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Find similar grantsCreation and Presentation Grants is sponsored by Wisconsin Arts Board. Provides artistic program and operational support to established nonprofit arts organizations whose primary mission is to create or present ongoing arts programming that makes a significant local, regional, or statewide impact on the cultural life of Wisconsin.
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Creation and Presentation Program Creation and Presentation Program FY27 Application Calendar (for new applicants only) Application Deadline Earliest Announcement of Grant Award or Rejection September 11, 2026 October 8, 2026 Dec. 14, 2026 Note: You must choose between the Creative Communities (CC) grant program and the Creation and Presentation (C&P) grant program.
You may not apply to both. If you have a current CC grant, please do not apply to C&P. The program supports 501(c)3 nonprofit arts organizations with strong operations - including stable management, ongoing assessment and evaluation, high artistic quality, and programming appropriate to the communities they serve.
These grants also fund overall operating support for eligible arts programs of tribal governments and universities. In these cases, the organizations will use either government or university nonprofit status. This is a multi-year grant program wherein applicants will submit a Full Year application in their designated year and submit Interim Year applications in the other three years of the cycle.
This allows us to collect information needed for accountability, but in a way that reduces the amount of work required of the applicant, and spreads that work over a four-year period. The Full Year application takes organizational size and capacity into account, even while it continues to be a rigorous tool upon which applicants can draw for applications to other funders.
The Interim Year application provides an artistic and organizational health “check-in." In both Full and Interim Years, the application form and narrative continue to be based on past performance rather than future projection. Requests for grants must be submitted through the Wisconsin Arts Board online application system .
New Applicants: Once an applicant registers within the application system and notifies the Arts Board, Arts Board staff creates the new application form for that applicant. All applicants are now required to have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) from SAM. gov. This is a requirement from the National Endowment for the Arts, which provides 50% of the Arts Board's funding.
For information on how to obtain your UEI, please refer to the UEI document in the Resources for Applicants section below. For those applicants who don’t have the technology or don’t have access to the technology to complete the application online, you must contact the Wisconsin Arts Board at 608-266-0190 or SAM. gov UEI Registration Instructions Obtaining your Unique Entity Identifier from Sam.
gov Instructional Video SmartSimple registration demo Updating your Organization's Mission Statement and Organizational History Applicants Submitting Full Year Applications Model Interim Year Application Narrative Sample In-Kind Contribution Report Sample Evaluation Tools What Application Review Panelists Want Applicants to Know (coming soon) Best Practices (identified by panelists and excerpted from FY26 applications): (coming soon) All past panels can be viewed on the WAB's youtube channel: https://www.
youtube. com/playlist? list=PLzh9JR9CJDgSvQYCju1nGhQUyJY2C4CvI FY20 Panel Review Audio Files (Presenting Organizations) FY21 Panel Review Videos (Folk, Literary, Multidisciplinary, Visual Arts Organizations) FY22 Panel Review Video (Music Organizations) FY23 Panel Review Video (Dance, Musical Theater, Opera, and Theater Organizations) Resources for Grant Recipients: What Comes Next?
Basic Eligibility Requirements Guidelines - (FY26 FULL Year, for reference only ) Guidelines - (FY26 INTERIM Year, for reference only) Narrative Questions & Elements to Consider - ( FULL Year for reference only ) Narrative Questions - ( INTERIM Year for reference only ) Peer Review Panel Meetings Panel meetings are livestreamed on the WI Arts Board's YouTube channel. These meetings are open to the public.
All applicants are encouraged to observe. To access the panel meetings: https://www. youtube.
com/c/WisconsinArtsBoard FY27 Full Year Panel meeting date (reviewing all Dance, Musical Theater, Opera, and Theater organizations): TBD FY27 New Applicants Panel meeting date (reviewing new applicants - in disciplines other than the above): TBD After contacting staff to discuss your need for an extension for your final report, please complete a Final Report or Grant Activity Extension Request Form .
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Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Nonprofit arts organizations in Wisconsin. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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The current target date is October 8, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, attachments, and final submission checks.
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