Geographic scope: National, but with emphasis on California
The Wilhelm Family Foundation supports nonprofit arts organizations with the goal of helping improve the quality of life of artists and creative communities nationwide. While applications are welcome from across the U.S., the majority of grants support organizations in California. The Foundation’s mission is to help expand artists’ access to resources by supporting organizations working to make creative expression, experimentation, public programming, and discourse accessible to all people, artists and non-artists alike. Grantmaking focuses on nonprofit arts organizations of all types and sizes, with an interest in organizations and programming that prioritize diversity, inclusiveness, community, and freedom of speech. Organizations that utilize art and programming to engage diverse, marginalized, at-risk, or underserved communities of all kinds are of particular interest. Generally, the Foundation’s grants are given to small nonprofit organizations that use their staff, programming, and resources to further dialog around creativity, cultural issues, and environmental and social justice issues, towards the benefit of artists as well as the communities in which they operate.