The Heritage Sustained Support Grant provides general operating funds to organizations across King County.
Donor Name: 4Culture
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/04/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
These awards provide unrestricted operating funds to organizations delivering heritage programs and services, for the benefit of the public.
Grant Period
The 2025 program cycle will award funding for only one year.
Uses of Funds
A variety of expenses including operating costs related to heritage programs and activities accessible to King County residents and visitors; staff salaries; utilities; supplies; fees; and services.
Criteria
For this grant, they’ll look to see how well your organization shows the following:
- Resilience: your organization has clearly stated plans to remain in operation through 2025. You have demonstrated organizational adaptability to changes in your community and in the field. You have demonstrated responsiveness to your community’s needs.
- Public benefit: your organization offers substantial public benefit through your programs and activities in a year. Public benefit may include—but is not limited to—any reduced cost or free admission, events, programs, or services offered to members of the public to increase access to heritage in King County.
- Advancing Equity: your organization has a focus on preserving the histories and/or heritage practices of marginalized communities, especially communities that are disproportionately impacted by structural racism. This is not a requirement for funding.
- Economic impact: your organization stimulates the local economy through spending on wages, goods, services; promoting tourism and visitor-related spending at local businesses; and contributions to community well-being and quality of life, which have indirect economic benefits.
- Heritage priorities: your organization has clearly articulated and prioritized diversity, equity, and/or inclusion goals for your operations and demonstrated intention to work toward those goals through feasible action step(s) in the next year (2025).
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for Heritage Sustained Support, your organization must be a federally-recognized 501(c)(3) heritage organization, public corporation, tribal government and/or heritage field services organization with a two-year minimum operating history of managing collections, and/or presenting exhibits and programs with a focus on heritage in King County to the residents of King County. They define heritage as the preservation and transmission of local history; ethnic history; indigenous and traditional culture; folklore and culturally specific traditions; and historic and archaeological resources in King County.
- Fiscally sponsored heritage groups can be eligible for the program if they have their own board of directors and the fiscal sponsor is a 501(c)3. Both the fiscally sponsored group and the fiscal sponsor meet the Doors Open eligibility requirements.
- Are incorporated in the state of Washington.
- Have a mission that includes an explicit focus on arts, heritage, historic preservation, or science or technology as defined by 4Culture.
- Have a primary location in King County and conduct a majority of activities in King County.
- Provide minimum Public Benefit and Equity Inclusion Public Benefit requirements.
For more information, visit 4Culture.
