diff --git a/SIP.md b/SIP.md
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--- a/SIP.md
+++ b/SIP.md
@@ -180,7 +180,22 @@ Each phase brings its own tests; the cumulative bar:
   its toggle-style Edit/Preview switcher and gains a dots menu), so we
   do them per-component alongside the theme wiring so each can be
   reviewed in isolation.
-- _(Phase 3)_ — pending.
+- _(Phase 3)_ — ✅ landed locally. `ThemeSelectorModal` (fetches non-system
+  themes via the same `/api/v1/theme/?q=...` query that the dashboard
+  Properties modal uses; preselects the currently-resolved override;
+  "Apply" / "Cancel" / "Clear override (inherit)" buttons) and the
+  thin `setComponentThemeId(componentId, themeId | null)` action that
+  merges into `meta.themeId` via the existing `updateComponents` thunk.
+
+  No call site for the modal yet — Phase 4's per-component PRs add the
+  "Apply theme" item to each component's menu that opens this modal.
+  The modal is parent-controlled (`show`/`onHide`), parent-owned, so
+  there's no wiring needed beyond `<ThemeSelectorModal layoutId={id}
+  show={open} onHide={...} />` in each call site.
+
+  3 passing tests on `setComponentThemeId`: preserves other meta keys
+  + sets numeric `themeId`; stores explicit `null` for the clear path;
+  no-op when the component id isn't in the layout.
 - _(Phase 4)_ — pending.
 
 ### Phase 1 status
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/actions/setComponentThemeId.test.ts b/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/actions/setComponentThemeId.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..26ac622d1b6
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+++ b/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/actions/setComponentThemeId.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+import { setComponentThemeId } from './setComponentThemeId';
+import { UPDATE_COMPONENTS } from './dashboardLayout';
+
+const componentFixture = {
+  id: 'CHART-abc',
+  type: 'CHART',
+  children: [],
+  parents: ['ROOT_ID', 'ROW-1'],
+  meta: {
+    chartId: 42,
+    sliceName: 'My Chart',
+    width: 4,
+    height: 30,
+  },
+};
+
+const buildState = () =>
+  ({
+    dashboardLayout: {
+      present: {
+        'CHART-abc': componentFixture,
+      },
+    },
+    // The thunk wrapper (`setUnsavedChangesAfterAction`) reads this.
+    dashboardState: { hasUnsavedChanges: false },
+  }) as unknown as ReturnType<
+    Parameters<ReturnType<typeof setComponentThemeId>>[1]
+  >;
+
+// `updateComponents` is wrapped by `setUnsavedChangesAfterAction`, which
+// returns a thunk. The outer dispatch receives the thunk; we recursively
+// execute it to capture the actual UPDATE_COMPONENTS action object.
+const dispatchedActions = (
+  outer: (dispatch: any, getState: any) => void,
+  getState: any,
+): any[] => {
+  const actions: any[] = [];
+  const dispatch = (action: any) => {
+    if (typeof action === 'function') {
+      action(dispatch, getState);
+    } else {
+      actions.push(action);
+    }
+  };
+  outer(dispatch, getState);
+  return actions;
+};
+
+test('dispatches an UPDATE_COMPONENTS that preserves existing meta and sets themeId', () => {
+  const actions = dispatchedActions(
+    setComponentThemeId('CHART-abc', 7),
+    () => buildState(),
+  );
+  const action = actions.find(a => a.type === UPDATE_COMPONENTS);
+  expect(action).toBeDefined();
+  expect(action.payload.nextComponents['CHART-abc'].meta).toEqual({
+    chartId: 42,
+    sliceName: 'My Chart',
+    width: 4,
+    height: 30,
+    themeId: 7,
+  });
+});
+
+test('clearing the override stores explicit null (not undefined)', () => {
+  const actions = dispatchedActions(
+    setComponentThemeId('CHART-abc', null),
+    () => buildState(),
+  );
+  const action = actions.find(a => a.type === UPDATE_COMPONENTS);
+  expect(action.payload.nextComponents['CHART-abc'].meta.themeId).toBeNull();
+});
+
+test('no-op when the component is missing from layout', () => {
+  const actions = dispatchedActions(
+    setComponentThemeId('CHART-missing', 7),
+    () => buildState(),
+  );
+  expect(actions).toEqual([]);
+});
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/actions/setComponentThemeId.ts b/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/actions/setComponentThemeId.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..41770c1b0b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/actions/setComponentThemeId.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+import type { AppDispatch, GetState } from 'src/dashboard/types';
+import { updateComponents } from './dashboardLayout';
+
+/**
+ * Sets (or clears) the per-component theme override on a dashboard
+ * grid component. `themeId === null` clears the override and falls back
+ * to the inherited theme.
+ *
+ * Thin wrapper around `updateComponents` that touches only the `themeId`
+ * key on the component's `meta`, preserving every other meta field. Used
+ * by `ThemeSelectorModal` (and any future call site) so the meta-merge
+ * logic lives in one place.
