Native Cultures Fund Grants

Grants can be made to individuals, non-profits, community partnerships, or Tribal Nations. They are made to projects that reflect the transmission of knowledge across generations, based in California Indian culture, art, values, and traditional practices. We define culture in the broadest possible way: As the foodways, languages and cosmologies, ceremony, sacred sites, sports, architecture, arts, teachings and knowledge systems, stories, music, dance, land stewardship, hydrology, maritime traditions, and much more that are indigenous to California.

The Native Cultures Fund supports cultural projects with a connection to the lands commonly referred to as California spanning from the Tolowa Dee-ni’ in the north, to the Chumash peoples in the south, and east to the Paiute and Washo peoples along the Nevada border.