Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona
2025 Start Grant 
The Community Impact track provides financial support to individuals and groups for projects that will positively impact a community through an artistic endeavor.  The Artist Development track provides financial support to creatives for whom a specific, practice-related capital resource or professional development experience will make an impact on their artistic practice.
Amount: up to $3,000
Deadline: March 6, 2025

Mellon Foundation  
Community-Based Archives  
Grants can support operational costs, collections care, and programming.
Amount:   $25,000 to $100,000  
Deadline: March 12, 2025 (registration request)

Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture 
Project Support Program 
Promotes and encourages the breadth of arts and cultural programming in our community by supporting projects both large and small throughout the City of Phoenix.
Amount: up to $5,000
Deadline:  March 23, 2025 

Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture 
General Support Program 
Provides core operating support to arts and cultural organizations of all sizes that have a primary mission to create, produce, or provide arts and cultural programming to enhance the quality of lives for Phoenix residents.
Amount of grant depends on ranking and number of applicants
Deadline: March 23, 2025  

Arizona Humanities
AZ Reads 
Provides resources and funding for literacy programs led by Arizona educators in partnership with K-12 schools and nonprofits that serve Arizona schools.
Deadline: March 17, 2025

National Park Service
NAGPRA Consultation/Documentation Grant 
Supports the efforts of museums, Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations to consult and document NAGPRA-related human remains and cultural items in non-federal collections.
Amount: $5,000 to $150,000
Deadline: March 31, 2025

City of Peoria 
2025-26 Arts and Culture Grant Program 
Financial support for programs, performances and events that inspire, enhance, and support the pursuit of creative endeavors in Peoria
Deadline: March 31, 2025.

Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
The African American Legacy Fund 
Provide unrestricted operating support to provide flexible working capital and maximize the impact of nonprofits’ missions. This fund provides multi-year, unrestricted, funding.
Amount: up to $10,000
Deadline: March 31, 2025

National Endowment for the Arts
Challenge America  
This grant has been cancelled by the NEA in response to recent Executive Orders.

Heritage Collections Care Consortium 
Emergency Management for Heritage Collections Scholarship 
Trains collections care professionals in developing an emergency management program for collections. Funding covers attendance in an online course in Emergency Preparedness: Strategies for Museums, Archives, and Libraries and participation in a tailored tutoring session focused on key aspects of emergency management, with dates arranged to accommodate all scholars.
Deadline: April 7, 2025

Arizona Commission on the Arts
Creative Capacity Grants 
Provide general operating support to nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is to produce, present, teach, or serve the arts
Deadline: April 14, 2025

Arizona Commission on the Arts
Festival Grants 
Support the presentation of quality arts and culture programming through festival activities, connecting artists and culture bearers (or their artistic work) with communities. 
Deadline:  April 24, 2025

Arizona Commission on the Arts 
Lifelong Arts Engagement Grants 
Support projects that foster meaningful arts learning experiences for adult learners of any age and/or intergenerational projects in community settings.
Deadline: April 24, 2025

Arizona Commission on the Arts
Youth Arts Engagement Grants 
Support arts learning projects for young people that occur outside of traditional school hours.
Deadline: April 24, 2025

Heritage Collections Care Consortium 
Risk Management for Heritage Scholarship 
Supports heritage professionals working in museums, libraries, archives, and historic houses in developing their knowledge and skills in managing risks for heritage collections.   Funding covers attendance at a two-day highly practical workshop in Risk Management in Heritage teaching how to use Risk Management in Heritage (also known as the ABC) methodology in practice.
Deadline: May 5, 2025 

National Park Service
2024 Repatriation Grants 
Defrays costs associated with the packaging, transportation, contamination removal, reburial, and/or storage of NAGPRA-related human remains and/or cultural items.
Amount: $1,000 to $25,000
Deadline: May 9, 2025

ONGOING AND ROLLING DEADLINES

Big Lots Foundation  
Community Support Grants 
Support is provided to nonprofit organizations in communities where Big Lots operates stores (various locations throughout the continental United States), distribution centers, and its corporate office. Support, which is provided in the form of monetary gifts, gift cards, and merchandise in-kind, focuses on the areas of healthcare, housing, hunger, and education, especially programs serving women and children. Priority is given to projects that have a Big Lots associate actively involved.
Deadlines: January 1 and July 1, annually

Smart Family Fund
Angel Philanthropy 
Focuses on early-stage nonprofit ventures that have the potential to make a significant impact on the world, but that have yet to demonstrate the efficacy needed to acquire large-scale funding. Early-stage, U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Applicants must be able to clearly articulate how they will demonstrate the efficacy of the intervention, quantify the potential positive impact in the world, and communicate how the organization is differentiated and better than other ecosystem players.
Amount: $25,000 to $100,000
Deadline: Ongoing

