Application Components

Our application is fairly straightforward and asks the following questions:

1. Name, Address, and Phone Number of the Member applying for fiscal sponsorship
2. Name of Legal Entity Responsible
   • This is the legal entity that money raised will be transferred to. The legal entity is the individual or business entity responsible for reporting the income we disburse on their tax return to the IRS.
3. Type of Legal Entity Responsible (Choose One)
   • Individual/Sole Proprietorship
   • Informal Group with an EIN
   • Corporation
   • Limited Liability Company (LLC)
   • General/Limited Partnership
4. Social Security Number or Employee Identification Number (EIN) for the Legal Entity Responsible
5. Residency status of the Legal Entity
6. Budget and Fundraising Information
   • If your project is temporary, base your numbers on projections for the total duration of the project.
   • If your project is multi-year or ongoing, please provide annual estimates.
   • Helpful hint: A budget is simply a plan for acquiring and spending funds to achieve specific goals by a certain time. No budget or plan is perfect and no one can precisely predict the future. Think of your budget as a tool you can use to identify the financial transactions needed to reach the artistic goals you have set. Be thoughtful and try to be accurate, but don't overextend yourself completing this.
7. Prospective Sources of Funding
   • You can answer this question as broadly as you'd like, including individual donors, specific grant opportunities, potential corporate sponsors, etc. 
8. Project Title or Company Name
   • Remember, the term "project" is used very broadly and may refer to either a one-time project, an ongoing project, group, or company, or even the work and career of an individual artist.
9. Temporary or Ongoing
   • We ask you to let us know if the timeline of your work is limited or if you're planning to fundraise for your ongoing work. Don't worry, your fiscal sponsorship won't end if your project activities continue beyond the date you originally entered as the project's end date in your application. 
10. Project Discipline
    • We are a non-curatorial fiscal sponsor, so your discipline does not affect your application status. We are also geeky, and like to share among our membership what disciplines everyone is working in.
11. Project Description
    • This is important! Our Board will review this more closely than any other part of the application.
    • For temporary sponsorship, you would describe a single project.
    • For ongoing sponsorship, give a general description of the kind of work you create or various projects you plan to produce.
12. Public Benefit of Project
    • By law, activities are only charitable if they provide some benefit to the public. Please let us know who will interact with or experience your work. 
13. Summary of Artist Qualifications/Group HistoryOnline Profile Text and Website Link
    • All sponsored projects will be set up with a public profile on our website - this should be a general description of you as an artist or of your group. You will be able to update this section at your discretion throughout your sponsorship. 
14. Short Tagline
    • A tagline is a brief, one-line description of your fiscally sponsored project. It is limited to 100 characters and will appear under your project title on your project’s public profile. You could also think of it as a catchy subtitle for your project.
15. Profile Description
    • This will display on your public fundraising Profile and is editable.
16. An image or video to include in your online profile.
17. Your Facebook and/or Twitter links, if you have them
18. Project Location
19. Do you have, or will you solicit, investors who are not also creative participants in the project?
    • An investor is someone who will own a share of the work and expect a financial return on the money they give. A donor is someone who gives with no expectation of receiving anything in return for the money they give.
20. Do you plan to have any lobbying or advocacy activities?
21. Do you currently or have you ever had your 501(c)(3) status?
22. Do you plan to disburse funds overseas?