Submit Applications for Arts Impact Endowment – California - fundsforNGOs

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.
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.