Endowments for Advancing the Humanities
Key Facts
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: December 12, 2025
Close date: February 10, 2026
Opportunity ID: 361006
Opportunity number: 20260210-CHE
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: National Endowment for the Humanities
Agency code: NEH
Award floor: $1,000,000
Award ceiling: $5,000,000
Cost sharing required: Yes
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Humanities
Eligible Applicants
- City or township governments
- County governments
- 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
Tools
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:neh
- category_of_funding_activity:humanities
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:true
- eligible_applicants:city_or_township_governments
- eligible_applicants:county_governments
- eligible_applicants:native_american_tribal_governments_federally_recognized
- eligible_applicants:nonprofits_having_a_501_c_3_status_with_the_irs_other_than_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:private_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:public_and_state_controlled_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:special_district_governments
- eligible_applicants:state_governments
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:forecasted
Description
The purpose of this program is to fund 20-year term endowments that advance the humanities on college and university campuses and at independent educational institutions, specifically by building the organization’s capacity in research and teaching of Western civilization, American history and government, and civics.