HAF: Native Cultures Fund Grant

HAF: Native Cultures Fund Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Humboldt Area Foundation
Amount: US $1,000 - US $10,000
Last Updated: February 26, 2026

Summary

The HAF: Native Cultures Fund Grant supports California Indian culture through initiatives led by Native peoples, fostering the transmission of knowledge, art, and traditions across generations. This partnership includes the Humboldt Area Foundation and aims to preserve and revitalize Indigenous cultures, arts, and languages. Grants are available for projects that reflect California Indian values and practices, ensuring cultural continuity and community engagement.

Overview

Supporting California Indian culture bearers, artists, lifeways, and knowledge transmission. How we help Initiated and lead by Native peoples, the Native Cultures Fund is a partnership between Native Nations, the Humboldt Area Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and other donors. The program supports the transmission of knowledge between generations through the renaissance of California Native art culture, sacred sites, and language development. Grants are made to projects that reflect the transmission of knowledge across generations, based in California Indian culture, art, values, and traditional practices. We define culture in the broadest possible way: As the foodways, languages and cosmologies, ceremony, sacred sites, sports, architecture, arts, teachings and knowledge systems, stories, music, dance, land stewardship, hydrology, maritime traditions, and much more that are indigenous to California.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Grants can be made to individuals, non-profits, community partnerships, or Tribal Nations. The Native Cultures Fund serves the area from the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation in the north, to the Chumash territory in the south, and to the Paiute Nations in the east.

Ineligibility

Grants are not made to support capacity of large organizations, for economic development, or for projects not rooted in California tribal cultures.