The Arts Impact Endowment seeks to fund small and mid-sized organizations and individual artists who are rooted and connected to historically marginalized communities.
Donor Name: San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC)
State: California
City: San Francisco
Type of Grant: Grant | Endowment
Deadline: 11/13/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
For the next five years, Arts Impact Endowment (AIE) funds are focused on Keeping Artists in San Francisco. This theme comes from the 2024-2029 Cultural Services Allocation Plan (CSAP). AIE addresses needs in the arts community by keeping artists and arts workers from being displaced. It does this by funding:
- Their work
- Their working environments
- Their connections to the communities that nurture them
- The organizations and ecosystem that support them
The CSAP for the AIE 2024-2029 will support three broad areas of funding channels, connected to a single theme of Keeping Artists in San Francisco. Racial equity and social justice is the primary lens for all program design.
- Sustaining Ongoing Initiatives
- Resilience & Growth
- New Creative Opportunities.
Purpose and Funding Categories
Arts Impact Endowment grants provide San Francisco-based artists up to $50,000 and San Francisco based arts organizations up to $100,000 over 25 months/2 Years. Projects and activities must take place in San Francisco and provide a public benefit to the City of San Francisco and its communities.
- Artists and Organizations MUST select one funding channel for their proposed project design.
- Creation of work and any related public benefit must take place between July 1, 2025 and July 31, 2027.
Project Requirements
- Alignment with the Cultural Services Allocation Plan (CSAP) for the Arts Impact Endowment (AIE) 2024-2029 which will support three broad areas of focus via three funding channels 1.) Sustaining Ongoing Initiatives, 2.) Resilience & Growth, and/or 3.) New Creative Opportunities by connecting them to a single theme: Keeping Artists in San Francisco. Applicants must identify one funding channel that their project will primarily focus on for the application.
- Public Benefit: Projects must demonstrate a public benefit, something that is open and accessible to the general San Francisco-based public. This can be through a virtual or in person public event, or through other means as imagined and realized by the applicant, which benefit the City of San Francisco, its neighborhoods and communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Artists
- Artist Applicants Must:
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Have a fiscal sponsor IF they are:
- Working with minors under 18 years old
- Working with seniors over 65 years old
- Working with people with disabilities
- Were employed by the City & County in the past, including the San Francisco Unified School District and San Francisco City College
- Artist Applicants may be Sole Proprietors or LLCs with a budget cap of $500,000.
- Artist Applicants Must:
- Eligible Organizations
- Organization Applicants Must:
- Be a 501c3 filing a 990PC or Fiscally Sponsored by a San Francisco 501c3 in good standing.
- Have annual operating revenue under $2,000,000. Organizations that exceed the $2,000,000 budget cap due to re-granting must verify their operational budget without pass-through funds at the time of application. Applicants must upload audited financials from the most recently completed fiscal year demonstrating the dollar amount of pass-through funds.
- Provide a submitted and signed copy of Federal Form 990 for a tax year ending on or after December 31, 2022. A submitted Federal Form 990, 990-EZ or 990-N is required of all applicants.
- Applicants with budgets under $50,000 should submit a copy of their most recently submitted 990- N and Profit and Loss Statements and Balance Sheets for the two most recently completed fiscal years.
- Have a mission statement clearly focused on the development, production, presentation, and/or support of project-based artistic works and/or youth arts activities in San Francisco.
- Organization Applicants Must:
For more information, visit SFAC.
