Illinois Humanities is offering Gen Ops (aka general operating, or unrestricted) grants, as part of their Community Grants program. This is part of their ongoing effort to cater better to the needs of grantee-partners.
Donor Name: Illinois Humanities
State: Illinois
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000
Details:
Illinois Humanities is committed to serving all geographic areas within the state of Illinois; hence approximately half of the money will go to Cook County-based organizations, and half to organizations located outside of Cook County. (No non-Illinois addresses will be funded in this round.)
Humanities Organization Categories
This Gen Ops (unrestricted) grant is specifically focused on humanities organizations that have budgets of $500,000 or less. These categories have been adapted from the Humanities Indicators project led by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Cultural and Ethnic Organization
- History Organizations
- Humanities Education
- Humanities Museums
- Libraries and Archives
- Literature Organizations
- Consortiums, alliances, collectives of above-named groups
- Media, Journalism, and Documentary Organizations
Funding Information
These grants will be for $5,000 each.
Eligibility Criteria
Here are some basics about this new opportunity:
- Eligibility: These grants are for humanities organizations with budgets of $500,000 per year or less. Below is a list of the 8 categories of humanities organization. (If you’d like to make the case that your organization should be eligible, though it does not fit into one of these categories, please reach out.)
- Decision-making: Grants decisions will be made based on whether organizations have a mission involving the humanities, organizational size, geographical balance, and whether an organization represents a historically disinvested or economically under-resourced community or not, such as rural or BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) communities.
- More on eligibility: Note that organizations can receive just one Community Grant at a time. So if your organization has a Community Grant already, then hold off on applying for this (there will be more Gen Ops grant cycles – as well as project grants cycles, coming in 2023). However, if you have an “open” (ie active) Activate History, ARP Emergency Relief, or Envisioning Justice grant, you are eligible to apply for this.
- Type of organization: These unrestricted grants are for tax-exempt organizations (including nonprofits that have 501c3 status as well as those that do not) that have a focus on the humanities.
For more information, visit Illinois Humanities.
