Grants: Powering Fort Worth’s Arts Organizations

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Arts Fort Worth Community Impact Funds

The mission of Arts Fort Worth is to promote, nurture, and support the arts in Fort Worth. Arts Fort Worth’s competitive grants programs serve this mission by supporting local arts organizations and making the artistic programming they provide accessible to everyone in our city.

Access our Grantee Resources.

Current and former grant recipients can access the former application system through this link.

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Arts Fort Worth Community Impact Funds

Apply for both operating and outreach project support in one application!

Community Impact Funds provide fundamental mission support through unrestricted funding to established nonprofit arts organizations for general operations, administration, and programming costs. This grant opportunity combines the intent of the two grant opportunities previously called CORE and CORE Plus into one unrestricted grant.

Read the grant guidelines before the grant application window opens May 11, 2026.

You must attend mandatory training for grant applicants in May 2026. More info coming.

Access to the 2026 application form will be available soon through Culturalyst:Fort Worth. It is recommend your organization set up a profile before applying.

For language and ability accommodations, please contact grants@artsfortworth.org

Fort Worth Tourism PID Grant

The Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District provides marketing and promotional funding to arts and cultural organizations which promote and enhance the visibility of Fort Worth as an overnight destination. An initiative can be a single event, season or annual calendar of events. The Fort Worth Tourism PID Grant is administered through Arts Fort Worth on behalf of Visit Fort Worth.

Organizations with budgets under $1 million annually must be able to verify a minimum of 30 hotel room nights rather than 100.

More information can be found in the grant guidelines. The application window opens May 11, 2026.

Stay tuned to our Resources for more information. In the meantime, Contact us for details.

Volunteer as a Grants Panelist

Calling all North Texas residents with knowledge of the arts, nonprofit administration, education, and finance: we need your help to review grant applications! Panelists play a crucial role in the grant-making process by acting as good stewards of public dollars, ensuring that funds are used wisely by evaluating applications with a critical and objective eye. In doing so, Grants Panels allow us to fulfill our mission of creating an environment that promotes, nurtures, and supports the arts in our community!

To get involved, carefully review the job summary. (Espanol) Then, complete a nomination form, either for yourself or for a friend, colleague, or peer you think might make a good panelist. Panelists will be offered stipends for their service.

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Community Impact Funds are generously funded by the City of Fort Worth.
Tourism PID Creative Initiatives Grants Are supported by Visit Fort Worth.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Most questions can be answered in the grant guidelines. If you need further assistance, please contact Arts Fort Worth.

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