New York City, NY
Sew BK-NYC
Par Hekima Hapa February 2025
SLAMDANCE garage
Par Ian Andrew Askew January 2025
Bee University NYC
Par Andre Ware December 2024
Sassy Senior Self-Defense Workshops
Par Marisa Honma November 2024
Sonic Histories with Chinatown Records
Par Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan October 2024
New Life Vests for Free Public Kayaking in NYC
Par Mike Petite September 2024
Punks Take Bluestockings: Punks of Color Incubator
Par Merlin Sabam September 2024
Take Our Students Out to Trampoline Park
Par LisaMarie Martin July 2024
Awán Na?
Par Sadanyah Flowing Water June 2024
Juneteenth Celebration at Historic Richmond Town
Par Elizabeth Wilson May 2024
MAYDAY FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE 2024
Par Sara Martinez Arango // Mayday Space April 2024
Awesome Yarnbomb Club
Par Ellie d'Eustachio March 2024
Help Tami fight the Ambalo Bros and tell her story
Par East New York Community Land Trust February 2024
Fatherhood and Fades: Barbershop Talks
Par Shaleem Bush January 2024
Origami Vending Machine
Par Sok Song December 2023
The Reignite Residency
Par Shain Slepian / 14th Street Y October 2023
Miracle Compost Project
Par Nadege Alexis September 2023
STooPS Bed Stuy Summer Art Crawl
Par Kendra J. Ross July 2023
Brooklyn Cumbia Festival
Par Camilo Quiroz-Vazquez and One Whale's Tale June 2023
Tenant Tools for Repairs
Par Sateesh Nori at JustFix May 2023
Art on the Ave NYC - The Heights
Par Barbara Anderson April 2023
Flying Dragon Electric Skateboard
Par Stuart Anderson March 2023
Swan Song
Par Leslie Ruckman & Gal Nissim March 2023
A Relationship Guidebook for Sex Workers
Par Molly Simmons February 2023
Black History Month Game Jam
Par Victoria Coker January 2023
A Jury Of Our Queers
Par Section 175 Collective December 2022
Bronx Bound Books
Par Latanya DeVaughn November 2022
Talk To Me
Par jordan Seiler October 2022
Tiresias Presents UNDERWORLD
Par Evan Silver aka Tiresias September 2022
Welcome to the Club
Par Molly Woodward August 2022
Her Village Inc. Essential Items Bank
Par Chantal Alison-Konteh July 2022
Comedic Timing: Laughter and Liberation Festival
Par Kanene Holder June 2022
(Holy) Blood
Par Denis Butkus May 2022
Ragercize: An Aerobic Catharsis
Par Marella Martin Koch (on behalf of The Rally Cat) April 2022
Trans and Queer Immigrant-Led Food Pantry
Par Jay Dalal March 2022
Mother's Pearls Doula Training Program
Par Ebony N White-Kilpatrick March 2022
Coney Island Poetry Map
Par Amanda Deutch and Parachute Literary Arts February 2022
Here's To The Ladies Who - docuseries
Par Kiki Rathbun January 2022
Spatial Poetry Project
Par Hua Xi December 2021
The Passion Project
Par Shawn Waterman November 2021
GG
Par Jordan Dykstra October 2021
#Deliver4Justice
Par Sol Aramendi September 2021
Black Box
Par Michael Coppage August 2021
Collab GreenSpace
Par The Bronx Collab July 2021
Lucid Dream Minigolf
Par Bren Gaesser and Liam Singer June 2021
The Anywhere Festival of Everywhere Stages
Par Liz Oakley May 2021
Carbon Sponge
Par Brooke Singer April 2021
DIY Assistive Tech for the Masses!
