CAFE ROYAL
CULTURAL FOUNDATiON
At Café Royal Cultural Foundation, we believe in the power of a bold idea. We are honored to witness our grantees' visions come to life and receive critical acclaim at the highest levels.
We are immensely proud to celebrate the recent achievements within our community: our music grantees have earned an incredible two Grammy Awards and four Grammy nominations, while a performance grantee has been recognized with a prestigious Obie Award.
This success is a testament to their extraordinary talent and dedication. It reinforces our mission to provide artists with the crucial support needed to bring their groundbreaking projects to the forefront of the cultural conversation.
The next grant cycle is now open. Your project has the potential to captivate, to innovate, and to be celebrated. Let us help you realize it.
Café Royal Cultural Foundation offers a limited number of grants for artists working in these disciplines. Recipients will be determined by the foundation’s executive committee on the basis of artistic excellence, accomplishment to date, and the promise of future achievements in their medium.
MUSiC
Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC supports musicians by awarding music production grants to artists in all genres of music. Production comprises the recording, mixing and mastering of artist projects. Grant winners have the option of working at world-renowned Flux Studios and receiving Flux’s independent artist rate, or at a Café Royal Cultural Foundation approved recording location.
Submissions: To ensure that each submission receives the attention it deserves we will be only accepting 40 applications for each of our categories.
Deadlines: Our Fall 2025 Grant cycle is now opened and will close on November 3, 2025 or if we reach our limit of 40 applications, which ever comes first.
ViSUAL
Café Royal Cultural Foundation advances the visual arts by awarding grants to artists across a variety of genres, including painting, drawing, sculpture and photography.
Submissions: To ensure that each submission receives the attention it deserves we will be only accepting 40 applications for each of our categories.
Deadlines: Our Fall 2025 Grant cycle is now opened and will close on November 3, 2025 or if we reach our limit of 40 applications, which ever comes first.
PERFORMANCE
Café Royal Cultural Foundation awards performance grants to individuals and groups focused on the production of theater, dance, and performance art.
Submissions: To ensure that each submission receives the attention it deserves we will be only accepting 40 applications for each of our categories.
Deadlines: Our Fall 2025 Grant cycle is now opened and will close on November 3, 2025 or if we reach our limit of 40 applications, which ever comes first.
LiTERATURE
Café Royal Cultural Foundation awards grants to authors of prose (fiction/creative nonfiction), and poetry.
Submissions: To ensure that each submission receives the attention it deserves we will be only accepting 40 applications for each of our categories.
Deadlines: Our Fall 2025 Grant cycle is now opened and will close on November 3, 2025 or if we reach our limit of 40 applications, which ever comes first.