Opportunities for Bronx Individual Artists, Arts Organizations, and Artist Collectives
The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) offers grant funding and program opportunities to support community-centered arts and culture projects and to recognize outstanding local artists.
Applications are accepted from individual artists, artist collectives, and nonprofit arts or community organizations for projects in a wide variety of disciplines, including dance, visual arts & crafts, theater, music, film & video, opera, folk arts, interdisciplinary arts, literary arts, multi-disciplinary art forms, and others.
Emerging and pre-professional artists, women artists, artists of color, artists with disabilities, artists who identify as LGBTQ, and artists from other historically excluded communities and demographics are strongly encouraged to apply.
For more information, please visit www.bronxarts.org/grants, send an email to tracey@bronxarts.org.
2027 Community Engagement Grants
Deadline is October 30th, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST
Since 1982, the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) has offered Community Engagement Grants (CEG) to enrich the cultural life of the borough by supporting high-quality community-based arts projects in all disciplines, genres, and styles.
For this grants program, “community” is defined as:
A geographic area;
A cultural, social, racial, or socio-economic demographic;
An artistic community.
The program is for Bronx-based artists who are not applying directly to the supporting and who are also: individual artists, unincorporated artist collectives or ensembles, or nonprofit organizations with an art mission or program.
We fund projects via three Funds. Our new process allows you to apply for all three Funds at once:
Arts Fund (AF), supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). (AF) grants are open to individual artists, unincorporated artist collectives or ensembles, and nonprofit organizations with an annual budget under $100,000.
Community Arts (CA), supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Statewide Community Regrants (SCR) program. CA grants are open to individual artists with a fiscal sponsor, unincorporated artist collectives or ensembles with a fiscal sponsor, and nonprofit organizations with an annual budget under $250,000.
New Work (NW), also supported by the NYSCA SCR program. NW grants are open to individual artists who generate new work.
Applicants will be considered for the maximum grant amount possible based on request amount and eligibility. The maximum will not exceed $17,500*.
New Work grants of up to $5,000
Arts Fund grants of up to $10,000
Community Arts grants of up to $7,500
*Please note that BCA's CEGs are funded by two separate funders:
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) funds AF.
The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds CA and NW.
For more information, see complete guidelines here.
Are you a performer, visual artist, arts critic, arts historian, musician, curator, other artist or arts professional, or arts engaged community leader?
The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) seeks artists, arts professionals, and nonprofit/community leaders to serve as panelists for our 2026, and future grant cycles.
BCA offers several regranting programs, distributing nearly one million dollars of grant funds every year to Bronx artists, collectives, and nonprofit organizations. BCA panelists review and score applications, provide invaluable panelist comments, and recommend recipients for funding. They play a key role in the grants process, and their knowledge and expertise are crucial in shaping the way public arts funds are distributed.
If this is you and you would like to help make a difference in the Bronx, please apply to serve on one of our grants panels.
Potential panelists from all boroughs are welcome to apply, as BCA’s different grant programs require panelists from in and outside of the Bronx. BCA supports panel diversity in all forms: age, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, artistic discipline, location, etc.
Selected panelists will be contacted when needed. All panelists receive an honorarium in appreciation for their service.
For more info on BCA's grants, please visit this link.
As part of your grant agreement for your 2026 Community Engagement Grant, you agreed to submit a Final Report on your grant activities for the year.
Please complete this Final Report as soon as possible. For those needing to submit an interim report, please use the same template.
Completing this Final Report will complete your funding requirements.
BCA has combined the four different Final Report forms into one Submittable form. If you received more than one Community Engagement Grant, please include data for all of them.
Community Engagement Grants:
- Arts Fund
- Community Arts
- New Work
If you have any questions about your Final Report, please contact BCA Grants Manager Tracey O’Reilly at tracey@bronxarts.org.
The Bronx Dance Fund: Overview
Deadline: November 20,2026 at 11:59 pm
The Bronx Dance Fund (BDF) seeks to nurture the development of organizations that comprise the field of dance in the Bronx. To achieve this goal, the Bronx Dance Fund (BDF) will support individual Bronx-based organizations, with grants of up to $8,000 for general operating or project-based support, including capacity building, training, professional development, and/or production. BDF will prioritize BIPOC led organizations.
The Bronx Dance Fund (BDF) seeks to nurture the development of artists and organizations that comprise the field of dance in the Bronx. To achieve this goal, the Bronx Dance Fund (BDF) will support individual Bronx-based dancers, choreographers, and dance companies with grants of up to $8,000 for general operating or project-based support, including capacity building, training, professional development, and/or production. BDF will prioritize talented early career dance artists, and BIPOC led organizations.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
The BDF is open to Bronx-based individual dancers, choreographers and unincorporated dance groups (ensembles or collectives) practicing in the field of dance, along with Bronx-based incorporated dance organizations whose annual operating budgets of up to $250,000. Unincorporated groups must have one member apply as an individual applicant; only one member may apply on behalf of the group. Productions must take place in New York City but are not required to take place in the Bronx.
Individual artists or one member of an unincorporated group (ensembles or collectives) must:
- be residents of Bronx County and
- be 18 years of age or older.
Incorporated organizations must:
- be based in the Bronx with a Bronx address,
- have been incorporated for at least one year,
- show proof of non-profit status,
- have an active board of directors, and
- have an annual budget of $250,000 or less.
For more information, see complete guidelines here. For Spanish Guidelines click here.
Questions? Contact BCA Grantmaking Manager Tracey O’Reilly at tracey@bronxarts.org