The Mass Cultural Council’s Cultural Sector Recovery Grants for Organizations offers unrestricted grants ranging from $5,000-$75,000 to Massachusetts cultural organizations, collectives, and businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Donor Name: Mass Cultural Council
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/28/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000-$75,000
Details:
Cultural Sector Recovery Grants for Organizations provides unrestricted support to Massachusetts cultural organizations, collectives, and businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Culture is a major contributor to economic growth and opportunity in Massachusetts and cultural organizations have suffered staggering losses due to the pandemic and related closures. An investment in the recovery of cultural organizations is an investment in the economic recovery of the Commonwealth.
Funding Information
Cultural Sector Recovery Grants for Organizations will range from $5,000 to $75,000.
Eligibility Criteria
They encourage you to apply if:
- Your organization is fully cultural. Your group/collective/organization’s primary mission or purpose is creating and/or presenting cultural activities or services to the cultural sector in the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences. These cultural activities are publicly available and/or community-based. This can be expressed by your mission statement if you have one, and the work that you do.
- For this program, “publicly available” means any cultural activity that is available to the general public by paid or free admission.
- For this program, “community-based” means any cultural activity that focuses on serving the needs of a geographic community, ethnic heritage, or cultural tradition and may include events, education, performances, conservation, or cultural revitalization efforts.
- Your group/collective/organization is a:
- Federally or state-recognized tribe or an Urban Indian organization, with ties to the land that is currently known as “Massachusetts”.
- Fiscally-sponsored organization with a Massachusetts address that conducts the majority of your programming in Massachusetts. This means you are an unincorporated organization with a non-profit objective, or an incorporated organization in the process of getting your federal tax-exempt status.
- For-profit corporation, cooperative, partnership or LLC that is (1) privately owned by individuals, (2) has a Massachusetts address on the business’ Federal Business or Partnership Tax Return, and (3) has three or fewer locations.
- Massachusetts municipal organization, creating and/or presenting your own public cultural activities (ex. Local Cultural Councils or Cultural Districts).
- Massachusetts recognized non-profit whose federal tax-exempt status is currently active.
- Special Guidance:
- Sole proprietorships and single-member LLCs are encouraged to apply as individuals, through Cultural Sector Recovery Grants for Individuals.
- Organizations without pre-pandemic operating expenses (established on or after March 31, 2020) are eligible to apply for funding. These organizations must have conducted cultural programming before June 30, 2022, and must be able to provide a financial statement for the full or partial fiscal year.
For more information, visit Mass Cultural Council.
