The Community Arts Partnership (CAP) is requesting applications for its 2024 Grants for Arts Programs (GAP).
Donor Name: Community Arts Partnership
State: New York
County: Tompkins County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/08/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) makes exemplary arts programming available to geographically, ethnically, and racially diverse segments of the State’s population, and to support the continued development of local cultural resources responsive to community cultural needs.
2024 Grants for Arts Programs (GAP)
- The GAP grant provides support to community-based organizations, groups, collectives or artists for Tompkins County arts events that are open to the general public.
- GAP support enables emerging artists and organizations to grow professionally and to enhance the cultural climate in the communities and neighborhoods.
- Funded projects must have at their core an activity that is fundamentally arts related and inline with art forms funded by NYSCA (visual art exhibitions, performances of theatre, music, dance; poetry, fiction or creative non-fiction readings; film screenings, and the like.) as opposed to an activity the outcome of which is primarily rehabilitative, spiritual or religious, educational, therapeutic, or recreational.
- Projects must be open to, targeted to, available to, promoted to, and easily accessible to the general public of Tompkins County and not just an organization’s membership or followers. Projects can be geared towards specific communities, cultures, or ages, as long as anyone who wishes to attend can attend.
- Grants are available for arts programs of high artistic merit and quality. The qualifications and caliber of participating artists is a large part of the evaluation process.
Funding Information
The maximum grant is $5,000 for all SCR grants. For example, if an applicant is applying for a GAP grant and an Arts Education grant. the total request for both cannot exceed $5,000.
Grant Period
Projects must take place between January 1st, 2024 and January 15, 2025.
Uses of funds
- Costs directly related to the public event such as artistic performance fees, marketing and publicity, printing, space rental, technical personnel, and the like.
- Equipment or software directly related to the proposed project such as software, lighting, or subscriptions related to virtual programming. Requests for equipment cannot exceed $1,000.
- Supplies and materials that can include consumable equipment such as art supplies, sheet music, hardware, and other consumable goods. Requests for supplies cannot exceed $1,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant for the GAP grant must be a not-for-profit organization: A 501(c)(3) or NYS State not-for-profit organization either incorporated in NY State or registered to do business in NY State with a NYS Charities Registration.
- The applicant organization must be: located in Tompkins County with a Tompkins County mailing address, have as their primary mission providing services to residents of Tompkins County and have an active local board of directors which meets at least 6 times per year.
- Applicants can also be a Tompkins Co. government agency, municipality, or tribal nation.
- Individual artists, groups or collectives, and unincorporated entities can apply through a not-for-profit local Sponsor Organization that meets the above requirements.
Ineligibility
- Artist fees for creating or developing the art being presented to the public. (For example: Music rehearsals are fundable, but not the writing of the piece being performed. A visual art exhibit is fundable, but not the creation of the art being presented.)
- Costs of framing visual art if the art is then for sale.
- Public school districts, their affiliates or components, which exclusively serve a student audience. Projects taking place in a school during the school day or immediately after. (See CAP’s Arts Education grant which does fund artist residencies.)
- Capital expenditures, construction, improvements, mortgage, utilities, rent payments.
- Staff salaries, or expenditures for establishment of new organizations.
- Fees paid to students of universities, high schools, middle or elementary schools (They can be part of the request, but GAP funds cannot be used for their payment.)
- Travel costs to bring in artists from out of State.
- Fundraising events; money for awards, prizes, lobbying costs.
- Activities which are targeted to an insular group, or exclusively to at-risk audiences.
- Activities that announce that they are open to the general public but are not easily accessible or not promoted to the general public, or are not in the spirit of targeted to the general public.
- Activities where the core activity is primarily recreational, rehabilitative, religious, scientific, educational, therapeutic or activities with religious content.
- Magic or illusion shows, culinary arts, martial arts, yoga, science shows, animal shows, art therapy, and then like.
- Activities taking place at a private home or other locations not generally open to the public.
- Projects with a prohibitive admission fee. Sliding scales are optional but appreciated.
- New York State agencies and departments.
- Activities that are primarily geared towards an audience outside of Tompkins County or are likely to attract an audience that is not primarily a Tompkins County audience.
- Acquisition of works of art.
- Activities that have taken place prior to January 1, 2024 or after January 15, 2025.
- Previously funded projects that did not properly acknowledge CAP and NYSCA as per contract, or otherwise comply with contract requirements, such as submitting a final report.
For more information, visit CAP.
