Applying to be fiscally sponsored

Groups or individuals interested in being fiscally sponsored by Surel’s Place are asked to fill out this form. It is designed not just to help our board determine which efforts we can support and to what level, but also to give new or emerging organizations a chance to work through some of the questions they are likely to face.

Please feel free to contact us at any time while you are thinking through whether such an opportunity is right for you or your organization. Reach out to Executive Director Greg Hahn at greg@surelsplace.org.

Fiscal Sponsorship Inquiry Form

Organization or Project Name(Required)

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What is the project or effort you would like to be sponsored?(Required)

Surel’s Place can become a fiscal sponsor of organizations or efforts that share our organizations broad mission to support the arts and our values to boost equity and access, build the local arts community, and support local, emerging and BIPOC artists.

What is the mission of your organization (or of this project, if it is a standalone project)?(Required)

What are your organization's goals? And what are the goals of this particular project?(Required)

How would you describe your organization's values and/or the values that will guide this project?(Required)

Please describe your organization's approach to diversity, equity and inclusion?(Required)

Surel's Place gives special consideration to fiscal sponsorship projects that share our core audiences and values. Please check all the boxes that directly apply to your proposal:

A focus on the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District

A focus on Garden City in general

A focus on BIPOC artists

A focus on other artists not traditionally given the same level of access (LGBTQA+ artists, artist with disabilities, etc.)

A focus on nontraditional arts audiences

Please offer some details about each of the areas of focus you checked.

How will your project boost access and opportunity for artists — and audiences — who have not been traditionally served by the arts community?(Required)

How would you like a fiscal sponsorship to help your efforts?(Required)

In the simplest of terms, a fiscal sponsorship can offer large donors the chance to deduct their donations from their federal income taxes and it can allow a project to be funded by governmental or private grantors that only offer grants to 501(c)(3) nonprofits. Please note that due to a law change in the past few years, most donors today do not give enough to individually itemize gifts on their tax forms — so the perk of tax-deductibility is limited to those who give several thousand dollars or more every year. Also, note that some grantors do not require a fiscal sponsor and some will not give through a fiscal sponsor — so the arrangement doesn’t offer a universal solution.

We know you may not have a hard number in mind, but about how much money would you hope to raise through a fiscal sponsorship, where do you envision it coming from (ideas about donors, grantors, etc.)?(Required)

What do you plan to spend the money on? And how will your organization or project make financial decisions?(Required)

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