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FY25 Funding Opportunities (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025)

Local Cultural Council Program

Lowell Folk Festival

Opens: September 1, 2024
Deadline: October 16, 2024
Every community in Massachusetts is served by a Local Cultural Council (LCC), led by municipally appointed volunteers who administer an annual grant program to support local cultural projects. Individuals, groups, and organizations may apply. Grant amounts vary and applications are submitted directly to each LCC.

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Creative Projects for Schools

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Opens: September 5, 2024
Deadline: October 10, 2024
NEW: An expansion of STARS Residencies, this program offers grants of $5,000 for school-based projects that foster creative learning experiences in the arts, sciences, and humanities for K-12 students.

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Grants for Creative Individuals

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Opens: September 13, 2024
Deadline: October 24, 2024
This program aims to equitably advance creative expression throughout the Commonwealth with unrestricted grants to Massachusetts artists, culture bearers, and creative individuals. Grants are $5,000.

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Cultural Facilities Fund

Opens: October 10, 2024
Deadline: December 19, 2024
Grants to support the acquisition, design, repair, rehabilitation, renovation, expansion, or construction of nonprofit cultural facilities. Nonprofit cultural organizations, municipalities, and colleges or universities that own or lease cultural facilities are eligible to apply. Grants range from $7,000 to $200,000. Managed in partnership with MassDevelopment.

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Gaming Mitigation Fund

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Opens: November 12, 2024
Deadline: January 9, 2025
Two-year grants to Massachusetts nonprofit and municipal performing arts centers to spend on touring shows or touring artist fees. Grants start at $6,000.

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Operating Grants for Organizations

Three disabled and non-disabled dancers perform on a white outdoor stage, which opens up to a majestic background of trees, rolling hills and sky. In energetic unison, the three dancers curl into a ball, with lower limbs raised and upper limbs wrapped protectively around their heads. David and Zara balance on their tailbones, and Janpi balances in a one-handed wheelie in their wheelchair. All three dancers wear royal blue knit cropped shirts and matching pants.

Opens: February 18, 2025
Deadline: April 17, 2025
Unrestricted general operating grants for Massachusetts-based, nonprofit cultural organizations with year-round operations offering public programming in the arts, humanities, or sciences. Grants start at $6,000.

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Creative Experiences

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Opens: March 4, 2025
Deadline: April 30, 2025
NEW: Grants to organizations (including schools) to fund festivals, projects, residencies, and other cultural activities in the arts, humanities, and sciences. This program combines Festivals & Projects and Creative Projects for Schools into one program.

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Poet Laureate

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Opens: March 18, 2025
Deadline: April 10, 2025
NEW: Governor Maura Healey signed an executive order creating the first-ever Poet Laureate of Massachusetts. This new, honorary position is intended to promote poetry and creative expression across the state.

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