Our 2020 efforts to ensure #IndyKeepsCreating:
Keep Indy Creating Relief Fund
The $1 million fund distributed $420,000 in relief grants to artists and culture workers and $550,000 to nonprofit arts and culture organizations via a $500,000 CARES Act allocation from the City of Indianapolis Annual Grants Program COVID-19 Relief Fund and $50,000 from the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation. In addition, the Efroymson Family Fund matched individual contributions, up to a total of $100,000.
(Re)Start With Art
A virtual benefit, hosted by the Arts Council, presented by Schachet Hotels, and produced in partnership with WFYI, to celebrate the resiliency and innovation of the arts community.
Indy Arts and Culture Restart & Resilience Fund
A $10.2 million fund to assist the safe reopening of nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Supported by Lilly Endowment Inc.
City of Indianapolis Annual Grants Program
$1.4 million awarded in grants to 70 nonprofit arts and culture organizations.
Indy Arts & Culture COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund
900 rapid-response grants helped artists and arts and culture workers who suffered severe income losses. Special thanks to the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc., the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF), the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation, the Efroymson Family Fund, and the Herbert Simon Family Foundation, for generous investments of $50,000 each. We also appreciate Visit Indy’s donation of $30,000 from sales of official INDY T-shirts, in partnership with The Shop.