Centering Art & Racial Equity (C.A.R.E.) Grant
Application
The C.A.R.E. grant re-opens in 2025.
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Deadline
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Centering Art & Racial Equity (C.A.R.E.) grant is the new name of the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture’s organizational funding program previously known as Civic Partners. The updated name highlights the evolution of the program over the past ten years and reflects the values of racial equity, social cohesion, and the importance of art to our communities. The C.A.R.E. grant awards three consecutive years of funding to Seattle arts and culture, heritage, and arts service organizations with a minimum three-year history of providing accessible programming for Seattle residents and visitors. To create a more equitable, vibrant, and relevant arts sector, ARTS prioritizes support for organizations with an arts-focused mission that are taking action to be anti-racist and who value, implement, and uphold inclusive practices through an intersectional racial equity lens.
C.A.R.E. aims to leverage the collective community action of Seattle's arts and cultural sector through strategic investments, training, and partnership to create a City where all artists, performers, writers, and creative workers have the freedom, agency, and platform to share and amplify their stories, art, cultures, and experiences, regardless of race, class, gender, age, ability, education, country of birth, citizenship, religion, and sexual orientation. We prioritize support for partners taking action to be anti-racist organizations and value, implement and uphold inclusive practices through an intersectional racial equity lens.
Manage your award
The Centering Arts & Racial Equity (C.A.R.E.) application is on the new Citywide grants platform. Organizations can manage their award by logging into their account at City of Seattle grants portal.
If you are managing an award for an organization and need support accessing your account in the system or have new staff that need to be connected, please first reach out to the program manager at Kathy.Hsieh@seattle.gov.
Documents
How To Fill Out Payment Request & Final Report in ARTS Grant System
Submit your W-9 securely online.
Getting the word out
Want to get the word out about your arts or cultural event or exhibit? Here are some tips on sending out information to the public and local media.
Step 1. Gather all the details: who, what, where, when, and why.
Step 2. Gather graphics for publicity. Gather photos, create a logo if necessary, work with a designer on the look and any printed materials.
Step 3. Write a press release and/or prepare a press kit and send it to the media.
Social Media
- Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Also, be sure you’re signed up for our email newsletter.
- Post about your grant/event/program, and tag us! On Twitter, tag us by typing “@SeattleArts”. On Instagram, tag us by typing “@SeaOfficeofArts”. When you tag us, we get notified and can respond. On your Facebook post, type in “@Seattle Office of Arts & Culture”, and select our office’s page from the drop-down menu.
- The sooner you tell your Project Manager about your event, the more likely we’ll be able to fit it into our social media calendar. We have a lot of news and events, and schedule posts and activities weeks out.
- If you have promo materials, please remember to send anything you have produced (press releases, postcards, brochures, etc.) to your Project Manager. These items should include the Office of Arts & Culture name and/or logo. We rebranded our Office in 2013, so if you’ve been funded before, please make sure to update our logo.
We recommend circulating these items at least two weeks prior to your event to increase awareness and attendance.
The Press Release
Press releases inform the media about your event and can inspire the media to publish a calendar listing or even cover the event. Click here for a description and example of the anatomy of a press release.
- Try to let the media know what makes your event unique or relevant.
- Be genuine. Exaggeration or inaccuracy will only hurt your chances of being a reliable media source. The more a press release reads like an actual news article, the better. Many smaller publications love releases they can print verbatim.
- Press releases should look professional and be easy to read. Type double-spaced.
- Make sure the organization's name, address, website, and contact information are visible.
- Include the media contact's name, direct phone line, and e-mail address near the top of the first page.
- Include a "pull date" (the last date of the event) near the top of the first page.
- Include a headline that summarizes the event and invites people to read the details.
- All the most pertinent information should be included in the first paragraph - the five W's. Who is presenting what, where, and when? Why should people attend? Include information on how people can attend or buy tickets, locations of ticket venues or website, e-mail, and/or box office phone-line information.
- Additional paragraphs can provide more descriptive information about the event, artists involved, and quotes.
- Use your mission statement or general description of the organization at the end of the press release.
- If the press release is longer than one page, write "-More-" at the bottom of each page. At the end of the last page, include "# # #" to indicate the end of the release.
The Press Kit
Press kits provide useful background information for members of the press writing previews or reviews of your arts or cultural event. A press kit should be organized in a folder and generally includes:
1) Organization Information (front to back on the left side of the folder)
- Mission statement
- Brief organizational history
- Organizational brochure
- Feature articles on the organization or lead staff
- Board list
- Business card for media contact
2) Specific Event Information (front to back on the right side of the folder)
- Press release for the event
- Photos or artwork related to the event
- Event postcard or flyer
- Event program
- Artists' bios, if not in the program
- Preview articles about the event
Note: Do not include reviews of the event or previous events in the press packet. Most reviewers do not want to be influenced by the opinions of others.
