Organization Funding
Funding Opportunities
New Jersey Economic Development Authority | History Property Grant Survey Program: Applications are OPEN | The Historic Property Survey Grant Program is a $400,000 pilot program that will provide grants up to $125,000 for the preparation of Historic Property Surveys throughout the state that include within the defined scope, properties located within a Government Restricted Municipality or that would be considered distress asset/s. | Application and Information.
New Jersey Economic Development Authority | Accepting Applications for Activation, Revitalization, and Transformation (A.R.T.) Phase II Program | The $15 million program will support the creation of public space activation initiatives, such as place making projects, public art installations, and arts-based projects along commercial corridors in 31 municipalities. Non-profit organizations with a 501(c)(3), 501(c)(6), or 501(c)(19) status are eligible to apply. Permitted uses of funding include: placemaking projects, public art installations, arts-based projects, art exhibitions, performances, festivals, parades, concerts or concert series, film and video screenings, and cultural programming. Projects must take place within 1.5 miles of an eligible municipality’s passenger rail station. | Deadline: Monday, November 25, 2024, at 5:00 PM EST | Application and information.
Mid Atlantic Arts | Cultural Sustainability: Community Roots Grant Program! | 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 Arts’ Cultural Sustainability: Community Roots program provides unrestricted operational funding to arts organizations founded by, with, and for communities of color, allowing them to sustain and expand their practices, benefiting the communities they serve. It also supports cross-cultural arts experiences and fosters stronger collaboration between artists, communities, and the RAO’s. The program provides general operating support to arts and culture organizations serving BIPOC communities with budgets under $500,000 and at least three years of programming. Mid Atlantic Arts will select up to 20 grantees from the ten states and territories we serve (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, PR, USVI, VA, and WV). | Deadline: Monday, January 6, 2025, 11:59pm EST | More information.
Mid Atlantic Arts | Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects Grants | Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects grants fund projects that support the vitality of traditional arts and cultures in the mid-Atlantic region. Non-profit organizations in DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, USVI, PR, or WV may apply for $1,000 to $7,000 grants. A 1:1 match is required. | Deadline: March 10, 2025 | More information and application.
The Milbank Foundation | Grants Facilitate Empowerment of People With Disabilities | The Milbank Foundation aims to integrate people with disabilities into all aspects of American life. Support is provided to nonprofit organizations in the United States working in the Foundation’s current priority areas: consumer-focused, community-based initiatives that empower people with disabilities and foster independence and self-sufficiency; rehabilitation and reintegration of veterans, especially veterans with disabilities; helping seniors to age in the place of their choice through non-institutional, community-based health and social services; market-oriented, patient-centered healthcare reforms across the country; and programs that address mental health issues and aim to prevent substance abuse and suicide, especially among young people. | Ongoing deadline. | More information and application.
Angel Philanthropy | Smart Family Fund | The Smart Family Fund’s mission is to discover, support, and mentor emerging U.S. nonprofit organizations and their leaders, providing the necessary backing to help them succeed. The Fund focuses on early-stage nonprofit ventures that have the potential to make a significant impact on the world, but that have yet to demonstrate the efficacy needed to acquire large-scale funding. Early-stage, U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Applicants must be able to clearly articulate how they will demonstrate the efficacy of the intervention, quantify the potential positive impact in the world, and communicate how the organization is differentiated and better than other ecosystem players. | Deadline: None | More information.
Community Foundation of New Jersey | Field Trip New Jersey Fund | Field Trip New Jersey provides grants for trips to arts and cultural organizations, historical landmarks, nature preserves, science institutions and college tours — helping students in underserved communities to connect their classroom learning with real-life experiences. The fund prioritizes field trips in the state that gives students the opportunity to travel outside of their districts; it does not cover inter-school travel. Schools may transport students for college tours in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland and New Jersey. They can also submit an application for multiple trips. However, total funding per school is capped at $1,400 and must be used for bus expenses only. Each field trip is capped at $700, and it is highly recommended that teachers collaborate during the planning and application process to help ensure the trips serve a range of teachers and students. | More information.
Mid Atlantic Arts | Special Presenter Initiatives | The Special Presenter Initiatives provide additional opportunities for the support of small to mid-sized performing arts presenters in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, West Virginia, and Native nations that share this geography. Fee support is available for engagements of performing artists based anywhere worldwide. Engagements include performances as well as community activities that offer meaningful exchanges between touring artists and a presenter’s community. Presenters based in partner states/jurisdictions listed above can receive up to 50% subsidy for the presentation of an artist/company plus support for other eligible project expenses. | Deadline: March 13th, 2025 | More information and application.
Mid Atlantic Arts | ArtsCONNECT | ArtsCONNECT supports performing arts touring projects collaboratively developed by presenters working together in the mid-Atlantic region.The tours include performances as well as complementary engagement activities designed to create greater understanding or connections between artists, audiences, and communities. | Deadline: February 25th, 2025 | More information and application.
National Endowment for the Arts | NEA Big Read | NEA Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, is a national program that offers matching grants of up to $20,000 to support community-wide reading programs in the United States. The grant helps bring communities together around the shared activity of reading and discussing the same book. Each applicant organization selects one of 22 available books from the NEA Big Read library; engages with community partners to develop, conduct, and promote engaging literary and artistic programs that illuminate the book and theme; and offers events and activities related to the theme and chosen book. The theme for the 2025-26 cycle is “Our e: How Our Physical Environment Can Lead Us to Seek Hope, Courage, and Connection.” Nonprofit arts organizations, universities, libraries, service organizations, museums, school districts, and tribal governments are eligible to apply. | Deadline: January 23, 2025, for intents to apply, and January 30, 2025, for applications | More information and application.
The Shubert Foundation | General Operating Support Grants for Nonprofit Theaters/Dance Companies | The Shubert Foundation invites nonprofit theater and nonprofit dance companies to apply for general operating support grants. | Deadline: December 4th, 2024 | More information and application.
History Organizations
National Park Service- Historic Preservation Fund | Save America’s Treasures | The Save America’s Treasures program from the Historic Preservation Fund provides grants for preservation or conservation work on nationally significant properties and collections through two types of grants: preservation and collection grants. Work to historic districts, buildings, sites, structures, and objects will be funded through preservation grants, and collection grants support conservation work on nationally significant collections, including artifacts, museum collections, documents, sculptures, and other works of art. | Deadline: December 12, 2024 | More information.
Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities | The Landmarks of American History and Culture Program | The Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation to enhance how K-12 educators and higher education faculty and humanities professionals incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship. | Deadline: February 12, 2025 | More information and application.
New Jersey Council for the Humanities | Communities of Practice | A Community of Practice (COP) is flexible gathering of individuals united by shared interests and expertise, providing peer-to-peer support, learning, and networking opportunities. COPs may be cultivated around a topic, geographic area, professional practice, or other common concern for humanities practitioners. In 2024, NJCH will pilot three COPs: Community college humanities, Oral history and story-gathering, Arts and humanities. If you see yourself in one of these communities, please join the COP! Gatherings will begin this spring and will be announced on NJCH’s website, through email outreach, and via social media. Or fill out the form below to express your interest and we will get in touch. | C O P Interest Form and more information.
New Jersey Council for the Humanities | Community History Cohort | Community History participants collaborate with their communities to learn about and share their untold stories. Participants receive instruction on public history practices, develop projects in a collaborative environment, and are eligible to receive funding from NJCH to launch projects in their communities. NJCH will provide $1,000 funding up front to support participation in the program. Participating organizations are eligible to apply for additional funding up to $5,000 to support the project they develop over the course of the program. | Deadline: December 12th, 2024. | Application and information.