Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA:  A $1.5 million grant supported development of an exhibition where parents and children can explore cultural influences on identity and fairness – including religion. The grant also helped fund staff dedicated to integrating religion into the museum’s exhibitions, programs, staff culture and collections.

Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL:  A $2.5 million grant enabled the museum to endow a new curator of religious community history and endow a fellowship program for early career curators in religious history collections. The curator provides authentic illustrations of the role of religion in shaping Chicago history and culture.

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN:  A $2.5 million grant supported Sacred Places, an immersive exhibition that invites children and families to learn about the beliefs and practices of five religious traditions by exploring places that these traditions consider sacred.

Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA:  A $2.5 million grant enabled the museum to establish an endowment to support actor interpreters for religion programs and to reconstruct the First Baptist Church, the first church in Williamsburg established by enslaved and free Black Americans.

Conner Prairie Museum, Fishers, IN:  A $500,000 grant helped the museum hire a curator in religion to guide research and program development for the Promised Land as Proving Ground program. It will incorporate new religion storylines into interpretive programs.

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN:  A $2.5 million grant enabled the museum to endow staff and programs to make religion a central component of the museum’s ongoing work. Also, in collaboration with the New York Historical Society, the museum will create the exhibit Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West, scheduled to open in April 2024.

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL:  A $2.5 million grant enabled the creation of Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery, an exhibit that explores religious and cultural responses to the human experience of death. The museum also endowed a postdoctoral fellowship program in the anthropology of religion.

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA:  A $1,387,565 grant supported creation of the Engaging Lived Religion in the 21st Century program, which aims to expand the museum’s ability to mount exhibitions about religion that explore the way it shows up in everyday life – including in Los Angeles – and that acknowledge the diversity within religious traditions.

Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ:  A $2.5 million grant enabled the museum to create Substance of Stars, a permanent exhibition that explores the origin stories of four North American indigenous tribes that seeks to educate visitors about the diversity and beauty of indigenous religious and spiritual practices.

MFA Boston, Boston, MA:  A $2.5 million grant enabled the museum to endow an assistant curator of Islamic art. The curator leads collaboration with Muslim communities to produce exhibitions, publications and public programs about the importance of religion within diverse Islamic cultures.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX:  A $1,448,450 grant supported the development of the World Faiths Initiative to help the museum draw on its collections as it presents exhibitions and programs on religion, faith and spirituality.

National WWI Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, MO:  A $2.5 million grant enabled the museum to hire a curator to focus on faith and religion, strengthen public programming on religion and war, enhance online exhibitions and resources on religion and increase its collection of religious objects and materials.

Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Plymouth, MA:  A $2,499,110 grant is supporting creation of Light Here Kindled: Providence, Manitou and the Legacy of America’s Founding Faiths, a program to incorporate the role of faith into interpretations of Plymouth Colony and the people of the indigenous Patuxet.

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN:  A $2,493,783 grant to the University of Notre Dame is helping expand the museum’s capacity to help visitors explore religious beliefs and practices through art.

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Washington, DC:  A $1,499,859 grant supported creation of Creative Encounters: Living Religions in America, a program to foster greater understanding of diverse religious traditions and strengthen religion programming in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC:  A $1.5 million grant supported creation of the Global Religions of Africa Initiative, which explores the impact and global relevance of Africa’s religious beliefs and practices through exhibitions and educational and public programs.

Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, DC:  An $8 million grant enabled the museum to establish the Center for the Public Understanding of Religion in American History and to create a gallery focusing in the role and influence of religion in American history and culture.

Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC:  A $2,499,799 grant supported creation of the Arts of Devotion, which brings museum collections into conversation with contemporary religious practices to help visitors appreciate the diversity of Islamic, Buddhist, Zen and Hindu religious traditions.

Angel Mounds State Historic Site, Evansville, IN:  A $2.5 million grant to the Indiana State Museum Foundation is supporting development of a new visitors experience that will integrate information about the religious practices of the indigenous people who built the earthen mounds between the years 1050 and 1450.

