The Charlotte Street is excited to announce the 5th year of the Cultural Producer Grant Program for low-budget grassroots arts organizations and artist-run projects in Kansas City.
Donor Name: Charlotte Street
State: Kansas, Missouri
County: Clay County (MO), Jackson County (MO), Johnson County (KS), Platte County (MO), Wyandotte County (KS)
City: Kansas City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/18/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
These new Cultural Producer Grants aim to both draw attention to these critical elements of arts ecosystem as well as direct some much needed support their way.
Goals
- To encourage a rich, flourishing, and diverse ecosystem of arts and culture in Kansas City
- To contribute to the sustainability of low-budget artist-run organizations, collectives, groups, projects, and initiatives
- To provide support for small arts and culture grassroots organizations and artist-organizers building larger scale projects that have an important impact on Kansas
- City’s arts and culture scene, despite smaller budgets and less access to capital with the purpose of bringing critical sustaining support to low-budget grassroots arts organizations and artist-run projects in Kansas City.
Funding Information
$30,000 in total funds.
Eligibility Criteria
- For applicants applying as an organization:
- This opportunity is open to: Artist-run initiatives and arts and culture operations, or fiscally sponsored artist collaboratives, collectives, or companies (can include art spaces, festivals, LLCs, nonprofits, ongoing operations, or one-off events)
- Applicants must have at least 24 months of operating history if applying as a collective, organization, or company
- Organization cannot have an annual operating budget over $50K or own assets worth over $50K
- For applicants applying as an individual with a proposed project:
- Unaffiliated artist-organizers may be eligible if pitching projects that have been in operation for at least 24 months and provide opportunities for a number of artists beyond the primary organizers of the project
- The budget for the project cannot be over $50k annually
- For ALL applicants:
- Primary contacts must be an artist of any discipline and over 21 years of age as of the application deadline (April 18, 2025)
- Primary contacts cannot be currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program, and must have completed their studies at least 1 year prior to application deadline (on or before April 18, 2024)
- This opportunity is open to:
- Applicants located in the 5-county region of the Kansas City metro (Jackson, Platte, and Clay counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas)
- The following disciplines: visual art, film, dance, theatre, spoken word/performative poetry, multidisciplinary, new media, new/experimental music, social practice, arts publications/arts writing, conceptual or social design projects
- This opportunity is not open to current Charlotte Street Startup Residents, Rocket Grantees who have not completed final report, or to directly support programming on Charlotte Street’s campus
- Funding requests are annual. Applicants can be funded for up to 2 years in a row but then must sit out a year before applying again.
For more information, visit Charlotte Street.
