2025 Community-Based Archives Grant – Call for Proposals

Deadline: March 28, 2025

Applications are now open for the 2025 Community-Based Archives Grant, a funding opportunity designed to provide direct support to archives that represent and serve marginalized communities.

About the Grant

Community-based archives are organizations dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing materials that document the histories and identities of underrepresented communities. These archives play a vital role in affirming community identity, combating misinformation, and providing a safe space for cultural traditions, languages, and artistic expressions to thrive. They serve as a counter-response to historical exclusion by mainstream cultural institutions, ensuring a more diverse and inclusive historical record.

Between 2019 and 2021, this program awarded nearly $5 million to 46 community archives. With this new round of funding, an additional $5 million will be distributed over three grant cycles.

Grant Details

• Funding Amount: $25,000 – $100,000
• Grant Duration: Two years (August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2027)

Eligibility Criteria

To qualify, organizations must:

✔ Be based in the United States or U.S. territories
✔ Hold 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status or be a federally recognized Indian tribe
✔ Operate an archive or archiving initiative with an annual budget between $12,500 and $1 million (in-kind donations for facility costs can be included in the budget calculation)
✔ Have an active, established archive that has been operational for at least two years (funding is not available for creating new archives)

Both independent community archives and community organizations with archival initiatives are welcome to apply.

Application Process

1. Pre-Registration Deadline: Interested applicants must submit a registration request by March 12, 2025, at 5:00 PM (Eastern Time).
2. Once approved, eligible applicants will receive access to the application form via the Foundation’s Fluxx grantee portal.
3. Applicants will need to provide:
   • A 2-3 page proposal narrative
   • A CV or resume for the project lead
   • A recent Form 990
   • Annual operating budgets for 2023 and 2024
   • A document outlining the archive’s governance structure, including board members, staff, and/or key volunteers

For further details, visit the Call for Proposals to Community-Based Archives page.