The Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council (GO ART) is seeking applications for its 2026 Statewide Community Regrant Program Grant.
Donor Name: Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council (GO ART)
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/31/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Statewide Community Regrant Program was developed by the New York State Council on the Arts (a.k.a. NYSCA) in 1977 in response to a mandate by New York’s Legislature that there be a greater local involvement in funding decisions, affecting local non-profit organizations, offering artistic or cultural services and programs, and to ensure New York State’s cultural funding reached every part of the State. The program is funded statewide – in all 62 counties, and funds are regranted by local arts agencies through a transparent peer panel funding process. An organization or individual with a fiscal agent that meets NYSCA and GO ART! criteria may request regrant funds. Through the Statewide Community Regrant Program (also known as the SCR Program), GO ART!, NYSCA and the New York State Legislature hope to extend, upgrade and increase the arts and cultural programming in Genesee and Orleans Counties. The goal is to make state arts support available to geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse segments of the state’s population.
SCR grants are designed to support and develop the capacity of individual artists, collectives, and small nonprofit organizations to 1) develop high quality local arts projects and programming and 2) contribute to Genesee and Orleans County communities by providing opportunities for the public to experience and engage with the arts. Emphasis is placed on the quality and artistic merit of proposed projects and the depth and authenticity of audience experience, participation and engagement.
Program Goals
- Sustaining a vital network of individual artists and cultural organizations that supports the creation, presentation, critical review, and distribution of the arts and culture
- Celebrating the rich range of artistic and cultural resources inclusive of diverse cultures and aesthetics
- Encouraging artistic and discipline field advancement
- Broadening public access, appreciation, participation, and education in the arts and culture throughout the state
- Providing recognition and professional advancement for artists and arts administrators
- Create an inclusive and equitable funding environment for artists and organizations from historically marginalized communities.
Funding Information
Fiscally sponsored requests are exempt from the sponsor’s 3 request limit. Tribal Nations are exempt from the 3 request, $7,500 limit. Individual Tribal organizations within Tribal Nations are subject to the 3 request, $7,500 limit.
Grant Period
January 1 – December 31, 2026.
Eligible Expenses
Remember this is a project support grant program, all expenses should be related to supporting a specific project
- Activities/Projects of local arts organizations including both live and virtual activities.
- Artist fees
- Marketing/publicity costs
- Direct administrative expenses and/or planning and preparation expenses for a proposed event.
- Supplies, and materials needed to execute the proposed project. Individual items may not exceed $1,000. Examples: art supplies, sheet music, hardware, memory cards, and other consumable equipment.
- Equipment, software, subscriptions, training and other non-consumable items needed to execute the proposed project. Non-consumable budget may not exceed $1,000. Examples: cameras, lighting equipment, subscriptions, and training tools.
Eligibility Criteria
- A 501(c)(3) or New York State non-profit organization with an active board of trustees either incorporated in NY State or registered to do business in NY State.
- A government or quasi-governmental entity, or Tribal Nation.
- Individual artists, groups or collectives, unincorporated entities applying for the Reach (Community) and Spark (Education) grants must have a Fiscal Sponsor or Community Partner (Fiscal Sponsorships and Community Partnerships p 3.)
- Applicant, Community Partner, or Fiscal Sponsor must have a permanent address in the same county the project is taking place (with exception of Tribal Nations, which can be located anywhere in NYS, regardless of county).
- Applicants must be 18 years of age at the time of submission and may not be enrolled in a full-time degree program
- A group that is incorporated in another state as a not-for-profit corporation, registered with the NY State Secretary of State as a “foreign not-for-profit corporation”, with its primary location in NYS (or the relevant regrant region), and registered with the Charities Bureau
- Individual artists may only apply under their own name, using their own SSN. An artist’s incorporation or establishment of a limited liability company (LLC) or limited liability partnership (LLP) is not disqualifying. However, an artist is only eligible for SCR funding for a commission they propose to undertake in their individual capacity.
Ineligibility
- Direct NYSCA applicants may not apply for SCR funding and cannot serve as fiscal sponsors or community partners.
- New York State agencies and departments including SUNY schools and 402 foundations.
- Public universities, colleges; and public, private, or parochial secondary and elementary schools.
- SCR site Staff or Board members.
- Students enrolled in a full-time degree program.
- Unincorporated applicants without an eligible sponsor or partner organization (Exception: Individual Artist category)
- A group that is formed/incorporated as a limited liability company (LLC), business corporation, or limited liability partnership (LLP) in New York State. (Can serve as Community Partner)
- A group that is formed/incorporated as a limited liability company (LLC), business corporation, or limited liability partnership (LLP) in another state and registered to do business in New York State.
- A group in either of the two types above that is seeking to apply with an eligible fiscal sponsor.A group that is seeking to apply as an individual or group of individuals, but the project also publicly
- functions in a limited liability company (LLC), business corporation, or limited liability partnership (LLP).
- Non-incorporated chapters of organizations whose “parent” is incorporated outside of New York State.
- Past re-grantees that have failed to submit final reports.
- An individual or group that is a business corporation, limited liability company (LLC), or limited liability partnership (LLP), or incorporated as a 501c4s and 501c6 including applicant of such type submitted by a fiscal sponsor.
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