The Department of Cultural Affairs is pleased to launch the fiscal year 2024 (FY24) Cultural Development Fund (CDF) grant application for New York City nonprofit arts and cultural organizations.
Donor Name: Department of Cultural Affairs
State: New York
City: New York City
Boroughs: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/09/2023
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
DCLA is a mayoral agency charged with the administration of city funds in support of arts and culture throughout the five boroughs of New York City. Cultural Development Fund is DCLA’s competitive, peer-evaluated grant process that supports a broad, multidisciplinary group of diverse NYC-based nonprofit organizations for their arts and cultural services and is managed by the agency’s Programs Service Unit.
The CDF supports services in every cultural discipline. The audiences for these services—whether the general public or project-specific participants, such as students, arts professionals, older adults, or another group particular to your programs—must be able to access your proposed project in New York City during the FY24 grant period: July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024
Project Qualifications
The Foundation have identified the following priority areas of focus for support. Your proposed project does not need to meet all areas listed but should align with at least one. Note that the examples given below are not all-inclusive:
- Artistic Dialogue
- Forum for new or previously created works for public presentation during the grant period
- Support of informed cultural public discourse
- Works that engage multiple genres or disciplines Preservation
- Of New York City’s rich cultural heritage
- Preservation
- Of the cultures of New York’s diverse populations
- For public access to historic artifacts or sites relevant to New York City
- Of reference materials and documentation of a discipline with a public service component
- Services to the Field
- Services to the creative community
- Professional training within a discipline
- Workforce development for cultural workers
- Supportive services to organizations serving a discipline
- Arts Education
- Ongoing and/or sequential arts programs for children, youth, or other targeted audiences
- Cultural activities in schools, including programs that are related to curricula
- In-school artist residencies
- Arts programs for children and adult learners at cultural organizations
- Humanities
- Passing cultural knowledge or practices to individuals or communities
- Expression of or learning about practices rooted in humanities
- Exploration of environmental and natural sciences
- Promoting an ethnic heritage in New York City
Competitive proposals will:
- Demonstrate cultural activity of recognized quality
- Provide a high level of detail in the narrative sections that is descriptive and responsive to the evaluation criteria
- Demonstrate the organization’s commitment to access, equity, and inclusion throughout the application
- Contain specific and measurable goals, objectives, and benchmarks
- Be within the organization’s artistic/cultural, administrative, and fiscal capacity
- Include a budget that shows diverse funding streams; this includes a mix of individual donations, earned income, foundation and corporate support, and other government support where appropriate
- Demonstrate artists’ fees at a level consistent with a professional wage
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible organizations will:
- Be either a nonprofit arts or cultural organization, or a nonprofit organization that has an arts or culture component in its broader mission.
- Demonstrate successful delivery of arts and cultural services in New York City for the last two consecutive years.
- Be based in New York City and able to demonstrate administrative and programmatic operations within any of the five boroughs of New York City. Your administrative address is determined by your IRS 990, 501(c)(3) letter, and other publicly available information.
- Possess a unique Federal Employee Identification Number (EIN).
- Be certified as tax exempt under Internal Revenue Service Code Section 501(c)(3); or be an incorporated nonprofit that uses a DCLA pre-approved, New York State incorporated tax-exempt fiscal sponsor. Only nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply, regardless of whether they use a fiscal sponsor. Limited Liability Companies, Benefit corporations, Limited Partnerships, and individual artists are not eligible to apply.
- Be incorporated in New York State as a nonprofit organization no later than the organization’s fiscal year 2021.
- Be compliant with annual State and Federal filing requirements for nonprofit organizations, including New York State Charities Bureau filings.
For more information, visit Cultural Development Fund.
