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Use this guide to determine your organization's annual expenses using actual financial records from the past 12 months. It walks you through gathering documentation, categorizing expenses, calculating your total annual expenses, and following best practices to ensure your grant application is accurate and complete.
Use this worksheet to organize and calculate your actual expenses from the past 12 months. It provides a structured template for documenting financial records, totaling expenses by category, and preparing the information needed to complete your grant application accurately.
This document is a template agreement that establishes the working relationship between a fiscal sponsor and a sponsored project participating in The Long Center's FY27 Cultural Services grant program.
Use this form if you are applying for a Heritage Preservation Grant on behalf of a property owner. It documents the property owner's authorization for you to submit the application, confirms their awareness of the project's requirements, and designates you as the primary contact for the grant process.
Use this template to develop clear, actionable SMART goals that support your organization's long term growth and sustainability for ACME Thrive Grant.
Use these definitions to help categorize your expenses for Heritage Event or Capital Improvement Project.
Use this template to upload up to three pages of evidence that clearly demonstrate the activities you selected in the Evidence‑Based Multiple‑Choice Questions for the Austin Live Music Fund. Applicants may include links to outside content, add text, or embed images or videos.
Applicants to the Austin Live Music Fund must upload evidence that backs up their answers to the Evidence Based Multiple-Choice Questions. This guide helps you select the strongest possible upload and explain how it supports your answer.
This resource list provides tools to support historic research, verify designation or eligibility, and access preservation standards for your Heritage Preservation Grant project proposal.
Download this fillable form for potential Heritage Preservation Grant applicants planning Capital Improvement or Heritage Event projects on city-owned parkland to provide APR with essential project details.
A quick walkthrough for any 2026 AACME Funding Awardee using Submittable to manage grant forms, contracts, and payments.
An important part of your ACME Grant Eligibility and Application forms are your work samples. Work Samples help to provide additional information and evidence of your work to supplement your application.
This is a fillable document available for you to use as a template while completing the narrative questions in the Elevate application.
This is a fillable contract required for all applications using a Fiscal Sponsor for the Nexus Grant.
Submittable serves as an online platform designed to gather grant applications, foster communication with applicants, assess content, and oversee the decision making process
The 2025/2026 AACME application window is divided into three separate steps. Step 1: Intake Form, Step 2: Eligibility Verification Form, Step 3: Application Form
Review the definitions for administrative terms you may come across in AACME funding initiatives.
Often its not just one person who contributes to a grant application. Whether you are using a Fiscal Sponsor, hiring a grant writer, getting help from your bandmates, or you have a development department - knowing who needs to be the primary account holder in Submittable is important.
Submittable serves as an online platform designed to gather grant applications, foster communication with applicants, assess content, and oversee the decision making process
This is a fillable document available for you to use as a template while completing the narrative questions in the Austin Live Music Fund application.
This is a fillable document available for you to use as a template while completing the narrative questions in the Austin Live Music Fund application.