Academy of American Poets has provided visibility and financial support to poets Varies Awards, Fellowships Artists and Creative Practitioners
American Academy in Rome (Rome Prize) For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative November International Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences
American Antiquarian Society (Artist and Creative Fellowships) The American Antiquarian Society offers visiting fellowships for historical research by creative Varies Fellowships, Residency Artists and Creative Practitioners
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) The American Society for Theatre Research sponsors or coordinates several awards, grants, fellows October Residency Artists and Creative Practitioners
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Founded in 1933, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is a learning organization built upon an ex Varies International Artists and Creative Practitioners
Camargo Foundation Founded by American artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill (1905-1972), the Camargo Foundation fosters creativity, research, and experimentation through its international residency program for artists, scholars, and thinkers. October Residency Artists and Creative Practitioners
Creative Capital Every month, Creative Capital compiles a list of residencies, grant, and award opportunities as part of our commitment to sharing resources and opportunities for artists working in all creative disciplines. Varies Artists and Creative Practitioners | Curated List of Funding for Creative Practitioners
Fulbright (U.S. Scholars and FLEX) The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. Varies Artists and Creative Practitioners
Fulbright U.S. Scholars Programs The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. September International, Awards Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation The Foundation awards travel grants to individual scholars to support historical research on Venice and the former Venetian empire, and for the study of contemporary Venetian society and culture. December International, Grants Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences
Grammy Foundation Grant Program With funding generously provided by The Recording Academy, the GRAMMY Museum Grants Program award June Portable, Grants Artists and Creative Practitioners
Guggenheim Fellowship - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The Guggenheim Foundation offers fellowships to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation of any artform, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed. September Portable, Fellowships Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences
Harvard Radcliffe Institute (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study) Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world. September Fellowships Artists and Creative Practitioners
Illinois Humanities Illinois Humanities, the Illinois affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a st Varies Grants Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences
Literature Fellowship - National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose March Portable, Grants Artists and Creative Practitioners
Logan Nonfiction Program - Carey Institute for Global Good The Logan Nonfiction Program is a hybrid fellowship for nonfiction writers, documentary filmmaker October Residency Artists and Creative Practitioners
MacDowell MacDowell encourages applications from artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the follow February, September Residency Artists and Creative Practitioners
MAP Fund The MAP Fund invests in performing artists and their work as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. Varies Artists and Creative Practitioners
National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC) Since 1989, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures has delivered programs that stab Varies Grants Artists and Creative Practitioners
National Parks Arts Foundation The National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) works directly with select artists and The National Par Varies Residency Artists and Creative Practitioners
Poetry Foundation Fellowship - Ragdale This fellowship is awarded to four poets. May Residency Artists and Creative Practitioners
Prairie Fellowship - Ragdale This fellowship is awarded to an artist living with a disability and/or has accessibility needs. May Residency Artists and Creative Practitioners
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study The Radcliffe Fellowship Program awards 50 fellowships each academic year. Applicants may apply as individuals or in a group of two to three people working on the same project. September Residency, Fellowships Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences
Ragdale Nearly 150 residencies, numerous fellowships, and a variety of themed residencies are now offered annually to creative professionals of all types, making Ragdale one of the largest interdisciplinary artists’ communities in the country. Varies Residency, Fellowships Artists and Creative Practitioners
Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program (New York Public Library) The Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program offers long-term and short-term fellowships to December Research Library, Fellowships Artists and Creative Practitioners | Humanities and Social Sciences
Sundance Institute At the Institute’s core is a commitment to champion the creation of unique work by individual sto Varies Grants, Fellowships Artists and Creative Practitioners
Sybil Shearer Fellowship - Ragdale This fellowship will support an individual choreographer and/or dance artist by offering an 18-da May Residency Artists and Creative Practitioners
Terra Foundation for American Art The Terra Foundation fosters intercultural dialogues and encourages transformative practices to e Varies Grants, Fellowships Artists and Creative Practitioners
Translation Projects - National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Through fellowships to published translators, the National Endowment for the Arts supports projec January Portable, Grants Artists and Creative Practitioners
Ucross Foundation For more than thirty years, Ucross has been giving space and time to artists who come from many d Varies Residency, Fellowships Artists and Creative Practitioners
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