Organization Funding
Funding Opportunities
The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey | Request for Proposals: Arts and Community Health | The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey is seeking proposals for innovative and effective programming at the intersection of arts and health. | Deadline: September 13, 2024 | Learn More
Institute of Museum and Library Services | Several Grant Opportunities Available | The Institute of Museum and Library Services has several grant opportunities with application deadlines in late summer and the fall: The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program supports the training and professional development of library and archives professionals. Deadline: September 20. | National Leadership Grants for Libraries support projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields. Deadline: September 20. | The 21st Century Museum Professionals Program supports projects that offer professional development to the current museum workforce, train and recruit future museum professionals, and identify and share effective practices in museum workforce education and training. Deadline: November 15. | The Inspire! Grants for Small Museums Program supports small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public. The program has three project categories: Lifelong Learning, Institutional Capacity, and Collections Stewardship and Access. Deadline: November 15. | The Museum Grants for African American History and Culture Program builds the capacity of African American museums and supports the growth and development of museum professionals at African American museums. Deadline: November 15. | The Museum Grants for American Latino History and Culture Program supports projects that build the capacity of American Latino history and culture museums to serve their communities and broadly advance the growth and development of a professional workforce in American Latino institutions. Deadline: November 15. | Museums Empowered supports projects that use the transformative power of professional development and training to generate systemic change within museums of all types and sizes. Deadline: November 15. | Museums for America supports museums of all sizes and disciplines in strategic, project-based efforts to serve the public. Deadline: November 15. | More information here.
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.
Public Library Association | Digital Literacy Incentive Programs | Each year, the Public Library Association, in partnership with AT&T, offers financial support to public libraries through digital literacy incentive programs. These competitive incentive programs provide the funding and resources necessary for libraries to teach basic digital literacy skills. The deadline to apply for their incentive opportunities is October 18.
National Archives | Archival Project Grants FY 2025 | The National Archives is accepting grant applications for Archival Projects that ensure public discovery and use of historical records collections. The deadline to apply is November 7.
County Re-grant
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.
Gloucester County Cultural & Heritage Commission | GC Cultural & Heritage Re-grant Workshop for Art & History Organizations | This workshop is a review of the annual grant application. | Date: September 4th, 2024 @ 6pm | Location: 1400 Tanyard Rd, Sewell, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08080
Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission | 2025 County Arts & History Grant Deadline REMINDER | Applications may be submitted only after a Madatory Declaration of Intent has been filed on or before August 21, 2024. Deadline: One Copy of the completed grant application must be received at the OC Parks and Recreation office by Monday, September 9, 2024, 5:00 PM. | Mail, Hand delivery or E-mail is acceptable. Extensions will not be given. | Application information.
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.
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 | The 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.
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.
