Annual Report July 2022-2023

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 60 state agencies, departments, commissions, and bureaus that award grants or loans on a competitive or first-come basis. 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.

Comparing data from fiscal year 2021-2022 to 2022-2023, the Grants Portal saw growth in the number of visitors to the portal (25%), the number of grant and loan opportunities posted to the portal (48%), as well as the number of California state government entities posting their opportunities on the portal (3%).

The rise in opportunities on the portal this year is due primarily to an increase in grantmaking activity by the Department of Education, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the California Energy Commission, the Employment Development Department, and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.

Grantmaking entities new to the portal in fiscal year 2022-2023 were the California Environmental Protection Agency, the California State Council of Developmental Disabilities, the Department of Aging, and the Department of Health Care Services.

View or download current California Grants Portal data from the California Open Data Portal.

01. How many state entities posted grants on the California Grants Portal?

61
boards, commissions, conservancies, councils, agencies, departments, and offices published funding opportunities on the Grants Portal—a 3% increase in participation from the previous fiscal year.

A bar chart depicting the Top 5 entities with the highest percentage of opportunities. The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery had 7.2% of the total opportunities, the Department of Parks and Recreation, 6.1%, the Department of Food and Agriculture, 5.5%, the Department of Health Care Access and Information, 5.3%, and the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, 5.1%.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, July 2023. View more details.

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

722
funding opportunities published on the Grants Portal—a nearly 48% increase in opportunities from 2021-2022.

A column chart depicting of the Top 5 grant opportunities by topic. Eighteen percent of opportunities fell under the Environment & Water category, 15% of opportunities fell under the Disadvantaged Communities category, 9% under the Education category, 8% under the Health and Human Services category, and 7% under the Housing, Community and Economic Development 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, July 2023. View more details.

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

This donut chart depicts how agencies determine available funding per opportunity. For 10% of opportunities, an estimated funding amount was specified. For 31% of opportunities, the funding amount varied within a specific range. For 59% of opportunities, the funding amount was dependent on the number of submissions received, application process, and other factors. — * Calculation of the average amount of funding per opportunity is not possible because most grantmakers (59%) determine final amounts based on the applicant pool. Newly reported post grant award data for 25% of reported grant opportunities is available below.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, July 2023. View more details.

04. How much funding was available per opportunity?

A bar chart displaying the average and median amount of estimated funds available per grant opportunity. The average amount of estimated funds available per grant opportunity was $62,532,670. The median amount of estimated funds available per grant opportunity was $5,000,000.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, July 2023. View more details.

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

1,652,285
users visited the Grants Portal between July 2022 and July 2023—a 25 % increase in visits from the 2021-2022 fiscal year.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, July 2023. Google Analytics.

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

The pages visited the most are depicted in this donut chart. Two percent of visitors used the portal to find small business grants, 15% visited the Grants Portal homepage, and 83% visited the main grants search page.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, July 2023. Google Analytics.

07. How many applications were submitted?

522,910
applications were submitted for opportunities available on the Grants Portal*

*Calculation includes applications submitted for ongoing grants through July 30, 2023. Due to delays in reporting, the total includes 16,409 applications submitted for grants slated for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 fiscal years and 506,491 applications for grants submitted prior to fiscal year 2022-2023 fiscal year.

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, July 2023. View more details.

08. Public Awareness campaign since project implementation through July 2023.

This 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, and 7 outreach activities in 2023.” For a detailed list of outreach activities, see Appendix I. The median amount of estimated funds available per opportunity was $5,000,000

California State Library, California Grants Portal Data, July 2023. View more details.

09. AB 132 (section 8334.1) implementation and post award data for fiscal year 2022-2023.

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 a grant closing (application deadline). Grantmakers that need additional time to collect awardee information must submit post award data within 12 months of a 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 new 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 2022-2023 fiscal year, the dashboard offers a running total of estimated funding available, grants offered – including a breakdown into forecasted, active, or closed — participating departments, and the Top 10 funding departments from July 1, 2020, to present.

10. What’s next for the California Grants Portal?

Data transparency is central to our mission at the California State Library. We will continue to share all data from the Grants Portal in an easy-to-use format so stakeholders can learn more about the projects supported by state grants and loans, including the post award information.

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