Deadline: 10-Aug-20
Through FY2020 funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Mass Humanities offers a grant to support operating costs for eligible organizations with annual operating expenses below $3 million.
2020 Support grants will fund organizations that do two key things: 1) most of their work involves supporting communities that are the most marginalized in the society; and 2) they provide ongoing opportunities and skills for people in those communities to do humanities work, such as explore their culture or values, look at their individual experiences or community stories in a larger context, learn English and the knowledge they need to become citizens, or have conversations about the big questions facing our world, including those that inform their lives and the challenges in their communities.
Funding Information
Applicants should request grants of $5,000. Actual grant amounts may vary and will be determined by the money available and the number of organizations recommended for funding. Funding for this grant is competitive but all recommended organizations will receive the same amount of funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- Massachusetts-based state or federally recognized tribes.
- Nonprofit organizations located in Massachusetts that primarily work with Massachusetts residents and that were formed no later than Jan. 1, 2019.
- Nonprofit organizations must either have 501(c)3 status or have a signed fiscal sponsorship agreement with a 501(c)3 organization at the time they apply.
- Eligible organizations must have had annual cash expenses in fiscal year 2019 of at least $10,000.
- To be eligible, organizations must comply with state and federal regulations which bar discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and which require accessibility for persons with disabilities.
- Organizations that received Mass Humanities CARES Act funds are eligible.
- To be eligible for funding an organization must first show that it primarily serves one or more marginalized communities and that it provides that community with ongoing programming that does humanities work or foundational humanities work.
Who is NOT eligible to apply?
- Individuals
- Government agencies or entities
- Universities, colleges, and academic departments
- Libraries
- Schools and pre-schools
- Political or advocacy organizations
- Religious organizations, though they may serve as a fiscal sponsor
- Organizations with annual operating expenses in FY2019 greater than $3 million.
For more information, visit https://masshumanities.org/apply-for-2020-support-grants/