The National Endowment for the Arts is accepting applications for its 2023 Grants for Arts Projects 2.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Arts
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/07/2022
Size of the Grant: $150,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The arts are a powerful and important part of what unites us. The arts celebrate their differences while connecting us through shared experiences. For over 50 years, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has been healing, uniting, and lifting up communities with compassion and creativity.
Grants for Arts Projects is their principal grants program for organizations based in the United States. Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $150,000
- Award Floor: $10,000
- Generally, a period of performance of up to two years is allowed.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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; for applicants to the July 2022 deadline, programming must have started in or before July 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.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.