Zellerbach Family Foundation

The Zellerbach Family Foundation makes grants to strengthen communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a regranting partner with the Performing Arts Program, the family foundation makes grants that nurture the creation of work by Bay Area artists and access to the arts through its Community Arts Program. It makes more than 150 project-driving grants each year that support artists and small arts and culture organizations in San Francisco and the East Bay. With renewed support, the Zellerbach Family Foundation will increase its Community Arts Program grant award sizes and improve its focus on priority populations in its service region. Support for the Community Arts Program advances the Performing Arts Program’s Artists strategy.

The Zellerbach Family Foundation’s Community Arts Program distributes funding to San Francisco and East Bay community arts organizations: performing companies, presenting organizations, visual and traditional arts groups, and individual artists working with community groups. By supporting these small-budget organizations, the Community Arts Program seeks to ensure the availability of a wide variety of art experiences, promote multicultural community art, encourage new artists, and develop new audiences. Within the arts field, the Community Arts Program plays a particularly important role in supporting new and experimental work. Each quarter, a peer panel of artists awards project grants ranging from $1,000 to $7,500, primarily to small and midsize groups.