Colorado Creates Grant

Colorado Creates Grant CO Creates next application cycle will open early 2027. Program Summary The purpose of Colorado Creates, Creative Industries’ largest annual competitive grant program, is to support arts activities associated with carrying out the National Endowment of the Arts strategic plan. From this funding, OEDIT has developed the Colorado Creates Grant, which provides general operating support for arts-focused organizations for the presentation of public programming. Grant awards are flat amounts based on your organization’s cash operating revenue for your most recently completed fiscal year. All successful applicants in the same revenue range will receive the same amount of grant funds. If your cash operating revenue in your most recently completed fiscal year was $1 million or more, you request $14,000 . If your cash operating revenue in your most recently completed fiscal year was $600,000 to $999,999, you request $12,000 . If your cash operating revenue in your most recently completed fiscal year was $300,000 to $599,999, you request $10,000 . If your cash operating revenue in your most recently completed fiscal year was $100,000 to $299,999, you request $8,000. If your cash operating revenue in your most recently completed fiscal year was $25,000 to $99,999, you request $6,000 . All applications are submitted through the OEDIT Grant Portal . Applicants should thoroughly review the Colorado Creates Guidelines (Google Docs) for complete program and application information. Overview Type:  Grant For:  Communities and organizations Amount:  $6,000 to $14,000 per application Next application period: Next application cycle will open early 2027. Program Guidelines : Colorado Creates Guidelines (Google Doc) OEDIT division:  Colorado Creative Industries This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts . Image description: Business testimonial highlighting that local communities love the Arts in Society Grant. Quote from Valley Youth Orchestra Music Director, Laura Payne, says “The Colorado Creates grant has allowed us to expand our community connections, grow organizational capacity and provide resources to our young musicians that help them develop and a larger view of the world around them.” Expand All Eligible Organizations Your organization needs to: Be an arts-focused 501(c)(3) organization (review more information below) or an independent component of a program associated with a unit of government (review more information below) Hold your primary business location in Colorado. Have supporting the arts as your organizational mission, including but not limited to media arts organizations. Have held public arts programs in Colorado for at least two years before the application deadline. Have a cash operating budget of at least $25,000 for your last completed fiscal year. Be registered in Good Standing with the Colorado Secretary of State and current with annual corporate reports and charitable solicitation registration. Organizations are required to have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI or UEI SAM). A UEI reflects the organization's legal name and current physical address. See SAM.gov for more information about registering and renewing your entity. Be current in reporting for other Colorado Creative Industries grants or programs. These organizations are not eligible: Organizations managing a state certified  Colorado Creative District Organizations are required to sit out for one year after their year(s) of Colorado Creates funding. View your ineligibility status, (Google Doc).

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