Arts and Culture has the power to elevate lives, strengthen our communities and fuel our creative economy. All around Southeastern Pennsylvania, artists perform, inspire and provide hands-on instruction at schools, libraries, hospitals and community centers. While these collaborative efforts between artists and community organizations are invaluable to our region, they are often underfunded. If you are an artist, arts administrator, or organization looking for funding, the Cultural Alliance administers the following grant programs:

COVID-19 ARPA PA Arts and Culture Recovery Program (PACR) 

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance is the regranting partner for the PA Arts and Culture Recovery Program (PACR) Pandemic Payments to Art and Culture Professionals. This funding will provide a $3,000 payment for working artists and arts and culture professionals in Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks and Chester counties who suffered financial losses due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. All funds are provided as a one-time unrestricted emergency relief grant, with no reporting requirements. The application has closed. Learn more. 

Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Grants

The Cultural Alliance is a regional partner of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA). Through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program, the Cultural Alliance works with the PCA to evaluate proposals and distribute grant awards throughout Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. This program enables the PCA to reach a wider audience by increasing access to funds for organizations and artists across the state, thereby increasing statewide audience exposure to arts activities.

IMPORTANT UPDATE AS OF 11/7/25

Along with adopting its new brand identity as PA Creative Industries, PCA recently adopted a new strategic framework and updated its mission as the statewide agency dedicated to strengthening the Commonwealth through the arts. 

As part of this transition, the statewide Pennsylvania Partner in the Arts (PPA) program will be drawing to a close, and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance’s role as the PPA administrator for the southeastern region of the state will conclude after this fiscal year (FY26). As one of the 14 regional partners across the state, the Cultural Alliance has served as the steward of PPA grant programs for over two decades, including the Creative Sector Flex Fund (CSFF) and the Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator (CEA). Details on changes to each program are updated on their respective pages.

The Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (CEA)

*The Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator is not currently accepting applications. We will share updates on the spring 2026 grant cycle as soon as they become available. Funding is pending passage of the Commonwealth Budget.

Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator (CEA) - a program that provides creative entrepreneurs who aspire to start their own for-profit business, or who operate an existing for-profit micro business, with access to existing small business consulting services and financial resources. Learn more.

The Creative Sector Flex Fund (CSFF)

The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) introduced a new grant program, the Creative Sector Flex Fund (CSFF), in 2023-2024. The CSFF is designed to address the changing needs of dynamic PA arts organizations with average annual revenue between $10,000 - $200,000. Learn more.

Past grants

COVID-19 Arts Aid PHL

In 2020, the Cultural Alliance administered COVID-19 Arts Aid PHL, a pooled emergency relief fund for individual artists and arts organizations. In total, the fund awarded $4 million to 466 arts and culture organizations as well as 977 individual artists. This unprecedented collaborative effort, which was created by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (PCF) and the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE) focused on supporting individual artists as well as small arts and culture organizations (annual budgets no greater than $250,000) and mid-sized organizations (annual budgets of $250,000 - $15M) whose operations, revenues, work and livelihood have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn more about Arts Aid PHL at philaculture.org/artsaidphl.