Grantee Database Results
| Grant Program | Grant Year | Organization Name | County | Award Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Local Partner Mentorship | 2025-26 | Fresno Arts Council | Fresno | $45,000.00 | More » |
| State Local Partner Mentorship | 2025-26 | Nevada County Arts Council (NCArts) | Nevada | $50,000.00 | More » |
| State Local Partner Mentorship | 2025-26 | Amador Arts | Amador | $50,000.00 | More » |
| Grant Program | Grant Year | Award Amount | Organization Name | Address | County | Region | Phone | Congressional District | State Assembly District | State Senate District | Project Description | Organization Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Local Partner Mentorship | 2025-26 | $45,000.00 | Fresno Arts Council | 1245 Van Ness Ave. 1245 Van Ness Ave., FRESNO, CA 93721-1711 | Fresno | Central Valley | (559) 237-9734 | California's 21st congressional district | District 31 | District 14 | With support from the California Arts Council, the Fresno Arts Council INC will continue to provide mentorship and technical assistance to members of the Kings County Arts community to lead them to the eventual establishment of the Kings County State Local Partner of the California Arts Council. | Fresno Arts Council Programs and Services |
| State Local Partner Mentorship | 2025-26 | $50,000.00 | Nevada County Arts Council (NCArts) | PO BOX 1833 , NEVADA CITY, CA 95959-1833 | Nevada | Upstate | (530) 718-0727 | California's 3rd congressional district | District 1 | District 1 | With support from the California Arts Council, Nevada County Arts Council will continue to mentor a new a county-designated local arts agency in Glenn County. Glenn County Arts & Culture (GCAC)—now a 501c3—will build infrastructure, deepen community partnerships, and will plan for culturally inclusive programming guided by input from multilingual Listening Sessions held across the county. Year Two activities include formalizing a strategic plan, expanding board and advisory leadership, launching public programs centered on youth and Latinx culture, and strengthening systems for outreach and accessibility. Grant funds will support local staffing, mentorship, public engagement—and shared office space in Orland. Under continued mentorship from Nevada County Arts Council, GCAC will document its progress toward meeting CAC’s requirements for State-Local Partner designation, including securing a Board of Supervisors resolution and demonstrating two years of arts programming and services. | As Nevada County’s umbrella organization for the arts, we serve as convenors, consultants, researchers, strategists, advocates, supporters, funders, promotors, policy wonks, and general arts and culture cheerleaders for our community. We offer Arts Incubator, providing fiduciary oversight, financial management, and other administrative services to help build the capacity of cultural initiatives or emerging arts collaboratives who may not yet have their 501(c)(3) status. We offer grant making services and an artist relief fund; we offer pro-bono grant writing consulting; and lead creative sector emergency preparedness and disaster response. We engage in ongoing countywide cultural planning and evaluation, and regional and statewide peer learning and advocacy. We manage the county’s arts directory and community arts calendar, and engage in ongoing promotion of the arts sector through multiple channels. We administer two California Cultural Districts. Grass Valley-Nevada City Cultural District and Truckee Cultural District were redesignated by the State in 2023 for an additional five years, implying a tremendous responsibility to grow and sustain authentic grassroots arts and cultural opportunities, increase the visibility of local artists, nourish community participation in local arts and culture, promote socioeconomic and ethnic diversity, and work against by-products of placemaking such as gentrification, displacement, and racism. We run multiple Arts Education programs; MUSE, a new widely distributed annual guide to arts and subcultures in Nevada County; an we are the Administering Organization for Upstate California Creative Corps, regranting 3.38m in state funds over 19 counties. |
| State Local Partner Mentorship | 2025-26 | $50,000.00 | Amador Arts | 110 Broad Street (Inside the Historic Grammar School) , Sutter Creek, CA 95685 | Amador | Central Valley | (209) 256-8166 | District 5 | District 1 | District 4 | With support from the California Arts Council, the AMADOR COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL (Amador Arts) will mentor the San Joaquin creative community and the Stockton Art League toward establishing the State Local Partner for this county. Modeling best practices in Anti-Racism, Tribal Land acknowledgments, safe space holding, cross-disciplinary arts business resources, and technical assistance services, Amador Arts will partner with the Stockton Art League, using an OF/BY/FOR ALL approach to serves the people, especially those in the bottom quartile of the Healthy Places Index. This includes: | The Amador County Arts Council (Amador Arts) keeps the arts central to Amador’s life through programs, services, and initiatives. (1) PUBLIC OFFICE: Our accessible public office is open to the public and is located at registered historic site #456, the Sutter Creek Grammar School, where anyone is welcome to visit with staff, use free art supplies, and enjoy some creative time in a beautiful historic setting, perhaps while visiting the ghost girl who lives on site. Our “STUDIO” programming offers targeted open hours for families (Wednesdays from 12-2 when they have “early release”) and for teens (Tuesdays from 3-5). (2) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: One full-time employee equipped to provide a suite of technical assistance to artists and arts organizations needing support on California Arts Council grants or arts business matters. (3) PRODUCING PERFORMANCES: Since its establishment, Amador Arts has played a central role in performing arts throughout Amador County. Most notably, since 1998, our “TGIF Free Summer Concerts” have brought live music to thousands of people in outdoor places where it is otherwise not available, including Pioneer California—9th percentile on the Healthy Places Index. Producing Poetry Out Loud since 2016 with multi-generational poetry opportunities in addition to the traditional competition. Free performances of historically significant literary arts and music for local events and fundraisers. (4) ARTS CLASSES AND ARTS EDUCATION PLANNING: Amador Arts is a trusted consultant to Amador County Unified School District providing support and administration for the district Arts Plan and the rollout of Prop 28. Additionally, since 2012, Amador Arts has been teaching visual arts classes to 100% of the public school students at the 6 public elementary schools within Amador County, including Chinese cultural arts education and the principles of art. (5) PROMOTING THE ARTS: Weekly newsprint, monthly radio, social media, blog covering impacts of the arts. |
