The Ventura County Microbusiness Covid-19 Relief Grant offers $2,500 grants to qualified small business and nonprofit enterprises.
Donor Name: County of Ventura
State: California
County: Ventura County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/12/2022
Size of the Grant: $2,500
Details:
Funded in part through a grant from the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.
Priority Factors
Microbusinesses that are majority-owned and operated on a daily basis by a group that faces systemic barriers to accessing capital.
Nonprofit microbusinesses must have a board of directors’ majority in one of these groups.
- Women-owned businesses
- Minority/person of color-owned businesses
- Veteran-owned business
- Businesses located in low-wealth and rural communities
Eligibility Criteria
- Annual gross revenue must be between $1,000 and $50,000 on 2019 taxes
- Began operations on or before December 31, 2019
- Must be significantly impacted by COVID-19 pandemic
- Open and operating in Ventura County
- Nonprofits must be either a 501c(3), 501c(6), or 501c(19)
- Must be currently open and operating
- Only one grant application per microbusiness or owner
- The owner is the majority-owner and manager or the authorized agent of the nonprofit
- The microbusiness is the owner’s primary means of income
- The microbusiness currently has fewer than five full-time equivalent employees and had fewer than five full-time employees in the 2019 and 2020 taxable years.
- Business and/or owner did NOT receive a grant from the California Covid-19 Relief Grant program.
For more information, visit Microbusiness Covid-19 Relief Grant.
