Funded Projects

Here, you'll find a list of projects that have previously received grant funding from Ohio Humanities.

2023 Grantees:
IGNITE GRANTS:
  • $20,000 - Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival | LADD | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
  • $20,000 - It's An Honor to be Here | Decorative Arts Center of Ohio | Fairfield County, Lancaster
  • $20,000 - Eclipsing History: Ohio in the Great North American Eclipse of 2024 | Bowling Green State University | Wood County, Bowling Green
  • $20,000 - Bing Davis Documentary | ThinkTV Network | Montgomery County, Dayton

  • $20,000 - The Chronicles Project: How Studying National Tragedies of the Past Fosters Resilience for the Future | Springfield Museum of Art |Clark County, Springfield

  • $19,970 - Free Beer Tomorrow Documentary | Lesbians Benefitting the Arts Franklin County, Columbus

  • $19,789 - Mounds, Moon and Stars: The Legacy of Ohio's Magnificent Earthworks | The Great Circle Alliance | Licking County, Newark
  • $17,500 - The Untold Story of Ida Saxton McKinley’s Soft Power | National First Ladies’ Library | Stark County, Canton

  • $17,500 - Recording Music and Recording History | King Studios | Hamilton County, Cincinnati

  • $16,600 - Teaching Cleveland Student Challenge | Teaching Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
  • $15,301 - Superman's Cleveland: Lineage and Legacy | Ursuline College, Cuyahoga County, Pepper Pike
  • $15,000 - Cleveland Jewish Book Festival | Mandel Jewish Community Center |  Cuyahoga County, Cleveland

  • $15,000 - Pressing Matters Afterschool Program | Zygote Press | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland

  • $15,000The Harmony Sessions | Harmony Project | Franklin County, Columbus 
  • $12,000 - From Where We Stood: AIDS & the Culture Wars | The LGBT Legacy Project | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland

  • $11,000 - I, Too, Sing America | Opera Project Columbus | Franklin County, Columbus
SPARK GRANTS:
  • $5,000 - Rooted Traditions | United Plant Savers | Athens County, Athens
  • $5,000 - Life Is a Dream Is a Game: Early Prototyping | Otterbein University | Franklin County, Westerville
  • $5,000 - Bhutan Memory Podcast | Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio | Franklin County, Columbus
  • $5,000 - 2023 Melvin van Peebles Symposium | Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware County, Delaware
  • $5,000 - Inkubator Conference: Humanities Panels | Literary Cleveland | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland

  • $5,000 - Beyond the Battlefield: Interpreting St. Clair’s Defeat through the Eyes of Tribal Citizens | Fort Recovery Historical Society | Mercer County, Fort Recovery
  • $5,000 - History’s Real Action Figures | Ashland Main Street | Ashland County, Ashland
  • $5,000 - Amy Pleasant - 'Family Album' Exhibition Programming at the Canton Museum of Art | Canton Museum of Art | Stark County, Canton
  • $5,000 - Equity in the Arts: Preservation of Nostalgia and Articulating Arts Innovation | Lincoln Theatre Association | Franklin County, Columbus
  • $4,996 - Dorothy Fuldheim Documentary | Media Heritage | West Chester, Butler County

  • $4,970 - Every Night is Ladies' Night: Stories from Summit Station, Ohio's Longest-Running Lesbian Bar | Lesbians Benefitting the Arts | Franklin County, Columbus
  • $4,756 - Public Humanities Community Lecture & Campus Workshop | University of Akron Institute for Human Science and Culture | Summit County, Akron

  • $3,600 - 2024 Speaker Series | Bedford Historical Society | Cuyahoga County, Bedford
  • $3,357 - Planning Together: Bringing A Black Abolitionist's House Back to Life in Oberlin | Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society | Lorain County, Oberlin
  • $3,204 - Conversations with Documentary Filmmaker Byron Hurt | Massillon Museum | Stark County, Massillon
  • $3,000 - All-Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Conference for Educators | Holocaust & Genocide Education Network | Cuyahoga County, Cleveland
  • $3,000 - The Big Picture: A History of Photography in Greater Cincinnati | Voyageur Media Group | Hamilton County, Cincinnati
  • $3,000 - Museum Explorers Club | Warren County Historical Society | Warren County, Lebanon
  • $1,900 -Stained Glass: The Language of Light | Green Lawn Abbey Preservation Association | Franklin County, Columbus 
  • $800 - Tea & Talk Series 2023 | Wood County Museum | Wood County, Bowling Green
SPONSORSHIPS:
  • $15,000 - 2023 Ohioana Book Festival | Ohioana Library Association | Franklin County, Columbus
  • $10,000 - Columbus Book Festival | Columbus Metropolitan Library | Franklin County, Columbus
  • $3,495 - Ohio Museums Association 2023 Annual Conference | Ohio Museums Association | Licking County, Newark

2017 - 2022 Grantees:

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