Sponsor Deadline
Posted: 4/30/2024

NEA Grants for Arts Projects

Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides expansive funding opportunities to strengthen the nation’s arts and culture ecosystem.

Through project-based funding, the program supports opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.

We welcome applications from a variety of eligible organizations, including first-time applicants; from organizations serving rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities of all sizes; and from organizations with small, medium, or large operating budgets.

We fund arts projects in the following disciplines: Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Media Arts, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater, and Visual Arts.

An organization may submit only one application to the FY 2025 Grants for Arts Projects program (i.e., one application per calendar year), with limited exceptions.  Interested applicants from within Duke should contact fundopps@duke.edu as early as possible.

Deadlines: February 15, 2024; July 11, 2024

Important Note About Matching Requirements: All grants require a non-federal match of at least 1:1. Please contact your chair or director and dean to confirm institutional support for your project and then contact your school development office to discuss the feasibility of raising matching funds before submitting an internal proposal.

Eligibility Requirements

The following are eligible to apply:

  • Non-profit, 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 non-profit, 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, programming may have taken place prior to when the organization incorporated or received non-profit, tax-exempt status.
    • You will be asked to provide examples of previous programming in the application.
      • For applicants to the February 2024 deadline, programming must have started in or before February 2021.
      • For applicants to the July 2024 deadline, programming must have started in or before July 2021.
    • 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 time period.

An organization may submit only one application to the FY 2025 Grants for Arts Projects program (i.e., one application per calendar year), with limited exceptions.

Exceptions to the one-application rule are made only for:

  • Parent (and Related) Organizations
Amount Description

Grants range from $10,000 to $100,000. All grants require a nonfederal cost share or match of at least 1 to 1. In addition, designated local arts agencies eligible to subgrant may request cost share/matching grants ranging from $30,000 to $150,000 for subgranting programs in the Local Arts Agencies discipline.

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