Arts & Culture Rapid Response Grant
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation has launched the Arts & Culture Rapid Response Grant with awards of $5,000 - $20,000 in funding to Denver-area arts and culture organizations experiencing a loss of revenue due to federal policy changes and related impacts.
Driven by Executive Orders and other federal actions, the current funding pressures on arts and culture organizations and the larger community are significant. The impact is even more acute for groups rooted in BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disability, and other federally-targeted communities. In response, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation has launched the Arts & Culture Rapid Response Grant with awards of $5,000-$20,000 in funding to Denver-area arts and culture organizations experiencing a loss of revenue due to federal policy changes and related impacts.
- 501 (c )(3) nonprofit or fiscally sponsored organization with an operating budget of under $2M
- Celebration of arts and culture is central to the organization’s mission
- Demonstrated loss of support impacting programs and operations in 2025
- Priority given to organizations acutely impacted by federally-targeted communities, including those identifying as Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), LGBTQ+, and/or people with disabilities
- Organization is based and majority of programs occur in Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, or Jefferson counties
- At least 3 years of consistent arts and culture programming for the public
We appreciate your patience with this interim process as we transition to a new grantmaking platform. Questions and accessibility requests can be directed to the grants team at admin@bonfils-stanton.org.
If you are planning to use a fiscal sponsor to receive grants, we encourage you to review these guidelines and template for a fiscal sponsor agreement.
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Grants Awarded
Make your Application online using the link below.
Applications close.
A panel will review your application and a decision will be made.
Program director, Chrissy Deal, welcomes your questions at chrissy@bonfils-stanton.org or 303.825.3774.
Individuals can nominate up to three candidates.
At the close of the nomination period, the Foundation will notify eligible candidates of their nomination and share a copy of each nomination and endorsement received on their behalf. Nominees, outside of self-nominations, will be able to provide additional information they feel may be relevant to their candidacy. Responses will be entirely optional and not required in order to advance in the selection process. For this reason, nominators may wish to notify the candidate in advance of recommending them for the fellowship.
The fellowship is quite competitive, so it is not unusual for individuals to be nominated several times over the years.
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Eligible candidates must be leading a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, or Jefferson county. Bonfils-Stanton Foundation’s leadership decided to focus solely on arts and culture and leadership for deeper impact in 2012. In recent years, the Foundation has taken steps to gradually align the Livingston Fellowship Program’s geographic area more closely with that of our grantmaking portfolio which focuses on the city of Denver.
Nominees will be updated of their status in the selection process via email by early November 2022. The Board of Trustees of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation will approve the 2023 class of Livingston Fellows in early 2023.
Visit our website for additional information about the history of the Livingston Fellowship program, stories from fellows and their fellowship activities.
Absolutely! If you can’t find what you’re looking for on our website, please reach out to Chrissy for more information.
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