Organization Funding
January 12, 2024
- National Trust for Historic Preservation: African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund National Grant Program | Application deadline: February 1, 2024 | Grant amount: $50,000 to $150,000 | Description: The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund advances place-based cultural heritage preservation projects for historic places representing African American cultural heritage. The Fund’s National Grant Program supports ongoing preservation activities for historic places such as sites, museums, and landscapes representing African American cultural heritage. Funding is provided in four primary areas: capital projects, organizational capacity building, project planning, and programming and interpretation. Public agencies and nonprofit organizations, including state and local preservation organizations, churches, private colleges and universities, historic sites, museums, historical societies, and genealogical associations, are eligible to apply. (The Fund’s Conserving Black Modernism grant program, supporting the preservation of modern architectural sites designed by Black architects, is also open for application.) | Learn more
- The Jim Henson Foundation: Artist Grants | Grant amount: Production Grants of $7,000, Workshop Grants of $3,000, and Family Grants of $4,000 are available. | Description: The Jim Henson Foundation supports excellence in contemporary American puppet theater. The Foundation’s Artist Grants provide funding for the creation of innovative new works of contemporary puppet theater in the United States. Production Grants fund the production of new works ready to premiere in the coming year. Workshop Grants are for the development and workshopping of these pieces. Family Grants support the development of new and innovative work specifically for children, families, and teenagers ready to premiere in the coming year. Grants are made only for the development of new works of excellent live puppet theater. Applications are welcome from individual artists, but those without 501(c)(3) nonprofit status must apply through a fiscal sponsor. | Application deadline: March 4, 2024, for letters of intent | Learn More
- National Endowment for the Arts | Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) | Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and cultural ecosystem. Grants are available for arts projects in a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Each discipline has identified the types of projects that are of greatest interest within this program as well as the characteristics of competitive applications. | Deadline to submit: February 15, 2024 at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time | Learn more
- Teiger Foundation |The Teiger Foundation provides grants for U.S.-based, curator-led initiatives in contemporary visual art. Supported initiatives may include group exhibitions, single-artist surveys, participatory and community-engaged art projects, digital exhibitions, live and virtual performance in the context of the visual arts, and as-yet-unknown curatorial forms involving contemporary visual art and artists. Grant categories include grants of up to $150,000 for single projects led by curators at organizations of all sizes; grants of up to $150,000 for three years of programming at organizations with annual budgets less than $3.5 million, including independent art spaces, contemporary art centers, nonprofit art institutions, kunsthalles, university galleries, and small contemporary art museums; grants of up to $75,000 for hosting exhibitions that originated elsewhere; and grants of up to $50,000 for curatorial research and development in the earliest stages of a project. 501(c)(3) institutions in the U.S. are eligible to apply. | Application deadline: Applications will be accepted from January 2 to February 14, 2024. | Learn more
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