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Tourist Development Cultural/Arts Program (TDC/A) Overview
The Tourist Development Cultural/Arts (TDC/A) program offers competitive funding to arts and cultural organizations for the production and marketing of performances, exhibitions and events that attract tourists to Sarasota County. Funding for the TDC/A program comes from the Tourist Development Tax (TDT) collected on room rentals for a term of six months or less in Sarasota County.
Each year the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County sponsors a grant-making cycle to recommend contract awards to qualifying arts and cultural organizations of Sarasota County. The ACA issues a request for proposals, assembles a panel to review applications, and then makes recommendations to the Tourist Development Council (TDC) which in turn sends its recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) for final approval.
Active Grant Cycles
Fiscal Year 2027 (October 2026 – September 2027)
Fiscal Year 2026 (October 2025 – September 2026)
Grant Guidelines – The grant guidelines include information on eligibility, performance targets, and grant scoring.
Overview of changes to the TDC/A Guidelines from FY25 to FY26
Resources for Grantees
Reimbursement and Reporting Documents
Reimbursement and Reporting Documents – These forms can be completed and sent to angelica@sarasotaarts.org to request reimbursement for your grant. Once downloaded, the forms are fillable PDFs.
Pages 8-10 are for use if needed
Pages 1-3 are required for Reimbursement 1
Page 1 and Pages 4-7 are required for the Final Report/Reimbursement 2
Zip Code Data
Please use one of these two templates to report the required ZIP code data:
Funding Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement – All printed materials and out-of-home marketing (i.e. billboards, airport displays, lobby displays) supported by TDC/A grant funds require acknowledgment of support from the Tourist Development Tax.
Please note that digital marketing (social media, eblasts, etc.) and audio/visual communications (TV, Radio, etc.) do not require acknowldgement.
Acknowledgment can include any of the following, whichever is appropriate:
“Paid for in part by Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax Revenues”
“Paid for by Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax Revenues”
If you would like EPS versions of these files, please email Angelica at angelica@sarasotaarts.org.
Interested in being a panelist?
We are actively recruiting grant panelists to help us review TDC/A grant applications. If you have arts experience or are simply an interested community member, please fill out the form at the link below and our team will get in touch!
If you have any further questions, please reach out to Angelica at angelica@sarasotaarts.org
