Arts & Heritage Fund - Technical Assistance Grants
Funding Amount
$500
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
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Geography
- Located throughout service area
Other requirements
- Arts organizations
- Heritage/historical organizations
- Cultural organizations
- Must not qualify for General Operating Support Grants
Overview
Manager: Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville
Purpose:
Provide technical assistance and funding to developing arts and heritage organizations that do not yet qualify for General Operating Support Grants, with the goal of helping them develop to eventually become eligible for General Operating Support.
Eligible Applicants:
- Arts organizations
- Heritage/historical organizations
- Cultural organizations
- Must not qualify for General Operating Support Grants
- Located throughout service area
Fund Allocation:
- 5% of Arts & Heritage Fund designated for Technical Assistance Grants
Award Amount:
- Approximately $500 per grant
- Example: FY2013 awarded two Technical Assistance Grants of $500 each
Focus:
Developing organizational capacity in governance, administration, fundraising, strategic planning, and other areas needed to build sustainable operations.
What Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 41
- Total given
- $951K
- Median grant
- $20K
- Range
- $7,925–$93K
- By dollars: Tennessee 100%. Top recipient cities: Knoxville, TN.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 12% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Dogwood Arts Festival · Knoxville, TN
Support art in the c
$93K
Clarence Brown Theatre · Knoxville, TN
Support art in the c
$41K
Blount Mansion · Knoxville, TN
Support art in the c
$35K
James White Fort · Knoxville, TN
Support art in the c
$35K
Mabry-Hazen House · Knoxville, TN
Support art in the c
$35K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Arts
- Nonprofits
- Capacity building
- Small grants
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