GRANTS

General Business Funding Options and Grants

• Better Business Bureau Grant Program

• MDS Funding for businesses with the best video entry

• GoFundMe Small Business Relief Fund

• Merchant Funding Network for small businesses that need cash

• Idea Cafe Small Business Grant: for businesses with forward-thinking ideas

• Green Capital Small Business Funding

• Lurn Startup Emergency Relief Fund

• Merchant Advance Funding option for businesses that need fast cash

• Zapier $1 Million Assistance Program: for businesses with 10 employees or fewer that are a paying Zapier customer as of 3/20/2020

 

Regional Grants

• Bay Area Workers Support (BAWS): for Bay Area sex workers

• Berkeley Relief Fund

• City of Palo Alto Small Business Recovery Grant

• City of San Diego Small Business Relief Fund

• City of Sacramento Farm to Fork Al Fresco Grant Program: to assist restaurants in temporarily adding or expanding their outside dining options to accommodate COVID-19 related health standards

• City of Santa Ana Small Business Incentive Program: for Santa Ana microenterprises

• Downtown Sacramento Partnership Business Recovery Grants

• Inclusive Action for the City Street Vendor Emergency Fund: cash assistance to vendors who cannot access government resources

• LA Regional COVID Fund

• Los Angeles County Employer Assistance Grant Fund: for local businesses that serve the community’s most vulnerable individuals

• Riverside County COVID-19 Business Assistance Grant Program

• Riverside County Mainstreet Launch Grant

• San Bernardino County COVID-Compliant Business Partnership Program

• SF Bay Area Queer Nightlife Fund

• Theatre Bay Area Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund: for local performing arts workers, including actors, administrators, box office/event staff, carpenters, dancers, designers, directors, dramaturgs, musicians, playwrights, production staff, singers, teaching artists, technicians, etc.

  

Minority Business Grants

• IFundWomen COVID-19 Relief Fund: for women-owned businesses

• Kuvio Impact Grant: for women-, minority-, and veteran-owned businesses

• Spanx by Sara Blakely Foundation Red Backpack Fund Grants: for female entrepreneurs

• WomensNet

 

California Business Grants

• COVID-19 Relief Grant - newly-announced $500 million grant program for small businesses, sign up for status updates here.

• California Governor's Office of Planning and Research: sign up sheet for federal grant updates

• California State Compensation Insurance Fund

 

Arts and Music Grants

• Artist Relief: for practicing artists

• Authors League Fund: for authors, dramatists, journalists, and poets

• Blues Musician Emergency Relief Fund

• Craft Emergency Relief Fund: for artists working in craft disciplines

• Dramatists Guild Foundation: for playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists

• KCET: Financial Help for Los Angeles Artists: for artists, filmmakers, and musicians

• Freelance Artist Resource Producing Collective

• MusiCares Relief Fund

• Musicians Foundation Grants

• New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Rauschenberg Emergency Grants: for visual and media artists and choreographers

• Pen America Writers' Emergency Fund: for U.S.-based professional writers

• The Actors Fund

 

 Other Industry Grants

• Hospitality Relief Dashboard by Barmagic

• One Fair Wage Emergency Fund: for restaurant workers, gig workers, and other hourly workers

• Professional Beauty Association COVID-19 Relief Fund: for licensed beauty professionals