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NEA Research Grants in the Arts, FY 2026

Award ceiling
$20,000 – $100,000
Closes
Mar 24, 2025
Last verified
2026-09-15

Awards $20,000 – $100,000 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, independent school districts, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, special district governments, state governments, closing Mar 24, 2025.

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NEA Research Grants in the Arts, FY 2026 awards $20,000 – $100,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, independent school districts, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$1,025,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$100,000
Award floor
$20,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Mar 24, 2025
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Jan 27, 2025
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
City or township governments · County governments · Independent school districts · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education · Private institutions of higher education · Public and State controlled institutions of higher education · Special district governments · State governments
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
Yes
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Not stated
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$1,025,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$100,000

Who can apply?

level
federal
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
City or township governments, County governments, Independent school districts, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Special district governments, State governments
Source field: entity types
industry
Libraries & Arts
Source field: industries
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Not confirmed

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Mar 24, 2025ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

How hard is the application?

1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Yes

What comparable notices state

28 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Libraries & Arts, 28 of 34 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$100,000
  • Median$350,000
  • 75th percentile$562,500

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

5 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$20,000 – $100,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$1,025,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Mar 24, 2025.
Who is eligible to apply?
City or township governments, County governments, Independent school districts, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Special district governments, State governments.
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-15
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-15

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.