The application deadline will be 5:00PM, ET on Thursday, June 27, 2024.
If you have questions about your organization’s eligibility, please take this quick and easy online Eligibility Quiz.
DCLA will consider proposals in every cultural discipline, and from every area of New York City, for services that take place within the five boroughs and within the City’s Fiscal Year 2025 (July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025).
All proposals must offer to provide a cultural activity of recognized quality that is accessible to the public during Fiscal Year 2025. Funded services can be as different as the organizations providing them, but they will all have a common commitment to cultural public service and public participation in the arts.
An Eligible organization will:
The following entities are not eligible to receive CDF funds:
To receive funds, grantees must be compliant with annual State and Federal filing requirements for nonprofit organizations, including New York State Charities Bureau filings as a non-profit organization.
Review the FY25 CDF materials below before submitting your application:
We’ve created an editable application worksheet and budget worksheet to help you prepare your application submission offline. The application worksheet includes all questions on the application as well as an indicator of the character count allowed for each narrative question. These worksheets are optional tools. You are not required to use them, and they are not a replacement for the online application. You must submit your CDF application and supplementary materials through our online portal.
Download and complete the templates below if our Guidelines indicate that you’re required to upload them to your online application.
For questions about the CDF guidelines, instructions or application content, contact your organization’s program officer directly via email. New applicants, and those who do not have a program officer, may contact the Department of Cultural Affairs’ Program Services Help Desk at cdfhelpdesk@culture.nyc.gov. New applicants will be assigned a program officer after the application period closes
If you are experiencing technical issues with the CDF application form, submit the IT support form.
After reviewing the resources provided above, we strongly encourage all applicants to attend a CDF application webinar. These tutorials give applicants the opportunity to ask questions of DCLA staff and prepare a competitive CDF application. Each webinar will feature the same presentation, and is expected to last approximately 90 minutes including Q&A.
Please send no more than two representatives from your organization; each webinar has a limit of 500 attendees. Each attendee must register separately.
If you are unable to attend a live webinar, the first webinar will be recorded, captioned, and made available on this website.
Virtual Office Hours are meant for applicants who have already reviewed the Fiscal 2025 application materials, attended/viewed the FY25 CDF webinar and still have questions related to the CDF application process.
When registering, you will be asked to submit your question in advance. In order to give DCLA staff time to prepare, we ask that you register no less than 24 hours before the office hour session you wish to attend.
Office hour sessions will be 60 minutes long and program officers will be present for the entire hour. Participants may come and go as is convenient for them.
For questions regarding accessibility or requests for an accommodation, please contact Sara Cobb, DCLA’s Disability Service Facilitator, at disabilityfacilitator@culture.nyc.gov.
DCLA is currently seeking panelists to serve for the FY25 CDF review period. To learn more about the panelist application process as well as how to serve, please click here.
Notification of the outcome of the FY24 CDF application process has been sent to all applicants. Please log in to the CDF web portal and click “View/Download” section of your FY24 CDF Grant Tile, accessible via the Dashboard in the DCLA portal, to access your FY24 CDF notification documents.
The Fiscal 2024 funding requirements for all CDF grantees is available; please download this PDF for instructions on returning your grant agreement, and other compliance requirements.