Tennessee Arts Commission is seeking applications for its Partnership Support (PS) Grants to provide operating support for qualified arts organizations headquartered and chartered in Tennessee.
Donor Name: Tennessee Arts Commission
State: Tennessee
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/09/2023
Size of the Grant: $60,000
Grant Duration: 11 months 15 days
Details:
Funding will depend upon an organization’s rating in the review process, circumstances that may affect services to the community, and upon the total amount of funds available to the Tennessee Arts Commission for grant allocation. This category is competitive. Applicant organizations must have a minimum budget of $75,000.
The total cash operating expenses, verified by an audit submitted by the applicant, will be determined by the sum total of:
- Salaries, Benefits & Taxes,
- Professional Fee, Grant & Award,
- Supplies, Telephone Postage & Shipping, Occupancy, Equipment Rental & Maintenance, Printing & Publications,
- Travel, Conferences & Meetings, and
- Other Non-Personnel
The following are not allowed as operating expenses: capital expenses, endowment funds, penalties payments, in-kind expenses, bank penalties, or furniture and fixture expenditures.
Funding Requests
12% of their total annual cash operating expenses, not to exceed $60,000. This grant requires a dollar-for-dollar match.
For Operations Occurring
July 1, 2023-June 15, 2024
Eligibility Requirements
- Applicant must be a free-standing arts group independent of any other organization. Therefore, applicants must be an established arts organization responsible for its own programming (by producing or presenting/curating), or an arts council which serves and interacts with local arts organizations.
- An organization is eligible to apply for funding if the organization is legally chartered in Tennessee and has its headquarters and home season, or activities equivalent to a home season for non-producing organizations, in Tennessee, and meets either of the following qualifications: active IRS 501(c)3 status or public arts council that serves a broad population and interacts with local arts organizations. A significant amount of year-round public activity and programming must be evident that significantly impacts Tennesseans and their communities. Organization must have a board-approved long-range plan covering at least the current and next fiscal years.
- Government units that are local arts agencies are eligible for Partnership Support funding. Colleges, universities and other government units are not eligible for funding in this category.
- Applicant must have received a minimum of three years of Commission funding during the last five years in the following grant categories: Partnership Support, Small Urban Partnership Support, Small Rural Partnership Support, Arts Access, Arts Project Support, Rural Arts Project Support, Creative Placemaking, Arts Education Community Learning, Arts Education Teacher Training, or Arts Pathways for Youth Success.
Applicant must have at least one full time, year-round paid professional administrator at the time of application. Employees cannot be paid by a subsidiary entity. In general, “full-time” means the individual is paid for a minimum of 37.5 hours of work per week.
- Applicant must demonstrate ongoing fiscal responsibility through a single entity audit conducted externally by a certified public accountant (CPA) for its most recently completed fiscal year at the time the application.
- The audit cannot be submitted as a subsidiary of another organization.
- For Fiscal Year 2024, submit an audit for 2022.
- If the audit is not available at the time of application, a letter from the organization’s CPA explaining why the audit is unavailable and when it will be completed is required. Under this circumstance the audit must be uploaded to the application no later than 3 working days in advance of the advisory panel meeting.
Note: Failure to submit a single entity audit of the most recently completed fiscal year will jeopardize eligibility and funding.
Unique Entity ID (UEI): All applicants are required to have a Unique Entity ID.
For more information, visit Partnership Support Grant.
