Arts & Culture Grants for Nonprofits and Cultural Institutions

Top opportunities

• National Lottery Heritage Grants (£250,000 to £10million)

  The National Lottery Heritage FundUp to $10Mopen

  National Lottery Heritage Grants (£250,000 to £10million) is sponsored by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. This program supports larger heritage pr...

  cultural_preservationdigital_literacyarts_educationpublic_artheritage

• Viana S+T+ARTS Centre

  Up to $6.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Viana do Castelo is a historic coastal city that has grown into an industrial place with an expanding start-up ecosystem and creative industry communi...

• SmartStim, a novel implantable neuromodulation system to cure chronic pain.

  Up to $3.5MDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  /Abstract Chronic pain without apparent tissue damage is characterized by central sensitization at the level of spinal cord and brain, which often res...

• Video games and gambling-related harms

  Medical Research Council (MRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK Research and InnovationUp to $1.0MDeadline: Jul 23, 2026open

  Video games and gambling-related harms is sponsored by Medical Research Council (MRC), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Engineering and Ph...

  mental_healthsubstance_abusepublic_healthsocial_sciencearts_education

• Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries

  Institute of Museum and Library ServicesUp to $1.0Mopen

  Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries is sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services. Sup...

  library_serviceseducation_researchdigital_literacyarts_educationlibrary services

• Meredith Willson Awards

  The Music Man FoundationUp to $1.0Mopen

  The Meredith Willson Awards are grants from The Music Man Foundation providing significant multi-year general operating support to nonprofits using mu...

  performing_artscommunity_developmentmental_healtharts_educationmusic

• Funding for universities and research institutions

  The Wolfson FoundationUp to $1.0Mopen

  Funding for Universities and Research Institutions is a grant from The Wolfson Foundation that supports capital projects at research-intensive UK univ...

  higher_educationbiomedical_researcharts_educationeducation_researchhealth_disparities

• Creative Europe MEDIA - Call for proposals to support European film distribution

  European CommissionUp to $1.0Mopen

  Creative Europe MEDIA - Call for proposals to support European film distribution is sponsored by European Commission.

  film_mediacultural_preservationarts_educationeconomic_developmenteuropean film distribution

• African American Civil Rights Grants Program

  National Park ServiceUp to $750Kopen

  African American Civil Rights Grants Program is a grant from the National Park Service through the Historic Preservation Fund that funds preservation ...

  cultural_preservationcivil_rightsarts_educationtribal_governanceafrican american history

• Vagal and spinal afferent mapping of rat and human hearts in health and disease

  Up to $726KDeadline: Jun 30, 2030open

  The sensory system of the heart protects it from insult or injury but their overactivation and dysfunction are deleterious for cardiac function. Howev...

• Role of cardiac clock misalignment in promoting arrhythmias in swine and donor human hearts

  Up to $721KDeadline: Mar 31, 2030open

  Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) due to malignant ventricular arrhythmias remains a major cause of mortality in the US. While the majority of SCA patients ...

• Film In Maine Reimbursement Grant (Pilot Program)

  Maine Film OfficeUp to $700KDeadline: May 15, 2026open

  Film In Maine Reimbursement Grant (Pilot Program) is a grant from the Maine Film Office that funds production companies filming in Maine through a wag...

  film_mediaeconomic_developmentarts_educationfilm productionvisual media

• Media Projects (Development and Production Grants)

  National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)Up to $700KDeadline: Jun 25, 2026open

  Media Projects (Development and Production Grants) is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The Media Projects program supports th...

  film_medialiterary_artspublic_artarts_educationcultural_preservation

• ARTS: Systematics of cyanogenic millipedes in the order Polydesmida

  Up to $658KDeadline: Dec 31, 2027open

  Arthropods are the most diverse group of animals on the planet, with over 10 million species. Of all the arthropods, a group of millipedes named the P...

• Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grants

  Leverhulme TrustUp to $640Kopen

  Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grants is sponsored by Leverhulme Trust. Provides funds to employ research staff for up to five years on an original...

  arts_educationliterary_artsvisual_artsperforming_artseducation_research

• Illinois Public Radio and Television Grant

  Illinois Arts Council AgencyUp to $600Kopen

  Provides operating support to eligible non-commercial public radio and television stations in Illinois to help sustain their public service mission, i...

• Collaborative Research: AI by 8: A research investigation led by a research-practice partnership on unplugged AI language arts instruction for young children

  Up to $510KDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

  American Institutes for Research (AIR), North Carolina State University (NCSU), Partner to Improve (PTI), and educators from rural North Carolina scho...

• Victorian Production Fund - Screen

  VicScreen (Victorian Government)Up to $500KDeadline: Jun 22, 2026open

  The Victorian Production Fund - Screen is a grant from VicScreen (Victorian Government) that funds the production of high-quality, diverse, and engagi...

  film_mediaeconomic_developmentarts_educationcultural_preservationfilm production

• American Rescue Plan Grants to Organizations

  National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)Up to $500Kopen

  Funds to help cultural and educational organizations prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the coronavirus pandemic and its related econo...

  discover:arts and culturefit_score:1

• Defining the role of decreased estradiol in modulating crotonylation of myofilament proteins in aged female hearts

  Up to $429KDeadline: Dec 31, 2027open

  The incidence of diastolic dysfunction increases dramatically in women after menopause, which has long been attributed to loss of protection from fema...

What's included in arts & culture grants

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How GrantMind sources these grants

• Federal sources — Grants.gov, NIH RePORTER, and SAM.gov, filtered for opportunities tagged or thematically aligned with arts & culture.
• State portals — state-administered programs across all 50 states and D.C.
• Foundations — community and private foundations active in this category, drawn from IRS Form 990 filings and curated foundation directories.
• Corporate giving — a curated set of corporate philanthropy programs.

Make these grants count

The leverage point isn't writing more proposals — it's qualifying funders before you write. A 1–2 page Letter of Inquiry tells you in days whether a foundation is going to fund you, instead of forty hours from now. Our guide walks through the structure that gets a yes: