Funding Resources

Program provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to purchase or install renewable energy systems or make energy efficiency improvements. Agricultural producers with at least 50% of gross income coming from agricultural operations, and small businesses in eligible rural areas may apply.

Grant program designed to support targeted technical assistance, training and other activities leading to the development or expansion of small and emerging private businesses in rural areas that have fewer than 50 employees and less than $1 million in gross revenues. Funds must be directed for projects benefiting rural areas or towns under 50,000 in population.

USDA’s Housing Preservation Grants provide qualified, public, non-profit organizations and public agencies funding to assist very-low and low-income homeowners to repair and rehabilitate their homes in rural areas. Individual homeowners are not eligible.

Program provides funding for eligible organizations to engage and deepen the impact of arts programming on local and underserved audiences through exposure to and interaction with professional visiting artists. Grant amounts range from $1,000 to $7,500. There is a 1:1 match requirement for this program. Eligible applicants include the following: Established 501(c)(3) organizations; Units of local governments (including schools, universities, libraries, arts agencies, etc.); and Federally recognized tribal communities.

The General Operating Support (GOS) grant program provides funding for Kansas public and private non-profit arts and cultural organizations, including museums, local arts councils and commissions, statewide arts and cultural service organizations, and organizations that have cultural program activities in any of the art and cultural disciplines (music, dance, theatre, creative writing, literature, painting, sculpture, folk arts, photography, crafts, media arts, visual arts, programs of museums, and other such allied, major art forms). The organization’s mission must directly support arts and cultural programming. Maximum grant amounts range from $1,000 to $25,000 depending on eligibility requirements. KCAIC requires that all grants are matched at a minimum of 1:1 through a combination of cash and in-kind expenses. Eligible applicants include the following: established 501(c)(3) arts organizations whose primary purpose is to produce, present, promote or serve the arts; Federally recognized tribal communities; and Units of local governments.

Program connects communities through public art & mural projects. Maximum request is $10,000 and a 1:1 match is required (for a $10,000 award, $10,000 – match required, of which 75% may be in-kind, except for rural communities with a population less than 15,000 for which 100% of the match can be in-kind). Eligible applicants include established 501c3 organizations, units of local government, and federally recognized tribes.

This program awards grants to qualifying organizations that present public events in their community. Touring artists must come from outside the presenter’s state but within M-AAA’s service region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas). Organizations must be a 501(c)3 not-for-profit or a unit of state or local government or a federally recognized tribal entity.