Community Arts Grants: Guidelines and Application

To be eligible to apply for a Community Arts grant or to be a sponsor for an artist or artist group, applicants must be non-profit organizations based in Allegany or Wyoming County, New York. Community Arts Grants funded activity must take place within the same county as the applicant’s address. For sponsored individual artists or artist groups, the lead applicant applying to any category must be a current New York State resident and must reside in the county where their proposed project will take place.

Applicants may submit up to three requests in any combination of Community Arts Grants categories (Community Arts, Individual Artist, and/or Arts Education) totaling no more than $5,000.

This is a competitive process. All applications are extensively evaluated according to the criteria and priorities. Refer to the Community Arts Grants Application Guidelines document, below, for more information and for detailed application instructions:

applications for 2025 projects: deadline FEBRUARY 5TH, 2025 – 4pm 

Deadline for review of applications: January 10th, 2025, 4 PM.

Final Reports are due no later than 30 days after the completion of the project. All reports for previous year’s projects must be submitted by January 31 of the following year (January 31, 2025 for 2024 projects; January 31, 2026 for 2025 projects). Applicants who have not submitted a final report for a previous year’s project are not eligible to apply.

2025 Community Arts Grant Guidelines

2025 Community Arts Grants Application

MS Word applications are available, if preferred. Contact grants@artswyco.org to request and for assistance, if needed. Refer to guidelines for detailed instruction on completing application.

Community Arts Grants are made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered in Allegany and Wyoming counties by the Arts Council for Wyoming County.