The Regional Arts Commission is accepting applications for the 2024 Organizational Support Grant.
Donor Name: Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis
State: Missouri
County: Saint Louis County (MO)
City: Saint Louis City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/25/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Regional Arts Commission’s is providing arts and culture nonprofits with the opportunity to apply for unrestricted funding. This builds equity into the processes, enhances the grantees’ capacity, and resilience in the vibrant arts organizations. Unrestricted funding allows grantees the flexibility to direct spending where it is needed, while addressing key infrastructure issues.
The Organizational Grant category provides a one-year, unrestricted, renewable, and flexible grant to support the day-to-day operations or programs of nonprofit arts and culture mission-driven organizations that produce and present arts and culture programming in St. Louis city and county.
Funding Information
- Organizations with annual operating budget of $2,000,001 and up may apply for up to $100,000.
- Organizations with annual operating budget up to $2,000,000 may apply for up to $50,000.
- Organizations with annual operating budget up to $500,000 may apply for up to $25,000.
Grant Period
July 1, 2024- June 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible organizations meet the following requirements:
- Mission and purpose: Arts and culture mission-driven nonprofit organization. The organization’s primary purpose must be the creation, presentation, or utilization of arts and culture.
- Local focus: Arts and cultural activities of the applicant organization must occur in St. Louis City and/or St. Louis County.
- Nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization: In “good standing” as a nonprofit corporation in the State of Missouri and 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or a unit of federal or local government such as a library, county, or municipal agency.
- Arts programming: The proposed program’s primary purpose must be the creation, presentation, or utilization of arts and culture; programming must be publicly accessible.
Grant Review Criteria
- Artistic Essentials (weighted at 40%): An organization that produces or presents culturally and artistically significant work, and that supports a full creative life for every St. Louisan.
- Community Benefit (weighted at 30%): An organization that demonstrates broad community benefit while advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
- Capacity & Sustainability (weighted at 30%): An organization that intentionally plans for organizational capacity and sustainability; and with solid leadership that advances a strong organizational culture, demonstrated by a positive community reputation, consistent and clear communications, and efficient decision-making.
For more information, visit RAC.
