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Metro Arts details FY25 grant awards, unpaid payments and status of a promised disparity study
Summary
Ashley Batchelder, interim executive director of Metro Arts, told the Arts, Parks, Libraries & Entertainment Committee that Metro Arts had distributed most FY25 grant dollars but that six grantees remained unpaid and a council-funded disparity study had not been completed.
Ashley Batchelder, interim executive director of Metro Arts, told the Arts, Parks, Libraries & Entertainment Committee that the agency had distributed the bulk of its FY25 grants but that several payment and programmatic questions remained, including an unresolved disparity study the council had funded.
Batchelder said Metro Arts funded 90 organizations with general operating support in the FY25 cycle and distributed awards that ranged "from about $1,000 to $66,000 this year." The agency also funded 75 Thrive project grants. Batchelder described the grant model as revenue-sensitive for operating awards and said Thrive grants were prioritized in this cycle, which resulted in somewhat smaller operating awards than in prior years.
On fiscal sponsorships for individual artists' Thrive awards, Batchelder said 59 of the 75 Thrive projects used fiscal sponsors and those projects worked with 33 unique fiscal-sponsor organizations. She said fiscal sponsors may charge administrative…
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