Grant Opportunities

Explore a wide variety of funding opportunities for your organization. Feel free to contact HM with any questions – we are happy to help with grant funding strategies!

Current Grant Opportunities

National Historical Publications & Records Commission Archival Projects Grant

The NHPRC seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. We welcome projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day. A grant is for one or two years and up to $150,000. The submission deadline is November 7, 2024, at 11:59 p.m.

Network to Freedom Grant Program
The National Park Service is announcing $500,000 in National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (NTF) Grants to prospective Network to Freedom members. Current Network to Freedom Members may submit proposals for preservation and interpretative projects. Anyone may submit a proposal to research and write a nomination for a site to become a Network to Freedom member. Deadline: August 19, 2024

History of Equal Rights Grant
The National Park Service is now accepting applications for the History of Equal Rights Grant Program. This grant program preserves sites related to the struggle of all Americans to achieve the ideal of equal rights. Deadline: August 20, 2024

Underrepresented Communities Grant
The National Park Service is now accepting applications for the Underrepresented Communities Grant Program. This grant program supports the survey, inventory, and designation of historic properties that are associated with communities currently underrepresented in the National Register of Historic Places and among National Historic Landmarks. Deadline: August 29, 2024.

Hatza SHINE Grants
Hatza SHINE Grants from Maryland Humanities are $10,000 general operating support grants for Maryland nonprofits conducting humanities programming. Deadline: September 1, 2024

African American Civil Rights Grant
The National Park Service is now accepting applications for the African American Civil Rights Grant Program. This grant program will document, interpret, and preserve sites and stories telling the full story of the long struggle for African American civil rights from the transatlantic slave trade onwards. Deadline September 5, 2024

T-Mobile Hometown Grants
T-Mobile is committing up to $25 million through 2026 to support small towns, villages, and territories across America by funding community projects. Grants awarded quarterly.

2024-25 Chesapeake Gateways Network Grants Support Tourism and Economic Development

The NPS Chesapeake Gateways Office is offering two competitive grant opportunities to support community collaboration projects, local economic initiatives, and the development of community events that celebrate the Bay’s legacy and ongoing story. The Linking Tourism and Economic Development Grant will fund projects/programs between $50,000 and $100,000, while the Event Support Grant will fund $10,000 and $25,000 for community events/festivals. The final deadline is 11:59 ET on Monday, October 21, 2024.

Preserving Black Churches

With support from Lilly Endowment Inc., the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund invests in historic Black Churches and congregations to reimagine, redesign, and deploy historic preservation to address the institutions’ needs and the cultural assets and stories they steward. The letter of intent (LOI) is due August 19, 2024, and the complete application is due October 4, 2024.

National Leadership Grants for Libraries

This grant supports projects that develop, enhance, or disseminate replicable practices, programs, models, or tools to strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Preliminary proposals are due September 20, 2024.

Semiquincentennial Grants

This program was created by Congress in 2020 to honor the 250th anniversary of the United States by restoring and preserving sites and structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places that commemorate the nation’s founding. Historic resources supported by this program may include those associated with political ideas, well-known individuals, pivotal events, or sites of conflict typically thought of in conjunction with this period of American history. Application due dates vary.