• Internal Submission Deadline: May 28, 2025
  • Funding Organization’s Deadline: July 10, 2025
  • Funding Organization: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
  • Sponsor Reference Number: 2025NEA01GAP2
  • Institutional Limit: An organization may submit only one application. Please review the exceptions for Parent Organizations with Independent Components (IC).
  • Award Amount: $10,000-$100,000
  • Project Period: Up to two years.
  • Cost-share or Match Required: 1:1 Cost-share/match required. Sources may include both cash and in-kind.
  • Recurrence of Opportunity: This call is repeated once a year.

Penn State may submit only one application per calendar year to either the Grants for Arts Projects or Our Town programs. For this reason, the down-select process for both programs will be conducted concurrently.
The Grants.gov application package for the July cycle will be available in mid-May 2025. Details >>