The City of Riverside is now accepting applications for the Arts & Culture Grant Program for eligible arts and cultural non-profit organizations within the community.
Donor Name: City of Riverside
State: California
City: Riverside
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: Ongoing
Size of the Grant: $294,283
Details:
The Arts and Culture Grant supports non-profits to continue their important work. Non-profits that specialize in arts and culture are the lifeblood of their city through the community events they host and the educational programming they administer.
The Arts & Culture Grant Program offers general operating support to established City of Riverside artistic and cultural non-profit organizations that have developed a broad range of programming. To be eligible. Non-profits should contribute substantially to the cultural life of the community.
Allocations include $291,369 for the 2022-2023 fiscal year and $294,283 for the 2023-2024 fiscal year.
Through the Arts & Culture Grant Program, the City of Riverside seeks to:
- Sustain professional development of established arts and cultural institutions based in and serving the City of Riverside;
- Assist the operational and development of small to mid-sized arts and cultural organizations;
- Encourage and support the contribution of excellence and diversity to the richness of the community’s cultural life; and
- Encourage and support administrative and fiscal excellence in non-profit arts and cultural organizations.
Arts & Culture Grant Program offers general operating support to established City of Riverside artistic and cultural non-profit organizations that have developed a broad range of programming and have contributed substantially to the cultural life of the community.
Eligibility Criteria
- Have primary mission to create, produce, present, provide, or support arts and culture services for the public.
- The non-profit organization must be located in the City of Riverside and not receive any other General Fund allocations for the same purposes as the City of Riverside Arts and Culture Grants from any City of Riverside department or agency.
- Funds are designated solely for operating support of non-profit arts organizations. For-profit organizations and educational institutions are not eligible for City of Riverside Arts and Culture Grant funds.
- The applicant organization must be a California non-profit corporation and hold 501(c)(3) certification from the Internal Revenue Service.
- The organization must offer an annual series of arts and cultural activities (such as exhibitions and performances) in the City of Riverside, which are open and accessible to all.
- The organization must have performing, producing, or presenting history of not less than three years, with minimum expenses of approximately $9,000 in the last fiscal year. The most recent year must include artistic and/or cultural programming in the City of Riverside.
- No matching funds are required. However, the organization must demonstrate its capability to match a City of Riverside Arts & Culture Grant award on a dollar-for-dollar basis. A “match” includes earned income, cash contributions, and grants. Note: “In-Kind” contributions such as the dollar value of volunteer services do not constitute a match for this grant.
- The organization must have satisfied the evaluative requirements of any previously awarded funding from the City of Riverside.
- City of Riverside Arts & Culture Grant funds must be expended by June 30 for each fiscal year.
- Recipient organizations agree to participate in City of Riverside activities that will serve to recognize, promote or assist either the City or the organization.
- Work in one of the following disciplines: Architecture, Curatorial Arts/Museums, Dance, Design (includes Fashion, Industrial, and Costume), Interdisciplinary, Literary Arts, Media Arts and Film, Music, Performance Art, Photography, Public Art, Theater, Visual Arts OR serve as an arts service organization.
For more information, visit City of Riverside.
