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Explore arts grants and find funders who support art in the Midwest.

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Submission form to the Arts Midwest Grant Finder

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Grants Form (test)

This form is divided into three sections:

  • Your Organization – We'll ask for basic information about your funding organization
  • Grant Details – You'll provide specifics about the grant opportunity, including funding amounts, deadlines and eligibility requirements. To help applicants find relevant opportunities, we'll ask you to categorize your grant by discipline, geographic region, and other criteria that make it easier to discover.

This listing serves as a gateway to your own grant opportunity website. Ensure your description in this listing is both concise yet informative, giving potential applicants enough information to determine whether the opportunity aligns with their needs before visiting your website.

If you have questions about what to include or need assistance completing this form, please contact our team at [contact information].

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This information will be listed on our website and will be visible to all website visitors.



Input your organization's main website, not the grant listing.






If you haven't listed a grant on Arts Midwest before, what's a 1-sentence description of your organization?
Example: Arts Midwest supports, informs, and celebrates Midwestern creativity—building community and opportunity across our region and beyond.

This information will be used for finding your grant and information on the the public listing.


Aim for a human-focused, audience-focused description of the grant. It
should be direct, clear, engaging, and exciting. Use plain language.


General description of the grant. Aim for one or two sentences. A reader should be able to scan this section and know whether the opportunity is for them. Cover, in roughly this order: - What the grant is - Who it serves - What the funds covers

Provide helpful details that can help identity if this grant is for them.

Provide helpful details that can help identity that they are not eligible for this grant.

What's a 1-sentence description of your grant? This will show on the search results listing.
Example: Jazz Road is a national touring and residency grant program that supports U.S.-based jazz artists in bringing their music to underserved communities across the country.


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Be specific. If the location is a city, please add a comma and the state.
If you do not have location restrictions, write "Anywhere"

This will be used to help people find your grant by filtering listings. Select all that apply. If National, just select National. You will have a opportunity to go into more detail about applicant location below.
Hold down Command (Mac) / Ctrl (Windows) to select multiple locations.

This will be used to help people find your grant by filtering. Select all topics that apply.
To select multiple states, hold down command while clicking on the check boxes.

This will be used to help people find your grant by filtering. Select all disciplines that apply.
To select multiple states, hold down command while clicking on the check boxes.

This will be used to help people find your grant by filtering. Select all that apply.
To select multiple states, hold down command while clicking on the check boxes.

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Short statement about any Cost Sharing or Fund matching if applicable.

If applicable, add up to three other practical Links related to this grant

Ex: Previous Grantees, Informational Resources, Sample Applications...



Grant listings take between 3-5 business days to be up on the website. We may reach out with questions. If your listing requires an update, or if you need help filling out this form, please contact us.

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Frequently Asked Questions

We created this tool to help Midwest artists and arts organizationsfind funding without endless searching. It’s also a place to submit funding opportunities that support artists, culture bearers, and arts organizations across the Midwest.

Please allow 3 to 5 business days for grants submitted via the form to appear on our website. 

Midwesterners working in and alongside the arts, including artists, curators, culture bearers, funders, arts organizations and nonprofits. If your funding opportunity can support arts and culture in the Midwest, it likely belongs here.

Grant and award opportunities with funding attached. This is not the place for:

  • Open calls without funding.
  • Opportunities that don’t include pay.

If a Midwesterner can apply, it belongs here.

Our home base is the nine states Arts Midwest serves: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

That being said, we welcome national opportunities, grants covering the broader Midwest census region (including Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri), and grants for Native Nations and communities that share geography with this region

When in doubt, please submit.

Yes. Submit each opportunity separately so we can review and post them individually.

Lightly, if needed. We may make small tweaks for clarity and consistency.

A few possibilities:

  • It’s still within our 3 to 5 business day review window.
  • It doesn’t include funding.
  • It falls outside our Midwest focus.

If you’re unsure, feel free to check in.