Grant Opportunities
California Arts Council Grants are now open.
Grant Portals
Browse these listings for available funding opportunities.
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The California Grants Portal (a project by the California State Library) is your one destination to find all grants and loans offered on a competitive or first-come basis by California State agencies.
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This year’s grant program offerings have been carefully designed to benefit the whole of California’s arts and culture ecosystem, with focused considerations for first-time applicants, small and mid-size arts and organizations, folk and traditional art forms, county local arts agencies and arts service organizations, and balanced opportunities with deep investment for both general operating and project-based support.
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California Humanities offers grants to eligible nonprofit organizations and public agencies in four categories: documentary media, with the California Documentary Project; public humanities events, with Humanities for All; public library engagement, with the Library Innovation Lab, and middle grades education, with Civics + Humanities Middle Grades Grants.
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Organizations can apply for several grant funding opportunities offered by the County of San Luis Obispo. This includes District Community Project Grants and Community-Based Organization and Preventative Health Grants.
Racial Equity in Arts Funding Workshops for 2024
Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) has partnered with Race Forward and True North EDI to develop the Racial Equity in Arts Funding Workshop, which they premiered at the 2017 GIA Annual Conference. GIA has been hosting the workshop for grantmakers since 2017 to overwhelmingly positive feedback. GIA continues to offer racial equity workshops to support funders with nuts-and-bolts guidance on how to better serve African, Latine, Asian, Arab, Native American communities through their grantmaking.
GIA’s Racial Equity in Arts Funding Workshops have been designed to help participants recognize the difference between inclusion and self-determination, interpersonal bigotry and structural racism, and being passively “not racist” and actively anti-racist.
This workshop for grantmakers will include information on the history of racialization in the United States, the history of cultural funding, and real-world examples of racial equity funding, strategies, and resources you may bring with you back to your organizations.
The workshop will be 12 hours and divided into 4 three-hour modules, offered in March 2024 and in May 2024.
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Wednesday March 6 | 10:00am - 1:00pm
Wednesday March 13 | 10:00am - 1:00pm
Wednesday March 20 | 10:00am - 1:00pm
Wednesday March 27 | 10:00am - 1:00pm
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Wednesday May 8 | 10:00am - 1:00pm
Wednesday May 15 | 10:00am - 1:00pm
Wednesday May 22 | 10:00am - 1:00pm
Wednesday May 29 | 10:00am - 1:00pm
We are happy to offer drop-in grant support to artists and organizations.
Schedule a time to meet with our Programs Director to learn more about accessing grant opportunities, preparing your materials for an application, and more.
