Arts & Culture - Arts Performance and Exhibition Spaces Grant

Arts & Culture - Arts Performance and Exhibition Spaces Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Fleishhacker Foundation
Amount: US $10,000 - US $15,000
Last Updated: December 11, 2025

Summary

The Arts Performance and Exhibition Spaces (APEX) Grant supports arts and culture nonprofits in the Bay Area, offering flexible funding for operations and artist compensation. Grants range from $10,000 to $15,000, aimed at organizations with budgets between $500,000 and $2 million. The program prioritizes diverse artistic expressions and supports historically marginalized groups. Applications are due annually by January 15, with letters of inquiry due by December 1, promoting the production of new works by local artists.

Overview

Arts Performance and Exhibition Spaces (APEX) Arts Performance and Exhibition Spaces (APEX) Grants are awarded to anchoring arts and culture nonprofit organizations with annual budgets between $500,000 and $2 million that produce and present new work by professional Bay Area artists and that also operate performance venues or exhibition spaces in San Francisco, Alameda, or Contra Costa counties and meet the other eligibility criteria listed below. The Foundation strives to make grants that advance a diverse array of artistic disciplines, aesthetic sensibilities, and forms of cultural expression. We prioritize grant requests that best support working artists. We also place particular emphasis on funding organizations that represent and engage artists from historically marginalized groups and under-resourced communities. The Arts Performance and Exhibition Spaces Grants program accepts applications for general support from organizations engaged in producing and presenting new work by Bay Area artists in the disciplines of dance, music, theater, visual arts, interdisciplinary arts, or film. General support grants are flexible and may be used for operations, staffing, facilities, health and safety compliance, artists’ compensation, rehearsals, performances, presentations, exhibitions, and other administrative, program, or production costs at the grantee’s discretion. Project-specific grants are not considered for this grant program. Grants in this program will be at least $10,000 and will generally not exceed $15,000 annually. The Foundation will award single-year grants as well as a limited number of three-year grants to selected anchoring arts organizations.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. General support grants are flexible and may be used for operations, staffing, facilities, health and safety compliance, artists’ compensation, rehearsals, performances, presentations, exhibitions, and other administrative, program, or production costs at the grantee’s discretion.  Applicants must be:An arts and culture organization incorporated as 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Located and operating a performance venue or exhibition space in San Francisco, Alameda, or Contra Costa counties.Engaged in the production and presentation of new work by Bay Area artists in the disciplines of dance, music, theater, visual arts, interdisciplinary arts, or film. An organization that financially compensates artists for their work.Of an annual budget size between $750,000 and $2 million. An organization that evidences strong support from the community and its Board of Directors.

Ineligibility

Not eligible are:Organizations with more than 50% of their annual expense budgets directed toward educational programs, youth training in the arts, youth ensembles and performances, exhibitions of youth artwork, and/or productions designed for youth. Organizations whose primary purpose is to present historical works by artists no longer living. Organizations whose fundamental purpose or benefit falls within the social services, health, youth, or community development fields. Fiscally sponsored projects or individual artists. Project-specific grants are no longer considered for this grant program.