Kresge Foundation 
Arts & Culture Grants 
Focuses on Creative Placemaking, an approach to community development and urban planning that integrates arts, culture, and community-engaged design strategies. Grants are made in three specific focus areas: national networks; local systems, and place-based initiatives.
Deadline: On-going

The Smart & Final Charitable Foundation
Supports nonprofit organizations that work to improve the quality of life in the communities the company serves in Arizona, California, and Nevada. The Foundation's areas of interest include health and wellness, education, hunger relief, disaster relief, and team sports and youth development.
Deadline: On-going

The National Federation of the Blind and Tactile Images
Museums,  Science  Centers,  and  Cultural  Institutions Grants
Discount (25-50%) on at least three tactile displays using Tactile Images’ technology.
Deadline: On-going

Arizona Preservation Foundation  
Jumpstart
Helps Arizona non-profit organizations jumpstart historic preservation efforts in their communities, especially if a historic resource is threatened.
Amount: up to $2,000
Deadline: On-going

Arizona Preservation Foundation
Digital Innovation
To develop digital content delivery tools. Examples include virtual tours, digital exhibitions, augmented reality, or other digital tools to make preservation assets accessible during the COVID-19 event. Grant recipients must make the project available to the public, and allow the project to be promoted by APF. The grant can be used for equipment, staff, contracting, subscription services, or other costs related to the project.
Amount: $500
Deadline: On-going 

U.S. Bank Foundation
Community Possible Grants
Access to Artistic and Cultural Programming & Arts Education funding includes programs that provide access to cultural activities, the visual and performing arts, museums, zoos and aquariums, and botanic gardens for individuals and families living in underserved communities; funding for local arts organizations that enhance the economic vitality of the community; programs that provide funding for arts-focused nonprofit organizations that bring visual and performing arts; and programming to low- and moderate-income K-12 schools and youth centers
Deadline: On-going

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
Community Strong Corporate Philanthropy Program
Strengthen and support organizations whose programs benefit the community and help create a healthier Arizona. Grants are provided to nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, government agencies, as well as religious organizations with a nonsectarian program. Funding priorities include the following issues: critical health concerns, the social determinants of health, business and civic engagement, and arts and culture.
Deadline: On-going

AgWest Farm Credit
Rural Community Grants
Provide support to nonprofit organizations for projects that improve rural communities within Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Supported projects include efforts such as building or improving facilities, purchasing necessary equipment to facilitate a local program, and funding capital improvements which enhance a community’s infrastructure or prosperity.  Applicants must have a letter of support written by a current AgWest employee or an active AgWest customer.
Amount: up to $5000
Deadline: On-going

Arizona Humanities
Mini-Grants
Support innovative public programs that increase understanding of the human experience.    Restricted to organizations with budgets of $500,000 or less (Larger institutions may partner with a smaller institution that will lead the program or project.)
Amount: up to $2,000.
Deadline: On-going

National Council on Public History
Mini-Conferences and After Work Event Grants
Designed to help NCPH members maintain the energy, conviviality, and productivity of the annual meeting year-round.
Mini-Con Collaboration
Amount: up to $200 in seed money
Mini-Con Partnership
Amount: Up to $350 in seed money

National Trust for Historic Preservation
The Peter H. Brink Leadership Fund
Helps to build the capacity of existing preservation organizations and encourages collaboration among these organizations by providing grants for mentoring and other peer-to-peer and direct organizational development and learning opportunities. Fund may be used to reimburse travel costs (airfare, train tickets, taxis and/or mileage reimbursement) and to pay an honorarium to the mentor (maximum of $250/day). Only Organizational Level Forum members or Main Street America members of the National Trust are eligible to apply.  
Deadline: Rolling

Americana Foundation
American Heritage
Supports projects and programs that seek to broaden the inclusivity of early American art and the early American historical narrative to “tell the full story of” the American experience. Examples of eligible projects include interpretation or reinterpretation of art, decorative arts, or other objects of early American material culture (“Americana”) and their placement on public display; internships, fellowships, apprenticeships, and other career development opportunities for people interested in the curation, conservation, preservation, or restoration of Americana; and exhibits, visual media, interactive experiences, and other educational programs that contribute to better understanding or “tell the full story” of the American experience.
Amount: $10,000 to $25,000
Deadline: Rolling

USDA Rural Development
Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program
Provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. Funds can be used to purchase, construct, and / or improve essential community facilities, purchase equipment and pay related project expenses.  Examples of essential community facilities include: Educational services such as museums, libraries or private schools.

Western States Arts Federation’s (WESTAF)
Consortia Grant for Performing Arts Service Organizations
Provides capacity-building services to their members and constituents, including workshops, conferences, and online resources for artists, arts professionals, and arts organizations, focusing on a wide range of engagement and touring related topics. For state-wide and/or regional professional service organizations committed to serving arts presenters and affiliated professionals through access to professional training, leadership development, and knowledge exchange for performing arts in the WESTAF region.  
Amount:  up to $10,000  
Deadline: Starting August 15, 2024