Fast Track Arts Grants is sponsored by James F And Marion L Miller Foundation. Provides one-year or multi-year operating support for small to mid-sized Oregon arts organizations. The program is designed to be fast and flexible, with a one-step application process and decisions typically made within 6-8 weeks.

Geographic focus: Oregon

Focus areas: Arts, Community Support, Operating Support

Grant Programs | Miller Foundation Individual Artist Grants Portal Organization Grants Portal photo credit: Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Miller Foundation believes in supporting our applicants every step of the way. Organizations can apply for funding for arts and K-12 education activities in Oregon. Get connected with a grant Welcome!

Are you trying to figure out if your organization is a fit for Miller funding? Oregonians: We fund organizations in Oregon with activities in arts or K-12 education. Established: Organizations can apply after providing programs or services to the community for 3 years or more.

Charitable: Applicants can be 501(c)(3) organizations, public entities, tribal or municipal governments, and schools. (Schools must meet specific eligibility considerations .) Most of our grant funding is provided as operating support.

To help our grantees succeed, we offer single- and multi-year grants. The Miller Foundation has been prioritizing operating support for well over a decade because we want you to have maximum flexibility in your work. We know that to realize your vision, you need support that helps you keep the lights on, make payroll, and respond to unexpected challenges and opportunities.

Explore grant opportunities Apply once per year: Organizations that do not have current open grants with Miller may apply once in a 12-month period. Submit final reports: Organizations with current Miller grants are typically eligible to re-apply after submitting the final report near the end of their grant period. Re-Applying: Starting a new grant request begins by taking the Eligibility Quiz in our organization grants portal.

See how you fit into our funding world by clicking on your organization's category below. From there, we'll guide you through what you need to know to apply! Additional funding categories The Miller Foundation began providing grants directly to individual artists through the Spark Award for Oregon Artists.

Learn more here . The Miller Foundation has also collaborated with the Oregon Community Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission to fund individual artists. Specifically, we participated in funding the Artist Relief Program and the Artist Resilience Program as part of our COVID-19 response efforts.

Miller Foundation is not currently accepting requests from new applicants with fiscal sponsors. The Miller Foundation currently funds several statewide institutions whose scope of activities extend beyond our current arts and education priorities, but which provide important support to these sectors.

We fund Oregon Museum of Science and Industry , the High Desert Museum , and the Oregon Coast Aquarium because they provide students and teachers a "classroom like no other" through on-site experiences, online resources, and teacher professional development, all of which connect to core academic subjects in our state’s schools.

Oregon Public Broadcasting provides critical coverage of the arts and education in Oregon, keeping both those sectors and the general public informed and engaged. The Miller Foundation currently funds several statewide institutions whose scope of activities extend beyond our current arts and education priorities, but which provide important support to these sectors.

We fund Oregon Museum of Science and Industry , the High Desert Museum , and the Oregon Coast Aquarium because they provide students and teachers a "classroom like no other" through on-site experiences, online resources, and teacher professional development, all of which connect to core academic subjects in our state’s schools.

Oregon Public Broadcasting provides critical coverage of the arts and education in Oregon, keeping both those sectors and the general public informed and engaged. Fast Track Grants, for arts organizations with operating expenses between $25,000-500,000, have no relevant due dates , applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We value your time!

We don't want Organization's time to be spent applying for something we don't currently fund . Please see the list below for exclusions. The exclusions below apply to all organizations.

Be sure to review the tab above for your organization type.

Activities that we do not currently fund include: ​​Capital purchase and permanently installed (non-movable) equipment Debt relief and endowment Religious institutions and programs significantly shaped by religious affiliation (with rare exceptions for religiously-affiliated schools providing tuition-free opportunities to specific student populations) Libraries or library foundations Colleges and universities ‍ Requests for individual schools or classrooms for in-school projects or programs (arts education courses, assemblies, school trips to performances, school clubs, field trips, art materials, or musical instruments) Adult education , including adult literacy programs and standalone adult arts education The exclusions below apply to Arts and Arts Education organizations.

Be sure to review the General tab for exclusions applying to all organizations.

Activities that we do not currently fund include: Museums whose primary focus is not art (except for culturally specific museums) Art therapy/arts programming in therapeutic settings Arts programming in residential or correctional settings Scholarships or tickets to performances After-school arts enrichment programs Recreational camps and summer programs Festivals , either single-focus or culturally specific, with the exception of festivals where the primary focus is art (film, music, visual art, literary arts, etc.) The exclusions below apply to Education organizations.

Be sure to review the General tab for exclusions applying to all organizations.

Activities that we do not currently fund include: Social service supports , including mental and behavioral health interventions, foster care and juvenile justice programs Physical education , including sports programs Environmental or ecology education , including gardening programs Special Education programs or schools focused on a single diagnosis After-school enrichment programs such as Boys & Girls Clubs Scholarships or tuition assistance Private schools with tuition-based, traditional models where most students pay tuition ‍ Pre-K/Early Learning supports (we fund these only by invited initiative) ‍ Parenting or caregiver education (as distinct from school-based family engagement) Food and housing assistance for families ‍ Recreational camps and summer programs (except for programs addressing academic disparities or summer learning loss) Museums (except regional institutions with extensive K-12 education programming) Career pathways or workforce Development Higher Education institutions Permanent school personnel and activities that fall under public schools' core operating budgets School Foundations and school districts We value your time and aim to make our application process easy.

After reviewing the exclusions above, eligible organizations can get started in our Organization Grants Portal. We are currently only accepting requests that strongly align with Miller Foundation's current funding criteria. Applying in the portal will begin with the Eligibility Quiz.