Applications for the Colorado Creates Grant 2024 are now open through May 29! This grant provides two years of funded general operating support. Award amounts are based on your organization’s general operating budget and range from $4,000 - $10,000 per funded year. Check your eligibility and get started on your application today!
Read MoreThe Colorado Creates Grant helps organizations and communities create art and cultural activities through general operating support funding. Grant awards are flat amounts based on your organization’s cash operating revenue. All successful applicants in the same revenue range will receive the same amount of grant funds. Award amounts range from $4,000 to $10,000 per application. Applications are due June 2, 2022.
Read MoreThe INSITE Fund awards grants of up to $5,000.00 to directly support independent artists and artist collectives working across all visual media in the Denver Metro and Front Range area.
Applications are due June 24, 2022.
The Weld Community Foundation is now inviting individual artists from Weld County to apply for an Arts Alive! grant of up to $3,500. These grants are offered to help individual artists take the "next step" in their artistic development.
Applications are due June 1.
Read MoreThe Take Note Colorado grant program is a responsive, competitive opportunity for individuals and organizations statewide to offer highly inclusive, culturally relevant and student-centered music instruction. Individuals and organizations can apply for up to $10,000 to develop programming that meets Take Note’s goal of providing access to musical instruments and/or instruction to all K‑12 students in Colorado.
Deadline May 15, 2021
The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program was established by the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act, and amended by the American Rescue Plan Act. The program includes over $16 billion in grants to shuttered venues, to be administered by SBA’s Office of Disaster Assistance.
Applications are open now for first-round priority businesses.
The Music Event Fund is a competitive grantmaking program that encourages nonprofit organizations to present live music to strengthen communities. Grants of up to $2,500 are available to support single-day events that include popular contemporary music as an integral part of the event. Grant funds are only for artist fees and production costs.
Deadline: Open on a rolling basis
The Colorado Arts Relief program is a funding initiative passed by the State of Colorado Legislature to support arts, cultural and entertainment artists, crew members and organizations suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreThe New York Foundation for the Arts has partnered with Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to administer the Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants program, which provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for unexpected medical/dental/mental health emergencies.
Read MoreThe Weld Community Foundation is pleased to invite individual artists from Weld County to apply for an Arts Alive! grant of up to $3,500. These grants are offered to help individual artists take the “next step” in their artistic development. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age, legal residents of Weld County and have resided in Weld County for at least 12 months at the time of application.
Deadline: June 1, 2020
These projects require a partnership between a local government entity and nonprofit organization, one of which must be a cultural organization; and should engage in partnership with other sectors (such as agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development). Cost share/matching grants range from $25,000 to $150,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.
Deadline: August 6, 2020
These grants will provide funding to support individuals and organizations who seek to implement projects that utilize the arts as an integral element in promoting social justice and community welfare, including, but not limited, to projects responding to COVID-19 related needs. Grants will range in size from $5,000-$35,000.
Deadline: June 1, 2020.
Read MoreThe grant is a one-time payment for general operating support to nonprofit arts organizations in Colorado with an annual operating budget of less than $1 million. Priority will be given to small and mid-size organizations, particularly those working in under-served communities.
Deadline: June 1, 2020.
Read MoreColorado Creative Industries, on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, will award the CO CARES Act to nonprofit arts organizations in Colorado to help these entities and their employees endure the economic hardships caused by the forced closure of their operations due to the spread of COVID-19. Grants will be made to organizations with an operating budget of $25,000 - $250,000 to support salaries or facilities costs.
Deadline: May 15, 2020.
Read MoreThe INSITE Fund awards grants of up to $5,000.00 to directly support independent artists and artist collectives working across all visual media in the Denver Metro and Front Range area. Funded projects challenge traditional notions of the visual arts and take place outside the studio, museum, art center or traditional gallery setting.
Deadline: June 8, 2020
Reimbursable, matching funds up to $2,500 support Colorado creative entrepreneurs and artists to help stimulate their commercial creative business. The goal is that awardees will achieve tangible business benefits such as increased revenue, new audiences or improved management practices.
Deadline: Open on a Rolling Basis
Read MoreThrough Muse, the Foundation makes awards up to $20,000 to eligible 501(c)(3) organizations serving the Northern Colorado area (defined as Larimer and Weld Counties). Muse focuses on nonprofits that have popular contemporary music as their primary focus or that have a program that centers on popular contemporary music.
Deadline: Spring Cycle Now Open through 4.28.21
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