California Serves Grant Program 2026-27
Awards Up to $500,000 per recipient for public agency, closing Oct 5, 2026.
In one sentence
California Serves Grant Program 2026-27 awards up to $500,000 per recipient, open to public agency in California, closing Oct 5, 2026.
- Program pool (total)
- $5,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $500,000Total estimated available funding is $5,000,000. Estimated amount per award is $500,000. Funds available to each applicant are based on the content and quality of the submitted application and proposed activities.
- Award floor
- Not confirmed
- Typical award
- $500,000
- Deadline
- Oct 5, 2026
- Deadline type
- fixed
- Opens
- Not stated
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Public Agency
- Geography
- California
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Reimbursement
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Source wording: “Total estimated available funding is $5,000,000. Estimated amount per award is $500,000. Funds available to each applicant are based on the content and quality of the submitted application and proposed activities.”
Who can apply?
Not stated
Source field: applicant size limitEligible applicants are public agencies. Expected number of awards is dependent on application content and quality.
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
Letter of Intent Required: Yes
What can the money be used for?
Not confirmed
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- ReimbursementRecipients spend first and are reimbursed. Plan cash flow accordingly.
- Matching funds
- NoRequires Matched Funding: No
Who has received this funding?
No award records yet
We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.
Common questions
Every answer below is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- Up to $500,000 per recipient. The source states: “Total estimated available funding is $5,000,000. Estimated amount per award is $500,000. Funds available to each applicant are based on the content and quality of the submitted application and proposed activities.”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $5,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- When is the application deadline?
- Oct 5, 2026. Letter of Intent Required: Yes
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Public Agency.
- Which locations are eligible?
- California.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Requires Matched Funding: No
- Is the money paid up front or reimbursed?
- Reimbursement. Recipients spend first and claim the cost back, so the money has to be found before it is repaid.
The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.