Closed · 20260422-FZ · CFDA 45.160 · Discretionary
Public Scholars
Federal grant opportunity posted by National Endowment for the Humanities, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $30K-$60K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- April 22, 2026
- Close date
- 15
- Expected awards
The verdict
Public Scholars is a closed discretionary listing from National Endowment for the Humanities that offered $30,000 -- $60,000 across 15 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 617 other opportunities from National Endowment for the Humanities.
- $30K-$60K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 15
- expected awards
- 45.160
- CFDA program
Recently closed NOFO
This listing closed on April 22, 2026. Watch CFDA 45.160 (NEH Collaborative Research) for the next funding cycle. Historical award band was $30,000 -- $60,000.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed April 22, 2026
Est. Total Funding
$900,000
Expected Awards
15
Instrument
Grant
Description
The Public Scholars program encourages non-academic writers to deepen their engagement with the humanities by strengthening the research underlying their books, and it encourages academic writers in the humanities to communicate the significance of their research to the broadest possible range of readers. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. Projects are eligible at any stage in their development. The 2026 Public Scholars competition will accept only projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present.
Individual applicant lane · 20260422-FZ
Grants.gov lists individuals as an eligible applicant type for Public Scholars. This is a person-facing lane rather than a pure organization competition desk. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Humanities (HU). 76 other National Endowment for the Humanities listings share this eligibility-code string (12% of 618).
- Code 21
- Individuals
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Parent Grant Program
NEH Collaborative Research
National Endowment for the Humanities
Agency Contact
Division of Research National Endowment for the Humanities 400 Seventh Street, SW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8200 publicscholar@neh.gov
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What to do next
Public Scholars is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.
- Parent CFDA 45.160 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
- NEH Collaborative Research indexes 0 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
- National Endowment for the Humanities lists 617 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog
Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.
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