The Support for Targeted Opportunities grant provides funding for creative performance residencies, subsidized rehearsal spaces for all performing art forms, and folk arts apprenticeships.
Donor Name: New York State Council on the Arts
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/26/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Valuing artists and creative expression, the New York State Council on the Arts offers support to enhance artistic diversity across New York State. For FY2026, the following opportunities are open for application:
- Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeships
- Rehearsal Space for Performing Arts
- Performing Arts Residencies.
Focus Areas
These funds are meant to serve as a commissioning fee or artist fee and are not directly tied to specific production expenses. Applications are accepted in the following artistic areas:
- Choreographer Commissions
- Composer Compositions
- Film, Media and New Technology
- Folk and Traditional Arts
- Interdisciplinary
- Literature
- Theater Commissions
- Visual Arts.
Funding Information
Each award will be $10,000.
Grant Period
Targeted Opportunities and Support for Regrants and Services grants for activities that take place between January 1 and December 31, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
To be considered for funding for Rehearsal Space and Performing Arts Residencies, organizations must demonstrate that they offer publicly accessible arts and cultural programming in New York State and in their fiscal year ending in 2024 had New York State-based arts and cultural expenses of at least $20,000, as reported on their statement of activities. Applicants must also demonstrate certain entity characteristics:
- To be eligible to apply directly, an organization must be one of the following types of entities:
- a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, either incorporated in or authorized to do business in New York State;
- a state or federally recognized Native American nation; or
- a unit of local or federal government.
For more information, visit NYSCA.
