Grants

NEH Funding Opportunities

NEH offers a variety of grant programs to individuals and organizations that do the highest quality work to promote the humanities.

Celebrate America!
Chairman’s Grants in Honor of America’s 250th Anniversary

Organizations

Deadline 7/1/25

National Garden of American Heroes: Statues

Individuals

Deadline 8/6/25

Public Scholars

Individuals

Deadline 9/4/25

Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition

Organizations

Deadline 9/10/25

Public Humanities Projects

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 11/19/25

Collaborative Research

Organizations

Output: Book; Conference; Digital Resource or Publication; Themed Issue of Peer-Reviewed Journal; Website

Deadline 12/3/25

Scholarly Editions and Translations

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 12/10/25

Save America's Treasures

Organizations

Output: Conservation; Preservation

Next deadline (anticipated) 1/15/26

Media Projects

Organizations

Deadline 1/15/26

National Digital Newspaper Program

Organizations

Deadline 1/26/26

Chair’s Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 2/11/26

Landmarks of American History and Culture for Higher Education

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 2/11/26

Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 2/11/26

Institutes for K-12 Educators

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 2/11/26

Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 4/10/26

Fellowships

Individuals

Next deadline (anticipated) 4/10/26

Awards for Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Individuals

Next deadline (anticipated) 4/20/26

Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

Individuals

Next deadline (anticipated) 5/1/26

State and Jurisdictional Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 5/5/26

Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 5/5/26

Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 5/5/26

Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 6/15/26

Preservation and Access Education and Training

Organizations

Next deadline (anticipated) 10/1/26

Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence

Organizations