FY24 Grantee Requirements

• ADA Compliance
• Grant Notification Requirement
• Crediting Requirements
• Reporting Requirements
• Grants Fund Recovery Act

The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) supports universal access to the arts. The Agency abides by state and federal laws that prohibit public support to organizations (people or entities) that discriminate against people with disabilities. Therefore, each grantee is required to assure that they are in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that persons with disabilities have access to public programs for services on an equal basis with the rest of the general public. Furthermore, federal law mandates that any program or service that receives federal or state funding must be accessible to persons with disabilities. The IAC is committed to ensuring that the programs and services we fund are accessible to persons with disabilities, including those with visual, hearing, mobility, and learning impairments.  For Further information and resources on ADA Compliance, please visit IACA's ADA Compliance page.

Organizations that receive an Illinois Arts Council (IAC) grant are required as part of their grant agreement to notify by letter their state representative, state senator, and the Office of the Governor of the IAC grant amount and the project or program it helps support. Copies of these three letters must be submitted to the IAC with the signed grant agreements, and other required documents before grant funds will be released.

Grant recipients must credit the IACA in all promotional material and public notices in the following manner:

“(YOUR ORGANIZATION'S NAME) acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.”

For further information regarding usage of the logo and to download a copy, go to the logo page of this website.

Recipients of federally funded IAC grants:
If a grantee was notified that their grant was funded through federal funds they must, in addition to acknowledging support from the Illinois Arts Council, credit the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).  Use this language in all promotional material and public notices:

"This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts"

When possible include the NEA logo in addition to the IAC's logo.  The logo may be downloaded from the from the NEA website.

Final report forms are due within 30 days following the end of the grant period. Failure to submit a final report jeopardizes the receipt of future Council funding and will cause the following penalties to be imposed:

• There will be a 25% reduction of all current fiscal year awards for a grantee that is late filing any final reports from the previous year.

• If the grantee has no current fiscal year grant awards, the grantee will be prohibited from applying for any grants during the following fiscal year.

Any grant funds determined to have been misspent or improperly held are subject to recovery according to the terms of the Grants Funds Recovery Act of 1984, as amended. Project expenditures are deemed to consist of grant funds in the same proportions as defined by the matching requirement for the project grant.