Vallejo Arts Fund: 2025 MicroGrants

The Vallejo Arts Fund will award up to two types of Microgrants in the Winter/Spring 2026 funding round to support artists, cultural bearers, and collectives in expanding their artistic practice, skills, and/or visibility to a broader network, new collaborators, or new audiences.

• Individual Artist Microgrant (Unrestricted): Up to twenty $3,000 awards are available for mid-career or established artists and/or cultural bearers whose body of artistic work, practice, and rootedness in Vallejo provides benefit to the broader community.
• Individual Artist or Artist Collective Microgrant (Program-Restricted): Up to twenty $2,000 awards are available for artists/cultural bearers and/or artist/cultural collectives at all career stages who have been rooted in, working with, or engaging the broader Vallejo community and are seeking funding to support the completion of one artistic or cultural project. Expenses for this project-restricted grant can be spent on artist, producer, and/or venue fees; marketing or publicity; documentation, editing, and archiving; and hospitality for artists or community members, as well as production expenses (i.e., costumes, supplies, or printing). 

Note: Please note that although applicants can apply for both unrestricted and program-restricted microgrants, funding will only be awarded within one of these categories. 2023 Micrograntees are ineligible for this grant opportunity.

We encourage you to review the Guidelines, Application Preview, and Frequently Asked Questions before applying. You can access all relevant materials here.

ELIGIBILITY

All Applicants:

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Must reside full-time in California 
• Must be able to demonstrate residency, engagement, and/or having worked within Vallejo, CA over the past three (3) years
• Must be able to demonstrate a sustained history of public engagement with their work in the past three (3) years

Individual Artist Microgrant (Unrestricted) Applicants ONLY: 

• Applicants must be at a mid-career or established stage in their individual artistic or cultural practice. 

Individual Artist or Artistic Collective Microgrant (Program-Restricted) Applicants ONLY:

• Eligible expenses include fees associated with marketing, publicity, documentation, editing, or archiving; artist, producer, and/or venue fees; and production expenses (i.e., costumes, supplies, or printing). 
• The proposed event and/or activity must take place within the City of Vallejo. 

The following are ineligible for funding consideration: 

• Early-career artists (only for individual artists microgrant applicants);
• Organizations (e.g., nonprofits, for-profits, fiscally sponsored organizations); 
• Individuals who have not resided, engaged, and/or worked within the city of Vallejo for at least 3 years; 
• Incomplete applications or applications with inaccessible (e.g., password-protected, broken links) attachments; 
• Individuals who have a conflict of interest (family or financial relationship) with the board, staff, or directors of the Center for Cultural Innovation, Great Leap, Inc., or Calling Up Justice.

QUESTIONS & SUPPORT

CCI staff are here to help and listen. For assistance, please email us at grants@cciarts.org (include Vallejo Arts Fund in the subject line) or call 415.288.053. For Deaf applicants and those with hearing loss, contact CCI using the California Relay Service—our staff is trained in making and receiving these calls.

If you need technical assistance (e.g., password or upload issues), request support at: https://www.submittable.com/help/submitter. Submittable’s business hours are 9 am – 5 pm MT. They aim to respond within 24 business hours.