Children’s Museum Houston, Houston, TX:  A $2,496,339 is supporting the Faithful Friends Exhibition, which seeks to encourage children and families to build tolerance, respect and love for those who have religious beliefs and traditions different from their own.

Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA:  A $3 million grant is supporting the reconstruction of the original First Baptist Church, the first church in Williamsburg established by enslaved and free Black Americans. The grant will also help establish a history interpretation program at the church site.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting the development of an exhibition of yogini sculpture that will feature life-sized stone sculptures of south Indian goddesses and challenge monolithic views of Hindu beliefs and practices.

The Two Mississippi Museums (Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum), Jackson, MS:  A $2.5 million grant will help the museums depict the role religion has played in Mississippi history, engage religious communities and strengthen access to archival collections related to religion.

Jamestown Settlement and American History Museum of Yorktown, Jamestown and Yorktown, VA:  A $2,499,988 grant is supporting a project to integrate religion programming into galleries and living history spaces and focus on the convergence of Native American, African and European cultures in colonial Virginia.

Historic New Harmony, New Harmony, IN:  A $ 2 million grant to the University of Southern Indiana is helping Historic New Harmony strengthen its work to educate visitors about the religious beliefs and practices of 19^th century utopian societies and their impact on this southwestern Indiana community.

The King Center (Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change), Atlanta, GA:  A $2,499,500 is supporting the project, A Question of Faith, which will highlight Dr. King’s religious journey and the role of faith communities during the Civil Rights Movement. Internships and fellowships will encourage exploration of the religious motivations of the movement and their ongoing implications.

Library of Congress, Washington, DC:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting Enhancing Public Understanding of Religious Cultures, which will encourage dialogue and research about the religious beliefs and practices of African and Middle Eastern cultures. The library will also digitize Ethiopian religious manuscripts and develop an artist-in-residence program.

Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN:  A $2.5 million grant will help endow a curator of religious collections who will develop programs, exhibitions and digital collections featuring library holdings related to diverse religious traditions.

George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, VA: A $2.5 million grant is supporting the Interpreting Religion at Mount Vernon project at the Mount Vernon historic site, which is dedicated to preserving the estate of George Washington and educating the public about his legacy.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY: A $2.5 million grant to enhance its interpretation of religious art in five curatorial departments – European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Medieval Art, The Met Cloisters, Asian Art and Islamic Art – and explore more deeply themes in religious art in these areas.

National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA:  A $2,100,704 grant is supporting the Religion and the First Amendment Initiative, which includes an exhibition examining how religious liberty has been applied, protected, challenged, debated and interpreted throughout U.S. history.

National Museum of African American Music, Nashville, TN:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting an exhibition about the Fisk Jubilee Singers, performers from Fisk University who broke barriers in the late 1800s by increasing awareness of African American spirituals in the U.S. and around the world.

National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago IL:  A $1,926,655 grant is supporting development of a traveling exhibition, Milagros Mexicanos – Popular Faith and the Arts, which will portray how religious beliefs and spirituality in ancient Mexico are reflected today in Mexican and U.S. cultures.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting Intersectionality: Religion and Social Justice, a project that will feature a traveling exhibition exploring the relationship among Christianity, Judaism and Islam and historical movements for social justice.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO:  A $2.5 million grant is helping the museum develop the World Religions Initiative, which will encourage visitors to explore religious contexts and practices depicted in art displayed in its permanent galleries.

New York Public Library, New York, NY: A $2.5 million grant will help the library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture hire a curator to guide the Center’s programs on religion and spirituality and help deepen relationships with faith-based and civic organizations in Harlem and beyond.

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC: A $1,499,119 grant to help the museum work collaboratively with leaders from four Native communities to a thoughtful and ethical approach for handling, interpreting and displaying religious and sacred objects in its collections.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC:  A $2.5 million grant is helping endow the director for the Program on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust; and expand religion programs, including those to help clergy and others examine the relationship between the Holocaust and Christian traditions.

