Support for Organizations Grant

The Support for Organizations Grant by Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) aims to empower 501(c)(3) nonprofit and fiscally sponsored arts and cultural organizations. This program supports public arts activities, with funding dependent on Hotel Occupancy Tax projections. Eligible applicants include arts and history organizations or museums as defined by the International Council of Museums.

About Houston Arts Alliance (HAA)
Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is to implement the City of Houston’s vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA’s work is conducted through contracts with the City of Houston, overseen by the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. HAA also executes privately funded special projects to meet the needs of the arts community, such as disaster preparation, research on the state of the arts in Houston, and temporary public art projects that energize neighborhoods.
In short, HAA helps artists and nonprofits be bold, productive, and strong.
The Support for Organizations grant program accepts 501(c)(3) nonprofit and fiscally sponsored applications annually to support arts and cultural activities that are open to the public. There are three different categories within the Support for Organizations grant program. All grant amounts listed below are dependent on Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) projections being realized.
Applicants in Categories 1 and 3 must be arts or history organizations with an art form, history, or preservation named in the purpose/mission statements found on pages 1 or 2 of their most recently made public 990 form OR they must be museums, as defined by the International Council of Museums in 2007: “A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of its society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, Tina Hernandez, ‘Nichos of the Afterlife’ (2023). Kismet Boutique, study, and enjoyment.”