The Los Angeles County Small Business Resiliency Fund is an emergency grant program created to support small businesses in Los Angeles County.
Donor Name: Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity
State: California
County: Los Angeles County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/31/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Small Business Resiliency Fund (SBRF) that provides up to $5,000 is a grant program from the Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) in financial assistance to small businesses that experienced loss of workforce, property damage, decline in customers, economic disruption, or revenue loss due to immigration enforcement actions that occurred starting June 2025. This support is intended to help businesses recover from unexpected events that interrupted their operations.
The business must attest to at least one of the following disruptions resulting from federal immigration enforcement beginning from June 6, 2025
- Labor impacts or shortages
- Temporary closure and reduced hours
- Property damage
- Related revenue loss.
Uses of Funds
Funds may be used for rent, payroll, equipment repairs, inventory replacement, and recovery expenses.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for this grant, the business must have experienced financial impact such as revenue loss, workforce disruption, property damage, or customer decline beginning June 2025. Eligible businesses include storefronts, independent contractors, or mobile vendors in compliance that meet the following criteria:
- Located in LA County and headquartered in California before June 1, 2025
- Annual gross revenue must be $6 million or less
- The business must have 100 or fewer employees
- The grant applicant must be the majority owner of the business
- The business must have been the primary source of income for the owner during the 2024 tax year
- The business must be currently active and operating and be in good standing with local, state, and federal tax and licensing authorities
- Business is NOT on the ineligible business list.
Ineligibility
- Non-profit organizations (including Churches or other religious organizations)
- Landlords (Schedule E Passive Income)
- Businesses or companies held in trust
- Brick-and-mortar businesses do not include P.O. boxes, temporary shared spaces (i.e. Works), etc.
- Businesses engaged in professional services including, but not limited to, legal/law, accounting and real estate.
- Businesses selling drugs or drug paraphernalia (including liquor stores and smoke shops)
- Corporate-owned franchises
- Private social clubs
- Payday loan stores, pawnshops and other firms involved in lending activities, such as banks, finance companies and any other firm whose stock in trade is money
- Firms involved in speculative activities (i.e., day trading, stock market exchange facilitators)
- Insurance companies, such as life, auto, home, bail bonds and other similar entities
- Astrology, palm reading, tarot, etc.
- Night clubs, adult bookstores and any businesses that presents live or other performances of a sexual nature
- Gambling businesses (i.e., track waging facilities, casinos, bingo parlors)
- Trailer-storage yards and junkyards
- Gun or ammunition stores
- Multi-sales distribution & multi-level marketing
- Lobbying firms or businesses that dedicate 50% or more of their time or resources in lobbying activities
- Government offices or agencies
- Other businesses that may be deemed ineligible by DEO, based on information submitted by the applicants.
For more information, visit DEO.
