The COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, The Denver Foundation, and Create Boulder created the COVID Arts & Culture Relief Fund to support nonprofit organizations that are experiencing a dramatic, unexpected loss in revenue.
As the year comes to a close, the pandemic continues to hit Denver’s arts and creative sector especially hard. In the early fall, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation and The Denver Foundation awarded nearly $1.2 million to 41 organizations through the COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund. Now, the Foundations are gearing up for a second round of emergency funding.
Arts organizations are invited to apply from January 6 – January 27, 2021. View the application guidelines.
Apply Now through The Denver Foundation's online grant portal.
Grant awards from the COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund will range between $5,000 to $50,000 per organization, with the goal of injecting much-needed revenue to keep organizations afloat during the public health crisis.
Supporters
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation committed $1 million toward the COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund and The Denver Foundation, which administers the fund, donated $50,000. Other donors at $25,000 or more are Denver Arts & Venues at $205,000; Gates Family Foundation at $100,000; R C Kemper Charitable Trust at $50,000; the Anthony and Delisa Mayer Foundation at $50,000; the JFM Foundation, also at $50,000; Cranaleith Foundation at $50,000; Create Boulder at $40,000; Rose Community Foundation at $25,000; Hemera Foundation at $25,000; and Hal and Ann Logan at $25,000. Individual donors also played an important role in growing the fund, with donations ranging from $15 to $15,000.
Donate now to support The COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund.
Grantees
Access Gallery
Art from Ashes
Art Students League
Boulder Ballet
Boulder Community Broadcast KGNU
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicano Humanities and Arts Council Inc.
Children’s Museum of Denver
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
Curious Theatre
D3 Arts
Dairy Center for the Arts
Denver Art Society
Denver March Powwow, Inc.
Filipino American Community
The HadaNou Collective for Vocal Coalition (VoCo)
Harmony – A Colorado Chorale
Latino Cultural Arts Center
Levitt Pavilion
Centro Cultural Mexicano dba Mexican Cultural Center
Mirror Image
Morrison Theater
Motus Theater
Museo de las Americas
Open Studios
Ovation West
Phamaly Theatre Company
Platte Forum
Pop Culture Classroom
RedLine
Rocky Mountain Arts Association
Rocky Ridge Music
ROSHNI
Studio Arts Boulder
Su Teatro Performing and Cultural Arts Center
Swallow Hill
The Word Storytelling Sanctuary
Think 360
Vintage Theatre
Warm Cookies of the Revolution
Youth on Record