+ */
+export function setComponentThemeId(
+  componentId: string,
+  themeId: number | null,
+) {
+  return (dispatch: AppDispatch, getState: GetState) => {
+    const { dashboardLayout } = getState();
+    const component = dashboardLayout.present[componentId];
+    if (!component) return;
+    dispatch(
+      updateComponents({
+        [componentId]: {
+          ...component,
+          meta: {
+            ...component.meta,
+            themeId,
+          },
+        },
+      }),
+    );
+  };
+}
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/components/ThemeSelectorModal/index.tsx b/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/components/ThemeSelectorModal/index.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..19ec62b2411
--- /dev/null
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/dashboard/components/ThemeSelectorModal/index.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from 'react';
+import rison from 'rison';
+import { useDispatch } from 'react-redux';
+import { SupersetClient } from '@superset-ui/core';
+import { t } from '@apache-superset/core/translation';
+import { Button, Modal, Select } from '@superset-ui/core/components';
+import { useToasts } from 'src/components/MessageToasts/withToasts';
+import { useEffectiveThemeId } from 'src/dashboard/components/ComponentThemeProvider';
+import { setComponentThemeId } from 'src/dashboard/actions/setComponentThemeId';
+
+interface ThemeOption {
+  id: number;
+  theme_name: string;
+}
+
+interface ThemeSelectorModalProps {
+  /** The layout component receiving the theme override. */
+  layoutId: string;
+  /** Controls visibility. Parent owns this — toggled via menu click. */
+  show: boolean;
+  onHide: () => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Modal for picking a CRUD theme to apply to a single dashboard component
+ * (or clearing the existing override). On save, dispatches
+ * `setComponentThemeId`, which updates `component.meta.themeId` and marks
+ * the dashboard dirty. The actual visual application is handled by
+ * `ComponentThemeProvider`, which reads the meta change via its Redux
+ * selector and re-renders the component with the new theme tokens.
+ */
+export default function ThemeSelectorModal({
+  layoutId,
+  show,
+  onHide,
+}: ThemeSelectorModalProps) {
+  const dispatch = useDispatch();
+  const { addDangerToast } = useToasts();
+  const currentThemeId = useEffectiveThemeId(layoutId);
+
+  // Modal-local draft of the selection. Synced from the resolved id when
+  // the modal opens; only committed to Redux on save.
+  const [selectedId, setSelectedId] = useState<number | null>(currentThemeId);
+  const [themes, setThemes] = useState<ThemeOption[]>([]);
+  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);
+
+  // Keep the draft in sync if the resolved id changes while the modal is
+  // open (e.g. another tab updated the dashboard). Cheap because the
+  // selector returns a primitive.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (show) setSelectedId(currentThemeId);
+  }, [show, currentThemeId]);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!show) return;
+    setLoading(true);
+    // Same query the dashboard-properties modal uses — non-system themes only.
+    const q = rison.encode({
+      columns: ['id', 'theme_name'],
+      filters: [{ col: 'is_system', opr: 'eq', value: false }],
+    });
+    SupersetClient.get({ endpoint: `/api/v1/theme/?q=${q}` })
+      .then(({ json }) => {
+        setThemes((json.result as ThemeOption[]) ?? []);
+      })
+      .catch(() => {
+        addDangerToast(t('An error occurred while fetching available themes'));
+      })
+      .finally(() => setLoading(false));
+  }, [show, addDangerToast]);
+
+  const options = useMemo(
+    () => themes.map(t => ({ value: t.id, label: t.theme_name })),
+    [themes],
+  );
+
+  const handleSave = () => {
+    dispatch(setComponentThemeId(layoutId, selectedId));
+    onHide();
+  };
+
+  const handleClear = () => {
+    // Clearing the override means "inherit from parent" — store explicit
+    // null so the resolver knows it was intentional (vs absent / never set).
+    dispatch(setComponentThemeId(layoutId, null));
+    onHide();
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <Modal
+      show={show}
+      onHide={onHide}
+      title={t('Apply theme')}
+      footer={
+        <>
+          {currentThemeId !== null && (
+            <Button
+              data-test="component-theme-clear"
+              buttonStyle="secondary"
+              onClick={handleClear}
+            >
+              {t('Clear override (inherit)')}
+            </Button>
+          )}
+          <Button data-test="component-theme-cancel" onClick={onHide}>
+            {t('Cancel')}
+          </Button>
+          <Button
+            data-test="component-theme-apply"
+            buttonStyle="primary"
+            onClick={handleSave}
+            disabled={selectedId === null}
+          >
+            {t('Apply')}
+          </Button>
+        </>
+      }
+    >
+      <Select
+        ariaLabel={t('Theme')}
+        loading={loading}
+        options={options}
+        value={selectedId ?? undefined}
+        onChange={value => setSelectedId(value as number)}
+        placeholder={t('Select a theme')}
+        allowClear
+        onClear={() => setSelectedId(null)}
+      />
+    </Modal>
+  );
+}