Statewide and Regional Networks (SRN) Grant

Statewide and Regional Networks (SRN) Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: California Arts Council
Amount: Up to US $50,000
Last Updated: May 09, 2025

Summary

The Statewide and Regional Networks (SRN) Grant supports California's creative workforce by fostering resilient networks of arts service organizations and artists. It aims to enhance the capacity of these organizations to provide essential services, ensuring active constituent representation and broad access across counties. Eligible applicants must demonstrate a commitment to arts programming and comply with specific requirements, including a 1:1 match of award funds. This program is vital for maintaining California's cultural vitality.

Overview

Statewide & Regional Networks The Statewide and Regional Networks (SRN) program contributes to the health and vitality of the creative workforce in California by creating a resilient network of arts service organizations and artists. Applicants must be arts services organizations with statewide or regional reach. An arts service organization is defined as a nonprofit or fiscally sponsored organization that furthers the interests of artists, creators, and culture bearers. They also provide programs and services that are substantially focused on enhancing the capacity of individual artists and/or arts and culture organizations. They have as a core purpose the provision of services that assist or promote arts and culture. Together these organizations form unified networks at state and regional levels, working to ensure that the arts and culture sector across California continues to thrive. An arts service organization shall operate a network. Networks are associations or groups of individuals or organizations with common interests, visions or organizational missions that work together to strengthen the collective group. Arts Networks develop professional services for the broad array of individuals and organizations engaged in diverse fields of art (paraphrased from Americans for the Arts Public Art Network definition). Program Goals This grant supports the well-being of California’s cultural vitality by creating resilient and diverse networks of arts service organizations and artists. Grantees will be required to accomplish the following within the grant activity period: Arts service organizations must provide practical services for artists, creators, culture bearers, and/or arts and cultural organizations.Constituent representation must be active, ongoing, effective, and relevant statewide or regional reach.Programs and/or services must provide engagement and access throughout all counties and/or municipalities identified within the statewide or regional network.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. This program requires a 1:1 match of award funds.Arts service organizations must provide practical services for artists, creators, tradition bearers, and/or arts and cultural organizations.Constituent representation must be active, ongoing, effective, and relevant statewide or regional reach.Programs and/or services must provide engagement and access throughout all counties and/or municipalities identified within the statewide or regional network.Any state funds regranted through this program must be in compliance with the CAC’s Grant Opportunity statement, included on page 11 of the appendix of this document.Applicants must be an arts service organization with statewide or regional reach.CAC State-Local Partner grantees are not eligible for Statewide and Regional Networks support in the same fiscal year, with the exception of a State-Local Partner serving as a fiscal sponsor for a distinct network that is not supported through the State-Local Partners program.Applicants must comply with the requirements below.California-based - Documentation of having a principal place of business in California. Arts programming - Applicants must have a minimum two-year history of consistent engagement in arts programming and/or services prior to the application deadline. 501(c)(3) organization as applicant or fiscal sponsor - Non-governmental (municipal, county, or tribal) applicant organizations must demonstrate proof of nonprofit status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or section 23701d of the California Revenue and Taxation Code. Fiscal sponsors - An applicant organization without nonprofit status must use a California-based fiscal sponsor with a federal 501(c)(3) designation to apply for funding.Certificate of good standing - Nonprofit organizations and fiscal sponsors (if applicable) must have “active status” with the California Secretary of State (SOS) showing evidence of “good standing” at the time of application

Ineligibility

For organizations with total operating revenue above $250,000, the sum of requests for CAC grants during the same year of funding cannot exceed 50% of the total operating revenue from the most recently completed fiscal year.State-Local Partners, Cultural Pathways, and Arts and Cultural Organization General Operating Relief applicants are not eligible for Statewide and Regional Networks support in the same fiscal year.State funds cannot be used to meet the match.