Impact Grant

Giving nonprofit organizations the stability and headspace needed to grow and keep helping emerging artists

Association ZOFI

Cue Collective

Institute for Postnatural Studies

Espacio Común

Oyoun Berlin

TAWNA

InForm

EXIS

Oroko Radio

90mil

The Impact Grant is designed to help arts-focused nonprofit organizations that provide non-financial support to emerging artists from underrepresented groups.

We support organizations whose approach is aligned with our own desired impact: improving living conditions for artists, enabling them to dedicate more time to developing their practices, increasing the visibility of their work, and boosting their self-confidence.

What we offer

Ten unrestricted grants of €50,000 each, awarded over a two-year period. There are no restrictions on how organizations choose to spend the grant, though the funds are intended to help cover core costs such as salaries or any other costs considered critical to successfully developing the organization’s work.

Beyond funding, all grantees join our Grantee Network, with access to online events and workshops, peer exchange, and promotion across our communications channels.

Why it is important

Unrestricted, infrastructural support for arts nonprofits is essential because it builds the conditions that allow artists and organizations to actually survive and grow, rather than simply deliver pre-defined outputs. Yet this kind of support remains rare, as most funding still comes with restrictions that shift energy away from creative and community work and toward reporting, compliance, and short-term targets. By investing in trust-based, flexible funding, we help strengthen the wider ecosystem—reducing precarity, increasing time and stability, and enabling organizations to focus on long-term impact rather than immediate survival.

Open call

We are currently accepting applications until 1 October 2026, 11:00 AM CET. More info here.

Meet our Impact Grantees

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible for this program organizations must:

Have registered as a nonprofit arts organization between 2016 and 2024, and in one of the following countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain or the United Kingdom.

Note: Organizations registered as a nonprofit entity in other countries can also apply if they can provide a letter of intent from a fiscal host registered as a nonprofit in one of the countries mentioned above.

Be able to provide a bank account number with IBAN in the name of the organization or of a fiscal host in one of the countries listed above.
Have a total annual expenditure between €50,000- €300,000 (or the equivalent in local currency) in the current fiscal year.
Have an updated website with publicly available evidence of active projects that provide non-financial support to emerging artists from underrepresented groups or those facing systemic barriers to opportunities in the creative and cultural industries where your organization operates.

This open call is not for: individuals, commercial organizations, ongoing projects or project proposals, or current or past TSAF grantees.

“Being unrestricted, the grant enables our young non-profit to grow sustainably by supporting team expansion and infrastructure: areas often overlooked in funding. We're so thankful that this grant will allow us to grow further as an organization. ”

- Cue Collective

“I’ve spent a lot of time writing to grants, which isn’t my expertise - I'm an artist, so I had to learn how to do it. It takes up so much time and energy. That’s also why support from organisations like The Supporting Act Foundation has been really important. Over the past few years, they’ve provided long-term funding, which has been crucial because otherwise there’s always the stress of not knowing if there’ll be money to keep the work going. ”

- Jail Time Records

“As female migrant founders, financial insecurity has often been our shadow. We’ve learned how to keep going— even when the budget was tight—but when The Supporting Act Foundation confirmed the grant, it felt like someone finally saw us and our mission. The “no strings attached” approach gave us room to breathe, dream and create.”

- My Migrant Mama

“This grant enables us to continue resisting political silencing while building artist-led infrastructures of care, imagination and collective resilience.”

- Oyoun Berlin