Funded Projects
Here, you'll find a list of recent projects that have received grant funding from Ohio Humanities.
Want to know more? Click here to explore our full archive for more information about funded projects dating back to 1995.
2024 Grantees:
IGNITE GRANTS:
- $20,000 - Healing through the Humanities | Akron Children's Hospital | Summit County, Akron
- $20,000 - The Art of Domesticity Exhibition, Catalog, and Public Programs | Allen County Historical Society | Allen County, Lima
- $17,500 - Capturing Life Documentary | Voyageur Media Group | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $17,500 - Las Culturas del Sur de Ohio Podcast | Southern Ohio Folklife | Scioto County, Portsmouth
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$17,500 - Cincinnati: Frontier of African American Freedom | National Underground Railroad Freedom Center | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $15,000 - Laying the Foundation Documentary | Corporation for Findlay Market | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $15,000 - History Walks Lecture and Walking Tour Series | Columbus Metropolitan Library Main Branch | Franklin County, Columbus
- $15,000 - Love and War in Colonial Times: Opera Out of the Box Podcast Series | Toledo Opera Association | Lucas County, Toledo
- $15,000 - Saving Mount Zion's History Through Public Art | Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society | Athens County, Athens
- $15,000 - Lens of History: Celebration of People, Spaces, and Emotion | Robert O'Neal Multicultural Arts Center | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $15,000 - 13th Annual Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival | Greater Cleveland Urban Film Foundation | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
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$15,000 - Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins | Decorative Arts Center of Ohio | Fairfield County, Lancaster
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$15,000 - Shattered Glass: The Women Who Elevated American Art Exhibit, Catalog, and Programming | Canton Museum of Art | Stark County, Canton
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$15,000 - UAAC’s Kith and Kin | Urban Appalachian Community Coalition | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
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$15,000 - Cleveland Jewish Book Festival | Mandel Jewish Community Center | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
- $12,500 - 2nd Annual Beyond the Battlefield and St. Clair’s Defeat: Connecting with Tribal Nations Today | Fort Recovery Historical Society | Mercer County, Fort Recovery
- $12,000 - Marion Voices' Marion County Cultural Heritage Assets Mapping Project (CHAMP) | Marion Voices Folklife + Oral History | Marion County, Caledonia
- $10,000 - Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival | Cleveland Orchestra | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
- $9,500 - Life Stories II: The Conversation | We Amplify Voices (WAV) | Franklin County, Columbus
SpARK GRANTS:
- $5,000 - Pictures of Over-the-Rhine | Over-the-Rhine Museum | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $5,000 - WeREAD 2024 | WeRISE for Greater Westerville | Franklin County, Westerville
- $5,000 - Cannabis Americana | Cannabis Museum | Athens County, Athens
- $5,000 - Shrapnel Maps: Voices in Dialogue | John Carroll University | Cuyahoga County, University Heights
- $5,000 - A Trip Down Memory Lane: Silver Celebration | Ashland Main Street | Ashland County, Ashland
- $5,000 - Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Art of Un-War | University of Toledo | Lucas County, Toledo
- $5,000 - A Trip Down Memory Lane: Ashland Chautauqua Silver Celebration | Ashland Main Street | Ashland County, Ashland
- $5,000 - Cleveland History Days Talks at Cleveland Public Library | Canalway Partners | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
- $5,000 - For Service & Support: Creating an Accessible Community | Wood County Museum | Wood County, Bowling Green
- $5,000 - Unless the Mountains Say So Documentary | Kenyon College | Knox County, Gambier
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$5,000 - Inkubator Conference Humanities Panels | Literary Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
- $5,000 - Celebrating Black History in Perkins Woods | Akron Zoological Park | Summit County, Akron
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$5,000 - Zane Miller Symposium | University of Cincinnati Center for the City | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $5,000 - Bringing Lord Dunmore's War to Life: Commemorating the 250th Anniversary | Southeast Ohio History Center | Athens County, Athens
- $4,634 - Cincinnati's Lost Founders | Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
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$4,000 - TEMPEST: Poetry and Music for a Regenerative Earth | Grandview Heights High School | Franklin County, Columbus
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$4,000 - Don’t Just Talk About It, Be About It | Professional Artistic Research Projects | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $4,000 - A Speaker Series on the Harms of Museum Practices around Indigenous Materials Collections | University of Akron Institute for Human Science and Culture | Summit County, Akron
- $3,500 - George Bellows: American Life in Print | Cincinnati Art Museum | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $3,500 - A Room of Her Own: Music and Gender in the Time of Christine De Pizan | Trobár Medieval | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
- $3,000 - Songs of Sancho's London | Les Délices | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
- $3,000 - Activate Belmont Historical Photograph and Narrative Project | Belmont Eastmont Hearthstone Community Council | Montgomery County, Dayton
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$3,000 - The Untold Stories of Flight | Ingenuity Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
- $2,500 - Jefferson's America: Divided but One | Cuyahoga Community College Foundation | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
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$2,020 - Historic Landscape Speaker Series | Dawes Arboretum | Licking County, Heath
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$1,100 - 60th Anniversary Celebration Event | Noble County Historical Society | Noble County, Caldwell
Sponsorships:
- $25,000 - Ohio Humanities Film Fellowships at the Wex | Wexner Center for the Arts | Franklin County, Columbus
- $25,000 - The Ohio Newsroom | Ideastream Public Media | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
- $25,000 - 2024 Chagrin Documentary Film Festival | Chagrin Documentary Film Festival | Geauga County, Chagrin Falls
- $20,000 - Ohio Museums Association Annual Conference and Empowering Museum Voices Fellowship Sponsorships | Ohio Museums Association | Franklin County, Columbus
- $16,000 - Books by the Banks | Books by the Banks | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $15,000 - The Bulldogs Documentary Film | Loose Films | Columbiana County, East Palestine
- $12,500 - Ohio Women's Suffrage Monument Commission | Capitol Square Foundation | Franklin County, Columbus
- $10,000 - Columbus Book Festival | Columbus Metropolitan Library Main Branch | Franklin County, Columbus
- $10,000 - Keyholder 2024 | The Women's Fund of Central Ohio | Franklin County, Columbus
- $10,000 - The Ohio Country Podcast | WYSO Public Radio | Greene County, Yellow Springs
- $5,000 - Cincinnati Oral History Association Meeting 2024 | Oral History Association | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $5,000 - 2024 Ohioana Book Festival | Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus
- $5,000 - FotoFocus Opening Weekend | FotoFocus | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $3,045 - Heritage Ohio Preservation and Revitalization Conference | Heritage Ohio | Franklin County, Columbus
- $3,000 - Freedom a la Cart & We Amplify Voices Open Mic Nights | Freedom a la Cart | Franklin County, Columbus
- $2,500 - Ohio Local History Alliance Conference Keynote | Ohio Local History Alliance | Franklin County, Columbus
- $2,000 - A Celebration of the Life of Julia Reichert | LADD, Inc. | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
- $1,000 - Gravity Film Showcase | Wild Goose Creative | Franklin County, Columbus
2017 - 2023 Grantees:
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