Deadline: 30-Apr-2025
The Maryland State Arts Council is thrilled to invite applications for its Maryland Touring Grant Program, designed to spark and promote the artistic collaboration between Maryland touring artists and Maryland presenters with the goal to increase opportunities for professional performing artists to obtain successful touring engagements.
The Maryland Touring Grant provides funding to eligible Maryland-based non-profit organizations to support the presentation of artists listed on the Maryland Touring Roster.
Funding Information
- The Maryland Touring Grant is available to support expenses associated with the public presentation of the Touring Roster artist(s) or ensemble(s). The minimum grant request per application is $500 and the maximum grant request per application is $5,000, with no more than one application funded per fiscal year. One application may support more than one selected Touring Roster artist/ensemble.
Eligible Expenses
- Touring Grant funds may be used for expenses associated with the public presentation of the Touring Roster artist or ensemble, including but not limited to:
- Artist fee(s)
- Space/venue/equipment rental
- Marketing/promotional costs
- Artistic materials/supplies
Ineligible Expenses
- Touring Grant funds may not be used for:
- General operating expenses for the applicant organization
- Programs or events in which the Roster artist is not the primary focus of the performance or event
- Programs or events that are not open to the public
- Programs or events that are outside of Maryland
- Supporting the presentation of a Touring Roster member(s) that is a salaried employee of the applicant organization
- Re-granting
- Activities that are principally recreational, therapeutic, or rehabilitative
- Travel outside Maryland to present or produce arts
- Projects chiefly for classroom use or in school activities
- Activities not open to the general public
- Scholarships awarded by the applicant organization for its own activities
- Acquisition of capital assets
- Capital improvements or purchases of permanent equipment
- Activities for the exclusive benefit of an organization’s members
- Contributions to any persons who hold, or are candidates for, elected office
- Contributions to any political party, organization, or action committee
- Activities in connection with any political campaign or referendum
- Lobbying activities
- Expenses for activities or projects already completed at the time of grant application
- Expenses for which the applicant has been awarded funds through another MSAC grant program. (i.e., an applicant may only be awarded MSAC funds once for any individual project expense; contact MSAC staff with questions)
- Institutional indirect costs in excess of 10 percent of the total grant amount, for all MSAC grants not providing general operating support.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants must meet the requirements listed below:
- Arts organizations or arts programs must be one of the following:
- Nonprofit organization (i.e., an organization with an IRS-designated 501(c)3 status):
- Organizations must be incorporated in Maryland or have significant physical presence in Maryland.
- Nonprofit, Maryland-based fiscal sponsor organization applying on behalf of a Maryland-based group, project, or artist(s) with whom it has a Model A fiscal sponsorship agreement in place (i.e., comprehensive sponsorship, in which the assets, liabilities, and exempt activities collectively referred to as “the project” are housed within the fiscal sponsor)
- Unit of government (e.g., town, city, county, state, etc., with the capacity to undertake an arts program)
- College or university (i.e., an established higher education institution in Maryland)
- School (i.e., a public or private school serving students in grades pre-Kindergarten through 12).
- Nonprofit organization (i.e., an organization with an IRS-designated 501(c)3 status):
- Arts organizations or arts programs must be one of the following:
For more information, visit MSAC.
