Acquisition Budget - The program results in a museum-quality artwork that enters the collection and they can often pull from this budget. They may also approach a patron interested in supporting this kind of acquisition. Especially patrons interested in community engagement, or who have a specific Community Group that they are affiliated with that could be invited to one of the Scrollathon sessions.

Artist Residency - Since Steven and William Ladd will be onsite facilitating the programs, museums can pull from a residency budget that is in place or they can approach a patron that gets excited about the community being directly exposed to professional artists. Steven and William have often been told that there are very few artists in the world on their level that make themselves directly available to the community in this way.

Programming, Education, Engagement, and Public Programs Budgets - Scrollathon typically fulfills all of the criteria for use of these budgets. This opportunity has an individual, local, state, and national scope which is usually broader than existing programming efforts. This is a plus for approaching a patron for specific funding!

Exhibition Budget: The National Scrollathon results in a suite of artworks that can be exhibited at the museum (Collaborative Masterwork, Portrait Mural, Signature Plate, Storyteller Videos) and can therefore pull from an exhibition budget. Since the works can be exhibited at the conclusion of the program in 2025 and then again in 2026 during the Semiquincentennial some institutions are able to pull from multiple fiscal year's exhibition budgets.

Special Projects: Often a museum has funds for Special Projects that intersect with community and the exhibition spaces. 

Marketing and PR - Some institutions are pulling from these budgets and using it as an opportunity to be part of a national conversation about the 250th Anniversary of America

Match Funding - We have been able to secure some funding through our own efforts for institutions that cannot support the program. This funding is not guaranteed and is only available to Institutions that have committed to doing the project and can demonstrate that their community does not have the resources to fund. Just as an FYI, museums who do not have the resources for the community because they are in the process of funding a new building have not been successful at securing this Match Fund.

Additional Resources - In some cases we have been able to secure additional funding to supplement the Match Fund which has been the case for Guam and Northern Mariana Islands. 

In-Kind - In some instances the museum has brought the cost down by directly paying for travel and lodging which can often be donated through a local business.

There are many other approaches that museums are using but most of those involve standard Foundation, Individual, and Corporate approaches to fundraising around special opportunities.