Grant Requirements
Grant Requirements
General Grant Requirements
- Organizations must have a Unique Entity Identifier
- 1:1 cost share match with the amount received from Delaware Humanities
- The project must align with one or more of Delaware Humanities’ four Core Concepts: Stories & Histories, Environment & Health, Media & Democracy, Culture & Community
- All funded projects must take place during the period of performance
- The primary or targeted beneficiaries of the project must be residents of Delaware
- Recipients will be required to set up a bill.com account to receive their award by epayment(s)
- Groups eligible for funding:
- K-12 schools, colleges, and universities
- Museums, historical societies, libraries
- State/local government agencies
- Nonprofit groups (professional or social organizations, community or religious groups, etc.)
- NOTE: Funding can not be applied for by fiscal sponsors or pass through entities.
Costs Eligible for Support
- All costs must be reasonable, allowable, and allocable. All costs must be permitted for subawards under 2 CFR 200 and under the NEH General Terms and Conditions for General Support Grants to State Humanities Councils.
- Direct programming and implementation costs integral to the project
- Collections acquisition (note: if for a museum collection acquisition, please contact the Grant Officer with more information before applying)
- Book acquisitions (note: must be tied with a program)
- Technical or consulting needs related to digital transition or access, including costs directly associated with digitizing humanities collections to make them available online
- Honoraria for humanities experts/scholars/facilitators
- Domestic travel – mileage cannot exceed the federal rate. Airfare costs cannot exceed the customary standard commercial rate (coach or equivalent).
- Per diem – may include refreshments, but must be shown to be necessary and reasonable. Allowed for out-of-town personnel only. Costs cannot exceed the federal per diem rates.
- Supplies – materials necessary for the project, with no singular item costing more than $1,000
- Rental – facilities space for event if grantee organization does not have a space of adequate size
- Promotion and Printing – advertising and publicity costs for outreach, includes social media and virtual publicity efforts as well as traditional paper-based mediums
Costs Not Eligible for Support
- General operating support and general (NOT project-specific) staff salaries
- Scholarly programs directed to a limited audience or individual scholar research
- Competitive re-granting, prizes, awards, and projects that provide academic credit, scholarships, fellowships
- Pre-award costs
- Equipment
- International travel
- Construction, purchase of real property, major alteration, repair, and renovation
- The preservation, organization, or description of materials that are not regularly accessible for research, education, or public programming
- Promotion of a particular political, religious, or ideological point of view
- Advocacy of a particular program of social or political action
- Support of specific public policies or legislation
- Lobbying
- Alcohol and entertainment
- Projects that fall outside the humanities and the humanistic social sciences (including the creation or performance of art; creative writing, autobiographies, memoirs, and creative nonfiction; and quantitative social science research or policy studies)
- Unallowable expenses for subawards as defined in 2 CFR 200 Subpart E-Cost Principles
Rules Specific to Opportunity Grants
- A nonprofit organization does not have to have tax-exempt status
- If your organization is concerned about making the cost share match, contact the Grant Officer before submitting your application. In certain circumstances that requirement may be waived.
Rules Specific to Action & Innovation Grants
- A letter of inquiry (LOI) must be submitted. After the LOI is received, your organization may or may not be invited to submit a grant application.
- A nonprofit organization MUST have current tax-exempt status and must be a nonprofit in good standing
- The most recent copy of your organization’s 990 must be submitted as part of the application
- Please see each specific grant type’s web page for more information on the process and timing.