Slots: An organization may submit only one application to the FY 2025 Grants for Arts Projects program (i.e., one application per calendar year), with limited exceptions.
Exceptions to the one-application rule are made only for:
- Parent (and Related) Organizations A parent organization that comprises separately identifiable and independent components (e.g., a university campus that has a presenting organization and a radio station) may submit an application for each such component. In addition, a parent organization also may submit one application on its own behalf for a project that is different from any project submitted in an application by its independent component(s).See detailed information about Parent (and Related) Organizations, including definitions and other requirements.
- NOTE: Additional applications will no longer be accepted through the Media Arts discipline for the July 2024 deadline. See the Frequently Asked Questions for more information.
Deadlines
Internal Deadline: Friday, April 26, 2024, 5pm PT Contact RII.
Grants.gov Submission: July 11, 2024 11:59pm Eastern Time
External Deadline: July 16-23, 2024
Award Information
Award Type: Grant
Award Amount: Applicants may request cost share/matching grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. A minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount is required for all grant recipients.
Designated local arts agencies eligible to subgrant may request cost share/matching grants ranging from $30,000 to $150,000 for subgranting programs in the Local Arts Agencies discipline.
Link to Award: https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects/program-description
Who May Serve as PI: 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 completed a three-year history of arts programming prior to the application deadline.
- For the purpose of defining eligibility, programming may have taken place prior to when the organization incorporated or received non-profit, tax-exempt status.
- You will be asked to provide examples of previous programming in the application.
- For applicants to the February 2024 deadline, programming must have started in or before February 2021.
- For applicants to the July 2024 deadline, programming must have started in or before July 2021.
- Programming is not required to have taken place during consecutive years.
- Organizations that previously operated as a program of another institution may include arts programming it carried out while part of that institution for its three- year history.
Process for Limited Submissions
PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Research Initiatives and Infrastructure (RII) Application Portal: https://rii.usc.edu/oor-portal/. Use the template provided here:
RII-Limited-Submission-Application-Template.
Materials to submit include:
- (1) Two-Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 2-page limit will be excluded from review. You must use the template linked above.
- (2) CV – (5 pages maximum)
Note: The portal requires information about the PIs in addition to department and contact information, including the 10-digit USC ID#, Gender, and Ethnicity. Please have this material prepared before beginning this application.
Purpose
We fund arts projects through 15 different subcategories, based on artistic discipline or field, which we broadly refer to as “disciplines.” Applicants will apply to a specific discipline area. At the links below, each discipline has outlined their broader arts ecosystem, the types of projects they encourage, and guidance on characteristics of competitive proposals.
Select the discipline that most closely aligns with your project activities. The short descriptions on this page will help point you in the right direction, however applicants should review the linked discipline page in full before submitting an application. Contact us if you have any questions about which discipline is most appropriate for your project.
- Artist Communities: Artist residencies that provide dedicated space, time, and resources to artists for the creation or development of new work
- Arts Education: Projects for pre-K-12 students, the educators and artists who support them, and the schools and communities that serve them (see below for more guidance on selecting the right discipline for educational projects).
- Dance: Dance projects in all genres, including creation of work, presentation and touring, residencies, archive/preservation of dance, services to the field, and education projects
- Design: Projects including architecture, communications and graphic design, fashion design, historic preservation, industrial and product design, interior design, inclusive design, landscape architecture, rural design, social impact design, and urban design
- Folk & Traditional Arts: Project activities in folk and traditional arts include culturally- or community-centered artistic traditions, represented by a wide-range of genres including, but not limited to, music, dance, crafts, foodways, dress/adornment, occupation, ceremony, and oral expression, such as stories, poetry, and language
- Literary Arts: Projects supporting publishing, distribution, and/or promotion of literary content, as well as literary arts programming and services to the field
- Local Arts Agencies: Projects by arts commissions, arts councils, departments of cultural affairs; national or statewide service organizations partnering with local arts agencies; and arts projects by local government and special districts
- Media Arts: Projects featuring film, cinema, audio, broadcast, creative code and computation, interactive media, and emergent practices at the intersection of arts and digital technology
- Museums: Museums projects including exhibitions, care of collections, conservation, commissions, public art works, community engagement, and education activities
- Music: Music and music presentation projects in all genres including classical, contemporary, and jazz
- Musical Theater: Musical theater and musical theater presentation projects
- Opera: Opera and opera presentation projects
- Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works: Projects presenting works from across disciplines, multidisciplinary works, and/or interdisciplinary artists
- Theater: Theater and theater presentation projects
- Visual Arts: Projects supporting visual artists and projects in all genres