Deadline: 8-Mar-21
Toronto Arts Council welcomes and encourages applications from all Toronto artists, arts organizations and artist collectives.
Specific equity measures or targeted programs are in place to ensure full access and participation by Indigenous artists, artists of colour, artists who are Deaf, have disabilities or are living with mental illness, artists who self-identify as 2SLGBTQIAP, newcomer and refugee artists, young and emerging artists and artists working outside the downtown core.
TAC is committed to artistic excellence, innovation, and accessibility, and supports a wide spectrum of artistic endeavour and a range of activity that makes the City of Toronto one of the leading cultural centres in Canada. Through its support, TAC cultivates a richer engagement between artists and audiences and reflects the City of Toronto through the diversity of artists, arts communities and audiences that it serves.
The Visual and Media Arts Program provides Multi-Year Operating support to professional1, non-profit, visual and media arts organizations engaged in the exhibition and distribution of contemporary visual and media artworks, support of the production of visual and media artworks and other activities that contribute to the development of visual and media arts, artists and audiences in Toronto. The City of Toronto supports this program through a funding allocation approved annually by Toronto City Council. In 2021, this program is open to Arts Service Organizations that meet the eligibility requirements.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for Multi-Year Operating funding, an applicant must:
- Be non-profit
- Be located in the City of Toronto and have a significant portion of its activities occurring within the City
- Have been in operation for at least four years
- Have received Annual Operating funding through TAC’s Visual/Media Arts program for at least the two past years
- Have a demonstrated record of regular, ongoing programming
- Have professional artistic leadership
- Have a viable administrative structure
- Be governed by a Board of Directors or other body responsible for the organization
- Have stable artistic, organizational and board leadership with plans in place for any transition
- Have sound financial management and balanced budgets over time
- Submit verification of financial results of the last completed fiscal year:
- For requests over $30,000, audited financial statements are required;
- For requests of $30,000 or less, if annual operating revenues are $100,000 or more, a review engagement is required, (or, if available, audited financial statements);
- For requests of $30,000 or less, if annual operating revenues are under $100,000, unaudited financial statements that include a balance sheet and a statement of income and expenses is required, (or, if available, audited financial statements or a review engagement);
- Receive significant support on an annual basis from other levels of government and/or the public and/or the private sector.
First-time applicants to the Multi-Year Operating program (i.e. organizations that did not receive multi-year funding last year) must consult with Visual/Media Arts Program Manager Peter Kingstone prior to completing an application form to ensure that they are eligible to apply.
Application Process
- Applicants are required to register and submit the application, including the required support material, on TAC Grants Online.
- Applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 pm on the deadline date. TAC does not accept applications by any other means of delivery.
- You will receive a confirmation email when your application is submitted. Check your spam/junk mail folder if it doesn’t arrive in your inbox.
- You will enter your Financial and Statistical data online at CADAC (Canadian Arts Database/Données sur les arts au Canada).
- Financial statements must also be submitted to CADAC and a copy uploaded in PDF form with your application.
For more information, visit https://torontoartscouncil.org/grant-programs/tac-grants/visual-and-media-arts/multi-year-operating
