The City of Fort Myers is accepting applications for its Arts & Culture Grant for Organizations to encourage artistic quality and program innovation, including “seed money” for organizations and projects.
Donor Name: City of Fort Myers
State: Florida
City: Fort Myers
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/31/2022
Grant Size: $10,000
Details:
Project & Program Grants support arts & culture activities, projects and programs that take place within the City of Fort Myers.
Through grant making and other activities and services, the City of Fort Myers strives to:
- Develop stable, well-managed arts & culture organizations and institutions, through fair distribution of funds
- Encourage artistic quality and program innovation, including “seed money” for organizations and projects
- Develop new audiences and challenge existing audiences
- Promote lifelong arts and cultural education
- Promote multicultural inclusion in all aspects of the City’s cultural life
- Stimulate increased private support for the arts & culture
- Promote economic development and tourism in the City of Fort Myers
- Promote and encourage art and culture in all communities and neighborhoods of the City
- Create a nurturing environment in which artists can flourish
Operating Grants support non-profit organizations based in the City of Fort Myers that are exclusively dedicated to arts and culture. They are awarded to offset a portion of annual operating costs. Your description should include:
- The opportunities, challenges, issues or needs currently facing your organization
- Overall goal(s) of the organization for the funding period
- Objectives or ways in which you will meet the goal(s)
- Activities and who will carry out these activities
- Time-frame in which the activities will take place
- Long-term funding strategies
Funding Information
The maximum funding for each arts and culture grant is $10,000 for Operating Grants for organizations, $5,000 for Project & Program Grants for organization
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-profit organizations that produce and/or present a cultural program or festival within the City of Fort Myers’ corporate limits.
- Have documented IRS nonprofit, tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Applicants with pending 501(c)(3) status are not eligible.
- Have completed one year of fiscal operation as a non-profit organization and can provide board-approved financial statements.
- Be able to provide most recently completed IRS Form 990.
- Be able to match amount requested on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
- Operating budget to dedicate 10% or more in marketing expense for proposed activities.
- Applicant organizations may submit only one application.
- If the organization has received a City of Fort Myers Arts & Culture Grant at any time in the past then a Post-Grant Final Report must have been submitted for that Grant.
- Units of city or municipal government are ineligible for City of Fort Myers Arts & Culture Grants (i.e. public school, library, city special events department, etc.).
- Religious Organizations and Churches are ineligible for City of Fort Myers Arts & Culture Grants.
For more information, visit City of Fort Myers.
