The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation focuses its arts grantmaking on efforts that strengthen arts organizations and nurture artistic talent. This program focuses on adult artists.
Donor Name: The Mark Duke Biddle Foundation
State: North Carolina
Counties: Chatham County (NC), Durham County (NC), Orange County (NC), Wake County (NC)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/31/2022
Grant Size: $10,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The foundation focuses on projects in which their modest grants can make a significant difference. In addition, MDBF supports Duke University, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and three churches, all institutions important to her family.
The arts are essential to strong, vibrant communities. A dynamic cultural sector is a catalyst for growth, attracting and retaining businesses and visitors. They strengthen neighborhoods and communities by preserving the culture and memories of specific places and have a positive impact on health and well-being. The arts provide spaces to allow people from different backgrounds to engage with one another and opportunities to build community. Perhaps most importantly, they offer personal enjoyment to individuals, groups, and families, and give voice to the human condition.
Funding Goals
- support cultural organizations that demonstrate artistic excellence and elevate the profile of the Triangle’s arts scenes, both locally and nationally;
- support new, emerging, or grassroots cultural organizations that document, preserve, and/or present the values, spirit, and diversity of the Triangle’s cultural community; AND/OR
- support arts-focused organizations that work directly with artists to nurture the current and next generations of artists, deepen and expand talent, develop professional and business skills, create new works.
Grant Opportunities
- 2-Year Operating Support Grant: They offer a two-year grant of $10,000 each year for a total grant of $20,000.
- 1-Year Operating Support Grant: They offer a one-year $5,000 grant targeted to organizations that have never received a grant from MDBF or to those that haven’t received a grant since 2012.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility for 2-year Operating Support grants
- Grants are made to arts organizations. Arts education programs are funded under the K-12 Education grant program.
- Applicant must have a current 501c3 status or have a fiscal sponsor.
- The applying organization must be located in and primary programming must take place in Chatham, Durham, Orange, or Wake Counties, North Carolina.
- Organization’s mission, goals, and programming directly relate to MDBF’s funding goals.
- Organizations must have annual operating expenses less than $5 million (fiscal sponsors are exempt from this stipulation). Schools, units, and departments within larger organizations, such as universities, are not eligible even if their budgets are less than $5 million.
- Organizations with smaller operating budgets are eligible. Have evidence of impact or success of primary programming/mission
- Organizations may have only one active MDBF grant at a time.
- Individual artists’ projects are not eligible for support. Fiscal sponsorships of individual projects are not accepted.
- Eligibility for 1-year Opportunity Grants:
- Grants are made to arts organizations.
- Applicant must have a current 501c3 status or have a fiscal sponsor.
- The applying organization must be located in and primary programming must take place in Chatham, Durham, Orange, or Wake Counties, North Carolina.
- Organization’s mission, goals, and programming directly relate to MDBF’s funding goals.
- These grants will be made to organizations that have never received a grant from MDBF or have not received a grant in the previous 10 years.
- Preference given to organizations with operating budgets under $300,000.
- Organizations with annual operating expenses greater than $1 million (fiscal sponsors are exempt from this stipulation) are encouraged to talk with MDBF staff before applying.
- MDBF has a history of supporting start-up nonprofits and those that are relatively early in their life cycles. They are eligible to apply.
- Individual artists’ projects are not eligible for support. Fiscal sponsorships of individual projects are not accepted.
For more information, visit The Mark Duke Biddle Foundation.
