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Supervisors probe Grants for the Arts over cultural equity; hearing tabled
Summary
Supervisors and the Budget & Legislative Analyst examined 25 years of Grants for the Arts allocations and found that funding to organizations representing people of color has lagged recent San Francisco demographics. Grants for the Arts staff defended current practice; the committee tabled the item for follow-up.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Budget & Finance Committee on April 29 examined whether the city’s Grants for the Arts program is adequately meeting goals for equitable access for cultural organizations that serve communities of color.
The hearing followed a 25‑year analysis by the Budget and Legislative Analyst that found Grants for the Arts (GFTA) awarded about $11.8 million in FY2013–14 and that, on average from 1989 to 2013, 23 percent of GFTA funding went to racial minority groups while San Francisco’s population was about 58 percent people of color at the time. Analyst Julia Nagel said GFTA “does not have criteria specifically for funding underrepresented groups nor does it have a methodology for defining the term underrepresented,” and that analysts used…
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