The Working Assumptions Project Grants to support visual storytelling projects that inspire audiences and/or participants to look at family in new, meaningful ways.
Donor Name: Working Assumptions
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
They support a wide array of projects centered around family, from photography and visual arts to therapeutic and educational initiatives. Potential outcomes include art projects, documentaries, educational content, and photojournalism stories offering new insights into family dynamics. While they prioritize photography and photo-based art, they’re open to interdisciplinary projects that merge photography with other creative or intellectual disciplines in order to broaden the conversation about family.
Projects must have been initiated prior to the application deadline, and may range from photography series and books to public art projects, therapeutic programs, long-form journalism, performances, and more. They leave it up to applicants to define the term family as they see fit, knowing that caregiving and interdependence take place in a variety of contexts. Note that they give preference to projects that:
- Are based on first-person narration and/or on long-term, intertwined relationships with the photographic subjects
- Build on earlier, related work by the applicant
- Challenge assumptions about what family, caregiving, and interdependence look like.
Funding Information
$10,000 per grant.
Grant Period
8-month grant period (September 15, 2025–May 15, 2026).
Eligibility Criteria
This opportunity is for individuals and/or collaborations (not organizations), including artists, journalists, educators, therapists, researchers, and creatives across disciplines with a focus on visual storytelling and family
- Residency: Applicants must be residents or citizens of the United States, have a U.S. tax ID number, and have a U.S. bank account
- Age: Applicants must be at least 18 years old
- Eligibility: Applicants cannot have been employees or grant recipients of Working Assumptions within the last two years.
For more information, visit Working Assumptions.
