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Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (2025)

Posted
August 15, 2024
Closed
November 15, 2024
Award ceiling
$500,000
Award floor
$5,000
Program funding
$6,000,000
Expected awards
35
Cost sharing
Yes
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
45.309
Category
Arts, Humanities

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 45.309 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.

FY2025 obligated
$6M
FY2026 obligated
$5.8M
FY2027 (to date) obligated
$0
Awards in window
106

Top recipients: Center for African American Military History, Inc, Florida a & M University, San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum, Great Plains Black History Museum Archives and Interpretative Center Inc., Black Inventors Hall of Fame a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →

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Synopsis

The Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program is designed to build the capacity of African American museums and support the growth and development of museum professionals at African American museums. The AAHC program supports projects that nurture museum professionals, build institutional capacity, and increase access to museum and archival collections at African American museums and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Who can apply

See the Notice of Funding Opportunity for eligibility information. IMLS is extending the deadline for Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program from November 15, 2024, to December 13, 2024, for institutions located in Federally declared emergency and/or major disaster areas who have not been able to meet the current November 15, 2024, deadline because they have been adversely impacted by such emergencies and/or disasters. An affected organization must, by December 13 at 11:59pm EST, submit its completed application with a written statement from its Authorizing Official that: • Specifies the applicable Emergency Declaration and/or Major Disaster Declaration for the area in which the applicant organization is located (see FEMA’s listing of Declared Disasters https://www.fema.gov/disaster/declarations) and • Confirms that the applicant organization was unable to meet the original application deadline of November 15, 2024, due to the emergency or disaster. This statement should be prepared as a Supporting Document and uploaded as part of the application submitted through Grants.gov. For those applicants who have not been adversely affected by such emergencies and/or disasters, the deadline remains November 15, 2024, at 11:59pm EST.

The official record

Grants.gov published the official terms and dates of this opportunity; this page keeps them as they were listed.

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Agency contact: Institute of Museum and Library Services · [email protected] · 202-653-4634

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