Doc Grant Radar — Weekly Documentary Grant & Deadline Tracker
You are losing grants to deadlines you never saw. Documentary funding is scattered across dozens of sites — NEA, ITVS, Sundance Institute, Doc Society, Creative Capital, Chicken & Egg, Catapult, IDA, Firelight, the BFI, the public-media funds, state arts councils and more. Each opens and closes on its own schedule. Pages go stale. Deadlines move. By the time a grant reaches social media, it's often days from closing. Doc Grant Radar does the monitoring for you. Every week we pull directly from funders' official pages, verify what's actually open, and send you one clean, structured digest: • What's open right now — only calls with a real, future deadline. Anything expired is dropped. • The numbers that matter — award amount, deadline, and eligibility (including region locks), quoted from the official page. • The official link — straight to the application. • Deadline runway — sorted by days left, so the urgent ones are on top. Why trust the data? Every figure traces back to a line that was on the funder's own website that week. If we can't verify a deadline on the official source, it doesn't ship. When a fund is between cycles, we say so instead of listing a stale date. — FREE SAMPLE: 4 of the 11 grants in this week's issue — 1. Climate Story Fund 2026 (Doc Society) Up to $125,000 (shorts: up to $40,000) · EOI closes July 6 · Open worldwide https://climatestoryunit.org/apply/ 2. Roy W. Dean Summer Grant $3,500 cash + $20,000+ in services · Extended to July 7 · Any country, budget under $500k https://fromtheheartproductions.com/roy-w-dean-film-grants-and-awards/ 3. SFFILM Documentary Film Fund $10,000–$20,000 · Final deadline July 7 · US & international, feature docs 60+ min https://sffilm.org/documentary-film-fund/ 4. Mountainfilm Commitment Grants $3,000–$6,000 · Closes July 16 · Any country, docs in post-production https://www.mountainfilm.org/mountainfilm-initiatives/commitment-grants/ …plus 7 more verified open calls in the full issue this week (BFI up to £150k, NEA up to $100k, rolling funds up to $150k) — and a radar list of 12 major funds expected to reopen, so you can apply the day they open. What members get ($9/month): • The complete weekly issue — every verified open grant, fellowship and residency • Deadline reminders as calls approach closing • New funders added continuously What this is not: grant-writing help or a funding guarantee. It's the thing that actually trips up busy filmmakers — knowing what's open and when it closes, before it's too late. One membership costs less than a single festival submission fee. Read the free sample above, then subscribe.
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