The Florida Department of State is seeking applications for its Cultural Facilities Grant.
Donor Name: Florida Department of State
State: Florida
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/01/2022
Size of the Grant: $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
A cultural facility is a building which shall be used for the programming, production, presentation, exhibition of any of the arts and cultural disciplines. These disciplines include music, dance, theatre, creative writing, literature, architecture, painting, sculpture, folk arts, photography, crafts, media arts, visual arts, and programs of museums.
The Cultural Facilities Program coordinates and guides the State of Florida’s support and funding of renovation, new construction, or acquisition of cultural facilities.
The Division offers two levels of funding within the Cultural Facilities Program. These levels are determined by the specific use of the facility:
- A purpose-built or single use facility that will solely be used for the programming, production, presentation, exhibition of any of the arts and cultural disciplines (Section 265.283(7), Florida Statutes) at least 85% of the time. This type of facility includes theatres, performance centers, museums (including, aquariums, botanical gardens, history centers, zoos, etc.) and art centers. The maximum request amount for this type of facility is $500,000.
- A multi-purpose facility that will be used for the programming, production, presentation, exhibition of any of the arts and cultural disciplines (Section 265.283(7), Florida Statutes) less than 85% of the time. This type of building includes community centers, recreation centers, civic centers and municipal buildings. The maximum request amount for this type of facility is $200,000. Project costs must be directly related to the arts and cultural portion of the facility
Grant Period
July 1, 2023 through June 1, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Application Restrictions
- Organizations may only submit one (1) Cultural Facilities application per application deadline.
- Cultural Facilities grants do not fund Historic Preservation projects.
- Organizations with projects funded by the Legislature outside of the review of the Florida Council on Arts and
- Culture or Secretary of State are not eligible to receive Cultural Facilities grant support for the same Scope of Work from the Division of Arts and Culture within the same fiscal year in which legislative funding is appropriated.
- No organization may receive more than $1.5 million during a consecutive previous five state fiscal year period (July 1 – June 30).
- Legal Status
- To meet the legal status requirement, an applicant organization must be either a public entity or a Florida nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation as of the application deadline in accordance with section 265.701(2), Florida Statutes.
- Public Entity
- A Florida local government, entity of state government, school district, community college, college, or university. Private schools, private community colleges, private colleges, and private universities are not public entities and must be nonprofit and tax-exempt to meet the legal status requirement.
- Nonprofit, Tax-Exempt
- To apply to the Cultural Facilities grant program, an applicant must be both:
- Nonprofit: incorporated as an active nonprofit Florida corporation, in accordance with Chapter 617, Florida Statutes; and
- Tax-exempt: designated as tax-exempt as defined in section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended.
For more information, visit Cultural Facilities Grant.
