Grants for Sustaining Accessible Cultural Events in Minnesota in Minnesota (USA)
GrantID: 75333
Grant Funding Amount Low: $35,000
Deadline: November 17, 2025
Grant Amount High: $100,000
Summary
There are funding opportunities in Minnesota aimed at supporting cultural heritage, community identity, arts, festivals, and humanities-based educational work. These are open to nonprofit organizations, cultural groups, and in many instances individuals, depending on the specific program. Eligible applicants must meet certain compliance standards (such as being up to date with state and IRS requirements) and often must not have outstanding prior grant obligations.
Grant funds are intended to support a wide variety of activities: creating and delivering cultural or ethnic studies materials, organizing festivals and public humanities events, offering arts and music education, preserving heritage, or building institutional capacity for underserved and diverse communities. Projects that involve outreach, public education, community celebration, and stories of identity tend to align well with the goals.
The amounts available vary substantially by program scale. For example, in one arts-and-music education opportunity, the total statewide funding pool was about half a million dollars, and individual requests could be as much as roughly seventy-five thousand dollars. In festival-oriented or cultural identity grants, maximum requests might reach fifty thousand dollars. Some of the major programs tied to cultural heritage are larger, with multi-million dollar totals in funding appropriated, including provisions for very large grants (one program has at least some awards targeting well over one hundred thousand dollars in specific cases).
Grant cycles happen throughout a two-year span (biennium), and different types of opportunities open at different times. Some are rolling; others have fixed application deadlines. Awarded grants typically require reporting and completion by a specified end date.
The design of the program emphasizes support for communities that are underrepresented, underserved, or whose cultural traditions might be orally based or less documented. The goal is to deepen cultural understanding, promote access, support public humanities, and help sustain organizations that carry forward Minnesota’s diverse cultural heritage. These grants are available only to eligible individuals or organizations based in Minnesota.
This grant may be available to individuals and organizations in Minnesota that are actively involved in Agriculture & Farming. To locate more funding opportunities in your field, visit The Grant Portal and search by interest area using the Search Grant tool.
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