Mapping Netherlands: Visual arts and photography: Funding

Mapping Netherlands: Visual arts and photography: Funding

Mondriaan Fonds
Mondriaan Fund
Amsterdam
The Mondriaan Fund is a state financed cultural funding organization that focuses on visual arts and cultural heritage. It aims to encourage innovation and excellence in these fields by supporting outstanding artists, cultural heritage and art organizations and projects in the Netherlands, and promoting contemporary art from the Netherlands abroad.

Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie
Culture Participation Fund
Utrecht
The Cultural Participation Fund supports innovative projects that encourage everyone living in the Netherlands to get involved in arts and culture. It aims to act as a bridge between the arts and society.

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
The Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (website in Dutch)
Amsterdam
The Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds aims stimulating the preservation of nature, culture and education. It does this by providing grants to projects and individuals in the cultural sector. The Foundation is funded by menaces, donations and the national lottery, among others. With more than 240 Designated Funds, the Cultuurfonds is market leader in the Netherlands of these personalized 'field of interest' funds.

VSBfonds
VSBfonds (website in Dutch)
Utrecht
The VSB Fund supports performing arts, visual arts, heritage, film, photography and design by providing grants. Furthermore, the foundation stimulates education and research by providing scholarships for Dutch students seeking to study abroad.

Fonds 21
Fonds 21 (website in Dutch)
Utrecht
The fund provides financial support to innovative projects in the fields of performing arts, visual arts, literary arts, cultural heritage, architecture, film, photography and design. Furthermore, the Fund supports educational, scientific and interdisciplinary projects.

VandenEnde Foundation
VandenEnde Foundation (website in Dutch)    
Amsterdam
The VandenEnde Foundation is a private fund which aims for the stimulation of young talent in the fields of the performing arts, film and television. Furthermore, the foundation provides financial support to Dutch cultural initiatives, such as the music education programme at The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, various festivals, and the construction of the new wing for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Stichting DOEN
The DOEN Foundation
Amsterdam
DOEN supports initiatives by means of subsidies, participations, loans and guarantees. These initiatives are characterised by their enterprising approach: people, organisations and enterprises that dare to take risks, that are creative and innovatory and thus effectively contribute to a better and cleaner world. DOEN supports initiatives in the field of Culture and Cohesion and Green and Inclusive Economy.

Mapping Netherlands: Visual arts and photography