CA$H Theatre Grant - CA$H Sustains
Funding Amount
US $5,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
From the program guidelines: “This grant aims to cover general operating costs and is open once a year during the fall granting cycle.”
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Geography
- Based in the Bay Area are eligible to apply
Overview
The CA$H Theatre Grant - CA$H Sustains, offered by Theatre Bay Area, provides crucial financial support to individual artists and small theatre companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. This grant aims to cover general operating costs and is open once a year during the fall granting cycle.
Theatre Bay Area
Theatre Bay Area (TBA) is a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to strengthening and advancing the theatre community in the San Francisco Bay Area. TBA envisions a vibrant, inclusive cultural ecosystem where artists have the resources and opportunities to thrive and where communities have broad access to the arts. Its funding priorities focus on supporting individual theatremakers and small theatre companies through grants that enable new work development, performances, career advancement, and organizational capacity building, with a strong emphasis on equity, diversity, and inclusion and prioritizing artists historically underrepresented in traditional funding systems.
The CA$H Grant Program — short for Creative Assistance for the Small (Organization) and Hungry (Artist) — provides vital financial support to individual theatre artists and small theatre companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1999, these grants support individual artists, collaborative teams, and small companies in creating projects ranging from capacity-building initiatives to fully-produced productions.
CA$H Sustains is grant that supports the general operating costs of a Bay Area theatre company. Sustains applications will only be open once per year, during the fall granting cycle. Funds general operating support for small org. Small companies based in the Bay Area are eligible to apply.
What Theatre Bay Area actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 2
- Total given
- $33K
- Median grant
- $16K
- Range
- $15K–$18K
- By dollars: California 100%. Top recipient cities: Berkeley, CA; San Francisco, CA.
Example grants
Playground · Berkeley, CA
Program Activities
$18K
Bindlestiff Studio · San Francisco, CA
Program Activities
$15K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Theater
- Performing arts
- Arts
- Operating support
- Small grants
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