Creative Sector Flex Fund
Description
The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) is currently accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Creative Sector Flex Fund (CSFF).
Donor Name: Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
State: Pennsylvania
County: Carbon County (PA), Lehigh County (PA), Monroe County (PA), Northampton County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/24/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Creative Sector Flex Fund provides support to eligible applicants that provide consistent annual levels of artistic programming and/or arts services in Pennsylvania. One application per applicant per year may be submitted. Eligible uses of funds are flexible, including the support of applicants’ administrative, programmatic, and project-related expenses.
Depending on the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ (PCA) budget and availability of funds, grant amounts will be $5,000 per applicant.
Annual grants are not guaranteed.
Project Period
January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must:
Be a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation, or a unit of local government (counties, cities, boroughs, townships, and municipal authorities). Pre-K -12 public, private and parochial schools including all charter schools are NOT eligible. (K-12 schools should contact the Arts in Education Program of the PCA for other opportunities).
Be located in Pennsylvania, except for nonprofit, tax-exempt corporations acting as a fiscal sponsor on behalf of an unincorporated group or not-for-profit limited liability company (LLC) that is located in Pennsylvania.
Be registered with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Corporations, except for local governments and fiscal sponsors.
Have a history of at least TWO years of consistent arts programming in Pennsylvania.
Have an annual average arts revenue of $10,000 to $200,000. An applicants revenue size by a two-year average is demonstrated by:
Arts Organization: most recent form 990 of the U.S. Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service
Arts Program of Non-Arts Organization or whose 990 is a postcard: applicant’s board/committee approved, arts-specific program financial statement from the most recently completed TWO fiscal years.
The program financial statement must detail program revenue, including contributed and earned income and income realized from investments, as applicable, and expenses. In-kind is not included.
For more information, visit PCA.