ArtDeadline.com. A comprehensive list of competitions, grants, fellowships, festivals, residencies, and other funding opportunities for artists in all disciplines. Fee-based subscription. www.artdeadline.com

Art Opportunities Monthly. A monthly newsletter including verified grants, competitions, residencies, and scholarships. www.artopportunitiesmonthly.com

Artist Trust. A Washington-based arts organization. Its “Professional Resources” section lists grants available nationwide. www.artisttrust.org

Creative Capital. Founded in 1999, this foundation’s mission is “to support artists pursuing adventurous and imaginative ideas, drawing on venture capital concepts to provide funding, counsel, and career development services.” A unique and inspiring organization. www.creative-capital.org

Dillehay, James. Directory of Grants for Crafts and How to Write a Winning Proposal. Torreon, N.M.: Warm Snow Publishers, 2000. A comprehensive listing of funding sources for craft artists and step-by-step instructions on proposal writing.

Foundation Center. The nation’s leading authority on philanthropy. Publishes numerous books on grant writing and grant seeking, including Foundation Grants to Individuals (Phyllis Edelson, ed., 2008). ​The jam-packed website offers a wealth of information on grants, funders, statistics, and more. www.foundationcenter.org/getstarted/individuals.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online. The Foundation Center’s Grants to Individuals search engine offers detailed descriptions of more than 8,000 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grant seekers. Updated quarterly. Subscription is $19.95 per month. Look for free access at your local library or a nearby Foundation Center office. www.gtionline.fdncenter.org [inactive]

Grants.gov. A listing of federal government grants. www.grants.gov/search/category.do [inactive]

McDonough, Beverley (ed.). Annual Register of Grant Support: A Directory of Funding Sources. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, annual. This comprehensive (1,200-page) resource lives up to its title and costs more than $250. Find the current edition in your library’s reference section.

Michigan State University Libraries. An extensive compilation of links to grant-making foundations, databases, and books relevant to individual artists and others seeking funding. The site is frequently updated and offers a special focus on scholarships. Access is free. http://staff.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3subject.htm

Mira’s List. Mira Bartók’s blog for artists, writers, composers, and other artists. Find up-to-date information, resources, and deadlines for grants, fellowships, and international residencies along with Mira’s encouraging and inspiring posts. www.miraslist.blogspot.com [inactive]

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. A good resource for researching state-supported grants for artists, providing links to state arts agencies and a range of publications. www.nasaa-arts.org

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Explore available grants by artistic discipline or field, and browse the list of fifty-six state and regional NEA Partners. Note: Most grants are limited to organizations. www.nea.gov [inactive]

New York Foundation for the Arts. An extensive national directory of awards, publications, and services—including fiscal sponsorship—for artists. This incredible resource is updated daily, and access is free. www.nyfasource.org

​Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC). The resource section of the RACC website contains useful information about residencies and competitions available nationwide but is most useful to residents of the Pacific Northwest. www.racc.org/resources/announcements

Dramatists’ Sourcebook. New York: Theater Communications Group, 2008. Indexed directory of prizes, fellowships, and residencies, with a calendar of submission deadlines.

WomenArts. Founded in 1994, this nonprofit organization is dedicated to helping women artists find the resources to do creative work. Provides fundraising basics, lists of funding resources for artists, and other services. www.womenarts.org

American Composers Forum. Lists residencies, grants, and competitions. www.composersforum.org

Opera America. The National Service Organization for Opera offers a fee-based list of grants and competitions for opera artists, including composers, librettists, and singers. www.operaamerica.org

The American Music Center. The most relevant is a composer assistance program. They also have a fund to assist dance companies in using live music. Any musician or composer working with a dance company might be interested in this program. www.amc.net [inactive]

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Funding supports programs that increase the exposure and promote the recording and distribution (including online) of contemporary American composers. www.coplandfund.org

College Arts Association (CAA). CAA offers a database of awards, grants, and fellowships and a list of opportunities “for artists, scholars, museum professionals, educators, and other members of the arts community.” Also, through its own Professional Development Fellowship Program, the CAA offers artists a one-time $15,000 grant without contingencies. www.collegeart.org/opportunities

Funds for Writers. Hope Clark offers a comprehensive monthly newsletter for $12 per year that lists contests, awards, grants, and fellowships. Her e-books cover many aspects of funding and writing for publication. www.fundsforwriters.com

PEN American Center. The Grants and Awards Database, which comprises more than one hundred grants, fellowships, scholarships, and residencies for writers, may be purchased by subscription for $12 per year. www.pen.org

Poets & Writers. List of current and verified grants, awards, and competitions from “the nation’s largest nonprofit literary organization” and publisher of Poets & Writers magazine. www.pw.org

Alliance of Artist Communities. This organization publishes a directory and offers a fee-based residency search engine on its website that costs $25 per year. www.artistcommunities.org/about-residencies [inactive]

Artists’ Communities: A Directory of Residencies That Offer Time and Space for Creativity, 3rd ed. New York: Allworth Press, 2005. Published by the Alliance of Artist Communities, this book lists more than three hundred residency programs worldwide “for creative individuals of all kinds” with detailed profiles and photographs of ninety-five U.S. artist communities. Six artists describe their residency experiences in detail.

Res Artis. A free listing of international residency opportunities. www.resartis.org

Trans Artists. A free listing of international artist-in-residence programs. www.transartists.org

Beltway Poetry Quarterly Resource Bank. Free listing of national and international residencies (at national parks, colleges or museums), artist colonies, and retreat programs. www.washingtonart.com/beltway/resid1.html