Applicants are invited to submit applications for Nexus program grant.
Donor Name: City of Austin
State: Texas
City: Austin
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/06/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The City of Austin’s Nexus program grant provides support for emerging cultural and creative individuals or organizations to produce public projects and activities for Austin’s diverse communities and nurture new and emerging applicants in the creative community.
Funding Priorities
- Nurtures new and emerging applicants in the creative community
- Funds arts and culture activities of all kinds
- Support economically disadvantaged applicants. This may include applicants that are economically disadvantaged because of their status as a veteran or applicants who have suffered the effects of discriminatory practices
- Applicants who have never received City of Austin Cultural Funding awards in the last five years.
Funding Information
$5,000 is available.
Grant Period
May 1, 2025 – April 30, 2026.
Eligible Activities
- Exhibitions
- Performances
- Workshops and classes that include a performance or exhibition that is open to and marketed to tourists
- Public art projects that are installed on public or private property and accessible by the public.
Eligible Expenses
- Administrative expenses and artist fees (including staff hours and contractor costs)
- Space rentals
- Equipment rentals (not purchases)
- Supplies and materials
- Marketing and promotion expenses
- Insurance costs
- Fiscal sponsor fee, if applicable (cannot exceed 10% of award).
Eligibility Criteria
- 501(c) nonprofit arts organization
- An individual artist aged 18 or older
- A creative business
- Applicant’s most recently completed fiscal year’s budget is $150,000 or less
- One year of operating history in the Austin metropolitan statistical area
- 51% or more of the applicant’s creative production is within the Austin 10-1 districts or extraterritorial jurisdiction
- Applicant has not already received or is not currently receiving City funding for the same activities in the fiscal year in which they are applying
- May apply directly or with a fiscal sponsor
- Headquarters must be in Austin/Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area. Minimum of one year of operating history in the Austin/Round Rock MSA:
- Travis
- Bastrop
- Caldwell
- Hays
- Williamson Counties.
Ineligibility
- 501(c) non-profit organizations or that are not primarily an arts organization
- Any applicant with annual operating budgets above $150,000
- Applicant organizations outside of the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown Metropolitan Statistical Area.
- City of Austin Employees.
For more information, visit City of Austin.
