Annual Report – July 2024-2025

The California Grants Portal (grants.ca.gov), born out of the Grant Information Act of 2018 (Stats. 2018, Ch. 318), launched on July 1, 2020.

To create this user-centered one-stop-shop funding destination, the California State Library collaborated with more than 50 state agencies, departments, commissions, and bureaus that award grants or loans on a competitive or first-come basis. The Grants Portal’s mission was expanded by AB132 (section 8334.1) requiring state grantmakers to submit post award data for all grants closing on or after July 1, 2022.

Comparing data from the 2023-2024 to the 2024-2025 fiscal years, the Grants Portal saw an 11 percent increase in the number of visitors and a decrease in the number of grant and loan opportunities posted to the portal of 14 percent.

There are 394 funding opportunities (including ongoing opportunities) published on the Grants Portal in the 2024-2025 fiscal year. Since 2020, 1,259 active and closed funding opportunities (not including ongoing grant opportunities) have been published on the Grants Portal by the state agencies. Grantmaking entities new to the portal in the 2024-2025 fiscal year included the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.

View or download current California Grants Portal data from the California Open Data Portal.
Note: The information contained within this report is based on the data provided to the California State Library and managed by the state departments and agencies administering the grant opportunities

01. How many state entities posted grants on the California Grants Portal in the 2024-2025 fiscal year?

55
boards, commissions, conservancies, councils, agencies, departments, and offices published funding opportunities on the Grants Portal.

This bar chart depicts the top five entities with the highest percentage of opportunities. The Department of Fish and Wildlife, 8.6 percent, CA Energy Commission had 8.3 percent of the total opportunities, the Department of Parks and Recreation, 5.3 percent, State Water Resources Control Board, 5 percent, and the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, 5 percent.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, June 2025. View more details.

02. How many opportunities were available on the California Grants Portal?

394
funding opportunities published on the Grants Portal—a nearly 14% decrease in opportunities from 2023-2024 fiscal year.

The column chart below depicts the top five grant opportunities by categories. Forty-four percent of opportunities fell under the Environment and Water category, 28 percent fell under the Disadvantaged Communities category, 19 percent under the Education category, 19 percent under the Health and Human Services category, and 13 percent under the Parks and Recreation category. — * Calculation includes active, forecasted, and closed funding opportunities. Grants may be assigned multiple categories; therefore, percentages do not equal 100%.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, June 2025. View more details.

03. How do agencies determine available funding per opportunity? *

This donut chart shows how agencies determine available funding per opportunity. For 6 percent of opportunities, an estimated funding amount was specified. For 28 percent of opportunities, the funding amount varied within a specific range. For 66 percent of opportunities, the funding amount was dependent on the number of submissions received, application process, etc. — * Calculation of average amount of funding per opportunity is not possible because 66 percent of grantmakers determine final amounts based on the applicant pool.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, June 2025. View more details.

04. How much funding was available per opportunity?

This bar chart displays the average and median amount of estimated funds available per opportunity. The average amount of estimated funds available per opportunity was $70,597,478. The median amount of estimated funds available per opportunity was $5,000,000.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, June 2025. View more details.

05. How many visitors came to the California Grants Portal?

2,077,912
users visited the Grants Portal between July 1, 2024, and July 15, 2025, about an 11% increase in visits from 2023-2024 fiscal year.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, June 2025. View more details.

06. Which California Grants Portal pages were visited the most?

This donut chart depicts which California Grants Portal pages were visited the most. Two percent of visitors used the portal to visit all grant categories, 5 percent visited miscellaneous pages (subscribe to updates, contact us, etc.) 43 percent visited all individual grants, 50 percent visited the Grants Portal home page and all search pages.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, June 2025. View more details.

07. How many applications were submitted?

9,527
applications were submitted for 394 opportunities available on the Grants Portal in the 2024-2025 fiscal year*

*Calculation includes applications submitted for ongoing and closed grants. This number is accurate as of July 15, 2025.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, June 2025. View more details.

08. Public Awareness like efforts since project implementation through December 2025.

A bar chart displays a summary of outreach activities by year. “There were 11 outreach activities in 2020, 21 outreach activities in 2021, 6 outreach activities in 2022, 10 outreach activities in 2023, 5 outreach activities in 2024, and 15 outreach activities in 2025.”

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, June 2025. View more details.

09. Post award data for fiscal year 2024-2025 per AB 132 (section 8334.1).

AB132 (section 8334.1) expanded the Grants Portal mission, requiring state grantmakers to submit post award data for all grants closing on or after July 1, 2022.

Grantmakers may begin submitting post award information as soon as a grant closes and the data is finalized. Complete post award data should be submitted within six months of the closing of the grant application deadline. Grantmakers that need additional time to collect awardee information must submit post award data within 12 months of the grant closing. Post award information for ongoing grants is due at the end of each fiscal year (no later than July 1). Grantmakers do not need to submit post award data for ongoing grants that have been open for less than one month.

Comprehensive, up-to-date post award grant information is available on the California Grants Portal Statistics Dashboard.

Updated every 24 hours, this dashboard offers an overview of the total grants funded, number of awarding departments, and funding by recipient type. Users can drill down by geographic region — county, out-of-state, or statewide. And whereas this report only provides summary data for grants offered for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the dashboard offers a running total of estimated funding available, grants offered (including a breakdown by type – forecasted, active, or closed), participating departments, and the Top Ten funding departments from July 1, 2020, to present.

Contact CAGrantsPortal@library.ca.gov for more information!