🏘️ FISCAL SPONSORSHIP INQUIRY FORM

Open Television (OTV) is thrilled to announce that we are now officially accepting applications for fiscal sponsorship opportunities!

This initiative is exclusively focused on supporting artist development and community-building programs that serve intersectional communities. We’re especially prioritizing working artists who have participated in any OTV program and remained engaged with the OTV Multiverse.

This is your opportunity to elevate your impact with the support of OTV’s network, resources, and shared vision.

Please note: This opportunity is specifically intended for initiatives that develop artists and foster community - such as filmmaker workshop series, mentorship pairings, collective-led salons, and other programming that actively identifies, supports, and activates the next generation of intersectional storytellers, filmmakers, and creatives.

At this time, we are not fiscally sponsoring one-off events, individual projects, films, series or productions that are not intentionally structured around long-term, community-rooted artist development.

How We Work Together: Through this program, OTV offers fiscal sponsorship services including:

• Access to OTV’s financial resources, including but not limited to: grant disbursements, fiscal management, and administrative operations support. A fiscal sponsorship fee ranging from 5–10% will be applied, based on the size and scope of the grant or funding received.
• Fundraising support in the form of grant writing, case-making and evaluation strategy.
• [Optional] Quarterly Check-Ins to review budget updates and overall program goals. These sessions offer space to align on self identified priorities, surface fundraising needs, and receive programmatic strategy guidance as needed. 
• Collaborative networking and access to OTV’s artist development resources
• Priority consideration for co-creating workshops, community events, or artist development activations - such as pitching ideas for OTV Studio programming or OTVLIVE[STREAM] - as opportunities arise

We’re here to walk alongside you - to amplify your work, support your infrastructure, and help you confidently navigate the funding landscape.

APPLYING

You will need to create a free Submittable account in order to submit an application.

All notifications regarding your application will reference the email you provide when creating your Submittable account. To ensure you don’t miss any critical messages, we recommend that you enable safelist notifications. Please note, that the application will auto save to a draft.

QUESTIONS?

For Submittable questions, reach out to Customer Support for more information.

For questions related to fiscal sponsorship please email development@weareo.tv.