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Grantmaking
In our grant programs, we support individuals, organizations and projects
that enable and strengthen the practice and preservation of folk arts
and traditional culture in community life. Each funding program has its
own set of guidelines and standards for eligibility.
We encourage prospective grantseekers to review the guidelines for our
current funding programs listed below. If you feel there is a match, please
contact program staff for applications or to be added to our mailing list.
If you find you are not eligible for any of our programs, we urge you
to re-visit this website from time to time for up to date information.
Our grant programs do change periodically and new programs may provide
opportunities for support in the future. Our website provides the most
complete and current information on our programs, and provides links to
other potential funding resources.
Please note that the Fund for Folk Culture does not fund general operating costs, endowments, capital campaigns, competitive events, historic recreation or enactments, and debt reduction through our grant programs.
Present Funding Programs:
Description of Past Funding Programs:
The California Traditional Arts Advancement Program/California Folk Arts Regranting Program (1992-2004), underwritten by the James Irvine Foundation with later additional support from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, supported California-based organizations engaged in exemplary projects and programs in the folk and traditional arts. For over a decade, the program supported exhibits, festivals, public performances, documentaries, field research, and community-based workshops and learning, and helped to incubate a handful of community-based organizations dedicated to the preservation and presentation of their own cultural traditions. In 2005, the grant program moved to the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) and became the Living Cultures Grants Program. To find out more about this grant program, go to www.actaonline.org .
Partnerships in Local Culture: Building Assets through Cultural Traditions (1999-2002), supported by three grants from the Ford Foundation, was a demonstration program designed to test economic development strategies that strengthen local cultures in rural areas, towns and small cities throughout the United States. The program supported collaborative partnerships between regional economic development organizations and traditional artists and arts organizations. To read an independent assessment of the program written by the Urban Institute, visit the Research and Publications page of this website.
The Fund for Folk Culture’s Conferences and Gatherings Program (1995-2002), underwritten by the Pew Charitable Trusts, supported events at which folk artists, tradition bearers, other community leaders and experts from related fields were able to share skills, knowledge and resources essential to the contemporary practice of living folk cultural traditions throughout the United States.
Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Community Folklife Program (1993-2000) underwritten by the Wallace Foundation, supported a diverse range of projects which enabled hundreds of American communities to preserve, pass on and celebrate their living cultural traditions.
Cumulative List of All FFC Grantees (1992 to Present)