The Community Cultural Grant is a program funded by Volusia County Government to assist nonprofit cultural and heritage organizations with general operating support funding.
Donor Name: Volusia County
State: Florida
County: Volusia County (FL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Size of the Grant: $85,000
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/27/2022
Details:
The program is available to 501(c) organizations having been in operation at least two years and having as their primary mission the provision of visual art, performance art, literary art or heritage based programming to the citizens of Volusia County.
Funding Information
The maximum amount any organization can request or receive under this grant is $85,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- For two years prior to the date the application is due, the organization must be:
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- incorporated in the State of Florida;
- registered with the Department of Agriculture Consumer Services as a nonprofit corporation; and
- classified as 501(c) tax exempt under federal Internal Revenue Service regulations.
- The organization must be able to demonstrate two consecutive years of public cultural programming history since designation as a 501(c) and immediately prior to the date of the grant application.
- Qualifying 501(c) organizations must have an active board of directors that meets regularly and oversees the policies of the organization and monitors the performance of the organization’s management. Qualifying organizations must demonstrate that its programs are available or presented directly to the public within Volusia County.
- Qualifying 501(c) nonprofit corporations that have created limited liability company(s) for the purpose of obtaining federal tax credits for rehabilitation of a facility, in which they are operating, may utilize the expenses from the limited liability company(s) and the 501(c) nonprofit corporation to calculate the amount of community cultural grant funding requested.
- Individuals may not apply for grants.
- Divisions of state agencies, city and county government, public/private schools, and their affiliate organizations are not eligible for support.
- The organization must indicate diverse support within the community and include Volusia County residents among its board of directors.
- The organization must be in existence primarily to present, produce, or exhibit cultural or heritage-based programming within Volusia County.
- The organization must comply with ADA standards for persons with disabilities.
- An organization that has received a prior year CCG grant award must have completed the End of Year
- Accountability budget detail and have it included as a part of the current application.
- A qualified organization is only allowed to receive operating support funding for cultural or heritage programs from one Volusia County grant program. This is the only Volusia County grant for which organizations requesting operating support for cultural or heritage programs should apply. This does not apply to organizations requesting capital acquisition, construction or expansion funding through the Volusia County ECHO Grant program. Applications for the “State of the Arts” License Plate mini-grant are also exempt from this requirement.
- In a year that Americans for the Arts, Inc. implements its “Arts and Economic Prosperity” (AEP) Impact Survey (approximately every 5 years), an applicant organization must have completed the survey program in order to be eligible for the next respective CCG Cycle. First-time applicants in that cycle will be encouraged but not required to meet this requirement.
For more information, visit Community Cultural Grant.
