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New Music Creator Fund
The Creator Fund offers grants to individual music creators working in any genre who need support to get to the next stage of their creative practice.
New Music Creator Fund
The Creator Fund offers grants to individual music creators working in any genre who need support to get to the next stage of their creative practice.
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Support for New Music USA and its many programs and activities is provided by foundations, corporations, government agencies, and hundreds of individual contributors. The Creator Fund is funded in part by The ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc., Cheswatyr Foundation, and the Howard Gilman Foundation. Grants to artists in New York are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and with public funds form the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
New Music USA acknowledges and is grateful for the support of its endowment donors, including the Mellon Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, Hewlett Foundation, Fidelity Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts.
( Pictured above: Firas Zreik , photo by Salah Daoud )
The New Music Creator Fund offers grants to individual music creators working in any genre who need support to get to the next stage of their creative practice, with collaboration as a central element. The program supports costs that relate to the development of new and existing ideas and projects, collaboration with other artists and practitioners, and any activities that help creators realize their goals, including childcare costs, technical assistance/skills building, and more. Our aim is to enable music creators to take the lead in the development of new and existing ideas and projects. We support and represent a broad range of individuals across the country and musical spectrum.
For the 2024 cycle, we made some minor changes to the Creator Fund to streamline our application process. The application review was split into two stages: the first stage was an artistic review of applicants’ music samples, and the second stage involved the full application.
Additionally, to be more transparent in separating out New York-based funding, we collected applications through two program strands: Creator Fund New York and Creator Fund National.
Review the Creator Fund FAQ here.
Equity and Inclusion
New Music USA is committed to inclusive and equitable treatment across all of our activities. We serve a diverse community of applicants and grantees and we welcome the unique contributions that all artists bring in terms of their education, opinions, religion, culture, music style, ethnicity, race, gender, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, dis/ability, sexual orientation, languages spoken, religious beliefs, and geography. We encourage applications from all people including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, LGBTQIA+ artists, and artists with dis/abilities.
61% of the 2024 New Music Creator Fund Awardees identify as women, non-binary, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, or transgender, and 58% identify as BIPOC.
Applications were reviewed by a sizable pool of independent peers from our community who help us in our ongoing efforts to dismantle bias. For this round, which attracted 1,553 applications, New Music USA engaged 65 artists, composers, musicians, and administrators from locations around the country to build a panel with 61% of people identifying as women, non-binary, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, or transgender, and 64% identifying as BIPOC.
Congratulations to the 2024 Awardees!
Read the awardee announcement here .
Discover the awardees’ work through their profiles below and via the following playlists:
- New Music Creator Fund 2024 – Spotify Playlist
- New Music Creator Fund 2024 – YouTube Playlist
