SCR Grants
Grants Overview
Notable Numbers
The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (ALCA) is honored to serve as the coordinating site for the Statewide Community Regrants (SCR) Program funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
Through this program, ALCA helps to empower artists and nurture the arts throughout the Adirondack Quad-County region encompassing Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and Hamilton counties, and the Haudenosaunee tribal community of Akwesasne.
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With NYSCA's continued support, ALCA has tripled the amount of regrants awarded to Adirondack artists and arts organizations over the past three years - from $91,000 in 2022 to $285,000 per year in 2024 and 2025.
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Including the 2021-22 Restart New York Mini-Grants that NYSCA provided to arts and cultural organizations to help offset the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, ALCA has supported organizations and artists with a total of more than $1 million in arts funding since 2021.
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For the previous three SCR cycles beginning in 2022, ALCA funded 100% of the eligible SCR Arts Education and Community Arts applications that it received, totaling more than $462,000. In 2025, 92% of the applications received in these two categories were funded, totaling an additional $213,750.
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We dispensed another $195,000 in Individual Artist grants to 58 different artists and for 75 distinct projects—the maximum allowed by NYSCA—since ALCA revived this grant category beginning with the 2023 cycle.
ALCA Regrant Totals by Year (2022–2025)
45 Grantees
49 Projects
77 Grantees
84 Projects
$ 91,000
$ 210,000
$ 285,000
$ 285,000
81 Grantees
91 Projects
100 Grantees
104 Projects
2022
2023
2024
2025
2025 SCR Funding Totals by Grant Category
Arts Education
13 Projects
$37,050
Community Arts
54 Projects
$176,700
Individual Artists
24 Projects
$71,250
Founded in 1977, the regrant program was developed to ensure that New York State's cultural funding reached every part of the state and was aptly named the "Decentralization (DEC)" grant program. The concept of decentralization has since become one of the most effective ways for the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to make arts support available to geographically, economically, and ethnically diverse segments of the state's population.
The program - renamed the "Statewide Community Regrants (SCR)" program by NYSCA in 2021 - forms the cornerstone of the NYSCA’s partnership with local arts agencies throughout the state.
Statewide Community Regrant funds are disbursed locally by regional and local arts agencies, like ALCA, at the invitation of NYSCA. In our role, we are charged to be advocates and catalysts for arts and cultural development across the four counties we support and to provide a wide range of multi-arts programming and services for local communities, artists, and small organizations in these areas.
The New York State Council on the Arts has developed broad guidelines that provide a framework for implementing the program while giving the SCR sites the flexibility to tailor the program to the diverse communities they serve. Funding decisions are based on evaluative criteria designed by each SCR site and approved by NYSCA staff. A group of volunteers serve as peer reviewers.