Apply now for Colorado Creates Grant

The Colorado Creates Grant helps organizations and communities create art and cultural activities through general operating support funding.

Donor Name: Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT)

State: Colorado

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 05/29/2024

Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000

Grant Duration: 1 Year

Details:

Funds are distributed throughout Colorado with a focus on rural communities.

Funding Information

Grant awards are flat amounts based on your organization’s cash operating revenue for your most recently completed fiscal year. All successful applicants in the same revenue range will receive the same amount of grant funds.

If your cash operating revenue in your most recently completed fiscal year was/You request:

$1 million or more: $10,000
$500,000 to $999,999: $8,500
$250,000 to $499,999: $7,500
$100,000 to $249,999: $6,500
$25,000 to $99,999: $4,000.

Grant Period

July 1, 2024—June 30, 2025.

Eligible Expenses

This grant is for general operating support. The grant period is July 1 of the year you apply to June 30 of the following year. If you complete your mid-cycle report on time, you will be eligible for a second year of funding, which will have the same grant period of July 1 to June 30 for the following year. Part of the administrative costs directly associated with the proposed operations is allowed. Allowable operations and facilities expenses include:

facilities rent (home base of operations, not special program expenses)
operations costs
maintenance
insurance.

Eligibility Organizations

Your organization needs to:

be an arts-focused 501(c)(3) organization or an independent component of a program associated with a college, university, or unit of government
hold your primary business location in Colorado
have supporting the arts as your organizational mission, including but not limited to visual, performing, literary, and media arts organizations
have held public arts programs in Colorado for at least two years before the application deadline
have a cash operating budget of at least $25,000 for your last completed fiscal year
be registered in Good Standing with the Colorado Secretary of State and current with annual corporate reports and charitable solicitation registration
be current in reporting for other Colorado Creative Industries grants or programs
show collaboration, a mutual investment of funds or other resources to the activity, with other organizations.

Arts-focused 501(c)(3) organizations:

A qualified nonprofit organization has a stated and board-adopted mission specific to visual, performing, media, and literary arts. Examples include art museums, ceramic studios, community arts councils, creative writing programs, dance organizations, film festivals, music festivals, opera societies, orchestras and choral societies, photographic studios, quilting and fiber arts organizations, theatre groups, tribal cultural organizations, and visual arts centers.
Organizations that have other goals but include some arts programming are not eligible, unless they program and/or present proportionally-significant artistic or cultural programming in an area, or to a specific community with limited access. Mixed-use organizations must contact CCI well in advance of the grant deadline if they wish to be cleared to apply.
Generally, history museums, botanic gardens, preservation organizations, economic development and planning agencies, and therapeutic and social service agencies are not eligible, even if they have 501(c)(3) status.

Ineligible Expenses

Funds cannot be used for: