LA Fires Relief + Resource Hub
Grantmakers in the Arts
The ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles are among the most devastating in the city’s history, leaving a profound impact on the arts community. Numerous artists and arts workers have experienced the loss of their homes, studios, and businesses. With fires still burning and the risk of further damage persisting, many remain uncertain about the state of their neighborhoods and the road ahead.
In response, several mutual aid initiatives, fundraising campaigns, and supply-donation efforts have emerged to support the Los Angeles arts community during this challenging time. Additionally, grantmakers are mobilizing resources to establish emergency relief funds and activate existing grant programs to assist artists and creative communities currently experiencing distress.
GIA has compiled a list of resources and relief efforts focused on arts-related emergencies, preparedness, and recovery. This list is updated regularly. If you have additional resources to share, we invite you to contact us at gia@giarts.org.
General Resources & Funds
NCAPER — National Coalition for Arts Preparedness
The Coalition helps ensure that artists, arts/cultural organizations, cultural funders and arts businesses have the capacity and ability to respond effectively to disasters and emergencies affecting the arts and culture sector. A national resource list of organizations that provide emergency financial assistance is available.
CERF+ The Artists Safety Net is readiness, relief + resilience for studio artists, ensuring that they are as protected as the work they create. The Studio Protector, Emergency Relief Grants, and Get Ready Grants are among offerings for studio artists (many of these resources are relevant to studio artists in disciplines in addition to craft).
The Partnership’s Disability & Disaster Hotline provides information, referrals, guidance, technical assistance, and resources to people with disabilities, families, allies, and organizations assisting disabled disaster survivors and others seeking assistance with immediate and urgent disaster-related needs.
Call/Text: +1 (800) 626-4959
Email: hotline@disasterstrategies.org
For the Future has organized an Emergency Funding Grants List as well as a fundraiser.
Contribute via CashApp ($forthefuturefamily) or Venmo (@ftartistfund)
Help LA's Artists and Art Workers Start Over
Grief… and hope. We are a group of volunteers—artists, gallery employees, and other cultural workers—who love our city and our community!
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
NYFA offers two national artist emergency grant programs. The Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 to professional dancers in need, who have a dire financial emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. The Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.
Mutual Aid LA Network
The Mutual Aid LA Network has created a real-time spreadsheet of resources for those impacted by wildfires in the Greater LA area. It includes emergency aid, recovery tools, and other support services, and it is updated regularly to ensure you have the latest information. Please share widely to help those in need!
Performing Arts Support
A National human services organization for entertainment and performing arts professionals. Services include social services and emergency financial assistance in times of unexpected critical need, health insurance resource center, counseling and crisis support, and more. Website | Email | Phone: 323.330.2455
Entertainment Industry Foundation
Defy: Disaster, a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), is the entertainment community's collective and immediate response to natural disasters. Defy:Disaster mobilizes the industry and the public to deliver funding and support of vital services for the immediate relief, as well as long-term recovery, in affected areas.
In response to the tragic wildfires that have impacted countless families and communities across Southern California, Entertainment Industry Foundation, the CAA Foundation (the philanthropic arm of leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency), Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), a global humanitarian organization that empowers communities in and beyond crisis, and the Los Angeles Unified School District Education Foundation have come together to launch the SoCal Fire Fund.
If you or someone you know has been affected by the LA Wildfires we are local dancers who are providing dance donations for those in need. Volunteer form
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing physical or mental health issues, disability, or age-related problems. Website
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation Disaster Relief Fund is a program designed to provide urgent financial assistance to SAG-AFTRA members who have been affected by a natural disaster. Natural Disaster Relief Fund Website
IATSE—Walsh/Di Tolla/Spivak Foundation (Disaster Relief)
Funds from the foundation can help pay for food, clothing, shelter, and other necessities for IATSE members affected by natural disasters. Additionally, Local 80 has opened their stage at 2520 West Olive Avenue, Burbank, CA 91505 as a relief shelter. Website
Motion Picture & Television Fund
The Motion Picture & Television Fund offers a variety of services that can provide emotional and financial relief to industry members and their families during times of need. Services include counseling services, supportive services and community resources, and financial assistance. Website | Phone: 323.634.3888 (under 65) | 323.634.3866 (over 65)
The Performing Arts Readiness project offers grants, webinars, case studies, and The Art of Mass Gatherings initiative which provides emergency preparedness training for festivals and outdoor events.
Visual Arts Support
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who:
Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding.
Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed dates.
Artists’ Fellowship One-Time Emergency Aid
The Artists’ Fellowship provides one-time emergency aid to professional visual artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement, or unexpected extreme hardship.
Ongoing News + Updates
Hyperallergic’s “A Running List of Resources to Help Artists Impacted by LA Fires”
From fundraisers to mutual aid drives and emergency grants, there are many ways to find support and help those affected by the blazes.
With over 10,000 structures lost and 10 lives tragically claimed thus far, the Los Angeles wildfires this week are among the most devastating in the city’s history. Among those affected are countless artists and art workers who have seen their homes, studios, and businesses destroyed. An ongoing list of funds, resources, mutual aid efforts, and donation centers are included.
