Smaller and mid-sized arts organizations will receive a bigger share of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) public fund if voters approve an extension of the metro Denver sales tax in 2016.The SCFD gave more than $50 million to around 280 organizations — ranging from the Denver Zoo to the Evergreen Chorale — in 2014. That revenue comes from a 0.1 percent of sales and use tax that dates back to 1989.

But officials plan to change how that money gets distributed if voters across seven counties reauthorize the tax again next year. Voters have approved to extend the SCFD tax twice before: in 1994 and in 2004.