Colorado Creates Grant 2022

Applications are due June 2, 2022.

The Colorado Creates Grant helps organizations and communities create art and cultural activities through general operating support funding. Funds are distributed throughout Colorado with a focus on rural communities.

Grant awards are flat amounts based on your organization’s cash operating revenue for your most recently completed fiscal year. 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.

Eligible Organizations

Your organization needs to:

  • be an arts-focused 501(c)(3) organization (see below) or an independent component of a program associated with a college, university, or unit of government (see below)

  • hold your primary business location in Colorado

  • have supporting the arts as your organizational mission, including but not limited to visual, performing, literary, and media arts organizations

  • have held public arts programs in Colorado for at least three years before the application deadline

  • have a cash operating budget of at least $25,000 for your last completed fiscal year

  • be registered in Good Standing with the Colorado Secretary of State and current with annual corporate reports and charitable solicitation registration

  • be current in reporting for other Colorado Creative Industries grants or programs

  • show collaboration, a mutual investment of funds or other resources to the activity, with other organizations

These organizations are not eligible:

  • organizations managing a state certified Colorado Creative Districts

  • church or religious, sectarian organization, or a public or private K-12 school or school district

  • organizations are required to sit out for one year after two consecutive years of Colorado Creates funding. Due to COVID emergency funding, there are no sit outs for FY23.

  • an organization whose primary purpose is to channel resources — financial, human, or other — to an affiliated organization may not apply if the affiliated organization submits an application, even if both organizations have their own 501(c)(3) status. For example, if the ABC Museum applies for the grant, Friends of ABC Museum may not also apply.

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