The City’s Initiative grant program provides funding to individual artists, creatives, and nonprofits for strategic and creative opportunities to engage visitors and residents while building upon Houston’s cultural identity and tourism.
Donor Name: Houston Arts Alliance (HAA)
State: Texas
City: Houston
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/24/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Areas & Success Elements
- Art + Disaster Resilience Awareness
- Art + Neighborhood Cultural Destinations
- Art + Conference Tourism
- Successful projects will include the following elements:
- Community Engagement
- Measurable (tourism/neighborhood) Impact
- Great Social Media Presence
- Documented Support of Local Artists and Creatives.
Funding Information
- Grant expenses are restricted to project related costs, which include artist fees, and marketing costs.
- Typical awards are between $5,000 and $10,000.
- Only applicants applying under the Art + Disaster Resilience Awareness funding area are eligible to request more than $10,000 for the 1st round of 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants must provide official documentation demonstrating a physical address within the City of Houston limits, which is verified by HAA staff through the online Council Member verify mapping tool. P.O. Boxes are not accepted.
- If your project is awarded, you must maintain residency and/ or headquarters and conduct all project activities within the City of Houston for the entire grant term.
- Organizations or fiscal sponsors must be tax-exempt under the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), as verified by the IRS Tax Exemption Organization Search.
- An individual applicant must be at least 18 years old, which will be verified by the applicant’s submission of an official state-issued identification card, passport, or other official document.
- Applicants’ scopes of work must have a clear public presentation component, verified by staff review of the application.
- Applicants may submit only one application for each individual grant program. In other words, applicants cannot send multiple applications to the same grant program.
- Applicants cannot use the same project proposal to apply to more than one grant program. Applicants should decide which grant program best aligns with their project goals and apply to that specific program.
- If your project is awarded, that specific project cannot be funded again. Sequential projects or a series of related projects, with unique attributes, features, or iterations, are eligible provided that subsequent applications do not replicate the content or objectives of previous submissions.
- Applicants may not receive more than one City’s Initiative grant in a calendar year.
For more information, visit HAA.
