Assistance program
Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program
$14.5 Billion committed in FY2021–FY2026
- Agency
- Small Business Administration, Small Business Administration
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 59.075
- What it does
- The SVOG Program provided funds to support the ongoing operations of eligible live venue operators or promoters, theatrical producers, live performing arts organization operators, relevant museum operators, motion picture theater operators, and talent representatives who have experienced significant revenue losses due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Grantees had to be U.S based entities and cannot: (1) be publicly traded companies, or be majority owned and controlled by publicly traded companies; (2) have received more than 10% of their gross revenue from Federal funding (excluding Stafford Act funding) in 2019; (3) presented live performances of a prurient sexual nature or derive more than de minimis revenue from the sale or presentation of sexually prurient products, services, depictions, or displays; or (4) possessed, or be majority owned and controlled by any entity which possesses, more than 2 of the following characteristics (i) owned or operated venues, theaters, museums, or agencies in more than 1 country; (ii) owning or operating venues, theaters, museums, or agencies in more than 10 States; (iii) employing more than 500 employees.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 116-260
- Public Law 117-2
- Program site
- http://www.sba.gov/coronavirusrelief ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments