Dutch Cultural Funding organizations
Doen Foundation / All disciplines
Thanks to the financial contribution of the BankGiro Lottery, DOEN Foundation funds projects and organizations in the working field of Culture. The object is to promote communication between the various international cultures in the Netherlands.
www.doen.nlVSB Foundation / All disciplines
VSB Fund focuses on special projects which otherwise couldn't be realised easily. This fund accepts only applications from non profit organisations.
www.vsbfund.nlPrince Bernhard Culture Fund / All disciplines
The Prince Bernhard Culture Fund subsidizes projects which stimulate and look after the richness of the Dutch Culture. Exceptional new initiatives and talents are rewarded with grants, assignments, prizes and scholarships.
www.prinsbernhardcultuurfonds.nlAmsterdam City Fund / All disciplines
This fund supports both individual artists as well as art organisations.
www.afk.nlHivos Fund / All disciplines
The object of the Hivos Cultural Fund is to support independent artistic initiatives in developing countries that take a critical view of social developments, contribute to developing and professionalizing the cultural sector, work for the broad dissemination of cultural products, and are proponents of exchange on an equal basis between artists, both nationally and internationally.
www.hivos.nlPrince Claus Fund / All disciplines
The Prince Claus Fund is a platform for intercultural exchange. It works jointly with individuals and organisations mainly in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Carribean on the realisation of activities and publications reflecting a contemporary approach to the themes of culture and development.
www.princeclausfund.orgMama Cash / All disciplines
Mama Cash works for social transformation and the advancement of women’s rights worldwide. Mama Cash strives for a peaceful and just world where women are free to make their own choices and secure their human rights. The fund gives grants to women's groups that blaze the trails with self-initiated projects
www.mamacash.nlMondriaan Foundation / All disciplines
The Mondriaan Foundation stimulates the visual arts, design and the cultural heritage from the Netherlands.
The Foundation is committed to strengthening the international position of Dutch contemporary visual arts and design, by offering financial support to enable institutions, companies and authorities, both national and international.
Not for individuals, for organizations only!
www.mondriaanfoundation.nlNuffic / All disciplines
Nuffic is the Netherlands organization for international cooperation in higher education. The nuffic keeps track of funding possibilties for internationa lart school exchanges.
NufficFonds BKVB / Visual Arts, Design & Architecture
The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (known in the Netherlands as Fonds BKVB) is the national body responsible for grants to individual visual artists, designers and architects. Its objective is to nurture excellence in visual arts, design and architecture in the Netherlands.
www.fondsbkvb.nlFonds FAPK / Performing Arts
This is the national fund for all kind of applications in the field of performing arts. On their website you will find their application forms at www.fapk.nlFonds voor de Letteren / Literature
The Fonds voor de Letteren (Dutch Foundation for Literature) aims at stimulating the quality and availability of Dutch and Frisian literature, as well as literature translated into Dutch and Frisian. The Foundation offers literary authors and translators the financial scope to work on a professional basis, by providing work and travel grants, and additional fees to writers and translators of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, children's books and drama. www.fondsvoordeletteren.nlNLPVF Fund / Literature
Foreign publishers wishing to publish translations of Dutch or Frisian literature, including children’s literature and quality non-fiction, may apply for a subsidy towards the translation costs.
www.nlpvf.nlAnna Cornelis Fund / Photography
Fund for Documentary photography projects. For Dutch photographers only. This fund honours stipends to original documentary projects. There is one deadline a year on the 1st of October. There is no email adress or website adress available. For more infromation: Secretariaat Anna Cornelis Fonds, Proostdijstraat 11. 3641 TA Mijdrecht.