Project Grants

Funding for project grants is currently suspended.

Project Grants

Project Grant funds are available on a 1:1 matching basis to nonprofit arts and social service organizations that provide arts programs and/or services to the citizens of Tucson and Pima County. Categories include dance, theater, music, literary, visual, multi-disciplinary, festivals, and arts in education. City of Tucson allocations make these grants possible.

Eligibility – Who can apply

All applications must be initiated by a Pima County based organization, or organizations in which at least 30% of the board must reside in Pima County.

Projects and all programming therein, must take place within the Tucson City limits.

Organizations with nonprofit corporation status or a fiscal receiver.

Organizations whose primary focus is to provide art programs and/or services that are open and accessible to the citizens of Tucson and Pima County.

Organizations with a current Arts Council Master File to include:

• IRS Nonprofit status letter (copy)
• Organization’s Articles of Incorporation and by-laws
• Current list of board members and staff
• Last completed fiscal year financial statement

Organizations cannot receive grants that total more than 20% of their last completed fiscal year actual revenues and must match each grant dollar with an equal amount of non-public monies.