Fiscal Sponsorship

In 2023, MaCCNO began offering fiscal sponsorship services to arts and cultural practitioners in the New Orleans region.  We approach this work from a community and economic development perspective, with a focus on individuals or small organizations who have limited or no experience with grant writing or fundraising previously. In addition, we also provide grant writing and technical assistance to the projects we support, including helping them to incorporate as their own LLCs or 501c3 organizations.

Rather than using fees as an income generator, we take only the minimum to help cover our own expenses, as we know many of these projects are already working with extremely slim margins. For grants or projects with a budget of $2500 or less we take no fee; for grants or projects from $2501 to $10,000 we take 3% of the total; and for grants over $10,000 we take 5%. Over the past several years we have worked with first time festival promotors, Black Masking Indian tribes, Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, bands, filmmakers, and small cultural assistance organizations. Project budgets have ranged from under $2500 to $100,000, with a total of nearly $400,000 facilitated to support cultural projects.