Grants & Loans

These are currently available. If you know of more, send questions to us at the bottom of the page!

Gottlieb Emergency Grant

  • Up to $15k

  • Painters, Printmakers, and Sculptors

Apply

Ad Relief

  • Financial Assistance

  • The advertising and media community who find themselves in an extreme life crisis and have exhausted all other attempts to seek financial help.

  • None Listed

Apply

JFLA 0% Interest Loans

  • 0% interest loans of up to $25k for individuals and up to $50k for businesses and Non Profits

  • Individuals, Businesses and Non Profits directly affected by the fires. You do not have to be Jewish to apply.

  • Rolling Basis

Register

Jar Of Love

  • Cash grants

  • Artists over 18 in LA and adjacent tribal areas

  • None

Apply

Craft Artists Emergency Relief Fund

  • $3,000

  • Craft artists

  • Rolling basis

Apply

MusiCares Disaster Relief Support

  • $1,500 and $500 grocery card

  • Music Professionals

  • None listed

Apply

Entertainment Community Fund

  • Financial Assistance

  • Professionals in theater, film, TV, radio, music and dance

  • None

Apply

American Society of Journalist and Authors

  • Grants to professional nonfiction freelance writers who, because of illness, disability, natural disaster, or extraordinary professional crisis, are temporarily unable to work.

  • Nonfiction freelance writers with either 6 articles written on a freelance basis published in national publications OR two or more traditionally published nonfiction books.

  • Rolling Basis

Apply

Authors League Fund

  • Financial assistance for professional writers continue their careers with dignity by providing no-strings-attached “loans” to pay for pressing expenses. Repayment of this emergency support is not required.

  • Authors, graphic novelists, journalists, critics, essayists, poets, short stroy writers, dramatists and librettists. Priority is given to older and mid-and-late-career writers.

  • None listed

Apply

Binc Foundation

  • Financial assistance and mental health wellness programs.

  • Binc helps bookstore owners, booksellers, and comic store employees and owners with unforeseen emergency financial needs.

  • None Listed

Apply

CA Jazz Foundation

  • Financial Assistance for basic needs in emergency situation and medical referrals for reduced cost care.

  • Applicant must meet the following requirements:

    Show at least 5 years of primary employment as a jazz artist

    California residencyEvidence of actual need

  • None listed

Apply

California Fire Foundation

  • Up to $25k

  • Community Relief & Recovery

    Recovery Planning, Public Education, and/or Community Outreach Campaigns

    First Responder Training

    Specialized Firefighting Equipment (such as PPE replacement)

    Vegetation Mitigation & Fuels Reduction California-based fire departments, local firefighter associations, federally recognized tribes, and nonprofit organizations planning relief effort projects in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

  • None Listed

Apply

Carnegie Fund for Authors

  • Grants to published authors who are in need of emergency financial assistance as a result of illness or injury to self, spouse, or dependent child, or who has had some other misfortune that has placed the applicant in pressing and substantial pecuniary need.

  • We accept applications from any American author who has written at least one book of reasonable length that has been published commercially and received reader acceptance.

  • Rolling Basis

Apply

Comedy Gives Back

  • Up to $2k

  • Comedians who have earned a minimum of $12k over the last 2 years

  • None Listed

Apply

Dramatists Guild Foundation

  • To assist writers experiencing unexpected financial, personal, or medical crises. Financial assistance is available to support housing and utilities costs, medical bills, groceries, legal fees, and other essential expenses.

  • First time applications will be prioritized. Eligibility:

    • You hold less than $15,000 in your combined bank accounts.

    • You are a professional dramatist meeting at least two of the following requirements:

    • You have written two or more completed works for the American theater within the past 10 years and I was at least 18 years old at the time the work was written.

    • You are currently enrolled in or have graduated from a degree program in dramatic writing or musical theater (creative or nonfiction writing programs are not eligible).

    • You are a member or have participated in one or more writer’s associations (e.g. Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, the Dramatists Guild, the Playwright’s Center).

    • Your work has been professionally developed, workshopped, or produced.

    • Your work has been presented for paying audience

    • You have been commissioned or paid to write a play.

  • December 12th, 2025

Apply

Etsy Disaster Relief Grant Application

  • Financial Assistance

  • Etsy + DePop Sellers who have been selling for at least one year and are in good standing

  • January 01, 2026

Apply

Foundation for the LA Community Colleges

  • Financial Assistance

  • LACCD Students (Fall Winter 2024 or Spring 2025) and Employees

  • None Listed

Apply

Inevitable Foundation

  • Home furnishings for rented or damaged homes.

  • Survivors who have lost everything.

