4Culture is inviting applications for the ‘Arts Sustained Support Fund’ from art organizations to provide reliable, consistent support that lets creativity flourish in the places that make King County a cultural hub over a 2 year Cycle.
Donor Name: 4Culture
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/12/2022
Grant Duration: 2 Year
Details:
Arts organizations and Local Arts Agencies all over King County use Sustained Support funding as a modest but dependable building block in their annual budgets. Sustained Support provides operational funding that organizations and agencies receive for the robustness, creativity, and quality of the overall artistic services they provide to King County residents and visitors.
Criteria
- For arts organizations:
- Resilience: your organization has clearly stated plans to remain in operation through 2023-2024. You have demonstrated organizational adaptability to changes in your community. You have demonstrated responsiveness to your community’s needs.
- Public benefit: your organization offers substantial public benefit through your programs, activities, and services. Public benefit may include – but is not limited to – any free or reduced cost admission, events, or programs that increase access to artistic services in King County.
- Equity: your organization has a focus on marginalized communities, especially communities that are disproportionately impacted by structural racism. This is not a requirement for funding.
- Artistic substance: your organization provides artistic services that are robust, creative, and engage with your community.
- For Local Arts Agencies (LAAs):
- Quality, scope, diversity, and impact of your annual programming.
- Commitment of local government through dedicated staff, commission structure, and annual financial investment in cultural programming.
- Responsiveness to community needs—including diverse populations—through strategic planning, programming, funding, collaboration, technical assistance, convening, and communications.
- Growth and development of resources, scope, impact, and community participation.
Eligibility Criteria
The following types of organizations may apply:
- Local arts agencies (LAAs) and arts organizations with a 3-year minimum operating history and a record of artistic or cultural accomplishment.
- LAAs are designated municipal agencies or nonprofit organizations that provide a range of arts services for a specific King County community (for example, the Kent Arts Commission or the Maple Valley Creative Arts Council).
- Arts organizations are nonprofit entities that provide arts programming to the public and/or that provide services—training, administrative support, technical assistance, and more—to arts professionals (for example, Seattle Art Museum, Kirkland Choral Society, Annex Theatre, or Washington Lawyers for the Arts).
- Arts organizations that do not have 501(c)(3) non-profit status may apply, but if they are selected for funding they will need the fiscal sponsorship of another 501(c)(3) “umbrella” organization in order to claim their awards.
For more information, visit 4Culture.
