To check specific grant eligibility, visit our Grants Opportunities and Workshops page, which includes the most updated links to our grant guidelines.
Enter your individual/organizational address in this City of Houston mapping tool to find your council district and council member.
Use this to confirm whether your residence or organization’s headquarters is located within City of Houston limits. City residency is a requirement for eligibility for all HAA grants.
You can also find your City Council district by calling the Houston Service Helpline at 311.
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The Final Report is a form that all HAA grantees are required to complete by the date listed in their grant contract. It is the last step in the grant process, used to demonstrate you have fulfilled all deliverables within your contract.Grantees must submit a completed final report in order for HAA to process their last grant award payment. After a final report is approved, final payments are made to grantees within 30 days.
More details are below but as always, feel free to contact the Grants team via the Support Desk.
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Grant recipients are required to acknowledge the support of the City of Houston and Houston Arts Alliance to demonstrate how City funds support arts and culture.
All grant recipients must use the required logos and credit line on all printed and electronic materials that advertise performances, exhibitions, or other public events throughout their work or, for those receiving operating support, throughout the grant period.
Credit line:
This [work, event, organization, individual] is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
Grantees must upload an example of marketing materials (promotional materials, flyers, photographs with captions, publications, programs, postcards, announcements, press releases, etc.) crediting the support of the City of Houston and Houston Arts Alliance.
The uploaded marketing materials from the funded work can be used by Houston Arts Alliance or the City of Houston for arts and cultural advocacy and promotion.
Use the following format to name your images so that we can give you credit:
[Artist Name], ‘[Title of Artwork/Play/Performance]’ directed by [Director’s Name], cast (from left to right) [Cast Names], [Year], [Photographer Name]. [Venue Name], [Location].
For conciseness we use Courtesy of [Artist Name or Organization Name] for web materials.
Grant recipients are required to submit their event on the Houston Cultural Events Calendar. Register to create your account here. Please note your account may take a few days to be approved.
Please ensure that your Cultural Events Calendar submission mirrors how you set up your applicant profile within our grants portal when you applied for your grant.
For example, if you applied as an artist collective, the lead artist, who is also named on the grant application and contract, should submit the cultural events calendar submission.
For example, if you applied as a collaboration of organizations, the lead organization that is named on the grant application and contract should submit the cultural events calendar submission.
Please note that upon submission of your final report, grant staff will verify that the Cultural Events Calendar submitter’s information matches the grantee’s information in the grants portal.
Visit our Quick Guide for how to submit an event or event series. If your organization or venue is not one of our drop down options, please submit a venue request, or an organization request.
If you have would like to report an issue with the calendar, please fill out a form here.
If you have any other questions or concerns, email us at calendar@haatx.com.
The final report also requires grantees to list grant expenditures. You will NOT be required to upload corresponding documentation, but you must retain these documents for at least three (3) years and make them available upon request by Houston Arts Alliance or the City of Houston.
What May Not Be Funded
For grants funded with Hotel Occupancy Tax, funds may not be used for activities, programs or events or their administrative costs that are not consistent with the intent of the Hotel Occupancy Tax as defined in Sections 351.101(a)(4-5), 351.101(b) and other applicable sections of the Texas Tax Code.
Additionally, Houston Arts Alliance grant funds may not be used for:
Hotel Occupancy Tax Information
Grants are provided by local Hotel Occupancy Taxes in support of the encouragement, promotion, improvement, and application of the arts and the enhanced tourism and benefit to the convention and hotel industry that results from Houston’s growth as an arts and culture destination. Houston Arts Alliance will, in collaboration with recipients of this grant, work to highlight the impact of grantee work on Houston’s creative identity, its tourism, and the hotel and convention industry.
Grant-funded projects must include a public facing presentation that allows an audience to meaningfully engage with the work. Public presentations may be in person, virtual, or hybrid, but they must include a structured opportunity for audience participation, or dialogue. Simply posting content online, or displaying work without an engagement component does not meet this requirement.
In-person & virtual public presentations must take place within the City of Houston city limits and be open and accessible to the general public. Ticketed events are allowed, but attendance cannot be restricted in a way that prevents public access. If space is limited, attendees must have an equal opportunity to participate on a first-come, first-served basis. Applicants are responsible for securing any required permits, insurance, or approvals related to their event.
Eligible public presentations may include exhibitions, screenings, performances, readings, festivals, workshops, livestreamed events, artist talks, guided tours, community conversations, or similar public programs.
The following do not qualify as public presentations on their own, however this list is not exhaustive:
For organizations whose primary mission is not arts and culture, the public presentation must focus on the specific arts or cultural program supported by the grant. Programs that primarily take place in K–12 schools must also include a public-facing component that is open and accessible to the general public.
At the close of the grant term, applicants must upload at least two work samples that document the completed grant-funded activity. Work samples should clearly show the final product, audience engagement, and the live public presentation connected to the grant.
These materials help HAA staff confirm that compliance requirements were met during the grant term. Work samples may also be used to highlight funded projects in future HAA marketing, reporting, and promotional materials.
Applicants may upload up to two individual media files in the following formats:
Accepted file types: PNG, JPG, MP4, or MOV
File size limit: 100 MB maximum per media upload
