Grants Management Policy and Guidance for Awards to Organizations
(Updated June 24, 2025)
General Terms and Conditions for Awards
- General Terms and Conditions for Awards to Organizations (for grants and cooperative agreements issued October 1, 2024, or later)
- General Terms and Conditions for Awards to organizations (for grants and cooperative agreements issued between January 1, 2022, and September 30, 2024)
- General Terms and Conditions for Awards to Organizations (for grants and cooperative agreements issued between December 26, 2014 and December 31, 2021)
- General Terms and Conditions for Awards (for awards issued May 2009 – December 25, 2014)
General Guidance for NEH Applicants and Recipients
- Revisions to 2 CFR: Explainer for NEH Award Recipients
- Accessing NEH eGMS Reach
- General Guidance for New Recipients of NEH Grants and Cooperative Agreements to Organizations
- General Guidance for Pass-through Entities on Managing Subawards
- Guidance for Negotiating an Indirect Cost Rate Agreement with NEH
- General Guidance on Calculating Indirect Costs
- Bad Request Error in Grants.gov (Incorrect Roles)
- ARCHIVED (03/12/2025): NEH Update on the 2024 Revisions to 2 CFR 200
General Reporting Requirements
- Financial Reporting Requirements
- Federal Financial Report (SF-425) Instructions
- Performance Reporting Requirements
- NEH Organizational Survey
Standard Forms
- Assurances as to Labor Standards
- Certification Regarding Lobbying
- Disclosure of Lobbying Activities
- Challenge Capital Projects Budget Form (SF-424C)
- Research and Related Budget Form
- State and Jurisdictional Humanities Councils Budget Form (SF-424A)
Payment Information
- Justification for Capping Indirect Costs on Presidential Papers Awards
- Compliance with Executive Orders
- Allowability of Food Costs on NEH Awards
- Allowability of Prepaid and Gift Cards
- Assurances and Certifications
- Code of Ethics Related to Native Americans
- Late Submission Policy
- NEH Program Income Policy
- Performance Labor Assurances
- 29 CFR Part 505: Labor Standards on Projects or Productions Assisted by Grants from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
- Political and Social Advocacy
- Protecting Personal Information
- Research Misconduct Policy
Policies for Projects Involving Construction, Renovation and Ground Disturbance
- Davis-Bacon Act
- Build America, Buy America Act
- Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- Environmental Assessments and Public Notices
- Public Comments to NEH Rulemaking and Other Notices
Publicity and Acknowledgement
- Acknowledgment and Publicity Requirements for NEH Awards
- Publicizing Your Project
- Grantee Communications Toolkit
Federal Matching Funds Guidance
- Types of Funding
- Federal Matching Funds Guidelines
- Certification of Gifts/Pledges Form
- Instructions for the Certification of Gifts/Pledges Form
State and Jurisdictional Humanities Councils
- General Terms and Conditions for General Operating Support Grants to State and Jurisdictional Humanities Councils (for awards issued October 1, 2024, or later)
- General Terms and Conditions for General Operating Support Grants to State and Jurisdictional Humanities Councils (for awards issued between December 26, 2014, and September 30, 2024)
- ARCHIVED (03/12/2025): Addendum to: General Terms and Conditions for Awards and General Terms and Conditions for General Support Grants for State Humanities Councils
- Cost Share Waiver Requests for Fiscal Year 2021
- General Terms and Conditions for American Rescue Plan State Humanities Councils Awards
- American Rescue Plan: State and Jurisdictional Humanities Councils FAQs
- Matching Guidelines for General Support Grants to State Humanities Councils
- General Management Costs for State Humanities Councils
- Accounting System Manual for State Humanities Councils
- Program-Specific Audit Guide: Federal/State Partnership Program (CFDA No. 45.129)
- Administration of NEH Challenge Infrastructure and Capacity Building Grants (for awards with prefix CHA issued on or after February 1, 2022)
- Administration of NEH Challenge Infrastructure and Capacity Building Grants (for awards with prefix “CHA” issued from 2018 through January 31, 2022)
- Administration of NEH Challenge Grants (for awards with prefixes “CH” and “CZ” issued prior to 2018)
ARP
Education Grants