California Grants Portal
California State Library (State of California)
Statewide catalogue of competitive and first-come grants and loans offered by every California state agency, searchable by category and by time remaining until deadline. Includes health, housing, education and human services funding that can carry evaluation components.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No per-award figure applies to the portal itself. The site's dashboard reported roughly $16.7B in total funding across all current listings at the time of retrieval, which is an aggregate across many programmes and must not be read as an award size. Each individual listing publishes its own amount.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Continuously updated; the dashboard showed 176 current opportunities and 4 added in the past week at retrieval. Deadlines belong to individual listings, and the portal lets you filter by 1 month to 1 year of remaining time.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior
- Eligibility
- The portal serves six applicant types: businesses, individuals, nonprofits, other legal entities, public agencies and tribal governments. Eligibility is set by each listing agency, not by the portal; most listed grants require a California-based applicant or California-sited project.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- state government grants · california · human services funding · public agency grants
- Apply at
- https://www.grants.ca.gov/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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