Thank you so much for the introduction, the services of the Design Guild are a great benefit for the ecosystem imo. The funding would cover the costs for you to collaborate with the other DAOs?
I’ll leave 2 guides in here which might be helpful 
- how to apply for funding to the Creatives DAO
- reward for Guild facilitation (30% max.), as your mentioned value is higher than the 30%, from what I can see here
As for this: the Creatives DAO funding usually does not cover work that has already been done. A Guild requests the funding first for the projects and once approved will start working on them.
Do you already have collaborations for January confirmed? Generally the projects should already be listed in the new funding request so it is visible where the funds go to.
Just tagging the remaining @creativesdao-council in here to also leave a comment