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2025 Inspire! Grants for Small Museums

Inspire! Grants for Small Museums is a special initiative of the Museums for America program.

Donor Name: Institute of Museum and Library Services

State: All States

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 11/15/2024

Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000

Grant Duration: 3 Years

Details:

It is designed to support small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, policy development and institutional planning, technology enhancements, professional development, community outreach, audience development, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation.

Project Categories 

Inspire! has three project categories:

  • Lifelong Learning
  • Institutional Capacity
  • Collections Stewardship and Access.

Funding Information

  • Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 3,000,000.
  • Expected amount of individual awards:
    • Small Project: $5,000 – $25,000.
    • Large Project: $25,001 – $75,000.

Grant Period

September 1, 2025 – August 31, 2028.

Eligibility Criteria 

To be eligible for an award under the ALHC program, your organization must meet all three of the following eligibility criteria:

  • Your organization must be:
    • a unit of State, local, or Tribal government; or
    • a private, nonprofit organization that has tax-exempt status under the  Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
  • Your organization must be located in:
    • one of the 50 States of the United States of America,
    • the District of Columbia,
    • the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
    • the U.S. Virgin Islands,
    • Guam,
    • American Samoa,
    • the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,
    • the Republic of the Marshall Islands,
    • the Federated States of Micronesia, or
    • the Republic of Palau.
  • Your organization must qualify as one of the following:
    • A museum that:
      • uses a professional staff;
      • is organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational,  cultural heritage, or aesthetic purposes;
      • owns or uses tangible objects, including living collections;
      • cares for these objects; and
      • exhibits these objects to the general  public on a regular basis through facilities that it owns or operates.

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