CT Humanities: Quick Grants
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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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
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Humanities
- Nonprofits
- Small grants
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