Indiana Humanities awards 127 organizations with more than $317,000 in grants and fellowships in 2024 

Grants provide Hoosiers with access to humanities programs, including culture, history and literature projects 

Dozens of cultural institutions, libraries, universities and other nonprofit organizations in nearly 60 communities across the state have received grants from Indiana Humanities to provide public humanities programs this year.  

Projects supported by Indiana Humanities funding include an oral history training, an exhibition on the Potawatomi people of northwest Indiana, a celebration of Japanese language and culture, a Civil War festival, documentaries on Indiana’s Latino heritage and more. 

“Indiana Humanities is committed to ensuring that all Hoosiers benefit from cultural programming,” said George Hanlin, director of grants at Indiana Humanities. “I’m pleased that we’ve awarded funds to so many groups across the state and that we’ve been able to serve such a diverse group of people.” 

Indiana Humanities awarded 44 Action Grants, 51 Advancing Racial Equity Collection Development Grants, 18 Historic Preservation Education Grants, 8 INcommon Grants, 29 One State/One Story Community Read Grants, 1 PreservINg Main Street Grant and 5 Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowships totaling approximately $317,000.  

The following communities received grants, serving all congressional districts: 

• Anderson 

• Batesville 

• Bloomington 

• Brownsburg 

• Carmel 

• Cedar Lake 

• Chesterton 

• Clinton 

• Columbia City 

• Columbus 

• Crown Point 

• Delphi 

• Elkhart 

• Ellettsville 

• Evansville 

• Fishers 

• Flora 

• Fort Wayne 

• Fortville 

• Frankfort 

• Franklin 

• Gary 

• Greencastle 

• Hammond 

• Highland 

• Huntingburg 

• Indianapolis 

• Jeffersonville 

• Kendallville 

• Knox 

• Kokomo 

• Lafayette 

• Ligonier 

• Merrillville 

• Muncie 

• Nashville 

• New Albany 

• New Castle 

• New Harmony 

• Newburgh 

• Noblesville 

• North Manchester 

• Notre Dame 

• Oakland City 

• Plainfield 

• Princeton 

• Richmond 

• Rochester 

• Salem 

• South Bend 

• Sullivan 

• Syracuse 

• Terre Haute 

• Upland 

• Versailles 

• Vincennes 

• West Lafayette 

• Winona Lake 

• Zionsville 

You can find details about which communities received Action Grants here, Historic Preservation Education Grants here, INcommon Grants here, One State/One Story Community Read Grants here, PreservINg Main Street Grant here, and Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowships here. 

Indiana Humanities will offer approximately $300,000 in grants in 2025, including funds that will enhance accessibility efforts for public programs, and help Hoosiers commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.  

The nonprofit plans to host webinars about its offerings and anticipates holding in-person grant workshops around the state to provide additional information about the grant guidelines and application instructions.  

The tentative slate of grants and deadlines include:  

Accessibility and Inclusion Grants, in partnership with the Indiana Arts Commission  

• Up to $1,000 

• Applications accepted on a rolling basis beginning in January or February 2025 

• Provide funds to help make public humanities programs open and accessible to diverse audiences 

Action Grants  

• Up to $3,000  

• Applications due the last day of each month  

• Support a broad array of projects that help people learn new information, consider different perspectives, share ideas and understand one another better  

Historic Preservation Education Grants, in partnership with Indiana Landmarks  

• Up to $3,000  

• Applications due Feb. 28, 2025 (round 1) and Sept. 30, 2025 (round 2)  

• Support programs that educate the community about historic places and properties — and particularly about the need to preserve and protect them  

INcommon Grants 

• Up to $5,000  

• Applications due July 31, 2025  

• Support programs that use humanities ideas, readings and scholars to spark in-depth thinking and conversation around the persistent social, economic, cultural and racial issues that our communities continue to face 

A More Perfect Union Grants  

• Up to $5,000 

• Applications due in August or September (to be announced in late spring/early summer)  

• Support programs that promote civic education and help address the civic-health challenges that Indiana faces   

Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowships 

• $5,000 per fellow 

• Optional draft applications due Feb. 28, 2025; final applications due April 30, 2025  

• Support humanities research that explores anti-Black racial injustice and structural racism in Indiana and that considers how Black Hoosiers have responded 

For more information about Indiana Humanities’ grants, contact George Hanlin, director of grants, at ghanlin@indianahumanities.org.