The City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture + Tourism is accepting applications for its 2026 Project Fund.
Donor Name: Department of Art Culture + Tourism(ACT)
State: Rhode Island
City: Providence
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Through awards ranging from $1,500-$4,000 ACT supports projects that advance access and cultural equity, foster change and transformation, and demonstrate responsiveness and impact.
Priorities
Applicants will also be evaluated based on how their proposals address ACT’s grant-making and programmatic priorities:
- Access: Art and culture are a part of everyone’s lives regardless of whether they have a disability or do not speak English.
- Cultural Equity: Art and culture are relevant to the people of Providence; they foster relationships and conversations among the City’s diverse residents. For more on the City’s population, see here.
- Change and Transformation: Artists and culture-brokers learn to take on new challenges, building capacity through planning and professional development.
- Responsiveness: Art and culture are informed by significant engagements with specific cultural and/or neighborhood-based communities.
- Impact: Art and culture support the livelihoods and creative pursuits of artists and culture-brokers and are engaged with by significant numbers of audience members.
Grant Period
January 1 and June 30, 2026.
Uses of Funds
Project Fund support may be used for expenses related to a specific project, such as the production, presentation or exhibition of art, or for reasonable administrative expenses necessary to planning or carrying out the project.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants must be:
- A nonprofit corporation with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service, governed by a revolving board of directors, trustees or advisory board drawn from the community at large and shown to be actively involved in the activities of the organization. Divisions, branches, departments, programs, or other sub-units of nonprofit corporations may not apply on their own; applications may be submitted only by the parent corporation.
- Applicants may apply for both rounds but can only be granted one Project Fund award per year. If you are awarded in Cycle 1 you cannot be awarded in Cycle 2.
- Individual or unincorporated artists and culture-bearers may apply by working with a non-profit fiscal sponsor.
For more information, visit ACT
