Managed in collaboration with MassDevelopment, the Cultural Facilities Fund provides major improvement grants to nonprofit cultural organizations, in recognition of their profound economic impact on communities across Massachusetts.
Donor Name: Mass Cultural Council
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/19/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund (CFF) is an initiative of the state of Massachusetts that makes grants to support the acquisition, design, repair, rehabilitation, renovation, expansion, or construction of nonprofit cultural facilities statewide.
Types of Grants
- Capital Grants: For the acquisition, design, construction, repair, renovation, rehabilitation, installation of fixed equipment, and other capital improvements or deferred maintenance of a cultural facility. Any combination of the above would qualify for consideration.
- Feasibility and Technical Assistance Grants: For planning and feasibility assessment for a facility project.
- Systems Replacement Plan Grants (SRP): These are a specific type of planning grant designed for small and medium-sized organizations that own their own building and do not have full-time maintenance staff. The SRP is for a 20-year capital needs assessment report of the building and its mechanical systems.
Funding Information
- Capital Grants – up to $200,000
- Feasibility & Technical Assistance Grants – up to $35,000
- Systems Replacement Plan Grants – starting from $8,000 (depending on the size of the facility).
Eligibility Criteria
- 501(c)3 cultural organizations that are primarily concerned with the arts, humanities, or interpretive sciences. This includes (but is not limited to) museums, historic sites, zoos, aquariums, theaters, concert halls, exhibition spaces, classrooms, and auditoriums. Eligible facilities must be owned, leased or used by one or more nonprofit cultural organizations, and must be accessible to the public.
- Municipalities that own cultural facilities –provided that the cultural facility is at least 50,000 square feet in size, and at least 50% devoted to cultural purposes. However, if such building, structure, or site is 125 years old or older, and is significant in the history, archeology, architecture, or culture of the nation, the Commonwealth, or the community in which it is located, it may be of any size.
- Public or private institutions of higher education –provided that the cultural facility provides service and open access to the community and the general public beyond their educational mission, and can demonstrate financial need.
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