Grants

The Foundation makes grants that support its broad interest areas of field-based science, art and craft, teaching, and protection of the natural world.

Active

School For Advanced Research

Craft Small Grants for Craftspeople
To support tools, equipment, safety and access for craftspeople in people-focused programs
  • $10,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Shunpike

Craft Small Grants for Craftspeople
To support the Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths' Tool, Institutional and Mini Grant Programs and the SPARC retreat
  • $60,000
  • 2 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Sloss Furnaces Foundation

Craft Small Grants for Craftspeople
To support tools, equipment, safety and access for craftspeople in people-focused programs
  • $10,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

The Hinabi Project

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support hands-on weaving workshops to strengthen Filipino-American community
  • $25,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Watershed Center For The Ceramic Arts

Craft Small Grants for Craftspeople
To support The Color Network's professional development grants, studio stipends, and micro grants and Mentorship Residency Program
  • $50,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Watershed Center For The Ceramic Arts

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support the residency program with a focus on scholarships for dedicated ceramic artists from marginalized and underrepresented communities
  • $50,000
  • 2 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Yestermorrow

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support scholarships for certification courses and our semester in design/build program
  • $60,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Yestermorrow

Craft Small Grants for Craftspeople
To support tools, equipment, safety and access for craftspeople in people-focused programs
  • $10,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Zygote Press

Craft Small Grants for Craftspeople
To support tools, equipment, safety and access for craftspeople in people-focused programs
  • $10,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2025 Active

Ah Haa School For The Arts

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support American Academy of Bookbinding scholarships for students underrepresented in craft and trade and/or of higher socioeconomic need
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Alaska Native Heritage Center

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support artist engagement throughout the Alaska Native Artist community
  • $30,000
  • 2 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Alliance For California Traditional Arts

Craft Awards and Prizes
To support a convening for the Taproot Fellowship program
  • $150,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

American College of The Building Arts

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support scholarship(s) and recruiting for students in the full-time program, with a preference for students of diverse backgrounds and/or underrepresented in their craft or trade
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

American Craft Council

Craft Awards and Prizes
To support the ACC Award Program’s Gold Medal For Consummate Craftsmanship and College of Fellows for hands-on practitioners, with a focus on practitioners working in traditional/heritage craft
  • $205,500
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Appalachian Artisan Center of Kentucky

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support the Appalachian School of Luthiery's Advancement in Luthiery Scholarship for Women
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Archie Bray Foundation

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support the First Fire Program
  • $45,000
  • 4 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Austin Community College Foundation

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support scholarships for ACC Architectural and Ornamental Metals students to attend short-term national workshops and/or attend specialized advanced blacksmithing courses
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Baltimore Jewelry Center

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support increased capacity of the teaching fellowship, allowing for multiple concurrent fellows; to support our artist residency; and to expand residency opportunities for BIPOC artists
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Berea College

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support Student Craft’s Visiting Artist Residency Program
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Beta-local

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support the La Ivan Illich Program with a focus on cultural material practitioners
  • $45,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

Black Artists & Designers Guild

Craft Awards and Prizes
To support the BADG Maker Award and Education Initiative grants–including the Creative Futures Grant, Creative Visionary Grant, and Legacy Maker Grant–all with a focus on craftspeople
  • $90,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active

California Indian Basketweavers Association

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support basketweavers in California to carry on their traditional basketweaving and cultural knowledge
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Carving Studio and Sculpture Center

Craft Craft Fellowships and Scholarships
To support the Artist-in-Residence program
  • $15,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Craft Emergency Relief Fund

Craft
To support Emergency Assistance Grants
  • $50,000
  • 1 Year
  • Granted in 2024

Emerge Gallery Art Center

Craft Awards and Prizes
To support the Guild of Book Workers' Award programs and BIPOC grants
  • $90,000
  • 3 Years
  • Granted in 2024 Active