Vallejo Arts Fund: 2025 Cultural Communities Grant

The Vallejo Arts Fund will award up to six grants, ranging from $10,000 to $20,000, with flexible funding terms of either one or two years, in the Cultural Communities grant category. Funding will be awarded to individuals, collectives, or organizations that make, produce, teach, and/or engage in contemporary and traditional arts and cultural practices. 

Applicants may seek funds to support ongoing or new artistic and/or cultural work within the performing arts, visual arts, digital and media arts, traditional folk arts, and oral or written storytelling. VAF deeply values the many forms that artistic and cultural practices can take. However, at this time, the Fund is not seeking applications for healing arts practices (such as massage therapy, reiki, or acupuncture), nail or makeup artistry, culinary arts, loctician services, tattooing, yoga instruction, or fitness and aerobics programs.

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

ELIGIBILITY

• Applicants must be individual arts workers (e.g., cultural producers, culture bearers, creatives, cultural practitioners, teaching artists, arts administrators, or specialized technicians), collectives, or an arts /cultural organization with a track record of providing arts and cultural programming rooted in Vallejo for at least three years. 
• Applicants applying as individuals must be at least 18 years of age.
• Applicants (individuals, collective, or organizations) must be able to demonstrate residency, engagement, and/or having worked within Vallejo, CA over the past three (3) years.
• Applicants must reside full-time in California.  
• Applicants must be able to articulate and prove rootedness in Vallejo, CA, for at least three years

The following are ineligible for funding consideration: 

• Organizations (e.g., nonprofits, for-profits, fiscally sponsored organizations) requesting funding to support their general operations;
• Individuals or organizations that have not resided, engaged, and/or worked within the city of Vallejo for at least 3 years ; 
• Individuals or organizations who are requesting funding to support projects not rooted in cultural communities or non-arts/cultural organizations; 
• Incomplete applications or applications with inaccessible (e.g., password-protected, broken links) attachments; and 
• 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 415.288.0530. 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.