Grants.

Grants: Powering Fort Worth’s Arts Organizations

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Arts Fort worth offers Grants designed to:

Foster a culture of creativity and innovation
Celebrate community diversity through artistic expression
Increase accessibility and encourage broad-based participation in arts activities
Strengthen the service capacity and business practices of arts providers, and
Promote tourism and economic growth in Fort Worth.

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Funding the arts

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.

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Core Operating & Core Plus Grants

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

CORE PLUS Outreach Grants support live, in-person community engagement through the performing, visual, and interdisciplinary arts in all communities of Fort Worth. If your organization’s key mission is arts education, you can apply for CORE operating only.

You must attend mandatory training for grant applicants in May 2025.

CORE and CORE PLUS Grant Guidelines are now available in English and Spanish. Interested in applying? Read the grant guidelines before you apply.

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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.

Read the grant guidelines in English and Spanish.

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

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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. 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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CORE Grants & CORE PLUS Outreach Grants are generously funded by the City of Fort Worth. Tourism PID Creative Initiatives Grants Are supported by Visit Fort Worth.

Frequently Asked Questions

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

When are the grant announcements made?

Organizations awarded a CORE or CORE Plus grant will be notified in November.

What are organizations evaluated on?

Applications are evaluated and scored on Community impact (50 points), capability (30 points), artistic mission (20 points) for a possible total of 100 points. For full details, please u003ca href=u0022https://artscouncilfw.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/MediaKits/EiqLgpeiZZJGnpY6KG05raQBoTUpVn0dBI7mjdubruZrnQ?e=gku7Awu0022 target=u0022_blanku0022 rel=u0022noreferrer noopeneru0022u003eread the grant guidelines.u003c/au003e

What if my organization missed the training?

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Who should attend the training?

A representative from applicant organizations planning to apply, ideally a grant writer or someone who can communicate well with the grant writer, must particpate in either the in-person or the video conferencing.

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