Par Loreto Dumitrescu April 2021
"Leave some for me"
Par Angela Miskis April 2021
Synth Library NYC
Par CY X & Heidi Sabertooth March 2021
East New York Community Land Trust
Par Albert Scott Jr. February 2021
Trust Your Struggle: Foster Care Alumni Educators
Par Lili Glauber January 2021
BIPoC & LGBTQA+ Improv Scholarships
Par Nolan Kennedy December 2020
#SaveOurCompost
Par Anna Sacks December 2020
Student Newspaper Curriculum
Par Lara Bergen December 2020
2020 TransGiving Holiday Celebration
Par LaTravious Collins November 2020
IntegrateNYC Peer Defense Project
Par Molly Murphy October 2020
Globetops in NYC
Par Marco Lao September 2020
A Black Queer & Trans Garden in Bed-Stuy
Par Morgen Bromell August 2020
Public Assistants
Par DonChristian Jones July 2020
Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op
Par Josh Bisker June 2020
Leveler
Par Alessandra DeBenedetti May 2020
Landlord Watch: COVID19 Response FAQ
Par Madeline Blount April 2020
Emergency Outdoor Bike Workshops
Par Time's Up! Environmental Group April 2020
Community Science Kits
Par Kiddie Science / Carmen Castillo-Barrett April 2020
NYHRE Holistic Health Services
Par Juan Cortez March 2020
Catcalls of NYC
Par Sophie Sandberg February 2020
Crown Heights Film Festival
Par Cynthia Chatman January 2020
Tech Learning Collective
Par Tech Learning Collective December 2019
Cookies for the Front Desk
Par Tamar Rubin November 2019
Unidentified Persons of New York
Par REBEKAH TURNER October 2019
Preservation of the DYKE TV Raw Footage Archive
Par Desiree Yael Vester September 2019
Ribbed Mussel Rehabilitation Project
Par Gary Francis August 2019
FourTop
Par Joanna Franchini July 2019
A game of cat and mouse
Par Laura Plimpton June 2019
The Birthday Party Project
Par Allison Dukes May 2019
New Neighbors Clothing Partnership
Par Shoshana Akabas April 2019
The Open Plant Community Biology Project
Par Rachel Haberstroh March 2019
Project X Bronx Poetry & Arts Festival
Par Noel Quiñones February 2019
Women's Weekend Film Challenge
Par Tracy Sayre and Katrina Medoff January 2019
mobile play:groundNYC
Par Rebecca Faulkner December 2018
Fresh Pipes:A Concert of World Premieres for Organ
Par Austin Philemon November 2018
Four Wise Cattle
Par Karyn Lao & Mark Zlotsky October 2018
Harriet Tubman Stamp
Par Dano Wall September 2018
Just Write Community Project
Par Tanesha "Coach Tea" Ingram August 2018
Block Party for a Just Rezoning
Par Northern Manhattan Is Not for Sale / Alto Manhattan No Se Vende July 2018
Homeward Bound: Memories, Identity, and Resilience
Par Mei Lum June 2018
21st CENTURY DEMOCRACY: A "How-To" Guide
Par Darshana Narayanan May 2018
WinC Con 2018
Par Regine Sawyer April 2018
Pedestrian Wanderlust
Par Rami Shafi March 2018
Computer1.0
Par Julian Goldman & Victoria Manganiello February 2018
Gallery Gurls
Par jasmin hernandez January 2018
Brooklyn Artisanal Gasoline
Par Hackett December 2017
Jefferson Gates
Par Superchief Gallery/ Rachel Kolarik November 2017
Syrian Refugee Graphic Mini-Narratives
Par Chris Russell October 2017
Emma's Torch Female Baking Collective
Par Julia Bumke September 2017
We the Ppl: Politics for Those Who Can't Vote
Par Zora Ilunga-Reed August 2017
The Free Black Women's Library
Par OlaRonke Akinmowo July 2017
New Women Space
Par Sandra Hong June 2017
1 Minute Meal: A Documentary Portrait of NYC
Par James Boo May 2017
Devised Theatre Project
Par Khristal Curtis April 2017
Free Water Ecology and Engineering Field Trips
Par Matt Malina March 2017
Women Who Build: Artist Who Own
Par Clara West February 2017
The Itinerant Writing Workshop in Spanish
Par Maria Paz Cuevas Silva January 2017
Action Item Fair
Par Ann Bickerton December 2016
Coffee Cup Artwork
Par Phoebe Ho November 2016
Game Night Event Series
Par Sheetal Prajapati October 2016
Piano in a Fishbowl
Par Adrian Untermyer September 2016
Murals for a Queens Supportive Housing Facility
Par Laini Nemett August 2016
ID Shop
Par Sue Jeong Ka July 2016
Queer Kid Stuff
Par Lindsay Amer June 2016
NYC #popscope
Par Isaac Lief May 2016
Cello Without Walls
Par Jacob Cohen / Friends of Island Academy April 2016
Amateur Science Meets Superconductor Research
Par Joseph Nardone March 2016
The Harlem Free School
Par Nailah Ricco March 2016
SLIME - Students of Long Island Maker Expo
Par Kristina A. Holzweiss February 2016
Gender Amplified
Par Ebonie Smith January 2016
Swale
Par Mary Mattingly December 2015
Visioning the adaptive reuse of the Montauk Cutoff
Par Gil Lopez November 2015
Mobile Print Power + Combat Paper
Par Interference Archive October 2015
THE FREE PORTRAIT PROJECT: CROWN HEIGHTS
Par RUSTY ZIMMERMAN September 2015
ACCESS N. BK: Flushing Avenue J/M Station
Par Alan Minor August 2015
Alliance for Girls in STEM
Par Sean Reed July 2015
Lost & Found
Par Betty Beaumont June 2015
Brooklyn Plans: Financial pop-up spaces in BK
Par Jennifer Velasquez and Kristen Euretig May 2015
4th Annual Sandwich Club Summit
Par Shannon Finnegan & Breanne Trammell April 2015
Cricket Coop
Par Rodrigo Guzman S (RSM) March 2015
The Coalition Zine
Par Alana Mohamed February 2015
The Rockaway Dye Garden
Par Isabella Scott January 2015
Showered With Hope Inc.
