The Stevens Point Tourism Commission is accepting 2025 grant applications for using room tax funds.
Donor Name: Stevens Point Tourism Commission
State: Wisconsin
City: Stevens Point
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/02/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This grant opportunity exists to put “heads in beds” by creating overnight hotel stays within the City of Stevens Point. The City of Stevens Point allocates a percentage of its room tax revenue for the development or expansion of visitor attractions and amenities through a grant fund managed by the Stevens Point Tourism Commission.
Programs that are funded include the items below.
- Capital Projects
- New capital construction projects
- Upgrades, enhancements, expansions to existing facilities
- Permanent exhibit installations
- Special Projects
- First time exhibition or event
- Substantial expansion of an existing exhibition or event.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, applicants must be a not-for-profit. Projects/events/etc. must also be located within the City of Stevens Point. Privately owned, for-profit businesses are not eligible.
The fund is designed to give grants for the development of visitor attractions and amenities. The grants will NOT SUPPORT any of the following purposes:
- Operating expenses
- Annual fund drive
- Endowment funds
- Reimbursement for previously incurred expenses
- Travel
- Expenses typically considered to be overhead
- Equipment replacement
- Grant funds may not be spent on local marketing or for operational costs that would be incurred without the project
- Websites.
Criteria
Grant applications are evaluated using the following:
- Is the project interactive? Is it unique?
- Is this a new visitor attraction, or is it a substantial expansion of an existing attraction?
- Is it open to the public?
- Is it open year-round or at least 180 days a year?
- Will it serve a substantial number of overnight visitors? Will it generate hotel room nights? How many?
- Will it provide a positive economic impact on the community?
- Will it contribute to the ability to attract visitors and improve overall tourism assets in the Stevens Point area?
- Will this project be covered by media?
- Is it located within the City of Stevens Point?
- Does the organization have not-for-profit status?
- Is this a “bricks and mortar” project?
- The project is the result of a planning process that has had public involvement? Do others in the community understand and support the project?
- Have the other funds necessary to the project already been raised, or are there well-developed plans for raising them?
- Is there a solid plan to fund the project, ongoing operating costs and maintenance?
- Are there established marketing plans?
- Is there an established management/staffing structure for the project?
For more information, visit City of Stevens Point.
