Arts in Neighborhoods Community Event Mini-Grants is seeking applications for its Grant Program.
Donor Name: Fund for the Arts
State: Indiana, Kentucky
County: Bullitt County (KY), Clark County (IN), Floyd County (IN), Harrison County (IN), Jefferson County (KY), Oldham County (KY), Shelby County (KY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/17/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Less than 1 Year
Details:
The Community Event Mini-Grants support arts organizations, businesses, neighborhood associations, individual artists, groups of artists, non-arts nonprofits, and community-based organizations with project expenses associated with presenting multigenerational, free gatherings with arts components in communities.
Funding Information
- Applicants may request between $500 and $5,000 in Mini-Grant funding.
- Requests up to $2,000 do not require matching funds.
- A 1:1 match is required for all funds requested above $2,000, so that a $2,500 request would require a $500 match and a $5,000 request would require a $3,000 match.
- The 1:1 match for funds requested above $2,000 may consist of cash or the value of in-kind donations of goods and services.
Grant Period
Events happening December – May.
Eligible Requests
- Event must contain an element that is artistic in nature, including either performance, exhibit, culinary arts, or creation and engagement in artistic exercise.
- Event should include a physical, in-person event to happen in a specific neighborhood in Greater Louisville.
- Event budget should be reasonable and sufficient to execute the project within the project period.
- Event must be free and open to the public
Eligibility Criteria
Individuals, Groups, and Organizations who are based in the Greater Louisville area, including the following counties: Bullitt, Jefferson, Oldham, and Shelby counties in Kentucky; Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana are eligible to apply. Applicants may submit proposals as an individual, a group or organization without tax-exempt status, or as a nonprofit organization.
For more information, visit Fund for the Arts.
