The Cultural Facilities Matching Grant Program offers support and funding for renovation, new construction, acquisition or equipping of cultural facilities located in Leon County or the City of Tallahassee. A Cultural Facility is building that shall be used primarily for the programming, production, presentation, exhibition, or any combination of the above functions of any of the arts and cultural disciplines including, but perhaps not limited to: music, dance, theater, creative writing, literature, architecture, painting, sculpture, folk arts, photography, crafts, media arts, visual arts, programs of museums, historical sites, and historical/heritage facilities.

The intent of this grant program is capital improvement that, for the purposes of this application, is defined as an addition or renovation of a permanent structural improvement or the restoration of some aspect of a property that will either enhance the property's overall value or increases its useful life.

To download guidelines and application materials, please click here.

For further information, please call COCA at 850-224-2500 or email kevin@tallahasseearts.org.

FY18 CULTURAL FACILITIES MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM TIMELINE

Release guidelines to public

March 19, 2018

Grant Application deadline

April 30, 2018

Panelists review applications

May 7 – June 8, 2018

Grant Panel Review Meeting

June 8, 2018

COCA Executive Committee review and approve grants

June 21, 2018

Leon County TDC review and approve grants

July 19. 2018

COCA Board of Directors review and approve grants

September 20, 2018

Leon County Board of County Commissioners review and approve grants

September 24, 2018 

1st installment of grant funding released to grantees

Approximately October 1, 2018