Grants & Artistic Support

• $5,000 for Artists and Organizations.
• Approximately 20 grants are awarded each round.

This is a project-based grant. Our grant funds artistically-excellent community engaged projects that present new and imaginative possibilities. We prioritize funding the creation of new artworks and are not likely to fund art classes, take-home art kits, or exhibitions of studio artwork in preexisting galleries unless the proposal centers a clear and purposeful collaboration with a community.

Grants are usually limited to $500 - 2,500, but in rare circumstances we may provide funding up to $5,000. We suggest that most artists apply for funding under $2,500 unless advised otherwise.

Supports the creation of work by Bay Area artists and access to the arts for Bay Area communities. Grantseekers must be located in or serving communities in Alameda, Contra Costa or San Francisco Counties. While Community Arts grants are awarded as general operating support, application materials must include information about an upcoming project. Applications must be submitted by 5:00pm on the application cycle due date. Late and/or incomplete applications will be considered in the following cycle, if eligible. $5,000, $10,000 or $15,000.

The Creative Catalyst Fellowship supports individual artists whose work engages the public on critical issues facing Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and can serve as a catalyst for civic participation. Selected artists join a cohort convened for peer sharing and learning, with access to communications consultation and promotion of their final work.

Up to eight artists will each receive $30,000 to produce work with the potential to break through to broader audiences and spark conversation around this year’s theme: Belonging.

Belonging is a sense of community, home, agency, and the essential right for our communities to flourish. It is a counterweight to racism and violence, and it advances a vision of inclusion that recognizes the ways AAPI communities have shaped and contributed to this country.

Art speaks to us, feels our pain, paints our dreams, and opens our minds in profound new ways. Our goal is to give independent artists the resources and freedom to do their art, in a way that also lets us put that art to work in the world.

The Community Challenge Grants program recognizes our communities’ interdependence and collective strength and funds neighborhood beautification projects that foster resilience, safety, and belonging in San Francisco.

General Eligibility:

• The applicant organization must be a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization or the applicant may use a fiscal sponsor that meets this criteria
• The applicant or key project staff must have successfully completed projects of similar size and scope or work with a qualifying fiscal sponsor
• The project location must take place in the City and County of San Francisco with approval by the property owner(s)

Grant Request Range: $50,000 - $150,000

More info at https://www.nationalparksartsfoundation.org/allresidencies

Provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography.

$500 - $3,000. Provides urgent funding for visual and performing artists who:

• Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding
• Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates.