The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.
Donor Name: New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/08/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Information
Request a grant amount, up to $5,000.
Eligible Expenses
Eligible expenses include, but are not limited to, these out of pocket costs to the artist:
- Provider (hospital/doctor/dentist/clinic) bills, including co-pays
- Tests/diagnostics/assessments/consultations to determine necessary treatment
- Physical/occupational therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic
- Prescription drugs specifically for the emergency medical condition
- Emergency dental work
- Transportation expenses to/from appointments/treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
There are three eligibility criteria in this program: Individual, Artistic, and Emergency. You need to meet all three areas, as of the cycle’s deadline, to apply.
- Individual Eligibility
- Applicants must be a generative artist creating work in visual arts, film/video/digital/electronic arts (not a performer), or choreography
- Applicants must be 21 years or older on the cycle’s deadline
- Applicants must reside in the United States, the District of Columbia, a Tribal Nation, or a U.S. Territory
- Applicants must be an artist in need, having an adjusted gross income of $75,000 or lower for an individual, or $150,000 for joint filers, averaged over the last two federal tax returns
- Applicants’ medical emergency and treatment must occur in the U.S. (including D.C., Tribal Nations, and U.S. Territories)
- Applicants must not have received a Rauschenberg Medical or Dancer Emergency Grant previously
- Applicants must not be enrolled in any degree-seeking program
- Applicants must demonstrate current and ongoing activity in their artistic discipline (defined below)
- Artistic Eligibility
- Applicants must be artists with a demonstrated commitment to the eligible artform(s). You need to create original work in at least one of the eligible disciplines, AND have recent and sustained artistic activity. If the work in the eligible discipline is tangential, incidental or infrequent, it is not eligible.
- Emergency Eligibility
- In this program, an emergency is a one-time, unexpected, non-chronic condition as a result of illness, violence, an accident or triggering event, or sudden medical event, that requires treatment to ensure your health or life, and which without treatment has extreme impact on your daily life and ability to carry out/return to your creative practice.
- In each cycle, they can consider emergencies that have occurred within approximately the last six months. The earliest date for an eligible emergency is listed in the Cycles information. The medical emergency and treatment must occur in the U.S. (including D.C., Tribal Nations and U.S. Territories).
For more information, visit NYFA.
