TCA Texas Arts Respond Performance Support

Texas Commission On The Arts

Next deadline: Nov 1, 2023

Later deadlines: Feb 1, 2024, May 1, 2024, Aug 1, 2024, Nov 1, 2024

Grant amount: US $75 - US $8,000

Funding uses: Education / Outreach, Project / Program

Location of project: Texas

Location of residency: Texas

Overview:

Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) 

The mission of the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is to advance our state economically and culturally by investing in a creative Texas. TCA supports a diverse and innovative arts community in Texas, throughout the nation and internationally by providing resources to enhance economic development, arts education, cultural tourism and artist sustainability initiatives.

Arts Respond Performance Support

Intent: To advance the creative economy of Texas by investing in arts activities.

The Texas Touring Arts Program is designed to ensure that all Texans have the ability to enjoy performances by outstanding Texas-based companies and artists in their own communities This program provides professional artist fees to schools, libraries, and nonprofit organizations for hiring an artist from the TCA Touring Roster (found here) to do a performance. Performing arts companies and artists from throughout the state apply to be included on the Texas Touring Roster. These artists must have a history of touring and must be willing to travel outside of their community to do a performance. 

Arts Respond Performance Support is the companion grant program that allows performing arts presenters in Texas to apply for a portion of the artistic fees for one or more approved companies or artists from the Texas Touring Roster. This is a quarterly program that can provide a grant to help with these costs. These applications must be submitted in advance of the performance and by the appropriate quarterly deadline.

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website.

Eligibility:

• All Texas nonprofits, schools, colleges, and units of government are eligible for this grant.
• To be eligible for TCA grants, an organization must:
  • be a tax-exempt nonprofit organization as designated by the Internal Revenue Service and/or must be an entity of government
    
  • have their eligibility status established with the TCA prior to the deadline day; know that it can take two weeks or more to get confirmation from the IRS of nonprofit status and 990 financial information which may be required for categorization
  • inform TCA if they believe their eligibility status has changed
  • be incorporated in Texas
  • have fulfilled all its outstanding contractual obligations to the State of Texas (i.e. taxes, etc.)
  • provide their unique entity identifier (UEI) from the federal System of Awards Management
    
  • comply with regulations pertaining to federal grant recipients including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, the Education Amendments of 1972, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988.
  • provide assurance that they are not debarred or suspended prior to the payment of an award
• Match Requirement: dollar for dollar (1:1)
  

Ineligibility:

• The Commission will not fund the following:
  • Grants that exceed 25% of the organization's previous year's cash operating revenues
    
  • Social functions, parties, receptions, fundraisers, or galas
  • Operating expenses for home offices
  • Operating expenses for state operated facilities including, but not limited to, salary support and facility costs
  • Activities for which college or university students receive academic credit
  • Projects at colleges and universities that serve mostly students and faculty, with minimal or no community involvement
  • Projects by privately owned for-profit corporations
  • Financing of political activities
  • Retroactive funding
  • Debt reduction
  • Projects, productions, workshops and/or programs that include obscene material as defined in Section 43.21, Penal Code of Texas.