Austin Arts Culture Music and Entertainment department has opened applications to their various grants. See the breakdown of last round’s recipients.

731 AACME Funding Program Awards totaling $24,299,535.00

Creative space assistance Grant (22 recipients $1,320,000)

  1. Almost Real Things

  2. Ballet Afrique

  3. Chess Club (Flying Houses LLC)

  4. dadaLab

  5. DAWA-Diversity Awareness and Wellness in Action

  6. Flamingo Cantina

  7. Ground Floor Theatre

  8. Kick Butt Coffee

  9. Texas Music Museum, Inc. 

  10. Torch Literary Arts

View complete list:

ACME_2026_FUNDING_PROGRAM_AWARD_LIST_watermarked.pdf

AACME 2026 Funding Award List

Austin.gov

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Heritage Preservation Grant (22 recipients $3,000,274)

  1. Austin Woman's Club

  2. Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts, Inc

  3. Antone's Nightclub

  4. Austin Chinese-American Network

  5. J.O.I. Community Outreach

Live Music Fund (399 recipients $7,140,000)

Venues

  1. Antone's Nightclub

  2. Flamingo Cantina

  3. Kingdom Nightclub

  4. The Concourse Project

  5. VINYL Beauty Bar

Musicians and Promotors

  1. Arya

  2. Babestock Music Festival

  3. Brian Wolff

  4. CasinoATX

  5. DJ BAD APPLE

  6. Howdy Gals

  7. Gus Miller & The Buzz Killers

  8. Jackie Venson

  9. Luna Luna

  10. promqueen

Elevate Grant (288 recipients $12,839,251)

  1. A3 Art Alliance Austin

  2. Austin Creative Reuse

  3. Austin Opera

  4. Black Rose Theater ATX

  5. Esquina Tango

  6. Film Industry Lab and Mentorship Society

  7. Fuse Box Austin

  8. Hyperreal Film Club

  9. KOOP Austin Community Radio

  10. Texas Book Festival

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