The Arts Fort Worth is now accepting applications for its CORE & CORE PLUS Grants.
Donor Name: Arts Fort Worth
State: Texas
City: Fort Worth
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/11/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The mission of Arts Fort Worth is to promote, nurture, and support the arts in Fort Worth. Arts Fort Worth’s competitive grants programs fulfill this mission by supporting local arts organizations and the artistic programming they provide within city.
Types of Grant
- CORE Operating Support Grant: CORE Operating Support Grants provide fundamental mission support through unrestricted funding to established nonprofit arts organizations for general operations, administration, and programming costs.
- CORE Operating Support Grant (Mid-Size & Large Budget Organizations)
- CORE Operating Support Grant (Small Budget Organizations).
- CORE PLUS Outreach Grant: The CORE PLUS Outreach Grants support live, in-person community engagement through the performing, visual, and interdisciplinary arts in ALL communities of Fort Worth.
Funding Information
- CORE Operating Support Grant (Small Budget Organizations)
- The Small Budget CORE Operating award is $5,000
- CORE Operating Support Grant (Mid-Size & Large Budget Organizations)
- Grants in this budget category in FY25 ranged from $10,000 to $37,000
- CORE PLUS Outreach Grant
- Organizations may request program support up to $10,000.
Grant Period
October 1, 2025 and September 30, 2026
Eligible Expenses
Eligible uses for CORE Operating Support funding include:
- administrative staff salaries
- artistic salaries/fees
- office supplies
- production costs
- facility rentals
- marketing, printing, and other administrative costs; and outreach & education.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to receive funding from Arts Fort Worth CORE Operating Grants Program, an applicant organization must:
- have a last fiscal year annual organizational operating budget of at least $100,000
- be a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit in good standing with IRS and up to date with Form 990 filings
- be a nonprofit arts organization whose primary mission is the presentation or production of artistic programming
- demonstrate active operations and a history of at least 2 consecutive years of related program offerings within the City of Fort Worth
- have a physical headquarters located within the City of Fort Worth and conduct a majority (more than 50%) of its work/outreach/programming within the Fort Worth community OR have a Fort Worth based P.O. Box or residential address and conduct a minimum of 65% of its work/outreach/programming within Fort Worth
- have a salaried full-time or part-time (15-20 hours per week) administrator that is responsible for and authorized to address the contractual obligations of the Arts Fort Worth Grant Agreement and the business management of the organization
- compensate salaried staff at a rate no less than the federal minimum wage at the time of grant submission
- have an active board of directors
- meet all compliance measures and be in good standing with the Arts Fort Worth Grants Program.
For more information, visit Arts Fort Worth.
