Organization Funding
Funding Opportunities
Council on Library and Information Resources | Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives | Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices, a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), supports the digitization of rare and unique materials held by collecting organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For the 2024-2025 cycle, up to $4,000,000 in grants will be provided for projects digitizing materials in a variety of formats that enrich the public’s understanding of the histories of underrepresented communities, particularly those of people of color and other communities and populations whose work, experiences, and perspectives have been insufficiently recognized or unattended. Eligible applicants include nonprofit, academic, independent, and community-based organizations as well as government entities in the U.S. and Canada that collect, preserve, and share rare and unique materials with the general public. The program is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation. | Deadline: October 30, 2024, for initial applications | Application and information.
Burlington County Cultural and Heritage Commission | Local Arts Programs (LAP) Grants | The Local Arts Program (LAP) provides funding to local arts organizations from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA)/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. General Operating Support and Special Projects grants are available to qualified organizations. A panel consisting of professional individuals involved in the arts (peer panelists) will review the applications for LAP funding. This process is based on the perceived quality of the proposed programming, and the anticipated value to the community. The Burlington County Board of County Commissioners will then approve and re-grant some or all of the funding to individual group applicants for implementation of their programs. The 2025 LAP Grant Applications are Now Open! | Deadline: September 30, 2024 | Information and application.
Cape May County Cultural & Heritage Commission | Arts & History Re-grant Program: Letters of Intent for 2025 | Through funding provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and New Jersey State Historical Commission, the Division of Culture & Heritage provides Cape May County organizations an opportunity to apply for funding for operations and projects that have an art and/or history component. Letters of Intent for the 2025 cycle will be accepted beginning August 1st, 2024. For more information, visit here: Grant Information
Cumberland County Cultural & Heritage Commission | Arts & History Re-grant Program | Each year the County of Cumberland receives Block Grants provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA) and the New Jersey Historical Commission (NJHC). A Block Grant is a single proposal submitted to a single source to fund the projects and/or expenses of several organizations. The NJSCA and NJHC review the blocks, and based on the perceived quality of the proposed programming and the anticipated value to the community, they allocate funds from their annual budgets to the County. Cumberland County is the fifth highest county recipient of these funds in New Jersey. Using the same criteria, the Commission then re-grants some or all of the funding requested to the individual groups for implementation of their programs. Applications for the 2025 re-granting round are due in the office of the Cumberland County Department of Planning by Friday, October 11, 2024. Any questions, please contact the department at (856) 453-2175. | More information and application here.
Salem County Culture & Heritage | Arts Re-Grants Cycle is NOW OPEN! | The 2025 re-grant cycle from the Salem County Cultural & Heritage Commission is now open. | Deadline: October 10th, 2024 | More information and several applications here.
Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission | History Partnership Program Grants | Through funding provided by the New Jersey Historical Commission, the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission at Camden County College provides limited funding to grassroots 501(c)(3) history organizations within Camden County which successfully apply.
Applications are now being accepted for FY2025 (1/1/2025 – 12/31/2025). Please note that the application process has changed for FY2025 to an online application process. Please apply at here to begin the application process. The FY2025 application process now involves two steps. First, we ask that you submit a “Letter of Intent” by September 20, 2024. Upon review and approval for the Letter of Intent, you will be asked to complete a “Full Application” by October 18, 2024. | More information here.
Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission | Special Request Grants | The Cultural & Heritage Commission maintains a limited portion of its budget for special requests. Special requests are for those situations in which a Camden County non-profit arts or history organization has never before applied to the grant program and/or due to extenuating circumstances was unable to meet the deadline or requirements. An organization can only receive a Special Request grant once, and future funding from the Commission must be sought through one of its other granting programs. The maximum amount that may be requested through a Special Request is $1,000. Applications are now being accepted for FY2024 (funds must be expended by 12/31/2024). Please note that the application process has changed for FY2024 to an online application process. Please apply at here to begin the application process. | More information here.
The Awesome Foundation | Micro Grants | The Awesome Foundation accepts applications from individuals, groups, and organizations for $1,000 micro-grants toward an “awesome” project. | Ongoing. | Application and information.
MidAtlantic Arts | Cultural Sustainability Grants- New Program Opening Soon | Cultural Sustainability, a new grant program offered by the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations (USRAOs) in partnership with The Wallace Foundation, provides general operating support to arts organizations rooted in communities of color with annual operating expenses under $500,000. Mid Atlantic Art’s Cultural Sustainability program will open in October 2024. Please contact culturalsustainability@midatlanticarts.org to receive a notification when the grant guidelines and application post. | More information here.
WomensNet | Creative Arts Business & Organizations Grants | Are You A Woman Looking For A Grant For Your Creative Arts Business?… You’ve Found The Right Site. Art adds beauty to our world. And art can take many forms. Sometimes, art can even be a business venture for women courageous enough to invest their time, creativity and energy. We’ve heard so many stories from professional female artists that we know who say that owning a business in the creative arts space can be a huge challenge. We at WomensNet are inspired by women who are driven to use their skills to create art. We know that art provides a benefit to individuals and communities, alike. We want to see more women doing what they love — especially when they’re creating beauty. We know that women have not been treated equally in the creative arts world. We know how creative women are and we believe your creative work should be valued equally. That’s why we give “Business Specific” Grants based on each month’s category — including a grant specific to women in the creative arts industry during the month of October. | Deadline: Through the month of October | Application and information.