Par David Lin December 2014
To Park or Not to Park
Par Nikki Sylianteng November 2014
The Dreary Coast
Par Jeff Stark October 2014
Barter Town
Par Heather Hart September 2014
Forget Me Not: Shining Light on the Forgotten Boro
Par Bridget Bartolini August 2014
Little Hackers; hacking museums for NextGen NY
Par Nick Gray June 2014
Dog Amusement Park
Par Kerri Schlottman-Bright May 2014
Curbside Compost Messaging
Par Debby Lee Cohen April 2014
LICKESTRA: A Lickable Orchestra
Par Emilie Baltz March 2014
The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival
Par James Kennedy February 2014
We Radiate
Par Sashti Balasundaram January 2014
Sneel - Open Hardware Swimming Robotic Snake
Par gabriella levine December 2013
Pier 42 Wild Oyster Survey
Par The River Project November 2013
Hudson River Project
Par James Bowthorpe October 2013
The Love Motel for Insects: Anax Junios Variation
Par Brandon Ballengée September 2013
Climate Models Calendar
Par Rebecca Fowler August 2013
Subway Sets
Par Dan Pierson July 2013
Moore Street Aquaponics Education Farm
Par Yemi Amu June 2013
Movies at Sundown
Par Bronx Documentary Center May 2013
Nametag Day
Par Michael Morgenstern April 2013
Brooklyn Brainery Backyard
Par Jen Messier & Jonathan Soma March 2013
Wayfinding: 100 NYC Public Sculptures
Par Bundith Phunsombatlert February 2013
Uplift Yourself, Uplift the World
Par Zachary Valenti January 2013
1911 Baker Electric Automobile
Par Thomas W. Polapink December 2012
This is Not a Trash Pile
Par J McDonald/This is not a Trash Pile and Chef Moses/Culinary Kids in Rockaway, Queens November 2012
The Acoustic Guitar Project
Par David Adams October 2012
Illicit Couples Retreat
Par Ida Benedetto & Nathan Austin September 2012
Concrete Safaris: Afterschool in East Harlem
Par Mac Levine August 2012
Silent Lights
Par Valeria Bianco July 2012
Regret Project
Par Grayson Earle June 2012
Legomandala
Par Kylin O'Brien May 2012
596 Acres
Par Eric Brelsford and Paula Segal April 2012
Urban Free Farm - Producing free food in Brooklyn
Par Bushwick City Farms October 2011
Babycastles
Par Kunal Gupta June 2011
Hip-Hop Word Count
Par Tahir Hemphill July 2010
The Iguana House at the Brooklyn Children's Museum
Par The Iguana House at the Brooklyn Children's Museum April 2010
The Anywhere Organ
Par Matthew Borgatti March 2010
Laser Tweezers
Par Ben Dubin-Thaler, Ph.D. January 2010
A Propos
Our application deadline is the last day of the month. We meet on the second Monday of each month to review the previous month's submissions. If your application is time-sensitive, please let us know in your applications.
New York is bubbling with creativity and we are looking to fund really cool projects that touch everything from tech to social to art to media to education. Do you have a great idea? Apply for an AwesomeNYC grant today!
Some tips for writing an awesome grant application:
- Be brief - we have a ton of applications to review every month
- Be fun - remember, you want your application to stand out from the pack
- Be specific - we want to know how you're going to use the $1,000 - show us that you've thought this thing through
If your project was not selected in a given month, please feel free to reapply. We generally only review applications from the current month's pool. In addition, please feel free to get in touch with us if you'd like feedback on your application - we're happy to talk!
