Organization Funding
New Jersey Cultural Trust | Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grants for Arts Organizations | For Fiscal Year 2025, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (Arts Council) is accepting applications from arts organizations for Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grants to recommend to the Cultural Trust for funding. | Grant fund up to $40k | Grant Period for successful Projects is February 10th 2025 - February 28th, 2026 | Application open now| Guidelines in English & Spanish | Full Applications Due August 15th, 2024 by 12 pm ET | Learn more and apply in SAGE
New Jersey Arts & Culture Renewal Fund | Phase 9 Grant | The New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund provides financial support to stabilize and build resilience among New Jersey-based smaller nonprofit arts and culture organizations. Phase 9 funding is specifically for organizations whose primary mission is Arts or Arts Education. | Application | Deadline: Wednesday, August 21, 2024.
New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) | Activation, Revitalization, And Transformation (A.R.T.) Program - Phase II | A.R.T. – Phase II is a competitive grant program that will disburse $15,000,000 in ARP SLFRF funding to address the impact of COVID-19 in 31 selected municipalities throughout the state. The program supports creating public space activation initiatives, such as place making projects, public art installations, and arts-based projects. Projects must be completed and all grant award funding must be expended by December 31, 2026 | Informational Webinar Found Here | Applications Open late Summer or Fall 2024 for 60- Calendar day window | More Information Here
New Jersey Council for the Humanities | Sponsorships | NJCH sponsorships support public humanities events, programs, and opportunities that help institutions serving the people of New Jersey explore the public humanities in our lives. NJCH sponsorships are designed to fund activities that advance NJCH’s mission and strategic goals, with the aim of providing greater visibility and access to audiences that are not currently served by NJCH's grantmaking or other programs. NJCH will provide funding up to $3,000 for an organization's event, in return for marketing visibility and exposure. Please note that current NJCH grantees or program participants are not eligible to apply until their previous awards are closed. Visit this link for more information: Sponsorships
Korean American Community Foundation | Application deadline: August 22, 2024, for Community Grant applications and August 30, 2024, for National Grant applications
Grant amount: Community Grants range up to $100,000. National Grants range up to $75,000.
Description: The Korean American Community Foundation supports programs serving under-resourced Korean American and Asian American individuals and families. The Foundation’s Community Grants, available only to organizations based in New York and New Jersey, support projects that provide services to address short- and long-term needs to achieve economic security (i.e., education, workforce development, public benefits counseling, affordable housing, healthcare, etc.) and projects that engage in community organizing and advocacy to address root causes of economic instability and poverty or advocate for systems change to ensure more resources are accessible to the community. National Grants, available to organizations based outside of New York and New Jersey, support projects aiming to close the data gaps on the needs of the Korean American community and seed or support ongoing collaborative or coalition-building projects, as well as nationally-focused projects to address barriers to economic security and regional projects aligned with the goal of increasing the economic security of low-income Korean and Asian Americans.
Art Conservation Projects Supported | Bank of America Art Conservation Project | Application deadline: September 30, 2024 | Description: The Bank of America Art Conservation Project provides grants to nonprofit museums and cultural institutions around the world to conserve historically or culturally significant works of art, including works that have been designated as national treasures. Works of art must meet the following criteria: be significant to the cultural heritage of the country or region, or important to the history of art; be on view to the public, or be on view once conservation is complete; be owned by the nonprofit institution applying for the grant; and be paintings, works on paper, photographs, sculpture, architectural or archeological pieces, important books or manuscripts, tapestries, or works of decorative or applied art that are in danger of degeneration. More information and a link to the application can be found here.
CREATE ACTION | Application deadline: September 30, 2024 | Grant amount: Ten grants of $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in Sony products, and a promotional film will be made. | Description: The mission of CREATE ACTION is to amplify the efforts of local social justice organizations in the United States through funding, storytelling, and collaboration with Sony. Support is provided to organizations committed to social justice causes, i.e., service to underserved and under-represented communities, via photography, videography, filmmaking, or a related field. Ten organizations will receive direct funding of $50,000 to continue and expand their work, $50,000 in Sony Electronics products to support their mission, and a custom-created promotional film telling their story, as well as other opportunities for collaboration, partnership, and marketing support. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations within the 50 U.S. states and D.C. (excluding territories) that have a social justice and community focus and annual donations up to $500,000 are eligible to apply.
