Deadline: 2/10/22
Amount: $10,000-$100,000
Website: https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects/eligibility
Find more information on projects based on artistic discipline: https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects/artistic-disciplines
Description:
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is the only arts funder in the United States—public or private—that provides access to the arts in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. jurisdictions. Each year, NEA awards thousands of grants to provide everyone in the United States with diverse opportunities for arts participation.
NEA awards cost/share matching grants to nonprofit organizations for a wide variety of arts projects, literature fellowships for published creative writers and translators, and partnership agreements with the 62 state/jurisdictional arts agencies and regional arts organizations.
Through NEA’s programs, it encourages activities that:
- rebuild the creative economy and educate the next generation;
- unite and heal the nation through the arts; and
- serve the nation’s arts field.
These grants support artistically excellent projects that celebrate our creativity and cultural heritage, invite mutual respect for differing beliefs and values, and enrich humanity. NEA is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and fostering mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all individuals and groups.
Eligible applicants:
The following are eligible to apply:
- Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations;
- Units of state or local government; or
- Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes.
Applicants may be arts organizations, local arts agencies, arts service organizations, local education agencies (school districts), and other organizations that can help advance the NEA’s goals.
To be eligible, the applicant organization must:
- Meet the NEA’s “Legal Requirements” including nonprofit, tax-exempt status at the time of application.
- Have completed a three-year history of arts programming prior to the application deadline.
- For the purpose of defining eligibility, “three-year history” refers to when an organization began its programming and not when it incorporated or received nonprofit, tax-exempt status.
- You will be asked to provide examples of previous programming in the application. For applicants to the February 2022 deadline, programming must have started in or before February 2019.
- Programming is not required to have taken place during consecutive years.
- Organizations that previously operated as a program of another institution may include arts programming it carried out while part of that institution for its three-year history.
**Eligible organizations that received American Rescue Plan (ARP) or CARES Act funding may apply to this program as long as there are no overlapping costs during the same grant period.
PROGRAM CONTACT
Jennie Terman
(202)-682-5566