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Arts and Humanities
Celebrating America250: Arts Projects Honoring the National Garden of American Heroes
06/13/25
NEA will award $25,000 grants (no match required) to create art about one of the historical figures listed in the recent executive order for the Garden of American Heroes (includes figures such as Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Franklin, Sacagawea, Frank Lloyd Wright and many others). Deadline: July 14, 2025 -
Arts and Humanities
Public Impact Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary
06/13/25
NEH Public Impact Projects are designed to support public-facing humanities organizations as they use scholarship to inform the stories that they tell to the public. In this case, all projects will focus on the founding of the United States and the interpretation of the Declaration of Independence. Up to $200,000 over 2 years is available for projects including podcasts, virtual tours, and curriculum resources. Deadline: July 9, 2025. -
Arts and Humanities
Celebrate America!
04/15/25
New NEH matching grants will provide up to $25,000 for celebrations of the nation’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026. NEH anticipates making 250 awards. Allowable activities could include screenings, community events, digital content, educational content, teacher training and documentary work. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. -
Arts and Humanities
Recordings at Risk
01/14/25
CLIR's Recordings at Risk grant program awards $10,000 - $50,000 to preserve "at-risk" recorded content. The 2025 round is now closed. -
Arts and Humanities
The American Revolution Initiative (PBS)
12/06/24
Up to $45,000 is available for station grants from PBS LearningMedia. Stations may seek funding to create classroom content for PBS LearningMedia, host in-person teacher learning events, or both. The target audience for content and activities created from the education grants are teachers of grades 3-12, especially those teaching U.S. history, civics and English language arts. This grant is now closed. The deadline was February 28, 2025. -
Arts and Humanities
Juneteenth Open House Events
10/28/24
In this brand new grant program, NEH will award $30,000 grants for public events tied to Juneteenth Open House events that explore African American history and culture. Suggested activities include documentary screenings followed by group discussions. UPDATE 11-10-2024 The NEH decided not to open this competition at this time. -
Arts and Humanities
The American Revolution Community Engagement Grants
09/17/24
WETA is offering community engagement grants of up to $35,000 in conjunction with the Ken Burns series The American Revolution. This competition is now closed. The deadline was January 31, 2025. -
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. The deadline was March 4, 2024. The competition is now closed. -
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
This 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. This grant program ended in April 2025. -
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. The 2025 competition has been canceled. -
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. This competition is now closed. -
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.