The Pilcrow Foundation | Children’s Books Project Program Grants | The Pilcrow Foundation’s mission is to provide children’s books to rural public libraries across the United States. Through its Children’s Book Project Grants, the Foundation provides a two-to-one match to rural public libraries that contribute $200 to $400 through a local sponsor for the purchase of up to $1,200 worth of new, quality, hardcover children’s books. Grant recipients can select books best suited for their community from a list of over 700 quality hardcover children’s books. To qualify for the grant, libraries must be located in a rural area within the 50 U.S. states, have a limited operating budget, have an active children’s department, and raise $200 to $400 through a local sponsor. Libraries with total operating budgets of less than $50,000 will receive funding priority. (The Foundation also offers non-matching disaster relief grants of $800 worth of children’s books to libraries serving rural communities in the United States affected by recent tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, or other natural disasters.) Grant amount: Matching grants are provided to purchase up to $1,200 of children’s books. | Deadline: April 1 and October 1, annually | Learn more here.
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc. | Currently Accepting Grant Proposals | Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples is dedicated to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination and the sovereignty of Native nations. The Fund is currently accepting applications from Native-led and community-generated organizations through its four grant program areas: Community Vitality, with a focus on strengthening Indigenous identity by revitalizing cultural lifeways, language, creativity, and food sovereignty; Flicker Fund, which responds to vulnerable and stressed Indigenous communities on the frontlines of climate-caused crisis and emergencies; Land, Water, and Climate, with a focus on Indigenous Peoples’ traditional relationships and responsibilities to land, water, community, and spirit; and Thriving Women, with a focus on Indigenous women and girls’ inherent strength and capacity for healing, leadership, and regenerating positive futures. Nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status, federally-recognized tribal nations, applicants with a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, and Seventh Generation Fund affiliate projects are eligible to apply. Grant amount: $500 to $50,000 | Deadline: Proposals are being accepted on an ongoing basis until December 2, 2024. | Apply here.
National Park Service | Historic Preservation Fund | Underrepresented Communities Grants | The National Park Service’s Underrepresented Communities Grant Program works towards diversifying listings submitted to the National Register of Historic Places. Projects include surveys and inventories of historic properties associated with communities underrepresented in the National Register, as well as the development of nominations to the National Register for specific sites. | Deadline: August 29, 2024 | Information and application available here.
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University | Princeton Arts Fellowship Application | Princeton Arts Fellowships are awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early-career visual artists, filmmakers, composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors, and performance artists who would find it beneficial to spend time teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community. | Deadline: September 10, 2024 | Learn more here.
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University | Hodder Fellowship Application | Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists. A $92,000 stipend is provided for this 10-month appointment as a Visiting Fellow. Fellows are eligible for benefits during the length of the fellowship and have access to research funds. | Deadline: September 10, 2024 | Learn more here.
The GRAMMY Museum | The GRAMMY Museum Grants Program Application | The GRAMMY Museum Grants Program provides support to organizations and individuals for efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of North America and for research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition. Preservation grants support projects that advance the archiving and preservation of music and recorded sound heritage. Research grants support efforts that study the links between music and early childhood education, treatments for illnesses and injuries common to musicians, hearing loss alleviation, and the impact of music therapy on populations from infants to the elderly. Geographic scope: United States and Canada. Grant amount: Grant amounts vary by category but range up to $20,000. | Deadline: August 23, 2024, for letters of inquiry.
National Endowment for the Humanities | Climate Smart Humanities Organizations Program |
The Climate Smart Humanities Organizations program strengthens the institutional base of the humanities by funding operational assessments and strategic planning efforts to sustain and protect historical, cultural, educational, intellectual, and physical assets from the risks of climate change. Projects will result in a climate action, resilience, or adaptation plan, including detailed assessments, measurable actions, and expected outcomes. Proposals must address how strategic planning for climate change will increase the organization’s resilience and support its work in the humanities over the long term. | Optional draft deadline: August 9, 2024 | Application deadline: September 18, 2024
The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Optional draft due July 10. Deadline: August 14.
The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities program supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology. Deadline: September 12.
The Dialogues on the Experience of War program supports developing humanities-focused discussion programs that enlarge the understanding of the meaning and experiences of military service and war. Optional draft due August 1. Deadline: September 17.
The Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education program supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations through the teaching and study of the humanities at small and medium-sized colleges and universities. Anticipated deadline: October 1.
