Project Funding for organizations

• Financial statements for the most recently completed fiscal year, signed by two members of the Board of Directors
• The organization’s letters patent, including all pages of the document
• The organization’s by-laws
• Organizational policies, standards or regulations, if applicable
• Up to four hyperlinks to excerpts or full texts of works or activities related to the application

Who is eligible?

• Incorporated non-profit organizations.
• Non-dividend artist cooperatives.

Who is not eligible

• Individual artists.
• Artists’ collectives.
• Organizations incorporated as general or limited partnerships.
• Organizations that receive operations support from the Conseil’s General Funding Program.
• Public or para-public organizations representing governments or municipal corporations.

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Sound recording projects of a promotional and/or commercial nature, at every stage of album production, including pre-production, recording, editing, mixing and mastering.
• Creative writing projects, including research, writing or editing projects.
• Projects mainly focused on cultural mediation.
• Film, video or web production projects, from research and scriptwriting to post-production.
• Projects primarily intended for training, internships or masterclasses.

Eligible geographic areas

• Island of Montréal

• Artistic merit (60%): project quality, consistency with the organization’s mandate and artistic orientations, and originality of past projects.
• Contribution to community development and public outreach (20%): audience outreach strategies, community impact, and dissemination potential.
• Management and administration (20%): feasibility, realistic budget forecasts, financial stability, governance, and partnerships.
• Strategic impact priorities: equity and representation, local outreach, and eco-responsibility, with maximum points for each.

• Choose one of the three yearly calls for applications.
• Prepare the ORORA application form in French.
• Include the detailed project description and the budget.
• Attach the required documents if they are not already on the organization’s ORORA profile.
• Submit the application through ORORA.

• The Conseil processes applications and makes decisions in about twelve to fourteen weeks after the application deadline.
• Applicants receive the decision by email and are invited to view the results on ORORA.
• The Conseil’s decisions are final and not subject to appeal.
• Organizations must submit a final project report on ORORA within four months after the end of the project.
• Organizations may not submit new requests if the required reports have not been produced within the required deadlines.

• Three calls for applications are scheduled each year: on November 12, 2025, on February 26, 2026 and August 19, 2026.
• Applications are submitted through the ORORA portal.
• The decision time is twelve to fourteen weeks after the application deadline.
• The grant is paid in one payment, after the decision letter has been sent.