Art Project Grant
These program guidelines are subject to change after the publication date. Changes will be clearly noted on this page.
All IAC Grants
Funding Resources and Solutions
The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs offers many grant funding opportunities to help strengthen Iowa’s arts, culture, and creative sector and the humanities.
Check the calendar often for additional funding opportunities provided by the department and other organizations.
Do you have funding available for Iowa artists, organizations or communities? Post the opportunity.
Creative Places Project Grant
Apply for funding to develop arts and culture projects that advance creative placemaking as a community workforce or tourism strategy.
Cultural Capacity Building Grant
Note: This funding opportunity is no longer currently accepting applications. See below for resources to manage your grant award.
Cultural Leadership Partners
Note: This funding opportunity is no longer currently accepting applications. See below for resources to manage your grant award.
Folk Arts Learning Grant
Note: This funding opportunity is no longer currently accepting applications. See below for resources to manage your grant award.
Humanities Collaboration Grant
Note: This funding opportunity is no longer currently accepting applications. See below for resources to manage your grant award.
Humanities Partnership Grant
Note: This funding opportunity is no longer currently accepting applications. See below for resources to manage your grant award.
Iowa Arts & Culture Emergency Relief Fund
The Iowa Arts & Culture Emergency Relief Fund provides short-term financial relief to eligible organizations impacted by natural disasters, emergencies and other unforeseen events that pose an active threat to publicly-accessible artistic, cultural or humanities resources.
Iowa Arts & Culture Marketing Grant
Note: This opportunity has closed and is no longer accepting applications. Review the list of grant recipients.
Iowa Arts & Culture Resilience Grant - Nonprofits
Note: This funding opportunity is no longer accepting applications. See below for resources to manage your grant award.
Iowa Great Places
Iowa Great Places seeks to cultivate the local character and authentic qualities of Iowa neighborhoods, districts, communities and regions.
Partnership Grant
Partnership Awards are discretionary grant awards, of up to $10,000, to provide fast-track funding in response to urgent institutional needs or highly unique, one-time opportunities that fall outside of the department's regular granting programs or cycles and that align with the department's miss
School Arts Experience Grant
Note: This funding opportunity is no longer currently accepting applications. See below for resources to manage your grant award.
Strengthening Communities Grant
Note: This funding opportunity is no longer currently accepting applications. See below for resources to manage your grant award.