Community Theatre Orgs
Amateur & semi-professional
Event Production Companies
Galas, showcases, corporate events
Immersive Experience Operators
Escape rooms, haunted attractions
Funds digital capacity building for Canadian arts groups. Eligible activities include implementing tools and digital solutions, enabling system interoperability, and developing shared resources. Directly covers the cost of adopting a cloud-based inventory platform.
Covers organizational improvement, development, and digital capacity building. Open to a broader range of applicants than the Digital Generator. Includes adapting digital tools, reinforcing internal processes, and operational sustainability.
Supports arts presenter organizations. Development component can fund capacity-building activities that improve how organizations present and manage their assets and programming infrastructure.
Supports innovative software applications connected to the Canadian cultural sector. Film and TV production companies that adopt digital inventory management platforms may qualify, particularly when positioned as improving production efficiency and asset discoverability.
For organizations piloting a new digital tool or process. Ideal entry point for a film production company wanting to test a prop/costume inventory system before full deployment, framed as a production workflow modernization project.
Flexible grant for BC arts organizations and collectives. Allows applicants to prioritize the project with the most meaningful impact on their organization. Digitizing a physical asset collection directly strengthens organizational resilience and long-term sustainability.
Supports BC-based digital media and software projects with clear connections to art and technology. $600K total distributed in 2025 across 14 companies. Projects framing inventory as interactive discovery tools for audiences or collaborators are well-positioned.
Annual operating support for established BC performing arts non-profits. While not a project grant, operating funds can be used toward technology infrastructure as part of general organizational operations — including software subscriptions.
Toronto-based non-profit theatre companies can apply under Special Initiatives for projects that develop and advance theatre practice. Digitizing a costume/prop collection strengthens production capacity and long-term organizational development.
Ottawa-based performing arts organizations can access project grants covering creation, production, and presentation activities, plus a separate Capacity Building program stream for organizational infrastructure improvements.
BC non-profit arts and cultural organizations can apply through Community Gaming Grants for projects serving their communities. Digitizing an asset collection for lending or sharing with other local theatres is a strong application angle.
The strongest applications frame inventory digitization not as "buying software" — but as preserving cultural heritage assets, democratizing access to shared resources, and building lasting sector infrastructure for Canadian performing arts.
— Shawn DeWolfe,
Founder PropDB, Co-Founder Web321