The Actors Fund Entertainment Assistance Program – serves the arts and entertainment community including emergency financial assistance, affordable housing, health care and insurance counseling.  

Motion Picture and Television Fund – temporary emergency financial assistance is available to qualified industry members experiencing financial hardship due to illness, disability, unemployment, or other reasons.

SAG-AFTRA – provides financial assistance to eligible SAG-AFTRA members and their families for basic expenses during times of crisis.

Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation – provides both short-term and long-term assistance to veterans of the motion picture entertainment industry.

The American Institute for Conservation – The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works offers financial relief opportunities for historic sites and art conservation due to a natural disaster.

Arts Loan Fund – (ALF) is a collaborative program run by members of Northern California Grantmakers. The fund has provided quick-turnaround loans to nonprofits for over thirty years and aids organizations in developing sound financial habits. 

Behind The Scenes Grant – emergency funding for entertainment technology industry professionals (behind the scenes in any type of performance venue, behind the camera, on the road, or for dealers, manufacturers, production companies, consulting and design firms), who are unable to work due to illness or injury.

California Lawyers for the Arts – providing free and low-cost legal services to artists including processing claims with FEMA, SBA and other disaster relief agencies.

Craft Emergency Relief Fund CERF+  – serves artists who work in craft disciplines by providing a safety net to support strong and sustainable careers. Core services include emergency relief. Click on “Get Relief.”

Foundation for Contemporary Arts – funding for innovative visual and performing artists who have unanticipated, sudden opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding, or incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates.

The Haven Foundation – gives financial assistance to established freelance artists, writers and other members of the arts and art production communities who have suffered disabilities or experienced a career-threatening illness, accident, natural disaster or personal catastrophe. (NOT accepting applications for COVID-19 impacts.)

Max’s Kansas City Project – grants to artists in need (all disciplines) who either live in New York State, or Sonoma County artists that have connections to the former NYC Max’s Kansas City restaurant/club/bar. 

The Rauschenberg Emergency Grants – will provide visual artists, media artists, and choreographers up to $5,000 worth of assistance for medical emergencies. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents.

The Actors Fund Entertainment Assistance Program – serves the arts and entertainment (including musicians) community including musicians) for emergency financial assistance, affordable housing, health care and insurance counseling

California Jazz Foundation – provides emergency financial assistance to jazz musicians and others who have made substantial contributions to the art form.

Gospel Music Trust Fund – provide financial assistance, in the event of an emergency or major catastrophe, terminal or severe illness, to individuals who have derived a substantial portion of their income from the field of Gospel music.

Jazz Foundation Of America – offers aid to elder jazz and blues musicians in crisis.

MusiCares – provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need including emergency financial assistance.

Musicians Foundation – helps professional musicians by providing emergency financial assistance in meeting current living, medical and allied expenses. All professional musicians are eligible to apply.

Music Maker Relief Foundation – Supplies emergency aid for artists in crisis.

Sweet Relief Musicians Fund – provides financial assistance to career musicians who are facing illness, disability, or age-related problems.

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant – Artists working in the disciplines of painting, sculpture or printmaking, who can demonstrate a minimum involvement of ten years in a mature phase of his or her work, whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.

Artists’ Charitable Fund – assists American artists living anywhere in the United States by provides financial support for artists struck by medical, fire or other disaster.

Artists Fellowship Financial Assistance – The Artists’ Fellowship provides emergency aid to professional fine artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement or unexpected extreme hardship.”

Foundation for Contemporary Arts – funding for innovative visual and performing artists who have unanticipated, sudden opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding, or incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates.

The Hero Initiative – creates a financial safety net for comic creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and an avenue back into paying work.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant – Painters, artists and sculptors who work on paper, including printmakers, with demonstrable financial need.

American Society of Journalists and Authors – helps freelance writers who, because of illness, disability, or a natural disaster are unable to work.  Recipients do not need to be members of ASJA.

Authors League Fund – helps professional writers and dramatists who find themselves in financial need because of medical problems, temporary loss of income, or other misfortune.

Book Industry Charitable Foundation – assist with specific unforeseen emergency financial needs of a bookstore employee and their immediate family members living in the same household.

Carnegie Fund for Authors – awards grants to American authors who have been published by a mainstream publisher and who are in need of emergency funds.

Dramatists Guild Emergency Grants – emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and bookwriters in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.

Hero Initiative – creates a financial safety net for comic creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and an avenue back into paying work.

PEN Writers’ Emergency Fund – funds professional (published or produced) writers in acute, emergency financial crisis.

Alliance of Artists Communities – In the event of a natural disaster, the Alliance contacts its network of more than 150 residency programs to identify immediate and short-term availability of residencies. They work with affected artists (painter or sculptor) to take advantage of these residency opportunities, including grants of up to $1,000.