Institutional Support Grants

This program provides unrestricted operating grants to high quality, established arts organizations that produce or exhibit works of art, or offer a broad range of services to artists.

Who can apply: The Institutional Support grant program is open to nonprofit arts producing or service organizations established in Minnesota that have at least one professional staff person, have been in existence at least two years, and have an average annual operating budget of at least $149,000 (averaged over the organization’s two most recently audited fiscal years).

Grant amounts: Varies, depending on the size of the applicant’s annual operating budget

Application deadline:  Institutional Support grants are two-year operating grants. Only those organizations that were awarded a grant for FY 2010 will be eligible to apply for a grant in FY 2011.

FY 2011 interim year applications must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.

New applicants that would like to apply for a two-year Institutional Support grant will be able to do so in early 2011.

Program officer:  Contact Amy Frimpong for additional information or answers to specific questions about Institutional Support grants.

	FY 2011 Institutional Support interim application The application form is an Excel spreadsheet with three linked worksheets. Applications must be submitted electronically.
	FY 2011 Institutional Support application instructions This document provides information on how to prepare and submit an Institutional Support interim year grant application.

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	Excel files require use of Microsoft Excel, versions 97–2007.