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Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

45.164

Program objective

Public Programs grants provide opportunities for the American public to explore human history and culture through humanities programs in museums, historical organizations, libraries, community centers, and other gathering places, as well as on public television, radio, the Internet, and other digital media. The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences. The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film. The Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats. Public Impact Projects helps small and mid-sized cultural organizations expand their public programs.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2018

    406 grant applications and 86 awarded.

  2. 2022

    You may find past recipients by using the NEH’s Funded Projects Query Form available online at https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

45 CFR 1100 and 1105. NOFOs are available online at http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html or by request from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC 20506.

  1. National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, Public Law 89-209, 20 U.S.C, § 956, et seq.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization

Additional resources