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Private
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Nov 3, 2026 – Feb 24, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $10K – $60K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Groups that hold rare audio or video recordings can get money to digitize them. Requests run from $10,000 to $60,000. The work must be done by an outside lab.
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Private
National Trust for Historic Preservation · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: due about May 1, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $2,500 – $15K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Seed money for preservation planning and education projects in towns of 10,000 or fewer people. Annual deadline; application opens about six to eight weeks prior. Winners must hold a paid National Trust Forum or Main Street membership before funds are released.
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Private
National Trust for Historic Preservation · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jan 13 – Feb 6, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $50K – $150K
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- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Grants for historic places at least 50 years old significant to Black cultural heritage, for capital, planning, programming and organizational capacity. Applicants must own the site or have owner permission. Winners must hold a paid National Trust Forum or...
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Federal
National Endowment for the Humanities · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Mar 3 – Apr 6, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $1.7M
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 3
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Federal/State Partnership is accepting applications for State and Jurisdictional Humanities Councils General Operating Support Grants for NEH’s designated humanities councils. State and...
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Private
Duke University Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: due about Feb 27, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $1,500
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Pays up to $1,500 in travel costs for people who need to visit Duke's rare book library in person. Students, teachers, artists, writers, filmmakers and independent researchers can apply. You must live more than 100 miles from Durham, N.C.
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Private
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale University) · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jun 1 – Aug 15, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $2,500 – $10K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Pays $5,000 a month for two weeks to two months of research in Yale library collections. Scholars, artists, writers and other researchers can apply. People enrolled in a degree program cannot apply.
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New York Public Library (Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers) · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: due about Sep 25, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $90K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
A year-long fellowship at the New York Public Library for scholars and writers, including novelists and poets. Fellows get a $90,000 stipend, an office and full library access. Research toward a degree is not eligible.
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Local
Grow Appalachia (Berea College), Appalachian Studies Association and Mid Atlantic Arts · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jul 10 – Aug 17, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $5,000
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ! Local program: Anderson County, Bledsoe County, Blount County, Bradley County and 48 more counties
- ✓ No match required
This fellowship gives $5,000 to people who keep Appalachian food traditions alive. Cooks, bakers, seed savers, farmers, hunters and foragers can apply for their own work. You must live in an Appalachian county and be 18 or older.
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Private
Society of American Archivists Foundation (with Society of Southwest Archivists) · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Up to $5,000
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Grants of up to $5,000 help archives, libraries and museums save records hurt by a major disaster. Money can pay for freeze drying, storage, moving materials and supplies. You do not need to be a member to apply.
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Corporate
La-Z-Boy Incorporated / La-Z-Boy Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ! Local program: Claiborne County, Rhea County
La-Z-Boy and its foundation give cash and donated furniture to charities near its plants. In Tennessee that means groups within 30 miles of Dayton or New Tazewell. Requests are taken all year and reviewed four times a year.
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Foundation
Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- $1,000 – $10K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Grants of $1,000 to $10,000 for nonprofit poetry projects, like reading series, translation and poetry in schools or hospitals. Poets apply through a nonprofit. New Mexico groups get extra attention, but others can apply.
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Foundation
Thackston Family Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ! Local program: Bedford County, Cannon County, Cheatham County, Clay County and 37 more counties
A Nashville-area family foundation for projects tied to Middle Tennessee, with a preference for Wilson County. It favors religious and educational themes. Requests are open, with no deadline.
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 35 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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Foundation
The Rich Foundation (c/o Truxton Trust) · Open
- Deadline
- Due about May 31, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Nashville foundation run through Truxton Trust that takes mailed requests due May 31 each year. It lists no area limits. Most past grants were small gifts to Nashville arts, history and health groups.
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Private
National Geographic Society · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 1, 2026 · 53 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
National Geographic now funds people through specific requests for proposals. This one, backed by Lilly Endowment, seeks storytelling projects about the human experience. Applicants must be 18 or older and lead the project themselves.
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Private
Newberry Library · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jan 15, 2027 · 98 days left
- Award
- Up to $3,000
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Gives artists and writers a $3,000 stipend and research space to use the Newberry Library's collections for a creative project. It is open to visual and performing artists, authors, cartoonists, journalists, playwrights, and filmmakers. Studio space is not...
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Federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 35 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 · 35 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 · 35 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 · 35 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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