Online calendars
There are numerous websites with online events calendars to use to publicize your event. Here are a few:
Daily and Weekly Papers
Send your press releases to local newspapers. Here are some of the dailies and weekly papers to begin with.
Neighborhood Newspapers
- International Examiner - Contact
- Northwest Asian Weekly - Contact
- Pacific Publishing Company serves the University District, Ravenna, Roosevelt, Laurelhurst, Sand Point, Wedgewood, Wallingford, Fremont, Phinney Ridge, Green Lake, Greenwood, Queen Anne, Magnolia, Madison Park, Broadmoor, Washington Park, Madrona, Madison Valley, Leschi, Capitol Hill, First Hill, Beacon Hill, Mt. Baker, South Hill, International District, and Kirkland - Contact
- Westside Seattle publishes Ballard News Tribune, West Seattle Herald, and The Highline Times - Contact
Radio
Most radio stations accept a written public service announcement (PSA). Some will take a pre-recorded PSA. Check the website of the radio station you think best matches your audience. Many stations belong to the Puget Sound Broadcasters Association or Washington State Association of Broadcasters. Both organizations list links to their members.
Television
Seattle Channel, the city's municipal television channel, is committed to covering local arts and culture. Art Zone with Nancy Guppy on the Seattle Channel specifically covers the local art scene.
Local television stations are:
Funded Partners
In 2023, our C.A.R.E. grant awarded over $1.9 million to 241 Seattle-based arts, heritage, and cultural organizations. These funded programs engaged more than 25,000 volunteer and paid artists serving an audience of over 3.5 million people, including almost 500,000 students and youth, and provided almostover 1.7 million free admissions. 48% of funding dollars were invested directly with Black, Indigenous, Asian American, LatinX, Middle Eastern and North African, and multi-cultural organizations.
2022 Community Partners
Two of our 201 funded organizations are designated community partners:
LANGSTON
$360,000
Funding made possible from a Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute Partnership
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
$100,000
Funding made possible from the Equitable Development Initiative
2022 Civic Partners
206 Zulu
$16,420
The 5th Avenue Theatre
$28,380
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre
$26,295
ADEFUA Cultural Education Workshop
$12,260
Against the Grain/MEN IN DANCE
$1,015
Allied Arts Foundation
$1,055
American Asian Performing Arts Theatre
$3,660
Annex Theatre
$7,435
ARCADE
$460
Artist Trust
$18,855
Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences (AVIA)
$8,650
ArtsEd Washington
$8,695
ArtsWest
$3,910
Bailadores de Bronce
$13,330
Base
$1,475
BlueStreet Voices
$500
Book-It Repertory Theatre
$6,750
Burke Museum Association
$20,000
Bushwick Northwest/The Bushwick Book Club Seattle
$7,115
Byron Schenkman & Friends
$865
The Cabiri
$5,610
The Center for Wooden Boats
$4,325
Café Nordo
$1,330
Carter Family Puppet Theatre/Northwest Puppet Center
$4,115
Cascade Public Media/Crosscut
$2,955
Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA)
$10,970
The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (CD Forum)
$22,075
Chamber Music Madness
$7,380
Clarinettissimo
$920
Clarion West
$6,210
Classical KING FM 98.1
$4,000
common AREA maintenance
$7,110
Community Arts Create
$12,185
Copper Canyon Press
$3,250
Cornish College of the Arts
$1,200
Coyote Central
$10,955
CultureWorks
$11,435
Deaf Spotlight
$14,820
Degenerate Art Ensemble
$1,840
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association
$9,985
Densho
$31,140
Design in Public
$800
Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center
$17,160
Early Music Seattle
$2,255
Earshot Jazz
$12,475
eSe Teatro: Seattle Latinos Take Stage
$14,305
The Esoterics
$1,920
Ethnic Heritage Council of the Pacific Northwest
$11,895
Evoke Productions
$1,265
Experience Education
$14,025
Floating Bridge Press
$2,455
Freehold Theatre Lab Studio
$3,725
Friends of Asian Art Association (FA3)
$5,795
Frye Art Museum
$18,000
Gage Academy of Art
$5,585
Gallery Concerts
$400
Gamelan Pacifica
$1,580
Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center/Gay City Arts
$14,015
Greater Seattle Choral Consortium (GSCC)
$625
GreenStage
$2,000
Hedgebrook
$2,260
Henry Art Gallery
$29,070
Historic Seattle
$1,395
Hollow Earth Radio
$3,250
Holocaust Center for Humanity
$2,190
Hugo House
$5,740
Humanities Washington
$2,070
Infinity Box Theatre Project
$555
Intiman Theatre
$19,180
Iranian American Community Alliance
$2,555
