2023-2024 Creative Sector Flex Fund grantee Confluence Ballet Company's "The Nutcracker for a Difference" at Kelly Strayhorn Theater // Photo by Patrick Fisher

Creative Sector Flex Fund


The Creative Sector Flex Fund provides $5,000 grants to arts organizations.

The Creative Sector Flex Fund (CSFF), a grant program from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, provides $5,000 to arts organizations in Allegheny, Beaver, Greene, and Washington counties with average annual revenues between $10,000 - $200,000. 

Applications for the Creative Sector Flex Fund are now closed and under review. Grantees will be notified in December 2024 and publicly announced in January 2025.

Grantees have the flexibility to use $5,000 grants in ways that ensure the most significant impact for their organizations and communities.  Eligible uses include the support of applicants’ administrative, programmatic, project-related expenses, and more.

Previous examples of 2023-2024 Creative Sector Flex Fund awardees can be seen here: $150,000 in Grants Awarded to 30 Regional Arts Organizations

If you have questions about the Creative Sector Flex Fund, please email Program Specialist Mona Wiley at grants@pittsburghartscouncil.org.

The Arts Council is administering this grant on behalf of the PCA for Allegheny, Beaver, Greene, and Washington counties.

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