SVCREATES Unrestricted Operating Grants
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- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
Geographic Scope: Santa Clara County and surrounding Central California regions
Program Type: Ongoing annual grants to support unrestricted operating funds for arts organizations
Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit arts organizations in SVCREATES' service region
Recent Grantees (2024): The following organizations received unrestricted operating grants in 2024:
1202 Contemporary, 6th Street Studios & Art Center, Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Aimusic.us, Alliance for Youth Achievement, Art Docents of Los Gatos, Art Forum SF, ArtHouse Studio, Bach-Millennium Music, Calpulli Tonalehqueh, Cambodian American Resource Agency, Cantabile Youth Singers, Cashion Cultural Legacy, Chinese Performing Arts of America, Chopsticks Alley Art, City Lights Theater Company of San Jose, College of Adaptive Arts, Contemporary Asian Theater Scene, Cupertino-Toyokawa Sister Cities Committee, de Saisset Museum, Eritrean Community Center of Santa Clara, Friends of Levitt Pavilion San Jose, Golden State Youth Orchestra, Institute of Contemporary Art San José, Japanese American Museum of San Jose, Kaisahan of San Jose Dance Company, Local Color, Los Altos Stage Company, New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU), Luna Park Arts Foundation, MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino American, Mission Chamber Orchestra of San José, Mosaic America, Nova Vista Symphony, Opera Cultura, Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, Palo Alto Players, Peninsula Cantare, Peninsula Women's Chorus, Peninsula Youth Theatre, Playful People Productions, Poetry Center San Jose, Rainbow Women's Chorus, Red Ladder Theatre Company, Resounding Achord Productions, Russian House Kedry, Sampaguita Press, San Jose Chamber Music Society, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, San Jose Downtown Foundation, San Jose Metropolitan Band, San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose Stage Company, San José Symphonic Choir, San Jose Taiko, San Jose Youth Symphony, Santa Clara Chorale, School of Visual Philosophy, Silicon Valley African Film Festival, Silicon Valley Gay Men's Chorus, Silicon Valley Pride, Silicon Valley Shakespeare, sjDANCEco, South Bay Guitar Society, South Bay Musical Theatre, South Valley Civic Theatre, Sunnyvale Community Players, Teatro Nahual, Teatro Visión de San José, Terrible Adult Chamber Orchestra, The Audacity Performing Arts Project, The Bay Area Glass Institute, The Pear Theatre, Triton Museum of Art, Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose, Voices of Silicon Valley, Works/San José
What Silicon Valley Creates actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 52
- Total given
- $731K
- Median grant
- $8,000
- Range
- $5,000–$106K
- By dollars: California 100%. Top recipient cities: San Jose, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Santa Clara, CA.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 15% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Santa Clara County Office of Education · San Jose, CA
To support arts education
$106K
School of Arts and Culture at MHP · San Jose, CA
To support the exempt purpose of the organization
$34K
Local Color · San Jose, CA
To support the exempt purpose of the organization
$32K
Maclamovimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino American · San Jose, CA
To support the exempt purpose of the organization
$32K
Red Ladder Theatre Company · San Jose, CA
To support the exempt purpose of the organization
$30K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Arts
- Unrestricted nonprofits
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