Jack Straw Cultural Center
$17,135
Jazz Night School
$995
Jet City Improv
$2,900
Joe Brazil Legacy
$12,715
KEXP-FM
$12,075
Khambatta Dance Company
$8,165
Korean Student Association at the University of Washington
$1,775
KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
$3,000
La Sala
$13,750
Ladies Musical Club
$1,415
Lake Union Civic Orchestra
$1,000
Latino Theatre Projects
$13,130
Leela Kathak Dancers
$11,445
Lit Crawl Seattle
$3,630
Live Music Project
$3,560
Living Voices
$14,455
Macha Theatre Works
$2,810
The Market Street Singers
$800
Meany Center for the Performing Arts
$7,135
Medieval Women's Choir
$500
Mirror Stage
$7,480
Moisture Festival
$1,805
Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)
$14,720
Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)
$11,990
Music Center of the Northwest
$2,280
Music Northwest
$1,600
Music of Remembrance
$11,160
Na'ah Illahee Fund
$19,580
National Nordic Museum
$6,610
North Corner Chamber Orchestra
$500
Northwest African American Museum
$24,215
Northwest Boychoir & Vocalpoint! Seattle
$3,260
Northwest Chamber Chorus
$3,000
Northwest Film Forum
$20,395
Northwest Folklife
$24,820
Northwest Girlchoir
$2,900
Northwest Symphony Orchestra
$2,145
Ocheami
$11,225
On the Boards
$8,085
One Reel
$8,265
Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers
$1,870
Pacific Northwest Ballet
$61,250
Path with Art
$2,245
Philharmonia Northwest
$1,400
Photographic Center Northwest
$4,000
Pork Filled Productions
$14,360
Pratt Fine Arts Center
$21,465
Prison Education LLC
$13,390
The Queens Project
$11,400
Rain City Symphony
$765
Raven Chronicles Press
$14,010
ReAct Theatre
$8,965
Reboot Theatre Company
$10,250
Red Eagle Soaring
$16,140
Room Circus Medical Clowning
$895
Russian Community Center of Seattle
$1,290
School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts (SANCA)
$4,535
Seattle Architecture Foundation
$590
Seattle Art Museum
$69,600
Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL)
$16,315
Seattle Asian American Film Festival
$12,865
Seattle Chamber Music Society
$4,345
Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival Committee
$19,000
Seattle Children's Museum
$15,885
Seattle Children's Theatre
$28,200
Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority
$5,000
Seattle Classic Guitar Society
$1,305
Seattle Collaborative Orchestra
$1,265
Seattle Festival Orchestra
$590
The Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society
$1,465
Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)
$22,190
Seattle JazzED
$11,655
Seattle Jewish Chorale
$1,045
Seattle Latino Film Festival
$13,500
Seattle Men's Chorus and Seattle Women's Chorus
$15,245
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra
$1,370
Seattle Musical Theatre
$2,390
Seattle Opera
$61,250
Seattle Peace Chorus
$2,000
Seattle Pro Musica
$2,280
Seattle Public Theater
$3,385
Seattle ReCreative
$835
Seattle Rep
$43,575
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
$11,320
Seattle SeaChordsmen
$665
Seattle Shakespeare Company
$6,355
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
$65,625
Seattle Theatre Group
$27,520
Seattle Turkish Film Festival (TACAWA)
$11,845
Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra
$775
Seattle Young Artists Music Festival Association
$800
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras
$6,660
SeattleDances
$895
SEEDArts
$4,125
Seward Park Clay Studio
$1,900
Showtunes! Theatre
$4,165
Shunpike
$13,950
Social Justice Film Institute
$7,380
SOIL Artist Run Gallery
$13,300
Sound Theatre Company
$14,995
Southwest Seattle Historical Society
$8,015
Spectrum Dance Theater
$30,140
Stone Soup Theatre
$1,420
Strawberry Theatre Workshop
$625
The Talented Youth (NFFTY)
$8,740
Taproot Theatre Company
$3,290
Tasveer
$13,455
TeenTix
$17,640
Thalia Symphony Orchestra
$500
Theatre Off Jackson
$12,585
Theatre Puget Sound
$8,940
Theatre22
$1,375
Three Dollar Bill Cinema
$14,015
Totem Star
$15,705
Town Hall Seattle
$15,110
Twelfth Night Productions
$1,315
Unexpected Productions Improv
$1,350
Unified Outreach
$11,545
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
$19,370
Urban ArtWorks
$13,645
Velocity Dance Center
$3,360
The Vera Project
$16,125
Voices Rising: LGBTQ of Color Arts & Culture
$14,015
Washington Ensemble Theatre
$1,530
Whim W'Him
$1,645
The Williams Project
$11,115
Young Shakespeare Workshop
$11,880
Youth in Focus
$8,690
2021 Community Partners
Two of our 201 funded organizations are designated community partners:
LANGSTON
$360,000 Funding made possible from a Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute Partnership
