Grant funders

National Endowment for the Humanities

Research council, District of Columbia

Also known as NEH

United States 2 open calls
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Open calls 2
Given in 2025 $38.6m
Typical grant $60k Middle half $25k to $150k
New grantees in 2025 24% first grant from this funder

Open calls

Landmarks of History and Culture and Summer Institutes Closes 9 Dec 2026 · Up to $460k Open Collections Stewardship Closes 15 Dec 2026 · Up to $500k Open

Giving by year

24% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 59% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

New York 4,792 grants · typical $44k
California 3,586 grants · typical $36k
Massachusetts 3,021 grants · typical $40k
Pennsylvania 2,363 grants · typical $24k
Illinois 2,252 grants · typical $30k
Virginia 1,781 grants · typical $36k
Texas 1,423 grants · typical $19k
Ohio 1,280 grants · typical $11k

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center Building the Graduate Writing Program: A Humanities-Based Approach to Scholarly Knowledge Production $132k 1 Sep 2026
University of maryland, college park Freedmen and Southern Society Project $300k 1 Jul 2026
University of Texas at Austin Great Books and Civic Renewal Initiative $10.0m 1 Jul 2026
Howard university The Haynes Project: Exhibiting the Historical Significance of the Philosophical Views of American Mathematicians $134k 1 Jul 2026
Dartmouth college Rediscovering an American Victory at Red Bank Battlefield, New Jersey $25k 1 Jun 2026
University of california, los angeles The History of the Patriarchs of the East: Eastern Christianity from Ancient Persia to Medieval Islam. An Annotated Translation of the Ecclesiastical History in The Book of the Tower. $292k 1 Jun 2026
University of Nebraska, Omaha George Washington and the Politics of Honor $30k 1 Jun 2026
University of Tennessee, Knoxville A New Critical Edition of John Lydgate's Shorter Works: Popular Culture and Lyric Poetry in the Later Middle Ages $295k 1 Jun 2026
University of Vermont Religion in Vermont: Religion, Secularism, and Civic Belonging $149k 1 Jun 2026
Lehigh University Integrational Health Humanities and Allied Sciences Lab at Lehigh University $149k 1 May 2026

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