The Festival grant program is providing support of up to $10,000 to fund arts festivals or arts components of cultural festivals to celebrate Houston’s diversity and promote the city’s creative identity as a unique art and culture destination.
Donor Name: Houston Arts Alliance
State: Texas
City: Houston
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/29/2022
Size of the Grant: Up to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is to implement the City of Houston’s vision, values, and goals for its arts grant-making and civic art investments. HAA also executes privately funded special projects to meet the needs of the arts community, such as disaster preparation, arts education equity for Houston students, research on the state of the arts in Houston, and temporary public art projects, which vitalize neighbourhoods. Several initiatives help HAA realize its purpose to support the arts landscape in Houston. Festival grants are funded by the City of Houston via the Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) and are awarded based on cash-in-hand.
Program-Specific Requirements
A festival is defined as:
- An annual or twice-a-year celebration
- An immersion around a unifying theme or programmatic focus
- Featuring a varied and curated program of events
- Occurring within a specific, condensed time, such as one day or over a week
- Open to the public
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations or fiscal sponsors must be tax-exempt under the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), with fiscal year ending 2021 filed with the IRS (990/990N), as verified by the IRS Tax Exemption Organization Search.
- An individual applicant must be at least 18 years old, which will be verified by applicant submission of an official state-issued identification card, passport, or other official document.
- Organizations must have a current SMU Data Arts profile. (Individuals applying for SACI funding do not need this.)
- Applicants’ scopes of work must have a clear public presentation component, as verified by staff review of the application.
- Applicants may only submit one application per grant program, per deadline, per year. Duplicate projects submitted across grant programs will be deemed ineligible.
- Applicants may only apply to one grant program per project.
- Applicants must meet the additional specific eligibility requirements included in the grant program guidelines.
For more information, visit HAA.
