Arts and Culture Hubs applicants:
- May represent any artistic discipline.
- Must be incorporated as a 501(c)(3)
- Have broad national, regional, or deep community importance
- Generate high-quality work in terms of strong artistic skill and cultural expertise that acknowledges and reflects the participants and audiences

Not Funded: Fiscally sponsored projects, government agencies, departments, or offices

Current grantees under the Core Support for Arts and Culture strategy will be eligible for the new Arts and Culture Hubs strategy once an organization has less than 12 months remaining on its current Core Support grant. The Foundation will not provide organizations with multiple grants for unrestricted operating support in the same fiscal year.

Arts Education and Exposure
Not Funded:
- Nonprofits that are not direct providers of professional arts education programming
- Support directly to early childcare providers, elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools
- Scholarships for individuals
- Individual teaching artists
- For-profit arts education providers
- Arts organizations without professional teaching artists on staff
- Organizations without a recent history of at least two consecutive years of programming are not eligible for project support funding, although can apply for planning support
- Arts education programming in which the vast majority of participants (over 75%) are not young people coming from low-income households
- Arts therapy programs

The Foundation will not consider current grantees under the Arts Education strategy for the new Arts Education and Exposure strategy until an organization has less than 12 months remaining on its existing Arts Education grant. The Foundation will not provide organizations with multiple grants for the exact same program in the same fiscal year or same school year for school partnership programs.

Arts Presentation and Arts Making
Not Funded:
- Individual artists
- Art projects focused on young audiences and with a goal of sustained arts learning; these projects should review Arts Education and Exposure for potential eligibility
- Projects that do not pay artists/creators for their involvement
- Projects that do not involve artists centrally in the design and conception of the projects
- Film projects that are not supporting filmmaking as an art form or are primarily for instructional or educational purposes
- The strategy does not provide capital support for permanent art installations that do not have plans for ongoing maintenance.

It is Foundation policy not to fund more than 25% of an organization’s operating budget. The Foundation may make exceptions on a case-by-case basis under limited circumstances, subject to approval by its board of directors.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis for all Creative Communities funding strategies. Once an application has been reviewed (about four to six weeks following submission), a member of the Creative Communities staff will be in touch to share whether or not an application can move forward, and the timeline for further review of the request.

Please adhere to the following application submission deadlines if you would like your proposal to be eligible for consideration at a specific board meeting. However, review at a given board meeting date is not guaranteed.

Timeline To Consider When Applying:

Applications Submitted No Later Than: April 1, 2022
Staff Communicates Status Update By: May 13, 2022
For Earliest Possible Scheduled Board Review: July 22, 2022

Applications Submitted No Later Than: June 30, 2022
Staff Communicates Status Update By: August 12, 2022
For Earliest Possible Scheduled Board Review: November 4, 2022

All funding proposals above $110,000 follow the schedule above. Funding requests at or below $110,000 are not required to be considered at a board meeting, and thus do not follow the deadlines shared above.

If you plan to apply through a fiscal sponsor, it is required that you contact the Creative Communities staff person assigned to the strategy you will be approaching at least one month prior to applying.

Grant development is an iterative process between the Foundation and applicant organization and may take at least four to five months before a request is considered for approval.

FAQs: https://williampennfoundation.org/arts-and-culture-frequently-asked-questions-faq

How to Apply: https://williampennfoundation.org/how-apply-creative-communities