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ARPA 4 Arts: Recovery Grants for San Antonio Arts Nonprofits & Artists in Texas

The Department of Arts & Culture offers grant programs to support arts and cultural organizations and individual artists in their mission to deliver authentic, excellent and innovative programming that engage a wide variety of audiences in San Antonio’s arts offerings.

Donor Name: City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture

State: Texas

City: San Antonio

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 07/29/2022

Size of the Grant: up to $7,500

Details:

The COVID-19 pandemic immediately devastated San Antonio’s creative economy, causing organizations and businesses that house artistic programming to shutter their doors, cancel performances and exhibitions, cut budgets, and reduce personnel. This ultimately impacted individual artists, who lost jobs and gigs due to these cancellations, budget cuts, and closures. San Antonio’s creative economy job loss during the pandemic was 18%.

On February 3, 2022, City Council allocated $5 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to the arts. Using the ARPA Final Rule categories of impacted households and impacted industries, which aids industries in the travel, tourism, and hospitality sector and employment losses of more than 8%, the Department of Arts & Culture will manage an ARPA 4 Arts Grant Program for individual artists and nonprofit arts organizations to help them thrive beyond the pandemic.

Funding Information

  • Individual Artists:
    • The total amount allocated for individual artists is $1,000,000.
    • Grants will be awarded in the amount of up to $7,500 per artist.
  • Nonprofit Arts Organizations:
    • The total amount allocated for nonprofit arts organizations is $4,000,000.
    • ARPA 4 Arts Grant Program allocations will be distributed to eligible nonprofit arts small businesses based on the funding scale outlined in the Evaluation & Award Process Section.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Individual Artists:
    • Gig workers and independent contractors.
    • Limited to artists who live in the San Antonio city limits.
    • Must be a professional artist that derives a portion of their income from independent contractor artistic activity as of May 31, 2019.
    • Must be a professional artist that has a portfolio which includes published or publicly displayed works.
  • Nonprofit Arts Organizations:
    • San Antonio Based IRS recognized 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit in “good status’ as a nonprofit corporation and up to date with IRS 990 filings.
      • The Department will validate whether the organization has a current, valid 501(c)3 status with the Texas Secretary of State (SOS). Through this validation, the Department will determine whether the nonprofit is listed as inactive or has not renewed its documentation with the SOS or whether they have forfeited, voluntarily or involuntarily dissolved, or terminated their existence.
    • Must have been in existence and actively producing programs that are open to the public in the City of San Antonio for a minimum of three years. Membership only organizations are not eligible.
      • The Department will use articles of incorporation and IRS 990s to ensure the agency was established prior to May 31, 2019.
      • A Review panel will check website for mission and public programming.
    • Must be an arts and cultural business whose mission and actual operations (as articulated within its mission statement) is primarily the creation, education, preservation, presentation of arts or cultural programming; and be the primary presenter / producer of the work and responsible for all aspects of its provision to the community. Applicants are not allowed to be fiscal sponsors.
      • The Department will use articles of incorporation to ensure that nonprofit was established with the primary purposes listed above.
      • The Department will verify that the actual operations of the nonprofit fit within the arts and culture mission and that the nonprofit is the primary presenter / producer.
      • The Department will review the nonprofit’s mission on GuideStar and their website to ensure that they match and provide this information to the Review Panel.
      • A review panel will determine if a nonprofit qualifies as Culturally Specific.
    • Must have at least one paid staff person who will be designated as administrator of the grant funds.
      • The Department will check this through IRS 990.

For more information, visit City of San Antonio.

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