Meet Our Grantees
In 2020, HumanitiesDC awarded over $1.2M in funding to an impressive array of creative, innovative and detailed projects, serving the representing each of the eight wards.
- 1882 Project Foundation
- 826DC, Inc.
- African American Music Association
- Akua Femi Kouyate
- All Souls Housing Corp
- Amanda Huron
- Amy Jacques Garvey Institute
- Arts for Our Children, Inc.
- Asbury United Methodist Church
- Capitol Hill Restoration Society
- Center for Nonprofit Advancement
- Children of Mine Youth Center, Inc.
- Collections & Stories of American Muslims, Inc.
- College Bound, Inc.
- Corey Stowers
- Dance Place
- Darcy Courteau
- Day Eight
- DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative
- DC Doors
- DC Independent Film Festival
- DC Murals: Spectacle and Story
- DC Preservation League
- DC Scores
- Defending Rights & Dissent
- Education Plus 2
- Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
- Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop
- Friends and Food International
- Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
- Friendship Public Charter School
- Grassroots DC
- Heurich House Foundation
- Historical Society of Washington, DC
- Hola Cultura
- Hyun Jung Rie
- IN Series
- James Dent Walker Chapter, Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.
- Jennifer Low
- Joshua Cogan
- Latino GLBT History Project
- LearnServe International
- Life Pieces To Masterpieces
- Lydia Ginter
- Marshall Heights Community Development Org.
- Matthew Cumbie
- Mentors of Minorities in Education, Inc.
- Mesi Walton
- Mikva Challenge DC
- Mosaic Theater Company of DC
- Mount Zion – Female Union Band Memorial Park Foundation, Inc.
- Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company
- Multi-Media Training Institute
- National Building Museum
- National Council of Independent Living
- National Museum of American Jewish Military History
- Old Naval Hospital Foundation – Hill Center
- One World Education
- Patrick Scallen
- PEN/Faulkner Foundation
- Prologue DC, LLC
- Pulitzer Center
- Rainbow History Project
- Rev. Dr. Sandra Butler-Truesdale
- Roadwork, Inc.
- Shaw Main Streets, Inc.
- Shilpi Malinowski
- Shout Mouse Press
- Sixth & I
- SNCC Legacy Project, Inc.
- Split This Rock
- Story District
- Teaching for Change
- The MusicianShip
- The National Hand Dance Association
- The Washington Jazz Arts Institute
- Tommy Taylor, Jr.
- Dr. Tony Keith, Jr.
- Trabajadores Unidas de Washington DC
- Turning the Page
- University of the District of Columbia
- Ward 8 Woods Conservancy
- Washington Architectural Foundation
- Washington Section, National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
- Washington, DC International Film Festival
- Whitman-Walker Health
- Women in Film and Video
- Words Beats and Life, Inc.
- YMCA of Metropolitan Washington
- Young Playwrights’ Theater
- Zahari Richter
- Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation
If you’re interested in becoming a HumanitiesDC grantee, please visit our Grants page to learn about future opportunities. HumanitiesDC’s funding cycle is traditionally once a year, but please check back as new funding may come available.