Grants
Our grants make meaningful impacts in our communities by expanding access to arts and culture for residents and visitors of all ages in Seattle.
Funded by the Admission Tax, we support organizations, individual artists, youth arts programs, and neighborhood and community groups to keep Seattle vibrant and spur economic growth.
Please note: All of the below application dates are subject to change. Sign up for our email newsletter to stay updated.
Opens May 6, 2025. Artists are given a performance opportunity on the Seattle Center campus, allowing them to connect with new audiences, display their talents and advance their careers. Visitors to campus and the surrounding neighborhood benefit from surprising and delightful pop-up performances throughout the year in music, dance, theater, demonstrations, and multi-disciplinary work. Closes June 17, 2025.
Opens Sep. 16, 2025. Arts in Parks supports grassroots organizations, community-based groups, and individual artists seeking to activate Seattle parks through arts and culture in underserved and economically constrained areas of the city. Closes Oct. 28, 2025.
Opens May 20, 2025. The Centering Art & Racial Equity grant awards three consecutive years of funding to Seattle arts and culture, heritage, and arts service organizations with a minimum three-year history of providing accessible programming for Seattle residents and visitors. Closes Aug. 5, 2025.
CityArtist provides grants for Seattle-based individual artists/curators to research, develop, and present ideas or ventures. The disciplines rotate every program cycle.
Open Date
6/17/2025
Open Time
10:00 AM
Close Date
7/29/2025
Close Time
5:00 PM
Eligible
Individual
Opens April 22, 2025 to proposed activations that generate career opportunities for the local creative workforce and contribute to the well-being of Seattle’s downtown community with community-driven projects, events, performances, and more. Closes June 3 2025.
Applications for the Langston Hughes Performing Institute Facility Grant are currently on pause. Please follow us on social or sign up for email updates.
Open Date
Now
Close Date
Ongoing
Eligible
Organization
Individual
smART Ventures provides support ranging from $500 to $1,500, proving that small investments can have big impacts. smART Ventures is flexible, inclusive, simple, and encourages innovation by individuals, organizations, and communities that may not qualify for other funding programs.
Open Date
Now
Open Time
9:00 AM
Close Date
Ongoing
Close Time
5:00 PM
Eligible
Youth
Individual
Organization
The Youth Arts grant supports two years of equitable access to arts and cultural learning opportunities for Seattle's middle and high school-aged youth. Individual artists, artists, arts and cultural organizations, youth-service agencies, and degree-granting institutions are eligible to apply.
Open Date
1/21/2025
Open Time
10:00 AM
Close Date
3/4/2025
Close Time
5:00 PM
Eligible
Organization
Individual
Awarding grants to Seattle arts, heritage, cultural, and arts service organizations with facility projects that create greater access for those who have been (and are) inequitably excluded from owning, managing and leasing property.
Open Date
5/20/2025
Open Time
10:00 AM
Close Date
8/5/2025
Close Time
5:00 PM
Eligible
Organization
Inactive Grant Models
Find information about our inactive grants in the City of Seattle archive: