The Fleishhacker Foundation Is seeking applications for its Arts Performance and Exhibition Spaces Grant Program.
Donor Name: Fleishhacker Foundation
State: California
County: Alameda County (CA), Contra Costa County (CA), San Francisco County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/15/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Arts Performance and Exhibition Spaces (APEX) Grants are awarded to anchoring arts and culture nonprofit organizations with annual budgets between $500,000 and $2 million that produce and present new work by professional Bay Area artists and that also operate performance venues or exhibition spaces in San Francisco, Alameda, or Contra Costa counties and meet the other eligibility criteria listed below.
The Foundation strives to make grants that advance a diverse array of artistic disciplines, aesthetic sensibilities, and forms of cultural expression. They prioritize grant requests that best support working artists. They also place particular emphasis on funding organizations that represent and engage artists from historically marginalized groups and under-resourced communities.
The Arts Performance and Exhibition Spaces Grants program accepts applications for general support from organizations engaged in producing and presenting new work by Bay Area artists in the disciplines of dance, music, theater, visual arts, interdisciplinary arts, or film.
General support grants are flexible and may be used for operations, staffing, facilities, health and safety compliance, artists’ compensation, rehearsals, performances, presentations, exhibitions, and other administrative, program, or production costs at the grantee’s discretion.
Funding Information
Grants in this program will be at least $10,000 and will generally not exceed $15,000 annually.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be:
- An arts and culture organization incorporated as 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
- Located and operating a performance venue or exhibition space in San Francisco, Alameda, or Contra Costa county.
- Engaged in the production and presentation of new work by Bay Area artists in the disciplines of dance, filmmusic, theater, visual arts, interdisciplinary arts, or film.
- An organization that financially compensates artists for their work.
- Of an annual budget size between $500,000 and $2 million.
- An organization that evidences strong support from the community and its Board of Directors.
Ineligibility
- Organizations with more than 50% of their annual expense budgets directed toward educational programs, youth training in the arts, youth ensembles and performances, exhibitions of youth artwork, and/or productions designed for youth.
- Organizations whose primary purpose is to present historical works by artists no longer living.
- Organizations whose fundamental purpose or benefit falls within the fields of social services, health, youth, or community development.
- Fiscally sponsored projects or individual artists.
For more information, visit Fleishhacker Foundation.
