Grantee Database
UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
General Operating Support
Award Amount
$15,000.00
Project Description
The Tenderloin Museum requests CAC operational support to sustain community-centered programming during significant growth and economic uncertainty. As we break ground this summer on our historic expansion—tripling our footprint to 10,050 square feet—CAC funds provide critical operational stability enabling us to maintain our equity-focused mission while navigating this transformative period.
Grant funds will support staff salaries, utilities, insurance, and program materials across our Eddy Street museum and Larkin Street venue, where our “Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Play” celebrates transgender resistance and community. This operational foundation is essential as we manage construction complexities and ensure uninterrupted service to the Tenderloin’s diverse communities.
Operational support directly enables our equity goals: maintaining free and sliding-scale programming, continuing individualized support for disabled artists, and preserving the community co-creation approach that has guided our work for nearly a decade.
Organization Summary
The Tenderloin Museum opened in 2015 with the intersecting goals of promoting a deeper understanding of the history of the Tenderloin neighborhood, re-imagining our collective future, and supporting our current community. To accomplish these goals, the museum enacts a three-pronged approach: a critically-acclaimed permanent history exhibition, community-driven programs and tours, and economic support in the form of local partnerships and hiring practices. To accomplish these goals, each year TLM produces 40-50 public programs, 5-7 special arts presentations (including aerial dance, theatre, and visual art exhibitions), and 50 walking tours, in addition to maintaining its critically-acclaimed permanent history exhibition. All told, these programs attract approximately 5,000 people each year. We invest in deeply collaborative relationships with organizations in the arts, humanities, and social sectors, and our success on a relatively small budget is directly linked to those efforts.
Organization
Tenderloin Museum
Address
398 EDDY ST
San Francisco
94102
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 351-1912
Congressional District
California's 12th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 17
State Senate District
District 11
