Seven Foundations Launch Literary Arts Fund: At Least $50 Million Over Five Years for Nonprofit Literary Arts, Open Call From November 10
A coalition of seven charitable foundations — the Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Poetry Foundation and an anonymous foundation — announced on October 28 the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, an effort to boost the nonprofit literary arts field in the United States. Initiated by the Mellon Foundation, the fund will distribute at least $50 million over the next five years, with continued fundraising planned, concluding in 2031.
The fund will award grants to U.S.-based nonprofit or fiscally sponsored literary organizations and publishers that support contemporary writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction or hybrid literary forms, through an annual open call beginning November 10.
The coalition cited Candid data showing literature is the least-supported artistic discipline in the United States, receiving only 1.9% of the $5 billion in arts grants awarded in 2023. The Literary Arts Fund is a fiscally sponsored project of the National Center for Civic Innovation.
Source: Literary Arts Fund
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