The San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture and its Arts Commission is pleased to announce the 2025 Grants Program.
Donor Name: County of San Mateo
State: California
County: San Mateo County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/30/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The streamlined grant opportunity will provide general support funding for eligible arts and culture nonprofit organizations located in or serving San Mateo County. This funding provides grantees with the flexibility to use the funds in the most applicable way for their individual organization, and for greatest impact on overall organizational health and sustainability. They look to you as the partners in the important work of growing the arts and culture eco-system to create a vital, creative, and healthy community.
To continue equitable and trust-based grantmaking practices, it is essential to maintain a respectful relationship between the Office of Arts and Culture, the Arts Commission, and grantees, past and future. To do this, they will:
- Embrace engaging diverse, inclusive, and equitable perspectives and community voices that provide significant, relevant, and collaborative conversation and actions.
- Require clarity, responsiveness, and transparency from both parties.
- Provide a streamlined online application and reporting system that is efficient, accessible, and user-friendly.
- Engage an expert panel of peer readers representative of the diversity of the County to review the applications along with Office of Arts and Culture staff and recommended funding priorities to the Arts Commissioners.
General support funds may be used by the organization as needed to support the organization’s overhead, salaries, or other needs.
Grant Period
January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be an arts or cultural organizations located in or serving residents in San Mateo County
- Must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit or fiscally sponsored organization in good standing with the Internal Revenue Service or a local public agency/entity.
- Must have been in operation for 1+ years.
- Must have a budget under $1,000,000.
For more information, visit County of San Mateo.
