Arts & Culture – Small Arts Grants- Non-Profit Organizations

Arts & Culture – Small Arts Grants- Non-Profit Organizations

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Fleishhacker Foundation
Amount: US $5,000 - US $10,000
Last Updated: November 30, 2025

Summary

The Fleishhacker Foundation's Small Arts Grants program offers crucial financial support to small and mid-sized arts organizations in the Bay Area. Designed for nonprofits with budgets between $100,000 and $749,999, this program promotes the presentation of new works by local artists across various disciplines, including theater and visual arts. Grants, typically around $5,000, can be used for a range of operational costs, fostering creativity and cultural expression within communities.

Overview

Small Arts Grants The Fleishhacker Foundation’s Small Arts Grants program provides general, unrestricted support to small and mid-sized arts and culture organizations in San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties that produce and present new work by professional Bay Area artists in the disciplines of dance, music, theater, visual arts, interdisciplinary arts, or film. The program also provides post-production support for film projects directed by filmmakers who reside in these counties. The Foundation seeks to fund a broad range of arts groups and strives to make grants that support a diverse array of artistic disciplines, aesthetic sensibilities, and forms of cultural expression. General support grants are flexible and may be used for operations, staffing, facilities, artists’ compensation, rehearsals, performances, presentations, exhibitions, and other administrative, program, or production costs at the grantee’s discretion. Post-production support for film projects directed by Bay Area filmmakers with budgets under $750,000 is also considered in this program, Grants in this program range from $5,000 to $10,000 and will usually be closer to $5,000.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Applications are open to the following:Nonprofit arts and culture organizations with annual expense budgets between $100,000 and $749,999.An arts and culture organization incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.Located and primarily offering programming in San Francisco, Alameda, or Contra Costa counties.Able to demonstrate an artistic presence in the Bay Area for at least three years.Planning to produce and present new work by Bay Area artists in the disciplines of dance, music, theater, visual arts, interdisciplinary arts, or film between November 15, 2025 and October 15, 2026.An organization that financially compensates artists for their work.An organization that evidences strong support from the community and its Board of Directors.

Ineligibility

Organizations may not apply to the Fleishhacker Foundation more than once each year. If your organization applied for consideration during the Foundation’s spring 2025 review cycle, it is not eligible to apply again until the spring 2026 cycle, even if it did not receive a grant.Not eligible are:Organizations that are primarily performance venues, exhibition spaces, presenters, or film festivals that do not produce their own work.Organizations and groups 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 and groups whose primary purpose is to present historical works by artists that are no longer living.Organizations and groups whose fundamental purpose or benefit is primarily social services, health, youth, or community development fields.Organizations that are registered and primarily operate as for-profit corporations, even if they have a fiscal sponsor.Individual artists.