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
Supports cultural projects, preferably multifunctional, that take place in The Netherlands with a large (inter)national 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).

Cross Academy Fund

Cross Academy Fund
Are you going to work with students from another academy of the AHK? Then an application with the Cross Academy Fund may be worthwhile. The fund supports interdisciplinary projects.

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.

Fonds21

Fonds21
Fonds21 is an enterprising and socially involved fund that supports Art & Culture and Youth & Society through goals. They support professional, high-quality projects that are able to reach a wide, new audience.

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
The fund supports projects in the fields of visual art, historic preservation, history & literature, music, nature, theater, dance, film and neighborhood culture. The Prins Bernhard 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.

VSB Fund

VSB Fund
The VSB Fund supports many hundreds of initiatives in a broad social field every year. It supports projects throughout the entire breadth of the art and culture sector, from performing arts to cultural heritage and from new media to fine art and cultural education.

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
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.

[Translate to English:] Elja Foundation

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 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
The fund stimulates an active participation in the cultural life of the inhabitants of the Netherlands in all their diversity. It has a variety of subsidy schemes, including cultural education, amateur art and popular culture.

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
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.

Lira Fund
The Lira Fund (Lira Fonds) spends so-called ‘sociocultural funds’ (SoCu funds) that are deducted from copyright fees. They support social causes like professional organisations for writers, translators and editors. The Lira Fund also subsidises cultural causes: events and projects in the fields of literature and drama, and individual contributions thereto by professional writers, translators and editors. The fund occasionally supports educational causes: vocational and professional training courses.

National Theatre Fund
Supports theatres and theatre companies so that they can perform throughout the country with large productions.

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 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.

Stimuleringsregeling Eigentijdse Dans
The city of Amsterdam has an incentive for Contemporary Dancers in Amsterdam intended to support freelance dance professionals in the exercise of their profession. It provides the rental costs for rooms rented for research, rehearsals and assembly.

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 subsidies or donations to the sections theatre, music, dance and film and tv.