The Colorado Creates Grant helps organizations and communities create art and cultural activities through general operating support funding. Funds are distributed throughout Colorado with a focus on rural communities.
Donor Name: Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT)
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/24/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
Funding Information
- $1 million or more: $10,000
- $500,000-999,999: $8,500
- $250,000-499,999: $7,500
- $100,000-249,999: $6,500
- $25,000-99,999: $4,000
Eligibility Criteria
Your organization needs to:
- be an arts-focused 501(c)(3) organization or an independent component of a program associated with a college, university, or unit of government
- hold your primary business location in Colorado
- have supporting the arts as your organizational mission, including but not limited to visual, performing, literary, and media arts organizations
- have held public arts programs in Colorado for at least two years before the application deadline
- have a cash operating budget of at least $25,000 for your last completed fiscal year
- be registered in Good Standing with the Colorado Secretary of State and current with annual corporate reports and charitable solicitation registration
- be current in reporting for other Colorado Creative Industries grants or programs
- show collaboration, a mutual investment of funds or other resources to the activity, with other organizations
These organizations are not eligible:
- organizations managing a state certified Colorado Creative District
- church or religious, sectarian organization, or a public or private K-12 school or school district
- organizations are required to sit out for one year after two consecutive years of Colorado Creates funding.
- an organization whose primary purpose is to channel resources — financial, human, or other — to an affiliated organization may not apply if the affiliated organization submits an application, even if both organizations have their own 501(c)(3) status. For example, if the ABC Museum applies for the grant, Friends of ABC Museum may not also apply.
For more information, visit OEDIT.
