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Arts and Humanities
Leonardo Community Engagement grants
01/22/24
Community Engagement grants of up to $15,000 are available from WETA to local television stations to support the Ken Burns documentary Leonardo, premiering fall 2024. Deadline: March 4, 2024. -
Arts and Humanities
Iconic America Community Engagement Grants
01/13/23
WETA is offering station community engagement grants of up to $15,000 to support the upcoming series Iconic America. This grant is now closed. -
Arts and Humanities
Cultural and Community Resilience (CCR)
10/24/22
New NEH grant supports preserving cultural knowledge in the face of climate change and/or the COVID-19 pandemic. Grants for oral history and other digital documentation of marginalized communities affected may be up to $150,000. The next deadline is expected to be May 21, 2024 with applications available in February 2024. -
Arts and Humanities
Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT)
10/03/22
NEH will fund 9-12 awards of up to $150,000 for podcasts, online videos, websites, and other resources that examine how current social and cultural issues are significantly shaped by technology. Deadline: September 12, 2024. -
Arts and Humanities
VMM Public Media Fund
01/13/22
With funding from CPB, Vision Maker Media provides grants of up to $150,000 for research and development, production and post-production work on content for public television that represents the cultures, experiences, and perspectives of Native Americans and Alaska Natives. This competition is now closed. The deadline was February 11, 2022. -
Arts and Humanities
Major Collaborative Archival Initiatives
01/13/22
Up to $350,000 is available through this National Archives program that supports improving the public discovery and use of major historical records collections. Deadline: May 8, 2024 (draft due February 15, 2024). -
Arts and Humanities
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
12/13/21
The Mellon Foundation was identified as one of the top funders of journalism and public media by Inside Philanthropy in 2021. They are a longtime funder of public broadcasters, including arts programming. -
Arts and Humanities
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
12/10/21
Mellon is a long standing funder of public broadcasting. Program areas include Arts and Culture, Journalism, and Higher Learning. They have invested significantly in arts organizations during the pandemic. -
Arts and Humanities
Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions
11/29/21
Up to $160,000 is available from the National Archives to publish online editions of historical records. Note that this grant will not fund documentary production but could enhance a historical documentary effort. Deadline: May 8, 2024 (draft due February 15, 2024). A second deadline will be November 7, 2024 (draft due August 15, 2024). -
Arts and Humanities
Benjamin Franklin Community Engagement grants
11/15/21
WETA will offer $10,000 station grants for community engagement around the upcoming Benjamin Franklin program, airing in April 2022. This funding opportunity closed on January 13, 2022. -
Arts and Humanities
American Rescue Plan Grants to Organizations
06/23/21
This funding opportunity closed on August 12, 2021. -
Arts and Humanities
Access to Historical Records: Archival Projects
06/10/21
The National Archives' NHPRC will award up to $150,000 for digitizing historical records collections. Eligible historical records include documents, photographs, born-digital records and analog audio and moving images. Deadline: November 2, 2024. Optional drafts are due August 15, 2024. New guidelines for 2024 are expected in May 2024. -
Arts and Humanities
American Rescue Plan: Humanities Organizations
04/08/21
As part of the American Rescue Plan stimulus funding, NEH will award up to $500,000 to humanities organizations for work that has been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. They anticipate making 150 awards from a total of $40,000,000. Deadline was May 14, 2021 -
Arts and Humanities
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
03/29/21
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants of up to $350,000 for digitization projects of humanities resources. Deadline: July 16, 2024 (Optional draft due June 4, 2024). -
Arts and Humanities
Research Grants in the Arts
02/02/21
The NEA will award grants ranging $20,000 - $100,000 for projects that address priorities in their current research agenda. A 1-1 non-federal match is required. This competition is currently closed. The grants.gov deadline for this grant was March 25, 2024, with a later deadline in April for the NEA portal.