The Adolf Busch Award | The 2025 Adolf Busch Award Application Is Now Open! | The Adolf Busch Award invites applications from organizations using music to address social injustice. The award will grant $10,000 to one organization each year that focuses on nurturing the musical and leadership skills of individuals, supporting disenfranchised segments of the population, engaging in grassroots initiatives that promote a pluralistic and equitable society, and demonstrates a willingness to shape a response to systemic issues in a challenging environment. | Deadline: Friday, September 20, 2024. | Learn more here.
National Endowment for the Arts | Translation Project Fellowships | Through fellowships to published translators, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. The work to be translated should be of interest for its literary excellence and merit. We encourage translation projects that feature languages, perspectives, and writers that are not well represented in English, as well as work that has not previously been translated into English. The NEA is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and fostering mutual support for the diverse beliefs and values of all individuals and groups. Applying for a federal grant can be time consuming. We estimate that after registering, the process to draft and submit an application takes approximately 12 hours. Competition for fellowships is rigorous. Potential applicants should consider carefully whether their work will be competitive at the national level. | More information here. | Deadline: January 16th, 2025 | Haga clic aquí para obtener información en español | More information here.
Arts Organizations
Amphion Foundation | Grant Program Now Open | The Amphion Foundation aims to encourage the performance of contemporary concert music, particularly by American composers, through support to performing, presenting, and music service organizations. The Foundation’s fall grant cycle is open to presenting and music service organizations for activities including professional development programs, educational initiatives, presenting concerts and festivals, artist residency programs, and archival activity. (The Foundation’s spring grant cycle supports performing organizations.) General operating support is available for organizations with a history of substantial commitment to contemporary American concert music and plans to continue that commitment, while project support is available for exceptionally important activities relating to contemporary concert music that are out of the scope of an organization’s regular programming. Applicants must have 501(c)(3) nonprofit status (or the foreign equivalent) or have a fiscal sponsorship, and have two or more years of performance or program history as an organization. | Deadline: The fall deadline is September 25, 2024. (New applicants must submit an account request by September 20, 2024.) | Application and information.
Bank of America | Bank of America Art Conservation Project | The Bank of America Art Conservation Project is accepting proposals to conserve historically or culturally significant works of art that are in danger of deterioration. Deadline: September 30.
Frameline | Frameline Completion Fund | The Frameline Completion Fund awards grants to emerging and established filmmakers to complete projects that represent and reflect LGBTQ+ life in all its complexity and richness. Grants support the completion of projects that have 90% of production finished and are in the post-production phase or ready to begin post as soon as funding is in place. Submissions are accepted for documentary, narrative, experimental, animated, or episodic projects about LGBTQ+ people and their communities. The Fund also seeks to bring new work to underserved audiences; with this in mind, it encourages applications by women, people of color, transgender people, intersex people, asexual people, non-binary people, disabled people, and other underrepresented people and communities. | Application deadline: November 1, 2024 | Application and information.
VIA Art Fund | Artistic Production Grants | Emphasizing direct engagement with contemporary visual art, VIA Art Fund supports projects that exemplify the core values of artistic production, thought leadership, and public engagement. The Fund’s Artistic Production Grants are awarded twice annually to artists, nonprofit organizations, cultural institutions, art production platforms, and biennials or festivals working in the field of contemporary art in the United States and internationally. Support is provided for new artistic commissions that take place outside museum or gallery walls, within the public realm or in non-traditional exhibition environments. If the project takes place in the United States, the featured artists may be U.S.-based or international. Nonprofit entities (U.S.-based or international) applying for support for a project outside the United States must feature the work of a U.S.-based artist. | Deadline: November 4, 2024 for letters of inquiry. | Application and information.
History Organizations
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance | Grant Program | Grants Aim to Safeguard the Record of the Holocaust and Roma Genocide. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) unites governments and experts to strengthen, advance, and promote Holocaust education, research, and remembrance and to uphold the commitments to the 2000 Stockholm Declaration. The IHRA Grant Program supports projects from all over the world and from any nonprofit organization and institution in the field of education, remembrance, and research of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma. Funding is provided for innovative, relevant, and impactful projects with a clear international component that safeguard the record of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma and counter distortion through public discourse involving the media or social media, education, research, and memorialization. Projects should bring together target groups and project partners from at least two different countries. Eligible applicants consist of nonprofit organizations and institutions, research consortia, and universities. Institutions from Ukraine are encouraged to apply. | Deadline: September 30, 2024, for project abstracts | Application and information.
Institute of Museum and Library Services | Museum Grants for African American History and Culture | The Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program supports projects that nurture museum professionals, build institutional capacity, and increase access to museum and archival collections at African American museums and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Projects designed to build the capacity of African American museums may involve increasing the number of museum professionals working at African American museums to enable the museum to expand educational programs, engage with the community, enhance organizational operations and resiliency, or provide for enhanced care of collections. | Deadline: November 15, 2024 | More information here.
