Deadline: 21-Jul-25
The LGBTQ+ Heritage Alliance is proud to administer the first nationwide grant program dedicated to places related to LGBTQ+ culture and heritage.
This initiative will help researchers, historians, and anyone else with an interest in preserving LGBTQ+ culture fill gaps in the historical narrative and allow teaching the full and complex history of the United States.
This grant program will fund initiatives to document historic places connected to the LGBTQ+ community. Grants will support efforts that advance the recognition, preservation, and interpretation of historic sites related to LGBTQ+ communities in the United States and its territories.
This grant program is facilitated by the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project with the involvement of a national grant review committee. Funding is made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Fund for the City of New York is the fiscal sponsor for this grant opportunity.
Funding Information
- A one-time total of $75,000 is available to be awarded in amounts from $500 to $5,000.
Eligible Projects
- Eligible projects must use at least one project type listed below in relation to site(s) of LGBTQ+ historical significance. The Alliance will fund a diverse range of projects to further the understanding and appreciation of place-based LGBTQ+ heritage.
- They especially welcome submissions that address the challenges of documenting historically marginalized communities under the LGBTQ+ umbrella, including but not limited to people of color, Two-Spirit and indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, and transgender, non-binary, intersex, or gender nonconforming people.
- Ineligible projects include political advocacy campaigns, general oral histories or collecting projects, social media accounts, documentaries, or book projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- This new opportunity will award grants to individuals, not-for-profits, and those with fiscal sponsors.
- Individuals can apply either directly without an affiliation or with a not-for-profit or fiscal sponsor.
- If applying through a fiscal sponsor, it must be a tax-exempt organization that assumes the administrative, programmatic, financial, and legal responsibility for purposes of the requirements of this grant.
- This opportunity is only available to applicants in the United States or its territories. For-profit organizations, companies, and local governments are ineligible for this opportunity.
For more information, visit LGBTQ+ Heritage Alliance.