Funding Parameters — Recovery Funding for Professional Arts Presentation Organizations
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- Objective of the Recovery Funding for Professional Arts Presentation Organizations
- Who can apply?
- Application deadline
- Eligibility
- Eligibility criteria
- How is funding calculated
- Eligible expenses
- Ineligible expenses
- How to Apply
- Application process
- Application processing time
- Funding decisions
- How funding is provided
- Funding conditions
- Public Health Guidance
- Contact us
The Recovery Fund for Arts, Culture, Heritage and Sport Sectors is meant to complement other measures put in place by the Government of Canada, including the Major Festivals and Events Support Initiative, the Tourism Relief Fund, the Canada Community Revitalization Fund, the Canada Recovery Benefit, the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, the Canada Emergency Business Account, and the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy.
Objective of the Recovery Funding for Professional Arts Presentation Organizations
Administered by the Canada Arts Presentation Fund (CAPF), the Recovery Funding for Professional Arts Presentation Organizations is designed to help alleviate the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through targeted recovery support for Canadian not-for-profit organizations in the professional arts presentation sector that own or operate presentation venues and are experiencing significant viability and business continuity challenges.
Who can apply?
Eligible applicants include:
- Existing recipients of CAPF funding for 2021‑2022, as well as recipients with approved 2021‑2022 funding from the CAPF Support for Workers in the Live Arts and Music Sectors Fund and organizations that were eligible for support through the COVID‑19 Emergency Support Fund Phases 1 and 2 delivered in 2020‑2021 by the CAPF, which own or operate a presentation venue.
- Other organizations that can demonstrate they regularly provide a presentation venue for the professional live performing arts through letters of recommendation from three separate professional artists, art companies and/or CAPF recipients that use the venue, and if they are:
- a Canadian not‑for‑profit organization, incorporated under the Canada Not‑For‑profit Corporations Act or under corresponding provincial or territorial legislation
- a provincial, territorial or municipal institution (including agencies and public educational institutions that promote or organize presentation activities for the public)
- an Indigenous Peoples’ institution or a Status or Non‑Status Indians, Inuit or Metis organization; or
- an unincorporated organization or an ad hoc group from an ethnocultural or Indigenous community
Important
- Organizations that own or operate commercial spaces and venues are not eligible.
- In general, organizations that are supported by the Canada Music Fund’s (CMF) Emergency Support for Canada’s Live Music Sector 2021-2022 (Stream 1), through FACTOR for the Anglophone market and Musicaction for the Francophone market, are not eligible to the CAPF Recovery Funding for Professional Arts Presentation Organizations, except if they own or operate a multidisciplinary arts presentation venue. In such cases, please inform the CAPF regional office at the time of submitting your application under the Recovery Funding for Professional Arts Presentation Organizations, so that our program advisors can conduct a more comprehensive assessment of your eligibility.
Application deadline
The deadline to apply for the Recovery Funding for Professional Arts Presentation Organizations has been extended to Monday, December 13, 2021, 23:59 PST.
Eligibility
The Department of Canadian Heritage is responsible for determining the eligibility of the applicants.
Eligibility criteria
Applicants must demonstrate that the organization suffered a 50% or greater loss of earned revenue (i.e., box office, venue rentals, concession sales, etc.) in a 12-month period ending on or before August 31, 2021, compared to the same period in the most recent pre‑COVID year (i.e., the fiscal year ending between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2020).
How is funding calculated
- Support to eligible applicants will be tiered‑based, according to the size of applicants’ total operating budget
- Funding will be distributed amongst all successful applicants that meet all eligibility criteria
Eligible expenses
- Support will be provided for costs related to operating a venue (i.e., mortgage principal or rent, utilities, maintenance, insurance, property tax, etc.) in the federal fiscal year 2021‑2022 (April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022)
- Funding must be expended by March 31, 2022
Ineligible expenses
Funding must not be used:
- to cover costs already covered by Government of Canada COVID‑19 relief measures;
- towards costs related to the presentation such as programming, marketing and administration; or
- towards the purchase of capital items or renovations to adapt facilities to health and safety standards. These venues may be eligible for additional support through the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund for infrastructure.
How to Apply
- Read these funding parameters in their entirety
- Contact the Canadian Heritage regional office nearest you if you have any questions and to obtain an application package
- All applicants are required:
- To fill out an application/attestation form
- To provide two years of their organization’s financial statements for comparison:
- For their financial year that ended prior to the start of the pandemic (between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2020). This is referred to as the pre‑pandemic period.
- For their subsequent financial year that ended between April 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021 and that best indicates the loss of earned revenue and its impact due to COVID‑19. This is referred to as the pandemic period.
- Only complete applications will be accepted.
- Additional information and documents may be requested by program advisors in order to complete the assessment of an application.
- Applicants will also be required to attest:
- That their organization has been negatively impacted by COVID‑19, which has resulted in financial hardship to the organization and its operations, and therefore, their organization is in need of government funding.
- Note: applicants should take into account all revenues, including income generated from endowment funds, as well as any organizational surplus and/or reserves when attesting to the need for the Recovery Fund.
- Should funding be approved, applicants also agree:
- That this funding is to help ensure a continuity of operations, enabling the organization to continue contributing to the sector in the future.
- That the funds are not to be used to cover expenditures already funded by any other government COVID‑19 emergency and recovery/reopening measures, including but not limited to the Major Festivals and Events Support Initiative, the Tourism Relief Fund, the Canada Community Revitalization Fund, the Canada Recovery Benefit; the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, the Canada Emergency Business Account, and the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy.
- And acknowledge that their organization may only receive Recovery Funding for the same activities from 1 participating department or Agency (Canadian Heritage, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Canada’s regional development agencies, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada Media Fund, or Telefilm Canada)
- That their organization has been negatively impacted by COVID‑19, which has resulted in financial hardship to the organization and its operations, and therefore, their organization is in need of government funding.
Application process
Applicants are required to submit their documentation by email to the nearest Canadian Heritage regional office.
Application processing time
The program will seek to notify applicants of a decision within 12 weeks (from receipt of a completed application to notification of decision).
Funding decisions
Please note that decisions regarding eligibility and funding amounts are final.
How funding is provided
The Department will determine if the funding will be disbursed as a grant or as a contribution.
Funding conditions
This funding is subject to the funding conditions outlined in the regular CAPF published guidelines, and to the following additional conditions:
- Your organization must remain in good standing; the funding provided will help ensure a continuity of operations, enabling your organization to continue contributing to the sector in the future.
- Funding received from the Recovery Funding for Professional Arts Presentation Organizations, whether received as a grant or a contribution, may be audited by the Department to ensure funding conditions have been respected.
Public Health Guidance
We expect that you will act in compliance with applicable statutes, laws, bylaws, regulations, orders, codes, standards, directives and guidelines governing the activities for which funding is being sought, including those related to public health and safety due to the COVID‑19 pandemic.
Contact us
Department of Canadian Heritage
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- pch.info-info.pch@canada.ca
- Telephone
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