The goal is to support art as a way of enriching life experience.

Grantmaking is focused on programs in San Francisco and London* to:

• provide opportunities to artists from diverse cultures for the creation, development, performance or exhibition in the performing (music, opera, dance, theater) literary, or visual arts; and
  
  
• engage new audiences and increase access to the arts for, and participation in the arts by, underserved communities.
  

General support is considered only for San Francisco Bay Area organizations with annual operating budgets under $500,000.

* For London-based programs, please make your application to Columbia in British pounds with the U.S. dollar equivalent in parentheses, including all budget information.

Annual Deadline: March 1 for a letter of inquiry.

Please note that letters of inquiry submitted by the March 1 deadline should be for projects or fiscal years scheduled to begin no sooner than the following December.

Geographic priority: The foundation considers letters of inquiry for programs in the San Francisco Bay Area, with priority given to San Francisco-based organizations, and in the United Kingdom, with priority given to London-based organizations.