Announcing our first ever impact report
Three years of hard work, lots learned, and big ambitions for the future… We’re proud to share our first ever impact report with you.
We’ve been working to empower emerging artists from underrepresented groups since 2021. With €1.8m distributed to artists and arts-focused nonprofits to date, it was time for us to look over the numbers, comb through our research, and speak to our grantees past and present. The result?
The report delves into the key learnings from the first three years of our grant programs, exploring how our approach to supporting emerging artists and arts-focused nonprofits has been shaped, has developed, and–crucially–how we plan to continue to grow and expand our impact over the coming years.
Through extensive research and hours of candid conversations with the artists and nonprofits we support, we’ve come to focus on four areas where we can help emerging artists to thrive.
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.
Through these key themes, we show how impact's been made, weaving in case studies and testaments from just a few of the amazing grantees we’ve been lucky enough to have supported.
Here are a few takeaways from our first impact report:
- €1.8m distributed to artists and arts nonprofits positively impacting 14,000 people in over 50 countries around the world.
- 95% of Creative Bursary recipients said the grant had a positive impact on their mental health and wellbeing.
- The majority of artists were able to dedicate more than 25 additional hours per week to their practice, thanks to their grant.
- 95% of the Creative Bursary recipients said the unrestricted nature of the bursary had a positive impact on their careers.
- 62.5% of organisations supported were able to increase the number of paid staff or increase existing wages during the grant period.
The report closes with a look to the future, outlining our aspirations for growth and increased impact, and our ultimate 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.
