Multiplier Grants support projects that represent partnerships of a wider scope, place-based community-building efforts, and/or coalition or network building efforts.
Donor Name: Illinois Humanities
State: Illinois
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/17/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Preference goes toward projects that impact under-funded, under-served communities, and toward telling stories of forgotten or uncovered history and themes. Current Illinois Humanities grantees are eligible.
Funding Information
Up to $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization in good standing or have a fiscal sponsor.
- Organizations or projects must be Illinois-based.
- The project must be rooted in the humanities.
- Priority given to organizations with an annual budget of $1 million or less.
- Applicants can have an open Activate History, Vision, Action, General Operating, Envisioning Justice, or Foreground Rural Initiative grant.
- Buy-in by all partners before submitting a proposal is a must.
- Preference will go toward initiatives that impact under-funded, under-served communities.
Additional Funding
- 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.
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.
