The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is seeking applications for its Grants for Arts.
Donor Name: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/09/2026
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides project-based funding for organizations. Funded activities enable Americans throughout the nation to experience the arts, foster and celebrate America’s artistic heritage and cultural legacy, and benefit from arts education at all stages of life. They also support arts and health programs, including creative arts therapies that advance the well-being of people and communities.
Funding Information
- Total amt of funding expected to award: $65,000,000
- Challenge America Applicants: $10,000
- Other Applicants: $10,000-$100,000
- Local Arts Agencies Subgranting Projects: $30,000-$150,000
Grant Period
2 Years
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants may be arts organizations, local arts agencies, arts service organizations, local education agencies (school districts), and other organizations that can help advance the NEA’s mission. Organizations must apply directly on their own behalf.
The following are eligible to apply:
- Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3), U.S. organizations;
- Units of state or local government; and
- Federally recognized tribal communities or tribes
To be eligible, the applicant organization must:
- Meet the NEA’s Legal Requirements including non-profit, tax-exempt status at the time of application.
- Have an active registration with the System for Award Management (SAM), and have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), at the time of application. Applicants must maintain an active SAM registration until the application process is complete and throughout the life of an award.
- Have had a minimum of $20,000 in organization operating expenses in its most recently completed fiscal year.
- Have a five-year history of arts programming prior to the application deadline. Applicants will provide examples of previous arts programming in the application.
- Arts programming may have taken place prior to when the organization incorporated or received non-profit, tax-exempt status.
- Organizations that previously operated as a program of another institution may include arts programming it carried out while part of that institution.
- If arts programming was suspended due to the pandemic, you may include examples that occurred in 2018 or 2019 to meet the five-year requirement.
Ineligibility
- The following are not eligible to apply:
- Individuals;
- Commercial and for-profit enterprises;
- Applications using a fiscal sponsor/agent; and
- State and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs), and Regional Arts Organizations (RAOs). SAAs and RAOs may serve as partners in projects; however, they may not receive NEA funds through GAP.
For more information visit, Grants gov.
