The 4Culture is accepting applications for its Building for Equity: Anchoring Community Grant Program.
Donor Name: 4Culture
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: All Time
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This invitational grant and cohort program funds and fosters equitable development for organizations buying, building, or renovating buildings and specialized spaces that make culture or science and technology-based experiences possible. Organizations with project budgets over $10 million are invited to apply.
Eligibility Criteria
- Building for Equity: Anchoring Community grants are available to King County-based, federally recognized nonprofit arts, cultural, heritage, historic preservation, science and technology organizations; Tribal governments, public corporations, and public agencies; or culture or science organizations that are fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) partner organization.
- Organizations with facilities project budgets of over $10 million are invited to apply.
Evaluation Criteria
- Quality and Qualifications: the thought and reasoning you have put into your project planning, including assembling a qualified and prepared project team. How community input has informed your assessment of needs and helped to prioritize project outcomes. How this facility project was designed to help your organization fulfill its mission and address social, economic, and/or environmental challenges.
- Feasibility: your organization’s ability to administer and complete the project within the budgetary, logistical, and time constraints described in your application. 4Culture does not provide 100% of a facility project’s cost, so other support must be shown and a reasonable plan and timeline for raising all the funds needed is an essential part of your request. You must be able to start your project within 12 months of the application deadline (Nov 6, 2026) and demonstrate financial stability through the budget and financial information you provide.
- Project Impact and Public Benefit: how this project will create positive changes to meet the needs of the communities you serve and will increase access to cultural facilities. What public benefits this project will provide visitors and residents of King County. (for example: increased programming abilities, additional audience capacity, increased accessibility for people with disabilities, etc.).
- Advancing Equity: your organization or facility project’s focus on including historically marginalized communities, especially communities that are disproportionately impacted by structural racism, in planning, development, execution, and final use and operation of this facility project. This is not a requirement for funding.
- Economic Impact: your organization and/or facilities project enhances the local economy, including staff and contractors employed, volunteer hours and in-kind donations leveraged, and other economic multipliers that accrue to King County, and indirect impacts like increasing commercial activity, activating physical spaces, and enhancing the vibrancy of communities.
For more information, visit 4Culture.