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
$100,000 Funding made possible from the Equitable Development Initiative
2021 Civic Partners
206 Zulu
$12,630
The 5th Avenue Theatre
$40,540
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre
$37,565
ADEFUA Cultural Education Workshop
$9,430
Against the Grain/MEN IN DANCE
$1,270
Allied Arts Foundation
$880
American Asian Performing Arts Theatre
$3,660
Annex Theatre
$6,195
ARCADE
$655
Artist Trust
$14,505
Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences (AVIA)
$7,210
ArtsEd Washington
$7,245
ArtsWest
$5,215
Bailadores de Bronce
$10,255
Base
$1,230
BlueStreet Voices
$500
Book-It Repertory Theatre
$9,640
Burke Museum Association
$25,000
Bushwick Northwest/The Bushwick Book Club Seattle
$5,930
Byron Schenkman & Friends
$1,235
The Cabiri
$4,675
The Center for Wooden Boats
$6,175
Café Nordo
$1,900
Carter Family Puppet Theatre/Northwest Puppet Center
$4,570
Cascade Public Media/Crosscut
$2,955
Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA)
$8,440
The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (CD Forum)
$16,980
Chamber Music Madness
$6,150
Clarinettissimo
$765
Clarion West
$5,175
Classical KING FM 98.1
$4,475
common AREA maintenance
$5,925
Community Arts Create
$9,375
Copper Canyon Press
$4,060
Cornish College of the Arts
$1,450
Coyote Central
$9,130
CultureWorks
$8,795
Deaf Spotlight
$11,400
Degenerate Art Ensemble
$1,535
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association
$8,320
Densho
$72,425
Design in Public
$885
Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center
$13,200
Early Music Seattle
$3,220
Earshot Jazz
$10,395
eSe Teatro: Seattle Latinos Take Stage
$11,005
The Esoterics
$2,740
Ethnic Heritage Council of the Pacific Northwest
$9,150
Evoke Productions
$1,055
Experience Education
$10,790
Floating Bridge Press
$2,045
Freehold Theatre Lab Studio
$4,655
Friends of Asian Art Association (FA3)
$4,830
Frye Art Museum
$16,675
Gage Academy of Art
$7,980
Gallery Concerts
$450
Gamelan Pacifica
$2,255
Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center/Gay City Arts
$10,780
Greater Seattle Choral Consortium (GSCC)
$570
GreenStage
$1,790
Hedgebrook
$2,510
Henry Art Gallery
$32,300
Historic Seattle
$1,995
Hollow Earth Radio
$3,250
Holocaust Center for Humanity
$2,735
Hugo House
$6,375
Humanities Washington
$2,300
Infinity Box Theatre Project
$505
Intiman Theatre
$21,310
Iranian American Community Alliance
$2,130
Jack Straw Cultural Center
$13,180
Jazz Night School
$1,420
Jet City Improv
$4,140
Joe Brazil Legacy
$9,780
KEXP-FM
$16,100
Khambatta Dance Company
$6,805
Korean Student Association at the University of Washington
$1,480
KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
$3,000
La Sala
$10,575
Ladies Musical Club
$1,180
Lake Union Civic Orchestra
$1,430
Latino Theatre Projects
$10,100
Leela Kathak Dancers
$8,805
Lit Crawl Seattle
$3,025
Live Music Project
$2,965
Living Voices
$11,120
Macha Theatre Works
$2,340
The Market Street Singers
$1,005
Meany Center for the Performing Arts
$8,920
Medieval Women's Choir
$560
Mirror Stage
$6,235
Moisture Festival
$2,580
Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)
$18,400
Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)
$15,985
Music Center of the Northwest
$3,260
Music Northwest
$1,685
Music of Remembrance
$9,300
Na'ah Illahee Fund
$15,060
National Nordic Museum
$8,815
North Corner Chamber Orchestra
$575
Northwest African American Museum
$57,640
Northwest Boychoir & Vocalpoint! Seattle
$4,075
Northwest Chamber Chorus
$3,340
Northwest Film Forum
$15,690
Northwest Folklife
$38,725
Northwest Girlchoir
$3,865
Northwest Symphony Orchestra
$2,860
Ocheami
$8,635
On the Boards
$11,550
One Reel
$11,020
Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers
$2,495
Pacific Northwest Ballet
$87,500
Path with Art
$2,990
Philharmonia Northwest
$1,190
Photographic Center Northwest
$4,975
Pork Filled Productions
$11,045
Pratt Fine Arts Center
$23,850
Prison Education LLC
$10,300
The Queens Project
$8,770
Rain City Symphony
$695
Raven Chronicles Press
$10,775
ReAct Theatre
$7,470
Reboot Theatre Company
$7,885
Red Eagle Soaring
$12,415
Room Circus Medical Clowning
$1,190
Russian Community Center of Seattle
$1,075
School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts (SANCA)
$6,045
Seattle Architecture Foundation
$840
Seattle Art Museum
$87,000
Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL)
$12,550
Seattle Asian American Film Festival
$9,895
Seattle Chamber Music Society
$5,430
Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival Committee
$16,770
Seattle Children's Museum
