If you are a photographer, artist, or storyteller with a powerful project about family life in today’s world, consider applying for the Working Assumptions Project Grants. This grant could be your opportunity to bring your vision to life – and share it with a broader audience.
This grant supports creatives who use photography or photo-based art to explore the meaning of family in new and thought-provoking ways. Whether your project is journalistic, artistic, therapeutic, educational, or research-driven, with the funding, you can tell important stories about caregiving, interdependence, and the shared experiences that shape our lives.
About the Working Assumptions Project Grant
The Working Assumptions Project Grant is an annual award that provides six individual grants of $10,000 each to support visual storytelling projects. The funding is unrestricted, giving recipients the freedom to direct the funds where they’re needed most, as long as the project is created for public viewing and was already underway before the application deadline.
These grants are designed to help you push creative boundaries, start meaningful conversations, and offer fresh insight into the realities and beauty of family life today.
What are the benefits of the grant?
Each grant recipient will receive:
- $10,000 in unrestricted funding
- An 8-month grant period.
- Freedom to use the funds on project development, materials, travel, equipment, time, or anything else needed to complete the work
What makes this grant special is that there are no restrictions on how the funds are used, so long as the resulting work is publicly accessible and creatively centred on themes of family.
Who should apply for the grant?
This grant is open to individuals and collaborative teams, not institutions or organisations, who are using visual storytelling to examine family dynamics.
If you’re an artist, photographer, journalist, educator, therapist, or researcher working on a photo-based project, this is for you.
To be eligible, you must:
- Be a U.S. citizen or resident
- Be at least 18 years old
- Have a U.S. tax ID number and a U.S. bank account
- Not have received a grant or worked for Working Assumptions in the past two years
This is your chance to receive meaningful support without creative constraints.
What you’ll need to apply for the grant
Here’s what the application requires:
- Your personal information
- A resume or CV
- Samples of your current project
- Examples of related past work
- A compelling project description
- A budget outline showing how the funds will support your creative process
Application timeline
The application is currently ongoing and will run till September, when the recipients will be announced. Early application is encouraged.
How to apply
To submit your application, you should go to the Working Assumptions Project Grants here and follow the steps to complete your proposal. Only those whose project aligns with the grant’s mission to foster reflection, empathy, and connection through family-centred visual storytelling will be considered.
If your work has the power to move, provoke, and connect, this platform will help you reach a wider audience. You can get more information about this grant by visiting the Working Assumptions Project Grants.