  • None Listed

Apply

Sense of Home

  • Home furnishings for rented or damaged homes.

  • Survivors who have lost everything.

  • None Listed

Apply

Walsh / Di Tolla / Spivak Foundation

  • Up to $3k for evacuate hotel/ expenses, home repairs, insurance deductibles or other.

  • IATSE members in good standing

  • None Listed

Apply

Will Rogers

  • Financial assistance to cover costs for: housing emergencies, accidents, illness, injuries, life-changing event, death of an immediate family member.

  • Those who have worked in exhibition (i.e. a movie theater) for a minimum total of three (3) recent years. Have worked in either of the following for a minimum total of five (5) recent years:

    • Theatrical distribution (i.e. a movie studio)

    • Vendor exclusive to either sector

    • Theatrical trade services

    And NOT for those that work in the production sector of the motion picture industry.

  • Rolling Basis

Apply

805 UndocuFund

  • Financial Assistance

  • At least one family member must be undocumented.

  • None Listed

Apply

Gospel Music Trust Fund

  • Financial assistance in the nature of gifts in time of need, in the event of an emergency or major catastrophe, terminal or severe illness without efficient insurance, to individuals who derive or have derived a substantial portion of their income from the field of gospel music.

  • Up to $3k for evacuate hotel/ expenses, home repairs, insurance deductibles or other

  • None Listed

Apply

Lampblack

  • $100 to a Black poet, storyteller, or essayist in need.

  • $100 to a Black poet, storyteller, or essayist in need.

  • Beginning July 1st, they will select one Black writer every other Wednesday from our application pool. Selections are made on an anonymous, random basis.

Apply

PWC Community Care

  • Temp Housing, Cash assistance for Food Clothing, Supplies Med, PPE, Mental Health Support.

  • Philipino workers will take priority.

  • None Listed

Apply

Sweet Relief Music Fund

  • At least 3 years where more than 50% of your income came from employment in the music industry or as a musician, and currently negatively impacted by a natural disaster.

  • None Listed

Apply

SAG-AFTRA Foundation Fund

  • One-time grant

  • SAG-AFTRA members whose homes were destroyed or damaged.

  • None Listed

Apply

Directors Guild Foundation

  • Direct financial support up to $2,000 for emergency costs.

  • DGA Members (in good standing) in fire-impacted areas.

  • None Listed

Apply

Fuerza Fund -
Alliance for a Better Community

  • Emergency cash assistance.

  • Fire-impacted essential workers (caregivers, housekeepers, hourly service workers).

  • Rolling Basis

Apply

CalAssist Mortgage Fund

  • Up to $20,000 for mortgage payment relief (up to 3 months).

  • Eligible homeowners whose homes were destroyed or damaged in declared disasters (2023-2025).

  • Rolling Basis

Apply

Habitat LA Accelerator Fund

  • Grants up to $10,000.

  • Homeowners damaged from 2025 fires with income at/below 120% of area median income.

  • Rolling Basis

Apply

Motion Picture and Television Fund

  • Financial assistance

  • Working or retired individuals with 7 qualifying years entertainment industry employment.

  • None Listed

Apply

Opry Trust Fund

  • Financial assistance (medical bills, living expenses, rent, mortgage, utilities)

  • Individuals who are/have been employed full-time in the country music industry.

  • None Listed

Apply

Federal Disaster Recovery Funding Resources

  • A large list of Federal funding sources specifically for disaster survivors. That’s us!

See The List

Large List of Arts Grants - From LA County

  • A large list of grants for artists and creative workers.

See The List

A PSA on “100% loans”

Some mortgage companies are aggressively advertising a “100% disaster loan” that “they provide.” Know that this is a widely available product after a disaster, and is not native to any one brokerage. It is called an FHA 203(h) loan, and there are some things you should know about it.

What to know:

“No fee” doesn’t exist

Often, when a mortgage company offers you a loan with “no fees,” 99% of the time that means that those fees are built into your interest rate. Which means you could spend tens of thousands of extra dollars over the course of your loan. Nothing is free with a for-profit company.

The interest rates are higher

These loans come with much higher interest rates than SBA loans (6+% v. 2-4%). That could be hundreds of thousands of dollars over the life of a loan.

Hidden Fees

All FHA loans include a 1.75% financing fee. That means if you borrow $1m, you would be charged an extra $17,500 in the loan. SBA loans and conventional mortgages don’t have this.

Monthly extras, that never fall off…

An FHA loan also charges you .55% of your original loan amount every month via Mortgage Insurance. That means, if you borrow $1m, you would pay an extra $550 every month, for the life of the loan.

These aren’t the only way to get 0% down

An SBA also requires no down payment.