$12,220
Seattle Children's Theatre
$37,600
Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority
$5,000
Seattle Classic Guitar Society
$1,740
Seattle Collaborative Orchestra
$1,055
Seattle Festival Orchestra
$735
The Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society
$1,950
Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)
$31,700
Seattle JazzED
$8,965
Seattle Jewish Chorale
$1,395
Seattle Latino Film Festival
$10,385
Seattle Men's Chorus and Seattle Women's Chorus
$21,775
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra
$1,140
Seattle Musical Theatre
$2,990
Seattle Opera
$87,500
Seattle Peace Chorus
$1,675
Seattle Pro Musica
$3,260
Seattle Public Theater
$3,760
Seattle ReCreative
$1,110
Seattle Rep
$58,100
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
$9,435
Seattle SeaChordsmen
$605
Seattle Shakespeare Company
$8,475
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
$87,500
Seattle Theatre Group
$39,315
Seattle Turkish Film Festival (TACAWA)
$9,110
Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra
$1,110
Seattle Young Artists Music Festival Association
$885
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras
$8,325
SeattleDances
$745
SEEDArts
$4,585
Seward Park Clay Studio
$2,715
Showtunes! Theatre
$3,470
Shunpike
$15,500
Social Justice Film Institute
$6,150
SOIL Artist Run Gallery
$10,230
Sound Theatre Company
$11,535
Southwest Seattle Historical Society
$6,680
Spectrum Dance Theater
$71,425
Stone Soup Theatre
$1,890
Strawberry Theatre Workshop
$830
The Talented Youth (NFFTY)
$7,285
Taproot Theatre Company
$4,700
Tasveer
$10,350
TeenTix
$13,570
Thalia Symphony Orchestra
$550
Theatre Off Jackson
$9,680
Theatre Puget Sound
$7,450
Theatre22
$1,145
Three Dollar Bill Cinema
$10,780
Totem Star
$12,080
Town Hall Seattle
$11,625
Twelfth Night Productions
$1,095
Unexpected Productions Improv
$1,800
Unified Outreach
$8,880
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
$14,900
Urban ArtWorks
$10,495
Velocity Dance Center
$4,480
The Vera Project
$12,405
Vision Loss Connections
$10,110
Voices Rising: LGBTQ of Color Arts & Culture
$10,780
Washington Ensemble Theatre
$2,040
Whim W'Him
$2,190
The Williams Project
$8,550
Young Shakespeare Workshop
$9,140
Youth in Focus
$7,240
206 Zulu
$7,740
ACT - A Contemporary Theatre
$53,700
ADEFUA Cultural Education Workshop
$2,460
Against the Grain/MEN IN DANCE
$1,340
Allied Arts Foundation
$800
American Asian Performing Arts Theatre
$4,315
Annex Theatre
$2,100
ARCADE
$935
Artist Trust
$11,000
Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences (AVIA)
$3,400
ArtsEd Washington
$1,480
ArtsWest
$7,450
Bailadores de Bronce
$2,330
Base
$795
BlueStreet Voices
$500
Book-It Repertory Theatre
$13,775
Burke Museum Association
$31,150
Bushwick Northwest/The Bushwick Book Club Seattle
$1,490
Byron Schenkman & Friends
$1,675
Café Nordo
$2,715
Carter Family Puppet Theatre/Northwest Puppet Center
$6,530
Cascade Public Media/Crosscut
$2,955
Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA)
$1,200
The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (CD Forum)
$15,640
Chamber Music Madness
$995
Clarinettissimo
$640
Clarion West
$2,780
Classical KING FM 98.1
$4,950
common AREA maintenance
$1,480
Community Arts Create
$4,330
Copper Canyon Press
$5,800
Cornish College of the Arts
$1,700
Coyote Central
$5,770
CultureWorks
$2,010
Deaf Spotlight
$5,940
Degenerate Art Ensemble
$1,490
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association
$3,925
Densho
$41,280
Design in Public
$970
Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center
$6,030
Early Music Seattle
$4,600
Earshot Jazz
$8,650
eSe Teatro: Seattle Latinos Take Stage
$2,040
Ethnic Heritage Council of the Pacific Northwest
$2,815
Evoke Productions
$795
Experience Education
$1,550
Floating Bridge Press
$650
Freehold Theatre Lab Studio
$6,650
Friends of Asian Art Association (FA3)
$985
Frye Art Museum
$16,675
Gage Academy of Art
$11,400
Gallery Concerts
$500
Gamelan Pacifica
$3,220
Gay City: Seattle's LGBTQ Center/Gay City Arts
$1,525
Greater Seattle Choral Consortium (GSCC)
$500
GreenStage
$1,790
Hedgebrook
$3,025
Henry Art Gallery
$45,600
Historic Seattle
$2,850
Hollow Earth Radio
$3,250
Holocaust Center for Humanity
$3,475
Hugo House
$8,750
Humanities Washington
$3,000
Infinity Box Theatre Project
$500
Intiman Theatre
$25,615
Iranian American Community Alliance
$1,850
Jack Straw Cultural Center
$10,990
Jazz Night School
$2,025
Jet City Improv
$5,915
Joe Brazil Legacy
$1,255
KEXP-FM
$23,000
Khambatta Dance Company
$3,480
Korean Student Association at the University of Washington
$1,365
KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
$3,000
La Sala
$2,060
Ladies Musical Club
$1,090
Lake Union Civic Orchestra
$2,040
Latino Theatre Projects
$1,980
Leela Kathak Dancers
$3,030
Lit Crawl Seattle
$885
Live Music Project
$750
Living Voices
$6,300
Macha Theatre Works
$2,325
Medieval Women's Choir
$620
Mirror Stage
$1,190
Moisture Festival
$3,685
Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)
$19,800
Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)
$22,850
Music Center of the Northwest
$4,655
Music Northwest
$1,775
Music of Remembrance
$6,155
Na'ah Illahee Fund
$10,270
National Nordic Museum
$12,600
North Corner Chamber Orchestra
$650
Northwest African American Museum
$33,425
Northwest Boychoir & Vocalpoint! Seattle
$5,820
Northwest Chamber Chorus
$3,680
Northwest Film Forum
$11,700
Northwest Folklife
$33,150
Northwest Girlchoir
$5,525
Northwest Symphony Orchestra
$4,085
Ocheami
$2,645
On the Boards
$16,500
One Reel
$15,750
Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers
$3,560
Pacific Northwest Ballet
$125,000
Path with Art
$3,980
Philharmonia Northwest
$1,190
Photographic Center Northwest
$5,950
Pork Filled Productions
$3,130
Pratt Fine Arts Center
$34,050
Prison Education LLC
$2,435
Rain City Symphony
$580
ReAct Theatre
$5,000
Reboot Theatre Company
$945
Red Eagle Soaring
$5,245
Room Circus Medical Clowning
$1,700
Russian Community Center of Seattle
$850
School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts (SANCA)
$8,635
Seattle Architecture Foundation
$1,200
Seattle Art Museum
$124,000
Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL)
$11,550
Seattle Asian American Film Festival
$3,510
Seattle Chamber Music Society
$7,760
Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival Committee
$16,770
Seattle Children's Museum
$9,800
Seattle Children's Theatre
$53,700
Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority
$5,000
Seattle Classic Guitar Society
$2,485
Seattle Collaborative Orchestra
$995
Seattle Festival Orchestra
$970
Seattle JazzED
$3,400
Seattle Jewish Chorale
$1,590
Seattle Latino Film Festival
$4,630
Seattle Men's Chorus and Seattle Women's Chorus
$31,125
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra
$995
Seattle Musical Theatre
$4,270
Seattle Opera
$125,000
Seattle Peace Chorus
$1,675
Seattle Pro Musica
$4,655
Seattle Public Theater
$5,370
Seattle ReCreative
$1,585
Seattle Rep
$83,000
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
$5,470
Seattle SeaChordsmen
$580
Seattle Shakespeare Company
$12,100
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
$125,000
Seattle Theatre Group
$56,200
Seattle Turkish Film Festival (TACAWA)
$1,725
Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra
$1,570
Seattle Young Artists Music Festival Association
$970
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras
$11,900
SeattleDances
$500
Social Justice Film Institute
$995
SEEDArts
$6,550
Seward Park Clay Studio
$3,880
Showtunes! Theatre
$900
Shunpike
$22,150
Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)
$45,315
SOIL Artist Run Gallery
$1,275
Sound Theatre Company
$2,250
Southwest Seattle Historical Society
$2,200
Spectrum Dance Theater
$41,280
Stone Soup Theatre
$2,580
Strawberry Theatre Workshop
$1,165
Taproot Theatre Company
$6,715
Tasveer
$4,555
TeenTix
$11,880
Thalia Symphony Orchestra
$600
The 5th Avenue Theatre
$57,955
The Art of Alzheimer's
$1,300
The Cabiri
$1,640
The Center for Wooden Boats
$8,825
The Esoterics
$3,880
The Market Street Singers
$1,210
The Queens Project
$1,950
Raven Chronicles Press
$4,515
The Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society
$2,500
The Talented Youth (NFFTY)
$3,580
The Vera Project
$7,230
The Williams Project
$2,450
Theatre Off Jackson
$3,030
Theatre Puget Sound
$6,950
Theatre22
$1,000
Three Dollar Bill Cinema
$6,530
Totem Star
$7,485
Town Hall Seattle
$9,450
Twelfth Night Productions
$1,090
Unexpected Productions Improv
$2,000
Unified Outreach
$1,200
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
$12,900
Meany Center for the Performing Arts
$12,750
Urban ArtWorks
$2,875
Velocity Dance Center
$6,400
Vision Loss Connections
$2,000
Voices Rising: LGBTQ of Color Arts & Culture
$1,525
Washington Ensemble Theatre
$2,910
Whim W'Him
$2,785
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
$100,000*
Young Shakespeare Workshop
$1,800
Youth in Focus
$4,475
*Equitable Development Fund
2019 Community Partners
Eight of the 180 funded organizations are designated community partners, which are defined as arts service organizations that serve and enhance the capacity of artists and arts groups.
