Advertising Reimbursement Grant Program – Texas

Donor Name: City of Marfa

State: Texas

City: Marfa

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 10/07/2022

Grant Size: $2500 – $8000

Grant Duration: 6 months

Details:

Based on the application, the City of Marfa HOT Fund Committee will make a recommendation to the City Council. The City Council will make the final decision on all requests.

Funding Information

• The maximum grant award will not exceed $3,500. Grant monies are given on a reimbursement basis only, not as a cash donation.
  • In order to receive reimbursement, organizations must:
    • provide copies of invoices
    • provide a completed Post-Event Report Form within thirty days following the event.
• The City of Marfa must be properly credited, with the City’s Tourism logo included, on all advertising and promotion of the event or project.
• The City of Marfa is accepting HOT applications for events occurring October 1, 2022 – March 31, 2023.

Eligibility & Priority

Priority will be given to events and entities based on their ability to generate overnight visitors to Marfa. If an event or project will not generate any meaningful hotel night activity, it is not eligible for receipt of hotel occupancy tax funds. Events can prove this potential to generate overnight visitors by:

• historic information on the number of room nights used during previous years of the same event;
• current information on the size of a room block that has been reserved at area hotels to accommodate anticipated overnight guests attending the funded event;
• historical information on the number of guests at hotel or other lodging facilities that attended the funded event (through surveys, guest directories, or other sources; and/or
• examples of the planned marketing of the programs and activities that will likely generate overnight visitors to local lodging properties from this event.

Priority will be given to organizations that rent the Tourism/USO Building or Marfa Activity Center for their event.

The advertising reimbursement grant encourages organizations to advertise their events in media markets outside the local area in order to generate overnight visitors.

• Advertising directed to individuals outside of the Tri-County area may be reimbursed at 100% of the advertising cost. Examples may include spots on Marfa Public Radio, flyers placed in local and regional hotels, motels, and other room rentals, and ads and promotion placed in regional or national publications or websites.
• Ads placed in local newspapers may be reimbursed at the following rates. (Rates are based on number of subscriptions: 34% of the cost of ads placed in The Big Bend Sentinel, 26% of the cost of ads placed in The Presidio International, 53% of the cost of ads placed in The Alpine Avalanche, and 66% of the cost of ads placed in The Jeff Davis County Mountain Dispatch (percentages are based on ratio of outside of the Tri-County area subscriptions to total subscriptions). Only KTRS radio advertising will be considered as outside Tri-County area instead of the local area.

For more information, visit City of Marfa.