ARTSFAIRFAX inviting Applications for Emergency Relief and Recovery Grant Program

Deadline: 29-Jun-20

ARTSFAIRFAX is currently seeking applications for the Emergency Relief and Recovery Grant Program in responds to the COVID-19 crisis by providing support to arts organizations and artists.

The purpose of the Emergency Relief and Recovery Grant Program is to sustain the arts in Fairfax County by providing support to arts organizations and artists as they adjust to losses sustained because of programming and/or operations that have been modified or cancelled as a result of COVID-19 and the ensuing State of Emergency declared by the Governor.

Emergency Relief and Recovery Grants are non-recurring grants to eligible nonprofit arts organizations and individual artists to support ongoing activities that occur on a regular basis as part of an organization’s mission or artist’s practice as well as special projects that may have been adversely impacted by COVID-19. Grant funding may be used to offset:

Lost income due to the cancellation of programming/operations;
Unexpected expenses directly resulting from COVID-19;
Overhead costs for the organization or artistic practice (rent, newsletter subscriptions, website hosting, electricity, phone bills,);
Staff salaries and benefits, including artist payments.

Goals

Through the Emergency Relief and Recovery Grant Program, ARTSFAIRFAX seeks to:

Provide funding to help sustain arts organizations and individual
Contribute to the recovery of the arts sector in Fairfax

Funding Information

Organizations
- Budget Level 1&2/under $1OOK: ($1,000)
- Budget Level 3&4/$100-$5OOK: ($2,500)
- Budget Level 5/over $5OOK: ($5,000)
Individual Artists
- ($500-1,OOO)

Eligibility

All applicant organizations must meet the following criteria to apply to the Emergency Relief and Recovery Grant Program. Staff reviews all grant applications for eligibility prior to the review process.
Organization
- An organization is eligible to apply to the Emergency Relief and Recovery Grant Program if:
  - It has as a core mission the creation, exhibition, presentation, production, or performance of and/or education in an arts discipline.
  - It has regular activity in a minimum of four different months in the year or 120 days of the
- An organization must:
  - Be in compliance with all local, state, and federal laws; and
  - Hold current or pending status under IRS code 501(c)(3); or
  - Operate as a specifically defined arts division, or have its own arts program identity, within a larger nonprofit 501(c)(3).
- The organization or the division/program that is applying must have an address of record within the geographical boundaries of Fairfax County, the City of Fairfax, or the City of Falls Church and satisfy TWO of the following four criteria for the past 12 months:
  - - Present at least 51% of public artistic activities within the geographical boundaries of Fairfax County, the City of Fairfax, or the City of Falls
    - feet, rehearse, exhibit, and operate within the geographical boundary of Fairfax County, the City of Fairfax, or the City of Falls
    - Have 51% of board of directors’ members work or reside in Fairfax County, the City of Fairfax, or the City of Falls
    - Verify that 51% of attendees at performances, exhibits, events, and activities reside in Fairfax County, the City of Fairfax, or the City of Falls Church evidenced through acceptable statistical data including but not limited to: ticket analysis, subscription data, box office surveys, active membership, and audience surveys.
- The applicant must have submitted all required final reports for any grant(s) received from ARTSFAIRFAX and be in compliance with terms and conditions for current and previous grants.
- An organization must have independently prepared financial statements such as a treasurer’s report or audit. Audit is required for organizations with expenses of $600,000 and above. In the case of the audit, organizations with expenses of $600,000 and above would have been at that level for one full fiscal.
- Organizations receiving line item funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as schools or departments of state universities are not eligible for ARTSFAIRFAX.
- Fairfax County Government departments, divisions, and agencies, and their affiliated foundations and fundraising entities, are not eligible for these ARTSFAIRFAX grants.
Individual artists
- Individual artists working in Choreography, Creative Writing, Dance Performance, Film/New Media, Music Composition, Music Performance, Theater Performance, and Visual Arts are eligible to apply. All individual applicants must meet the following criteria to apply to the Emergency Relief and Recovery Grant Program. Staff reviews all grant applications for eligibility prior to the review process.
- Individuals must be at least 18 years of age at the time of the application deadline.
- Individuals must be residents of Fairfax County for at least 12 months prior to the application deadline. Applicant must provide proof of residency. Residency must be in the applicant’s name. Residency is based on the applicant’s physical residence [homed, not on a O. Box, studio/workspace, or other property owned by the applicant. Grantees must remain residents of Fairfax County for the duration of the grant period. City of Fairfax and City of Falls Church residents are not eligible.
- Individuals must be actively working in and/or deriving income from their arts.
- Individuals must have exhibited, performed, presented and/or published artistic work in a public context that demonstrates an ongoing commitment to their artistic discipline for 3 or more years.
- Individuals must be identified as a primary creator or author of work(s) described in the application. Individuals applying as a director or conductor, must be the KEY CREATIVE INDIVIDUAL(S) most clearly responsible and involved in the creative aspects of the process.
- Individuals must not be enrolled as an undergraduate student in a degree or entry level certification program related to the specific discipline of this application.