Please note: The CAC has reopened the funding opportunity for JUMP StArts (Cycle B). Grant program guidelines have been revised for clarification of applicant eligibility, grantee requirements, and review criteria. Application submission deadlines have been extended by one week, from June 16 to June 23, 2022, to compensate for the weeklong closure to implement these changes. 

PRESS RELEASE: Round Two of the California Arts Council Arts Grant Season Reopens with Revised Guidelines

The JUMP StArts program supports arts and culture education, apprenticeship and/or mentorship via artists-in-residence programs for system-engaged, system-impacted, and/or at-promise youth and young people through the age of 24. Activities may take place during or outside of traditional school hours at state- or county-operated correctional facilities; public settings; online; and at arts and culture venues, community centers, school sites, youth centers, and intergenerational settings.

Projects should prioritize system-engaged, system-impacted, and/or at-promise youth or youth who are especially vulnerable to be impacted by or engaged in the justice system, and the project should be tailored specifically to respond to their needs.

The JUMP StArts program has two project grant strands. Organizations may apply for and receive funding for projects in one strand:

• JUMP StArts – State Facilities
• JUMP StArts – Community Spaces and/or County Facilities

Planning grants are also available to support arts organizations in the process of developing an arts project for system-engaged youth.

Eligible Request Amounts
Applicant organizations can request:

• $2,500 for a planning grant
• Up to $50,000 for a full project grant
• Up to $52,500 for a planning and project grant if each request is in a different funding strand: Community Spaces and/or County Facilities and State Facilities

Funding Restrictions

• For organizations with total operating revenue above $250,000, the sum of requests for CAC grants during the same year of funding cannot exceed 50% of the total operating revenue from the most recently completed fiscal year. 
• If you have previously been funded by this grant in Cycle A, you may only apply to the same funding strand if your project content differs from your previously funded project (ex: Funding for Cycle A & B in the State Facility strand with different project content). You may apply with the same project content only if you are serving a different population or different facility (ex: Same project content for Cycle A & B, serving two different County Facilities and/or Community Spaces). 

This grant does not require matching funds.

Application Links:

Online Application Portal: calartscouncil.smartsimple.com

Guidelines (Cycle B)Download

Guidelines (Cycle A) – closedDownload

Guidelines in Spanish (Cycle A) – closedDownload

Frequently Asked Questions

Grant Resources page

Grant Review Panel Process

2021 Grantee Information:

GuidelinesDownload

Guidelines in SpanishDownload

List of Current Grantees

Cycle B Program Timeline:

Staff Assistance

Before contacting staff, check FAQs to see if application questions can be answered. If staff assistance is still required for guidance or clarification, email is the best way to contact Program Specialists. We recommend that you contact staff well in advance of the deadline to ensure you can be accommodated. Please note: staff assistance is not available after 5:00 p.m. on the day of a grant deadline. People who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deaf Blind, or have difficulty speaking may dial 711 to reach the California Relay Service (CRS). Large print is available upon request.