Our impact

In an arts funding landscape that is increasingly unpredictable, we work to empower emerging artists and arts-focused nonprofits, enabling them to meet their creative potential.

Since 2022 we’ve given €1.8m in grants to 40 artists and 35 arts nonprofits, utilizing a trust-based approach to grant-making that empowers recipients, fosters creativity, encourages diversity, and enables emerging artists to thrive.

Through our own research, and that of our collaborators, we seek to positively impact the lives of emerging artists. We think about our impact on our grantees’ lives and careers in four key areas:

Stability: Improving living conditions for emerging artists through reduced financial precarity.

Time: Increasing time available for artistic, personal, and organizational development and growth.

Community: Accelerating networking and connection-making for artists, and the expansion of reach and capacity for nonprofits.

Trust: Boosting self-confidence thanks to the trust and equity that’s built into our approach to grant-making.

The report explores the lessons we’ve learned over the first three years of our programming, exploring how our approach to supporting emerging artists has been shaped, has developed, and–crucially–how we plan to grow and expand our impact in the years ahead.

The report explains who we are and what we do, delving into our impact on the lives, work, and communities of our grantees, and introducing you to some of the amazing artists and nonprofits we support along the way.

Looking to the future, we aim to have had a positive impact on the lives and careers of more than 100,000 emerging artists in more than 100 countries by 2035.