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Tennessee state
Tennessee Historical Commission · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 31, 2026 · 23 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Matching money for 501(c)(3)s to buy and permanently protect land at Tennessee's most significant Civil War battlefields, or Underground Railroad sites eligible for the National Register.
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Federal
National Endowment for the Humanities · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 15, 2026 · 68 days left
- Award
- $50K – $500K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Collections & Infrastructure is accepting applications for Collections Stewardship, a program to advance the preservation and availability of physical and digital collections important for...
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Tennessee state
Tennessee Historical Commission · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 14, 2026 · 37 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
- ✓ No match required
Supports preservation, archaeology, interpretation, markers, and education about Tennessee sites tied to wars from the French and Indian War through the Civil War. Individuals, museums, schools, private organizations, and local governments can apply.
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Private
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 20, 2026 · 12 days left
- Award
- $50K – $300K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
- ! Only 12 days left to apply
Nonprofit libraries, archives and museums can apply to digitize rare items. Projects should share stories of groups often left out of history. Grants range from $50,000 to $300,000.
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Private
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 31, 2026 · 23 days left
- Award
- Up to $10K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
DAR gives up to $10,000 to nonprofits that save historic buildings, records, objects, markers and cemeteries. Each application needs a support letter from a local DAR chapter. Smaller projects are encouraged.
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Private
Archaeological Institute of America · Open
- Deadline
- Due about Nov 1, 2026 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $15K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
AIA gives up to $15,000 to protect threatened archaeological sites through conservation, site protection and monitoring. Projects with public education and outreach are favored. It does not pay for digs, surveys, field schools or salaries.
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Local
Presbytery of East Tennessee (PC(USA)) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 31, 2026 · 23 days left
- Award
- Up to $5,000
- ! Local program: Anderson County, Blount County, Bradley County, Campbell County and 11 more counties
Grants help congregations in the Presbytery of East Tennessee with building and property upkeep. The presbytery plans two to three grants of up to $5,000 in 2026. Applications are due October 31, 2026.
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Federal
National Endowment for the Humanities · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 9, 2026 · 62 days left
- Award
- Up to $460K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Lifelong Learning is accepting applications for the Landmarks of American History and Culture and Summer Institutes program. The purpose of this program is to support humanities education through...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $350K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 18
Museums Empowered: Professional Development Opportunities for Museum Staff is a special initiative of the Museums for America grant program, designed to support projects that use learning and training to generate change and growth within museums of all...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $25K – $1M
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 14
National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-L) projects enhance the quality of library services nationwide. The program supports projects that: promote adult reading, and health and financial literacies; focus on programming and archival practices...
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Local
South Arts · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 20, 2026 · 43 days left
- Award
- $1,000 – $10K
Pilot grants for arts journalism and cultural coverage: travel grants for reporting trips, grants to individual arts journalists, and larger grants to media outlets that hire them. Applicants must live in or be headquartered in a South Arts state such as...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $75K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 18
Inspire Grants for Small Museums (Inspire) is a special initiative of the Museums for America grant program designed to support small museums of all disciplines, including small rural or small remote institutions and small museums that have not previously...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $100K – $500K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
The 21st Century Museum Professionals (21MP) grant program supports projects that build career pathways, strengthen professional networks, and identify and share effective workforce education and training practices in the museum field.
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $75K – $1M
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 8
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) projects build a library and archival workforce that can meet the information needs of communities of all types and sizes and increase the institutional capacity of libraries, archives, and library and information...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $350K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 18
he Museums for America (MFA) program invests in museums of all sizes – from small to large – and disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through educational programs and exhibits, community partnerships, and collections stewardship activities.
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $500K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
The Museum Grants for American Latino History and Culture (ALHC) program supports projects that build the capacity of American Latino history and culture museums to serve their communities and advance the growth and development of a professional workforce...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $50K – $750K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 14
The National Leadership Grants for Museums program (NLG-M) invests in projects that address critical needs of the museum field. NLG-M projects have the potential to advance practice in the profession to strengthen museum services for the public through the...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $500K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 6
The Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program builds the capacity of African American museums and supports the growth and development of museum professionals at African American museums. The program supports projects that...
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Private
American Library Association (Publishing Committee) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 6, 2026 · 29 days left
- Award
- Up to $5,000
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Grants up to $5,000 to make reading lists, indexes, web guides, or other guides to library resources. Libraries, groups, and individuals can apply. Proposals are due November 6, 2026.
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $50K – $150K
- ✕ Only tribes or Native American / Native Hawaiian organizations can apply
The Native Hawaiian Library Services (NH) program is designed to assist Native Hawaiian serving organizations in sustaining and improving library services with their communities. As information needs change, Native Hawaiian organizations must be able to...
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