Opportunity Information: Apply for 20250501 SO
The State and Jurisdictional Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants program is a discretionary grant opportunity offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through its Office of Federal/State Partnership. It is designed specifically to provide general operating support to NEH-designated humanities councils across the United States and its jurisdictions. Rather than funding a single project or a narrow initiative, these awards are meant to help sustain the ongoing operations and core work of each official humanities council, recognizing that these councils serve as the primary state- and territory-level partners that bring humanities programming and funding closer to local communities.
A central purpose of the program is to strengthen the humanities infrastructure nationwide by enabling each council to tailor grants, public programs, and outreach to the particular needs, resources, and interests of its state or jurisdiction. In practice, that means councils can support locally relevant humanities activities such as public lectures, museum and library partnerships, reading and discussion programs, oral history and community memory projects, exhibitions, documentary work, teacher and educator initiatives, and other public-facing efforts that connect people with history, literature, ethics, languages, and cultural heritage. The opportunity also explicitly supports NEH's broader goal of extending the reach of federally funded humanities work beyond Washington, DC, reinforcing the agency's connection to on-the-ground community priorities through trusted, place-based intermediaries.
Funding levels are not determined through a typical competitive ceiling-only model. Instead, NEH sets annual funding for each state and jurisdictional humanities council using a legislatively mandated formula, which means award amounts are tied to statutory requirements rather than purely to proposal rankings. The published maximum award ceiling is $3,000,000, and NEH anticipates making approximately 56 awards, aligning with the number of designated councils serving states and U.S. jurisdictions. The program is associated with CFDA number 45.129, falls under the Humanities funding activity category, and uses the grant instrument type.
Eligibility is limited to the designated state and jurisdictional humanities councils (listed under "Eligible Applicants: Others"), meaning this is not a direct opportunity for individuals, universities, or general nonprofits unless they are the official council for their state or territory. The funding opportunity number is 20250501 SO. The opportunity was created on 2025-04-01, and the original application closing date is 2025-05-01.
For applicants or stakeholders needing official guidance, the administering office is the NEH Office of Federal/State Partnership. The listed contact information is: National Endowment for the Humanities, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20506, phone 202-606-8254.Apply for 20250501 SO
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "State and Jurisdictional Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.129.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-04-01.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-05-01. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 56 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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