Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation: Grant for Arts

The Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation offers grants to small and mid-size creative arts organizations in Monroe and Ontario Counties, NY. Focused on enhancing community access to arts, the foundation supports visual, literary, and performing arts initiatives. Eligible organizations must have an operating budget of $2 million or less and provide arts education programming. The foundation aims to foster a vibrant arts community by offering flexible support for operational needs, empowering organizations to pursue their long-term goals.

About Us and This Opportunity
The Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation works to illuminate the potential of the communities we live in through meaningful grantmaking. In the spirit of our founders, Max and Marian Farash, the foundation focuses on partnering with big thinkers and visionary organizations of all sizes to provide resources and to take risks on bold new initiatives. As a private charitable foundation, we provide grants to organizations within Monroe and Ontario counties, as well as Jewish organizations and initiatives both locally and globally.
In 2023, the Farash Foundation launched a new Creative Arts strategy focusing on small to mid-size arts organizations with visual, literary, and performing arts at their center. This evolving strategy prioritizes organizations that provide readily accessible opportunities to experience creative arts and additionally have arts education programming as part of their regular operations.
Purpose
Creative Arts institutions in Monroe and Ontario counties, NY, are invited to apply for flexible support. These funds are unrestricted operating grants that can be used in any capacity the organization decides. It is not necessary to designate these funds to any program or budget item for this grant. The Farash Foundation intends to provide organizations with flexible support to help with operating needs and organizational sustainability

Eligibility

Creative Arts organizations in Monroe and Ontario counties that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service.Creative Arts organizations are defined as those utilizing creative expression and imagination through visual, literary, and performing arts, including music, theater, dance, spoken/ written word, and/or film as the primary medium to advance their mission.Only those organizations with operating budgets of $2 million or less are eligible to apply.

Ineligibility

Grants will not be made to individuals, partisan political organizations or to support lobbying efforts and attempts to influence legislation, research grants, or scholarships to individuals.