2026 artist grant

At The Supporting Act Foundation, we believe that when artists thrive we all benefit. Our programs empower emerging artists from underrepresented or marginalized groups and support ambitious arts-focused nonprofits, enabling them to create equitable art scenes, build communities, foster opportunities for growth, and ultimately to expand their own programs.

Our approach is focused on tackling the key drivers of precarity, vulnerability, and discrimination that face artists and arts nonprofits alike. These sources of insecurity erode artists’ ability to invest in the future and to fully realise their potential.

The unrestricted grants we give provide support to our grantees, giving both the artists and nonprofits we support the time, freedom, and structure to focus on what matters most for their creative and organisational development.