501 Commons (Springboard)
$5,000
Artist Trust
$10,800
Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences
$3,500
Seattle King County Cultural Accessibility Consortium
$5,000
Shunpike
$15,300
Teen Tix
$12,000
Theatre Puget Sound
$7,000
Washington State Teaching Artist Training Lab
$3,000
2019 Civic Partners
206 Zulu
$6,000
A Contemporary Theatre - ACT
$55,100
AGAINST THE GRAIN/Men in Dance
$1,350
ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery
$7,500
ARCADE
$1,250
Book-It Repertory Theatre
$14,500
Burke Museum Association
$31,000
Center for Wooden Boats
$9,100
Center on Contemporary Art
$1,200
Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas
$11,500
Charles and Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum
$16,600
Children's Museum, Seattle
$9,750
Chinatown ID Preservation & Development
$5,000
Clarion West
$2,800
Classical KING 98.1
$5,000
Copper Canyon Press
$7,300
Cornish College of the Arts
$1,725
Coyote Central
$5,800
Crosscut
$3,000
Deaf Spotlight
$6,000
Delridge Neighborhoods
$3,400
Densho
$32,000
Early Music Guild of Seattle
$5,000
Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
$8,700
Evoke
$800
Floating Bridge Press
$600
Flying House Productions
$32,100
Freehold Theatre Lab Studio
$6,700
Friends of KEXP
$25,050
Gage Academy of Art
$11,500
Gallery Concerts
$600
Gamelan Pacifica
$3,500
Gay City Health Project
$1,500
GreenStage
$1,800
Hedgebrook
$3,900
Historic Seattle
$3,100
Hollow Earth Radio
$3,200
Holocaust Center for Humanity
$3,500
Intiman Theatre
$25,875
Jack Straw Foundation
$11,100
Jazz Night School
$2,200
Khambatta Dance
$3,500
Ladies Musical Club
$1,100
Lake Union Civic Orchestra
$2,400
Lit Crawl Seattle
$900
Live Girls!
$1,800
Living Voices
$6,300
Macha Theatre Works
$2,400
Meany Center for the Performing Arts
$12,850
Memory War Theater
$800
Mirror Stage
$1,200
MOHAI - Historical Society of Seattle & King County
$19,700
Moisture Festival
$3,800
MoPOP
$23,000
Music Center of the Northwest
$4,800
Music Northwest
$1,800
Music of Remembrance
$6,250
Nordic Museum
$12,700
Northwest African American Museum
$27,400
Northwest Chamber Chorus
$3,700
Northwest Choirs
$6,000
Northwest Film Forum
$11,500
Northwest Folklife
$32,500
Northwest Girlchoir
$5,700
Northwest Puppet Center
$7,685
Northwest Symphony Orchestra
$4,150
On the Boards
$17,000
One Reel
$25,000
Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers
$3,750
Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
$137,700
Pat Graney Performance
$2,850
Path with Art
$4,000
Philharmonia Northwest
$1,200
Photo Center NW
$6,000
Pork Filled Players
$2,300
Prabha Rustagi Memorial Trust
$2,350
Pratt Fine Arts Center
$35,100
ProForum
$1,000
Rain City Symphony
$600
ReAct Theatre
$4,100
Richard Hugo House
$8,800
Ripple Productions
$2,800
Room Circus Medical Clowning
$2,000
School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts
$8,900
Seattle Architectural Foundation
$1,300
Seattle Art Museum
$127,245
Seattle Arts and Lectures
$11,500
Seattle Asian American Film Festival
$2,700
Seattle Chamber Music Festival
$8,000
Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival
$13,000
Seattle Children's Theatre
$55,100
Seattle Classic Guitar Society
$2,700
Seattle Collaborative Orchestra
$1,000
Seattle Festival Orchestra
$1,000
Seattle Girls' Choir Guild
$2,100
Seattle Jazz Orchestra
$5,500
Seattle JazzED
$3,400
Seattle Jewish Chorale
$1,600
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra
$1,000
Seattle Modern Orchestra
$1,500
Seattle Musical Theatre
$4,400
Seattle Opera
$147,445
Seattle Peace Chorus
$1,700
Seattle Pro Musica
$4,800
Seattle Public Theater
$5,400
Seattle Repertory Theatre
$87,435
Seattle Seachordsmen
$600
Seattle Shakespeare Festival
$12,200
Seattle Symphony
$156,265
Seattle Theatre Group
$54,840
Seattle True Independent Film Festival
$300
Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra
$1,650
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras
$12,000
Seward Park Clay Studio
$4,000
Showtunes Theatre
$600
SIFF
$47,700
SketchFest
$700
Sound Theatre
$2,200
SouthEast Effective Development
$6,600
Spectrum Dance Theater
$32,000
Stone Soup Theatre
$2,600
Strawberry Theatre Workshop
$1,200
Taproot Theatre
$7,300
Thalia Symphony Orchestra
$650
The 5th Avenue Theatre Association
$59,745
The Cabiri
$1,650
The Esoterics
$3,900
The Henry Gallery
$45,600
The Market Street Singers
$1,250
The Raven Chronicles
$3,500
