The Onion Foundation is seeking applications for its 2025 Arts Education and Public Engagement Grant Program.
Donor Name: Onion Foundation
State: Maine
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/11/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Strategies
Three strategies guide the Arts Program:
- Increase Access to Arts Education in Maine
- Support Public Engagement in Maine
- Build the Capacity of Maine’s Arts Sector.
Types of Grants
- General Operating Grants
- General operating grants offer unrestricted funds for your organization. If all of your organization’s activities align with Strategy I, Strategy II, or both, you may request general operating support.
- Project Support Grants
- Project support grants offer funding for specific activities or programs, such as an ongoing concert series or an arts education department that’s part of a larger organization. If your organization’s work extends beyond the grantmaking strategies, you should request project support. All fiscally sponsored grants are project grants.
Funding Information
Both general operating proposals and project proposals may request multiyear grants of up to three years.
- For organizations or projects with budgets over $50,000
- Up to $20,000 per year
- (up to $60,000 total over three years)
- For organizations or projects with budgets up to $50,000
- Up to $7,500 per year
- (up to $22,500 total over three years).
Eligibility Requirements
To apply for and receive a grant, your organization must be one of the following:
- A 501(c)3 public charity as designated by the IRS
- Fiscally sponsored by a qualified 501(c)3 public charity
- A Maine governmental unit.
Ineligibility
The Arts Program generally does not support:
- Capital projects (including capital campaigns, capital improvements, land purchases, or endowments)
- Scholarship funds
- Public and private schools or school districts (they do fund nonprofit organizations that partner with schools)
- Permanent public art
- Film/media production
- Publications/book projects
- Exhibitions without significant public programming
- Religious programs
- Artists (they do fund organizations that pay artists for their work).
For more information, visit Onion Foundation.
