Arts & Culture · Active
NEH Public Scholar Program · NEH · High-volume · modest band
NEH Public Scholar Program (CFDA 45.149) - federal assistance administered by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $50K–$50K
- Typical award range
- 20
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- NEH
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, NEH Public Scholar Program ranks #286 of 504, #5 of 11 within NEH, and #26 of 28 among Arts & Culture programs by listed funding ceiling. Across 504 active programs, 47.041 leads by opportunity count (319, funding-ceiling rank #249) ≠ 66.054 leads by funding ceiling ($7.0 billion, opportunity rank #326). CFDA 45.149 is an active Arts & Culture program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $50K–$50K
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $750,000
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 6%
- of the catalog is Arts & Culture
NEH Public Scholar Program · floor-band ceiling on a busy book (#493/502)
NEH Public Scholar Program sits below most listed ceilings (2nd percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
NEH Public Scholar Program vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$50,400 Top 98% higher than 2% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2025-10-08
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 45.149 · NEH VOL-STEADY · #286/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MODEST · ELIG-IND · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #286/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MODEST ≤ $50K
- ELIG-IND Individual
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 45.149
VOL-STEADY · #286/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestNEH Public Scholar… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
High NOFO volume inside modest award sizes
NEH Public Scholar Program is a high-throughput CFDA (20 indexed opportunities) with only a modest SAM.gov range ($50,000 to $50,000). Many doors, smaller tickets: eligibility fit and close dates dominate over ceiling comparisons.
Assistance Listing text · NEH
Grants for established scholars to write books in the humanities for general audiences.
Individual applicant lane · CFDA 45.149
SAM.gov lists individuals as the applicant type for NEH Public Scholar Program. This is a person-facing Assistance Listing lane rather than an organization competition desk.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 45.149
86% of the 109 indexed listings under CFDA 45.149 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism NEH Public Scholar Program typically uses to move money. 6% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $98.8 million across 36 listings (avg $2.7 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 1,068 across 50 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 45.149, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Archived NOFO book · CFDA 45.149
None of the 109 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 45.149 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $6,000 to $750,000 (125×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 99% of listings carry the Humanities (HU) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 109 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $350,000 (109 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Humanities (HU)
Open counts use the same posted+close_date rule as the rest of PlainGrants; funding-activity codes are the Grants.gov category_of_funding field (first code when several are joined). Ceiling median is over positive reported ceilings only.
NEH · administering agency
National Endowment for the Humanities
Humanities research, education, preservation, and public programming grants.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 45.149
National Digital Newspaper Program
Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition
Preservation and Access Education and Training
National Digital Newspaper Program
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Research and Development
Preservation and Access Education and Training
Cultural and Community Resilience
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 45.149: 20 indexed opportunities · 0 open on the recent slice.
- No open Grants.gov rows on the recent slice, watch this CFDA for the next NOFO drop. How to apply
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) administers 11 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Environmental Quality Incentive Program — Org… (10.612). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainGrants is rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no number is typed in by an editor. This grant program's figures are rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data issue on this page.
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