The Montana Community Foundation is currently seeking applications for its William B. Pratt Endowment Fund.
Donor Name: Montana Community Foundation
State: Montana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/31/2026
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The William B. Pratt Endowment Fund is a legacy gift to the people of Montana to help them tell and share stories – especially the untold ones – about Montana’s arts, culture, and history. The Fund’s Media Arts Program will provide small grants (up to $2,000) to support the production, education, distribution, or presentation of Media Arts in Montana.
Media arts include:
- Photography
- Film
- Video
- Audio
- Multimedia
- Digitally generated and distributed media.
Foundation Funds
Projects must focus on Montana’s arts, culture, or history and may fall into one of these categories:
- Documentary Media Production
- Pre-production, production, or post-production of original documentary work about Montana. This includes research, scripting, recording, editing, or restoration for the documentary being created. Defining Documentary Media: A practice of media making that deals with actual and factual (historical and contemporary) issues (ideally, from multiple points of view), institutions, and people; whose purpose is to educate, inform, communicate, persuade, raise consciousness, or satisfy curiosity; in which the viewer is commonly addressed as a citizen of a public sphere; whose materials are selected and arranged from what already exists (rather than being made up); and whose methods involve recording ‘real people’ as themselves in actual locations, using natural light and ambient sound.
- Media Arts Education
- Programs involving professional media artists: K-12 artist residencies, after-school or community workshops, or tribal college-level media arts programs, that help participants produce their own media about their communities.
- Festivals/Public Programs
- Events or programs that present documentaries related to Montana’s arts, culture, or history, including costs related to presenting the work and participating artists.
Funding Information
- Grants range from $500 to $2,000.
- Small grants requests less than $750 can apply using a simplified application form.
Eligible costs
Artist fees and honoraria, production costs, program delivery expenses.
Eligibility Criteria
- 501(c)(3) nonprofits, local/state/tribal governments, or individuals applying through a fiscal sponsor.
- One application per organization per year, except organizations serving as fiscal sponsors for one or more media artists may submit multiple applications, including an application for the organization’s own programmatic purposes.
- They encourage applications led by or involving professional:
- Women media artists
- Tribal media artists
- Rural media artists
- Artists from underserved communities
- Collaborative projects that advance Media Arts—such as forming local, regional, or statewide
- associations, providing technical or business support for media artists, or expanding media arts programming—may be considered case-by-case.
For more information, visit Montana Community Foundation.
