The 4Culture is seeking applications for its 2025 Arts Sustained Support Grant Program.
Donor Name: 4Culture
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/04/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Sustained Support provides operational funding that organizations and agencies receive for the robustness, creativity, and quality of the overall artistic services they provide to King County residents and visitors.
Grant Period
The 2025 program cycle will award funding for only one year.
Uses of Funds
A variety of expenses including operating costs related to arts programs and activities accessible to King County residents and visitors; staff salaries; utilities; supplies; fees; and services.
Criteria
They fund all of the grants through a competitive process, carefully evaluating each application. For this particular grant, they focus on different criteria depending on how your organization is structured and what type of work you do.
- For this grant, they’ll look to see how well your organization shows the following:
- Resilience: your organization has clearly stated plans to remain in operation through 2025. You have demonstrated organizational adaptability to changes in your community. You have demonstrated responsiveness to your community’s needs.
- Public benefit: your organization offers substantial public benefit through your programs, activities, and services. Public benefit may include – but is not limited to – any free or reduced cost admission, events, or programs that increase access to artistic services in King County.
- Advancing equity: your organization has a focus on marginalized communities, especially communities that are disproportionately impacted by structural racism. This is not a requirement for funding.
- Economic impact: your organization stimulates the local economy through spending on wages, goods, services; promoting tourism and visitor-related spending at local businesses; and contributions to community well-being and quality of life, which have indirect economic benefits.
- Artistic substance: your organization provides artistic services that are robust, creative, and engage with your community.
- For Local Arts Agencies (LAAs):
- Quality, scope, diversity, and impact of your annual programming.
- Commitment of local government through dedicated staff, commission structure, and annual financial investment in cultural programming.
- Responsiveness to community needs—including diverse populations—through strategic planning, programming, funding, collaboration, technical assistance, convening, and communications.
- What economic impact has your LAA’s public programs had on your city and the residents and visitors you serve?
- Growth and development of resources, scope, impact, and community participation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Sustained Support is available for King County-based non-profit organizations and municipalities They award these funds based on an organization’s overall mission and activities—this grant is not project-based.
- The following types of organizations may apply:
- Local arts agencies (LAAs) and arts organizations with a 3-year minimum operating history and a record of artistic or cultural accomplishment.
- LAAs are designated municipal agencies or nonprofit organizations that provide a range of arts services for a specific King County community (for example, the Kent Arts Commission or the Maple Valley Creative Arts Council).
- Arts organizations are nonprofit entities that provide arts programming to the public and/or that provide services—training, administrative support, technical assistance, and more—to arts professionals (for example, Seattle Art Museum, Kirkland Choral Society, Annex Theatre, or Washington Lawyers for the Arts).
- Arts organizations that do not have 501(c)(3) non-profit status may apply, but if they are selected for funding they will need the fiscal sponsorship of another 501(c)(3) “umbrella” organization in order to claim their awards.
For more information, visit 4Culture.