The Talented Youth
$3,600
The Vera Project
$7,200
Theater Schmeater
$3,650
Theatre Off Jackson
$3,000
Three Dollar Bill Cinema
$6,500
Totem Star
$5,800
Town Hall Association
$9,400
Twelfth Night Productions
$1,100
Unified Outreach
$1,200
Urban ArtWorks
$2,850
Velocity Dance Center
$6,600
Vision Loss Connections
$2,000
Washington Ensemble Theatre
$3,000
Whim W'Him
$2,800
Wing-It Productions
$6,100
Young Shakespeare Workshop
$1,800
Youth in Focus
$4,500
2019 Civic Partner Project Partners
Annex Theatre
$1,500
Azeotrope
$1,500
Base
$800
Bushwick Northwest
$1,500
Byron Schenkman & Friends
$1,000
Chamber Music Madness
$1,000
Degenerate Art Ensemble
$1,500
Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center
$1,500
eSe Teatro: Seattle Latinos Take Stage
$1,500
Inspired Child
$1,500
Latino Theatre Projects
$1,500
Medieval Women's Choir
$500
Northwest Tap Connection
$1,500
Pacific Northwest Center for Architecture & Design (Design in Public)
$1,000
Pacific Science Center
$600
Pan African Center for Empowerment
$1,500
Seattle Latino Film Festival
$1,500
Seattle Young Artists Music Festival Association
$1,000
Seniors Creating Art
$1,500
Tet in Seattle
$1,500
The 14/48 Projects
$1,000
The Queens Project
$1,500
The Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society
$500
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
$1,500
Washington Alliance for the Arts
$1,500
Seven of the 158 funded organizations are designated community partners, which are defined as arts service organizations that serve and enhance the capacity of artists and arts groups.
2016 - 2018 Civic Partners
Nine of the 168 funded organizations are designated community partners, which are defined as arts service organizations that serve and enhance the capacity of artists and arts groups.
2014 - 2015 Civic Partners
2012 - 2013 Community Partners
Nine of the 137 funded organizations are designated community partners, which are defined as arts service organizations that serve and enhance the capacity of artists and arts groups.
Artist Trust provides individual artists of all creative disciplines the necessary support to launch and sustain successful careers, through financial grants, career training and professional resources.
AVIA (Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences) provides audio-description of live arts performances, and other services to create access for those who are visually impaired.
ArtsEd Washington works to advance arts education for all Washington students by creating systemic change in how arts education is perceived, funded, and taught in the schools.
Shunpike's Storefronts Seattle promotes neighborhood vitality by bringing temporary art and creative enterprise to available retail storefront spaces and the Arts Business Clinic offers affordable consultation, training workshops and information resources for artists and arts groups in navigating business issues, management tactics and strategic priorities.
Springboard vaults a cohort of small to mid-sized arts and cultural organizations towards greater sustainability by guiding them through an in-depth assessment and planning process.
The Washington State Teaching Artist Training Lab is an eight-month professional development program for teaching artists working in all artistic disciplines. The Lab supports artists' ability to partner effectively with K-12 schools and teachers, to develop strong arts learning plans, to create safe and inclusive learning environments, and to develop creative and collaborative arts learning experiences for their students.
TeenTix facilitates arts encounters for teenagers aged 13-19, while empowering them to design and initiate those experiences. TeenTix makes Seattle's cultural life affordable and accessible to teens while developing an engaged community of young patrons for the arts.
Theatre Puget Sound's Arts Crush is a multi-disciplinary annual festival encouraging active participation in the arts by unifying the regional arts community around four overarching goals: Engaging Community, Creating Access, Inspiring Creativity and Building Arts Participation.
Cultural Congress is a collaborative conference bringing together a diverse group of cultural leaders to increase their knowledge of the field, strengthen skills and cultivate partnerships through intensive workshops, peer dialogue, and dynamic speakers.
2012 - 2013 Civic Partners
** Funded only in 2012