Prospective Applicants
Dear Applicant,
The first 2025 Annual Artist Grant Cycle is now closed. All applicants can expect to receive a response by the end of April 2025. We are excited to announce a second grant cycle for environmental artistic activism projects! See details about deadlines and eligibility below or in our FAQs.
From 2/3/25-3/14/25, we will be accepting application request forms for environmental artistic activism projects in all of our eligible genres: film/video, fine arts, music, photography, theater. Completed proposals are due by 5 PM EDT on Monday, 4/7/25.
Applications in other disciplines will not be considered at this time. Please note that the primary focus of your proposal must be environmental artistic activism. We strongly encourage you to read through the FAQ section of the website for additional information about eligibility, our funding priorities, etc.
After the environmental artistic activism grant cycle is completed, we will launch our first grant cycle for 2026, in the genres of fine arts, photography, and music. We anticipate opening the application process for this grant cycle in September.
Puffin accepts proposals via our online portal. The application process begins with a request form that must be physically mailed to us. Please review our FAQ page for more details and deadlines. No requests submitted by email or by phone will be fulfilled; they must be submitted by mail. After we receive your form/information, we’ll establish an on-line account for you and send an email with our full application instructions.
The Puffin Foundation requests that previous grantees allow a one-year hiatus prior to reapplication, meaning that if you received an award last year, you are not eligible to apply again this year. If your proposal was not awarded a grant, you may try again in a subsequent year. This allows our grants to be available to a wider number of applicants. Applicants may only submit one proposal per year. Requests for the same project may not be made by multiple applicants.
Grants from the The Puffin Foundation can only be awarded to US residents with a social security number, or to US based non-profits. U.S. citizens who reside in or whose projects encompass work in other countries are eligible to apply.
We are not able to provide status reports about submitted applications, so PLEASE do not call or email seeking such information. Applicants will be notified via email on a rolling basis until all applications have received a determination.
The Puffin Foundation does not have the means to fund projects with budgets over $250,000, nor are organizations with an annual budget of more than $250,000 eligible for funding, even if the project budget is less than that. Puffin does not fund travel, education, or the writing or publishing of books, even if such expenses are intrinsic to the project. The maximum grant size is $3,500.
We thank you for your interest in applying for a Puffin grant.
Respectfully,
Gladys Miller-Rosenstein, Executive Director
