The State-Local Partners program provides general operating support and technical assistance for county-designated local arts agencies.
Donor Name: California Arts Council
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/05/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The purpose of the program is to foster cultural development on the local level through a partnership between the State and the counties of California. The nature of this partnership includes funding, information exchange, cooperative activities, and leadership. The partnership enables individuals, organizations, and communities to create, present, and preserve the arts of all cultures to enrich the quality of life for all Californians.
A local arts agency is defined as the official county-designated organization that supports arts and cultural activity in service to individuals and communities throughout an entire county. Local arts agencies provide financial support, services, and/or other programming to a variety of arts organizations, individual artists, and the community. A local arts agency can be a unit of local government or a nonprofit organization.
Funding Information
Applicant organizations can request up to $75,000 for a one-year Grant Activity Period.
- For applicant organizations with total revenue below $250,000, there are no funding restrictions.
- For applicant organizations with total revenue above $250,000, the sum of requests during the same year of funding cannot exceed 50% of the total revenue from the most recently completed fiscal year.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations eligible to apply include:
- Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), California organizations
- Units of municipal, county or Tribal governments
- Fiscally sponsored organizations
- Arts service/network organizations with total revenue of $5 million or below
- Arts producing or presenting organizations with total revenue (TR) of $1.5 million or below.
- Have a principal place of business in California and a California address.
- Have a minimum two-year history of consistent arts programming and/or services prior to the application deadline.
- Demonstrate proof of nonprofit status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or section 23701d of the California Revenue and Taxation Code.
- Eligible applicant organizations without non-profit status.
- Have “active status” with the California Secretary of State (SOS) showing evidence of “good standing” at the time of application.
- Applicant organization must be designated by their County Board of Supervisors to serve as the State-Local Partner in the county. Multi-county Partnerships must be designated as the State-Local Partner by the county Board of Supervisors in all counties represented. Funding is prorated based on the number of counties in the partnership. Multi-county Partnership applicants must give evidence of service and program equity to all participating counties.
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