California grants for Individuals

This program provides funding and support to young civic innovators in select U.S. cities to develop creative projects that improve public spaces and engage their communities.

This program provides funding to support arts-based nonprofit organizations and individual artists in San Benito County, California, promoting community engagement and cultural equity through creative projects and operational support.

This program provides financial support to individual artists in the Bay Area's performing and media arts who are creating innovative new projects that enhance their artistic growth and collaboration.

This grant provides financial support to individual artists residing in West Hollywood to help them develop their creative projects and engage with the local community.

This funding initiative provides financial support for individual artists and nonprofit arts organization staff in California to enhance their business skills and administrative capacity through professional development activities.

This funding initiative provides financial assistance to self-employed sidewalk vendors in unincorporated Los Angeles County to help them comply with new regulations and recover from pandemic-related losses.

This funding initiative provides financial support to small grassroots organizations in California that focus on building climate resilience and promoting environmental justice, particularly for historically marginalized communities.

This funding opportunity supports individual artists and arts organizations in Santa Cruz County to enhance their artistic skills and professional capacity through training, mentorship, and skill-building activities.

This grant provides funding to organizations and businesses in California to develop and enhance publicly accessible hydrogen refueling stations, promoting the use of fuel cell electric vehicles.

This program provides a 12-week accelerator for BIPOC entrepreneurs in South Los Angeles, offering mentorship, training, and funding access to help them grow their early-stage businesses.

This funding opportunity is designed to support projects that install electric vehicle charging infrastructure in multi-family housing, particularly benefiting residents in disadvantaged or low-income communities across California.

This award recognizes and rewards California farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners for their exceptional land stewardship and conservation efforts that enhance soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitats.

This funding opportunity supports projects that preserve and share California Indian culture, art, and traditional practices, prioritizing initiatives that promote knowledge transmission across generations.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for California ports and related entities to install zero-emission vehicle charging and hydrogen refueling infrastructure, prioritizing projects that benefit disadvantaged communities and encourage participation from underrepresented businesses.

This program provides funding to San Francisco-based artists with at least 25 years of residency and artistic practice in the city, focusing on those who engage with their communities and promote cultural equity.

This grant provides $5,000 to individual artists living in Berkeley to create and publicly present original work that engages the local community, with a focus on diverse artistic disciplines.

This grant provides financial support to adult performing artists in Humboldt County, California, to help them develop and present new artistic projects.

This funding initiative provides financial support to Bay Area music entrepreneurs, particularly culturally-rooted artist teams, to help them launch or grow their businesses while promoting cultural preservation and community enrichment.

This grant provides funding for professional artists in Mendocino County to deliver high-quality, curriculum-based arts workshops and performances in local schools, benefiting students from transitional kindergarten through 12th grade.

This grant provides financial support for artistic projects that celebrate and represent the experiences of transgender, non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming individuals in Los Angeles County, specifically within West Hollywood.