Looking to secure, acquire, or improve a cultural, scientific, or historic space or place? This funding supports the planning and development of your facilities project.
Donor Name: 4Culture
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/07/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Building for Equity: Project Development Grants invest in the planning and development phases of a cultural facilities project. Applicants who are actively engaged with Organizational or Tribal Readiness, Project Initiation and Planning, Fundraising, and/or Early Design of a facilities project are encouraged to apply. These grants provide funding and technical support to help you reach your facilities-focused goals.
Disciplines
- Arts: includes organizations and Tribes focused on creative place-making, cultural festivals, dance, design, film, folk and traditional arts, literary arts, multidisciplinary arts, music, theater, and visual arts.
- Heritage: includes organizations and Tribes focused on the preservation and transmission of local history; ethnic history; Native cultures; folklore and intangible cultural heritage; and historic and archaeological resources.
- Historic Preservation: includes organizations and Tribes focused on advocacy or assistance to preserve, promote, and sustain historic places; education about the historic built environment; or stewarding historic properties that serve as a venue for cultural activities.
- Science and Technology: includes organizations and fiscally sponsored Tribes focused on natural and social sciences, characterized by a formalized framework that entails the reproducible testing and revision of falsifiable ideas based on observable facts, as well as formal and applied sciences, such as mathematics and engineering. Applicants that are zoos or aquariums must also be accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Funding Information
- There is $1.7 million available in the funding pool for this cycle.
- Awards of up to $50,000 fund a wide range of activities related to planning and development. Free access of up to 10-hours of consultant support from 4Culture’s Network of Support roster helps to address specific challenges you are facing with your facilities projects.
Fundable Activities
Examples of fundable activities include:
- Consultant expenses for the creation of a strategic plan geared towards a capital campaign or a facilities plan. This excludes staff fees unless their work on the project is outside their regular job duties and payment is above and beyond their regular compensation structure.
- Hiring fundraising consultants or fundraising staff to expand fundraising capacity, develop a capital fundraising plan and/or conduct a feasibility study.
- Training for board, staff and volunteers in leadership development, fundraising, and/or institutional planning to prepare for a capital campaign or construction project.
- Architectural master planning, pre-design and concept design services.
- Building condition assessments, historic structure reports, or preservation plans.
- Consultant fees and other expenses for ADA-compliance facilities planning.
- Design and planning for facility modifications in response to COVID-19.
- Expenses related to community charettes, including participant stipends.
- Real estate brokerage services to identify potential properties to lease or purchase.
- Financial planning to position an organization or Tribe to secure their facility’s needs.
- Other facility-related planning that increase an organization or Tribe’s stability and resilience.
Eligibility Criteria
Building for Equity: Project Development 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.
- Is a federally recognized nonprofit arts, cultural, heritage, historic preservation, science and technology organization; Tribal government, public corporations, and public agencies; or culture or science organizations that are fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) partner and provide public benefit through their programs or activities, are eligible to apply.
- Is not a K-12 school or school district.
- Has a board of directors, a proven two-year record of providing arts, cultural, or science experiences or services.
- You can, if funded, provide a W-9 form and sign a contract that limits 4Culture’s liability.
- Your organization or Tribe has an annual operating budget of less than $3,500,000.
- Your organization or Tribe is based in and conducts a majority (51% or more) of your mission-based, public-facing activities in King County.
- Your organization or Tribe is based outside of Seattle city limits. Eligibility will be determined based on the mailing address in your account profile. This address should be consistent with what your organization uses for IRS reporting purposes. OR
- Your organization or Tribe is located in a Community of Opportunity. The Communities of Opportunity (COO) index includes a set of health and socioeconomic indicators to gauge community health and well-being.
For more information, visit 4Culture.
