
Funds
The Dutch art- and culture world knows various subsidisers and funds owned by local- and national government and private institutes. The differences between them are big.
AFK (Amsterdam arts fund)

AFK (Amsterdam arts fund)
The AFK supports the experiment as well as proven quality, established and relative new organisations, professional art and amateur art - all over the city. There are long-term and incidental subsidies for all disciplines in the cultural sector, for cultural organisations and artists.
Blockbuster fund

Blockbuster fund
The Blockbuster Fund was established to stimulate cultural entrepreneurship and enable the realisation of events with “blockbuster potential”. With a loan or guarantee, in combination with guaranteed ticket purchase, the fund supports special cultural initiatives aimed at a large and broad audience.
CLICKNL

CLICKNL
CLICKNL is the knowledge and innovation platform of the creative industry. Subsidies are available for (product) innovations and research in the creative sector. On the website you will find an extensive overview of calls (specific and deadline-bound subsidy schemes) and other schemes (long-term or recurring subsidy schemes).
Cultuurloket DigitALL

Cultuurloket DigitALL
A fund for cultural institutions that want to strengthen their public offer or contact with the public through the use of digital technology.
Cultuur+Ondernemen

Cultuur+Ondernemen
Cultuur+Ondernemen provides different types of loans from a minimum of € 5,000 to a maximum of € 500,000. They also offer support and sometimes favorable conditions. Count on a interest rate between 2% and 5%.
Fonds21

Fonds21
Fonds 21 is an enterprising and committed fund that wants to make a positive contribution to today's society by supporting projects. They support professional, high-quality projects that reach a broad and/or new audience.
Cultuurfonds

Cultuurfonds
The fund supports projects in the fields of visual art, historic preservation, history & literature, music, nature, theater, dance, film and neighborhood culture. The Cultuurfonds also presents several prizes, distinctions, grants and stipends every year. To honor volunteers, to encourage talent or for an oeuvre. They also have scholarships and stipends for up-and-coming and proven talent.
VSBFund

VSBFund
The VSBfund supports social and cultural initiatives. They also make international scholarships available for socially involved students.
Ammodo

Ammodo
Ammodo promotes art and science. It targets projects that have a high international prestige. The fund supports art projects that can contribute to the development or appreciation of art through their level and innovative or unusual character. Ammodo supports projects in music, performing art, fine art, film, literature and architecture.
BNG Cultuurfonds

BNG Cultuurfonds
Stimulates artistic and cultural activities that are (partly) financed by local governments and that have importance on the level of municipal policy. The BNG Cultuurfonds primarily grants subsidies for regular projects. In addition, the BNG Cultuurfonds stimulates young talent with prizes in the fields of theatre, literature, youth circus, visual arts, cultural heritage, music and dance.
ELJA Foundation
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ELJA Foundation
The ELJA Foundation supports innovative programs in the field of music, dance and visual arts, so that children and young people from different environments are better prepared for their future and become more connected.
Fund 1818

Fund 1818
Fund 1818 supports many social initiatives in the field of healthcare, welfare, art, culture, nature, the environment and education in the region of The Hague. Fund 1818 supports preferably amateur art.
Fund for Cultural Participation

Fund for Cultural Participation
As a National Culture Fund, this fund has been given the task: to make culture accessible to everyone. The fund focuses on cultural participation, intangible heritage and cultural education.
Performing Arts Fund

Performing Arts Fund
The fund for music, music theatre, dance, theatre and festivals. Besides project subsidies and long-term subsidy the fund offers divers programming, project and individual subsidies and also individual subsidies. Quality is very important and special attention goes out to internationalisation, versatility, diversity and the stimulation of innovation in the process of creation, production and programming. This fund also supports the development of popmusic.
Janivo Foundation

Janivo Foundation
The Janivo Foundation supports art projects for children, adolescents and young adults between the ages of zero to thirty years in the field of talent development, young artists and education in arts.
Het Kersjes Fonds

Het Kersjes Fonds
The Kersjes Fund annually awards an ensemble prize, a violin and a conducting scholarship and a string quartet stipend to young, talented musicians in classical music. The fund also supports the development of musicians and makers. Original and thought-provoking music projects are eligible for substantial financial support from idea to performance.
Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds

Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds
Supplies loans of musical instruments to professional musicians and to those that are aspiring to become.
National Theatre Fund

National Theatre Fund
The National Theatre Fund supports large-scale theater offerings and is also committed to the promotion of venues in general with the National Theater Weekend.
North Holland subsidies

North Holland subsidies
The province North Holland has different kind of subsidy programmes. Monumental care is often an important part of that.
NORMA Fund

NORMA Fund
NORMA represents not only performers in the collective management of their related rights and interests. She also distributes grants among artists in all disciplines. These grants are intended for projects or activities that directly or indirectly promote the cultural, social and professional interests of performers.
Sena Performers Fund

Sena Performers Fund
The Sena Funds spend so-called ‘sociocultural funds’ (SoCu funds) that are deducted from copyright fees. Every year, Sena Performers supports all kinds of sociocultural projects. From showcases, festivals and music competitions to helping to finance album recordings. The objective: talent development and stimulate reasonably paid work opportunities for musicians.
Creative Industries Fund NL

Creative Industries Fund NL
The fund for architecture, design and digital culture, as well as every imaginable crossover. The interdisciplinary interplay between the cultural, social and economic domains are thereby important. The fund supports exceptional and innovative projects and activities of designers, makers and cultural institutions in the creative industries.
VandenEnde Foundation

VandenEnde Foundation
This foundation aims to offer opportunities to develop to young and established artists, to promote cultural participation and to stimulate cultural entrepreneurship. The foundation grants scholarships and subsidies for projects in theatre, music, dance and film and tv.