Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation
Chautauqua Region Community Foundation
Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation
ALA Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities
Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities will offer more than $7 million in grants to small and rural libraries to increase the accessibility of facilities, services, and programs to better serve people with disabilities. To be eligible, a library must have a legal area population of 25,000 or less and be located at least five miles from an urbanized area, in keeping with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) definitions of small and rural libraries. ALA will award four rounds of grants to be distributed over the next four years ranging from $10,000 to $20,000. Round 4 will open Fall 2025.
Better World Books Literacy Grants
Better World Books grants fund literacy and educational nonprofits and libraries for specific projects — the front lines of the fight to reduce global poverty through education.
Dollar General Literacy Foundation Grants
Dollar General provides Summer Reading Grants, Adult Literacy Grants, Family Literacy Grants, and Youth Literacy Grants.
Foundation for Rural Service Community Grant Program
Applications for these grants are accepted each spring ranging from $250 to $5,000. The grants awarded each November support a variety of projects concentrated in four major categories: Business and Economic Development, Community Development, Education, and Telecommunications Applications.
National Endowment for the Arts Big Read
Winners receive a grant ranging from $5,000 to $20,000, educational and promotional materials, and access to online training resources and opportunities to develop and produce community-wide reading programs which encourage reading and participation by diverse audiences.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants funding opportunity is cancelled for FY2026 and is not accepting applications.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Public Humanities Projects
The program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings.
New York State Council on the Arts
The mission of the New York State Council on the Arts is to foster and advance the full breadth of New York State’s arts, culture, and creativity for all.
NY State Council of the Arts Regrants & Services
At the core of our mission to create vibrant arts communities is our work with our Statewide Community Regrant Partners (SCR). NYSCA initiates funding partnerships with regional arts councils and cultural organizations, enabling us to reach all 10 regions across the state. The local grant making organizations providing support in a wide range of arts disciplines are referred to as Statewide Community Regrant Partners.
NYLA Section and NYLA Round Table Funding Opportunities
Many of the NYLA sections and round tables offer scholarships to attend NYLA and awards for conference programming. Visit each section or round table to view specific opportunities. Applications are usually due in August and September.
Ongoing State/National Grant Opportunities:
A.rt R.esources T.ransfer Library Program
The A.R.T. Library Program distributes books on art and culture to public institutions nationwide, free of charge. Public libraries, schools, prisons, and reading centers are welcome to place annual orders.
Humanities New York Grants
All grant opportunities are currently paused.
The Pilcrow Foundation Rural Library Grants
The Pilcrow Foundation, a national non-profit public charity, provides a 2-to-1 match to rural public libraries that receive a grant through its Children’s Book Project and contribute $200-$400 through a local sponsors for the purchase of up to $1,200 worth (at retail value) of new, quality, hardcover children’s books. The foundation also provides grants to libraries affected by natural disasters. Deadlines are April 1st and October 1st.
Poets & Writers Readings/Workshops Program
Poets & Writers provides up to $1,500 to cover fees for author readings and writing workshops.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is honored to support an array of organizations creating a world where children, families and communities can thrive.
Wish You Well Foundation
The foundation supports adult and family literacy in the United States by fostering new and promoting existing adult literacy and educational programs.
Grant Announcements & Foundation Information
Candid – Formerly The Foundation Center. The largest and most comprehensive resource for researching foundations.
Finger Lakes Grants Information Center – Their mission is to create a resource for our local communities to provide the information and tools necessary to attract funding to Auburn and the Finger Lakes region from foundations, federal, state and local governments and other grant makers. Also offers access to the Foundation Directory Online Professional on location in Auburn, NY.
Grants.gov – The access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies.
Library Grants Blog – Grant announcements provided by the author of Winning Grants: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians.
NYS Library Grants Resource Collection – Grant seeking resources for New York State Libraries.
Institute of Museum and Library Services – Not currently available.
New York State Grant Opportunities – Search for grant opportunities from NYS.