Funding Amount

US $250 - US $4,999

Deadline

Deadline not published

Grant Type

Foundation

Overview

CT Humanities offers Quick Grants to support community-oriented public programs that enhance understanding of history, culture, and values. These grants fund small exhibitions, discussion programs, local tours, and reading projects, promoting significant humanities scholarship. All projects must be open to the public, free or low-cost to attend, and clearly interpretive, ensuring they are rooted in the humanities. This initiative reflects CTH's commitment to fostering access and inclusion within the community.

About CT Humanities
Connecticut Humanities (CTH) is an independent, non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. CTH connects people to the humanities through grants, partnerships, and collaborative programs. CTH projects, administration, and program development are supported by state and federal matching funds, community foundations, and gifts from private sources.
CTH has earned public trust through its responsible stewardship of federal, state, and private funds, its peer-review grant-making process, its online educational resources, and its work to support, stabilize, and strengthen the organizations and communities it serves.
CTH values and promotes inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in our workplace, on our board, with our partners, and through our funding.
Quick Grants support a wide range of community-oriented, public programs that help us understand and appreciate human history, culture, values, and beliefs. Quick Grants may fund implementation of small exhibitions, discussion-based public programs, local history tours, and community reading projects. All Quick Grant proposals must demonstrate significant humanities scholarship and content and must be:

  • Open to the general publicFree or low-cost to attendClearly interpretive and based in the humanities
  • Quick Grants fund several project types, including exhibitions, walking tours, panel discussions, digital learning tools, and community reading projects.

What Connecticut Humanities Council Inc actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990, 2025

Grants in 2025
40
Total given
$1.11M
Median grant
$20K
Range
$5,652–$100K
  • By dollars: Connecticut 100%. Top recipient cities: Hartford, CT; New Britain, CT; New Haven, CT.
  • 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
  • 24% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.

Example grants

  • Connecticut Museum of Culture and H · Hartford, CT

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    $100K

  • New Britain Museum of American Art · New Britain, CT

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    $100K

  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art · Hartford, CT

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    $100K

  • Hartford Stage Company Inc · Hartford, CT

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    $75K

  • Connecticut League of History Organ · New Britain, CT

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    $70K

IRS Form 990, 2025. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

  • Humanities
  • Nonprofits
  • Small grants

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