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 Funding
The state of Idaho and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) provide funding for the Idaho Commission on the Arts. All programs are dependent upon available dollars from these sources. A match for Commission funds is required in all grant categories; however, in many cases in-kind contributions are allowed and furnish important evidence of commitment to a project.
Most grants and awards are made on an annual basis (except for QuickFund$) and new applications must be submitted each year. Grant and award programs are highly competitive and eligibility or a current grant does not guarantee future funding. The Commission uses the following basic criteria to measure the merits of most applications. Each grant or award will contain important, specialized considerations.
- High artistic quality or artistic merit.
- Sound governance, management, and operations.
- Financial soundness with evidence of wide support.
- Extensive public benefit, community interest, and access for underserved populations, including older and disabled people.
- To the extent possible, an organization’s project should be part of a long-term cultural plan that outlasts the grant.
- Commitment to arts education and to promoting understanding and public awareness of the arts.
What the Commission cannot fund
- Endowments.
- Fund-raising projects that do not raise funds for the arts.
- Projects or activities completed prior to awarding of a grant, or the documentation of projects.
- Prizes, scholarships,
or free ticketsor activities to attract audiences.
- The offsetting of personal or organizational debts or the payment of fines or penalties.
- Activities that are primarily promotional or created for mass distribution, such as duplication of CDs, creation of portfolios, gallery announcements, self-published books, brochures, or Web sites.
- Student exhibitions, anthologies, publications, or performances, unless those activities document an arts education grant.
- Costs associated with any degree, such as tuition, fees, professional certificates.
- Teacher salaries.
- Projects primarily recreational, therapeutic, vocational, rehabilitative, or religious.
- Projects restricted to an organization’s membership.
- Cost for administrators to attend activities or consecutive annual activities that should be built into an organization’s budget; for example, the National Assembly of Arts Agencies, Americans for the Arts, Northwest Booking Conference, or Western Arts Alliance conferences.
- Pageants, festivals, or celebrations unrelated to arts, ethnic, or cultural activities.
- Lobbying expenses or political initiatives.
- Hospitality expenses, such as receptions, food, alcohol, flowers, invitations, and so on.
- Capital expenditures
for individuals (see Glossary page).
- Writing intended for youth.
- Journalism, scholarly,
or academic works in history, languages, archeology, and political science.
- Historical
or academic documentary film and electronic media arts that do NOT demonstrate
significant artistic emphasis, consideration, and distinction.
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