The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage offers Evolving Futures grants to eligible organizations in an effort to acknowledge the challenges facing the cultural sector and the critical need to evolve traditional business models.
Donor Name: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
State: Pennsylvania
County: Bucks County (PA), Chester County (PA), Delaware County (PA), Montgomery County (PA), Philadelphia County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Two types of Evolving Futures grants are offered:
- Planning (NEW). Planning grants are designed to help you increase readiness to make a change to your core business model. These grants support preparatory research, hiring qualified consultants, and conducting feasibility studies to help you identify and clarify the change that is needed. Planning grants are designed to ready your organization for a full Implementation grant.
- Implementation. Implementation grants are designed for organizations that have already identified and committed to the critical operational challenge that exists for the organization and have completed preparatory steps and structured plans to enact the operational change.
Funding Information
- Planning grants are available up to $60,000 for single organizations.
- Implementation grants are available up to $400,000 for single organizations. If co-applying in the multi-organization category, the total combined request may not exceed $600k.
Grant Period
- Planning Grants
- The grant period for Evolving Futures Planning grants begins November 1, 2025 and ends by November 1, 2026.
- Implementation Grants
- The grant period for Evolving Futures Implementation grants begins November 1, 2025 and ends by November 1, 2027.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations must—
- Have received a project grant in Performance or Exhibitions & Public Interpretation from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage between 2014–2024.
- Have a 501(c)(3) designation and be located in the five-county Philadelphia region of Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or Philadelphia county).
- Have the presentation of art or public history programs as their primary mission.
- Have a minimum annual budget of $150,000.
- Primarily serve public audiences. (The Center does not fund K–12 educational programming, curricula at any academic level, projects primarily rooted in education, or projects where the primary audiences are students and educators.)
- Have adequate, paid, professional, artistic/curatorial and managerial staff to realize the project.
- Have a demonstrated record of presenting professional public programs in the genre or content area identified in the grant proposal.
- Provide three years of financial audits/reviews to determine financial eligibility for funding.
- Not have an existing Evolving Futures or Recovery grant that is open in 2025.
- Not be managed by current employees of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage or The Pew Charitable Trusts; members of such employees’ households; or people closely related to such employees through blood, marriage, or domestic partnership.
For more information, visit The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
