Arts & Humanities

Mellon Foundation - Higher Learning 2026 Open Call for Concepts

Apply to Internal Competition // Limit: 3 // Tickets Available: 3

Limiting Language:
Each institution may submit no more than three applications to Mellon for consideration. 

External Deadline
12/1/2025 (registration forms due); 2/17/2026 (full application)
Internal Deadline
Nov. 12

2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program

Limit: 2 // Tickets Available: 0 

Tenured Scholar - F. Gonzalez (Government and Public Policy) 
Untenured Scholar - D. Alharthi (Information Science) 

Limiting Language 
The University of Arizona may nominate two scholars - one tenured and one non-tenured.

Program Overview 
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program was established in 2015 to provide philanthropic support for high-caliber research in the humanities and social sciences.

External Deadline
11/7/2025
Internal Deadline
Sept. 3

FY25 Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence

October 1 deadline was suspended by NEH 8/26/2025 // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 0

M. Mars (Public & Applied Humanities - competitive resubmission)

Limiting Language
Each institution may submit only one application under this notice. For the purposes of this limitation, branch campuses are considered separate institutions. Current recipients of this program are not eligible to apply.

External Deadline
10/1/2025
Internal Deadline
July 16

Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition - September 2025 deadline

No Applicants // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1

Limiting Language:
An organization may submit one application per deadline under this notice. 

If you submit multiple applications (including submitting to the wrong funding opportunity or making corrections/updates), NEH will accept only your last validated submission prior to the deadline under the correct Grants.gov funding opportunity. Per 2 CFR § 200.403(f), NEH does not permit overlapping costs.

Executive Summary

External Deadline
9/4/2025
Internal Deadline
July 2

FY 2025 Arts and Music Envoy

No Applicants // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1

Limiting Language
Only one proposal will be considered by ECA from each applicant organization. In cases where more than one submission from an applicant appears in grants.gov, ECA will only consider the submission made closest in time to the NOFO deadline; that submission would constitute the one and only proposal ECA would review from that applicant.

Executive Summary

External Deadline
8/15/2025
Internal Deadline
Aug. 8

NEA 2025 Our Town Program

The University of Arizona is ineligible to apply due to new combined institutional limit of one submission to Our Town or Grants for Art Projects (GAP) and a competitive resubmission to GAP. 

Updated Eligibility Criteria

Organizations may no longer submit applications in the same fiscal year for both Grants for Arts Projects and Our Town funding categories (a separate application in the Research Awards category is allowable). Please carefully review the application limits section of the guidelines.

External Deadline
TBA May 2025