The City of Marfa is seeking applications for its Historic Restoration and Preservation Grants to organizations that directly promote tourism and the hotel and convention industry in Marfa.
Donor Name: City of Marfa
State:
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 09/27/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
In accordance with state law, this grant is restricted to enhancing historical restoration and preservation projects and activities or to advertising, soliciting, and promoting preserved historic sites or museums to attract tourists and hotel guests. Texas law does not limit such funding to structures that are owned by a public or nonprofit entity, or to whether the project is listed on a historic registry, but the City may choose to impose such limitations. 
By law of the State of Texas, the City of Marfa collects a Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) from hotels, short-term vacation rentals, and other lodging facilities. Under state law, the revenue from the HOT:

may be used only to directly promote tourism and the hotel and convention industry.
is limited to specific events and activities which, for the purposes of this application, include historical restoration and preservation projects and activities or advertising, soliciting, and promoting preserved historic sites or museums to attract tourists and hotel guests.

Priorities 

Priority will be given to events and entities based on their ability to generate overnight visitors to Marfa. If an event or project will not generate any meaningful hotel night activity, it is not eligible for receipt of hotel occupancy tax funds. Events can prove this potential to generate overnight visitors by:

historic information on the number of room nights used during previous years of the same event;
current information on the size of a room block that has been reserved at area hotels to accommodate anticipated overnight guests attending the funded event;
historical information on the number of guests at hotel or other lodging facilities that attended the funded event (through surveys, guest directories, or other sources; and/or
examples of the planned marketing of the programs and activities that will likely generate overnight visitors to local lodging properties from this event.

Priority will be given to organizations that rent the Tourism/USO Building or Marfa Activity Center for their event.
Events and activities will be further evaluated and scored based on:

Cultural & Historic significance
Organizational capacity for success
Uniqueness and diversity
Collaboration with other local organizations
Appropriate budget.

Funding Information
Historic Preservation and Restoration grants are generally awarded in the range of $2500 – $8000.
Eligibility Criteria 
The City of Marfa accepts Historic Restoration and Preservation Grant applications from groups and businesses.
For more information, visit City of Marfa.