Microgrants support individuals and small organizations that invite the public to experience collections of local and regional history.
Donor Name: Illinois Humanities
State: Illinois
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/01/2025
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Information
- Grants awards are $750.
- Optional Accessibility Fund: An additional stipend of $150 for services such as American Sign Language interpretation or captioning to help make events more accessible to everyone.
- Optional Media Fund: An additional stipend of $100 for services such as documentation, photography, videography, etc.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any individual, nonprofit organization in good standing or public institution (e.g., school, government institution, library, museum, or church) can apply.
- The applicant, the history you are engaging with, or the audience engaged should be focused in Illinois.
- Priority is given to organizations with annual budgets of less than $400,000.
Ineligibility
Illinois Humanities supports public humanities programs, initiatives, and organizations. They do not fund:
- Activities that promote a specific political position or ideology.
- Alcoholic beverages.
- Businesses, for-profits.
- Capital projects (i.e., renovation or purchase of buildings or land).
- Endowment contributions.
- Foreign travel.
- Lobbying.
- Major equipment purchases (though equipment to assist a specific program is admissible).
- Out-of-state programs that have no specific relevance or thematic connection to people in Illinois (though technically a grant recipient or fiscal agent can be located elsewhere in the U.S.).
- Programming that falls outside of the humanities.
- Social services (though a social services agency may apply for funding of a humanities project).
For more information, visit Illinois Humanities.