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting renovation of core exhibition space to strengthen understanding of Judaism and its varied traditions and promote greater respect for people of diverse religious backgrounds.

American Writers Museum, Chicago, IL:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting the development of an exhibition and other public programs about the influence of religion on American writers and the effect their works have had on the public understanding of religion

Arch Street Preservation Trust, Philadelphia, PA:  A $1,085,00 grant is enabling the Arch Street Meeting House to update exhibitions on Quaker history and religious practices ahead of observances of the nation’s semiquincentennial in 2026.

Baylor University, Waco, TX:  A $2, 482,486 grant is supporting the development of exhibitions, concerts and symposia to explore the history and influence of Black gospel music in the United States.

Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting the development of exhibitions and the update of current exhibitions to incorporate more fully the religious life of Shakers into interpretive displays.

Chicago Architecture Center, Chicago, IL:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting efforts to share authentic stories about how religion has shaped Chicago’s built environment by incorporating more fully religious architecture into its programs and exhibitions.

The Clemente, New York, NY:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting the development of an exhibition on the role of religious art in the Latin American immigrant experience and strengthening the museum’s connections with Latin American artists, religious institutions and communities.

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting efforts to incorporate the role of religion into exhibitions, beginning with the first American exhibition of the Pre-Raphaelite Jewish artist, Simeon Solomon, featuring paintings depicting themes from the Torah, writings of Prophets, and Jewish cultural and liturgical practices.

Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, DE:  A $1,02,140 grant is enabling the Mitchell Center for African American Heritage to support the “Big August Quarterly” gathering, the oldest African American religious festival in the country; to develop exhibitions on Black Churches; and to produce a documentary on Black faith traditions.

 Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA:  A $2,342,000 million grant is supporting the presentation of Shaker religious beliefs and practices in its interpretations of Shaker life, including new galleries and public programming.

 Historic St. George’s United Methodist Church, Philadelphia, PA:  A $2,490,427 grant is supporting updates to exhibitions and interpretive programs about the church’s pivotal role in early Methodism in the United States hosting many of its key leaders, including George Whitfield, John Wesley, Francis Asbury and Richard Allen, in anticipation of the nation’s semiquincentennial in 2026.

Kiewit Luminarium, Omaha, NE:  A $2.5 million grant is enabling this science center to develop an exhibition of contemporary and historical intersections between science and religion, including insights and assumptions about religious and scientific thought from the perspectives of multiple faith and non-faith traditions.

King’s Chapel, Boston, MA:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting creation of a Memorial to Enslaved Persons, which will consist of an art installation and programming that broadens the historical narrative about the chapel’s relationship to slavery and seeks to foster dialogue and to promote racial reconciliation across Boston communities.

Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI:  A $2,442,104 grant is enabling the Haggerty Museum of Art to develop a series of exhibitions and related programs that explore a pedagogy of close observation, analysis, contemplation and reflection to examine religious objects in its collections and to explore the beliefs and practices of diverse religious traditions depicted in art.

Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore, MD:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting an endowment for a curator of religious history, an exhibition on religious tolerance, and development of educational activities for K-12 students and teachers on the religious history of Maryland.

Montpelier Foundation, Orange, VA:  A $2,499,996 grant is supporting the development of exhibitions that explore Madisonian ideas of religious freedom and freedom of conscience and programming on the history of religious freedom and African American religious life working collaboratively with the Montpelier Descendants Committee.

Museum of Eldridge Street, New York, NY:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting development of an interactive exhibition that explores the architecture of the first synagogue in the United States built by Eastern European Jews and the incorporation of religious themes across other exhibitions.

National Building Museum, Washington, DC:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting development of an exhibition about the construction of the Washington National Cathedral; an exhibition featuring mid-century religious architecture, and an exhibition on non-traditional places of worship in the United States.

National Juneteenth Museum, Fort Worth, TX:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting efforts to incorporate religion into its permanent exhibitions that preserve the experiences of enslaved African Americans, tell the story of emancipation, and celebrate Juneteenth and its global impact.

National Park Foundation, Washington, DC:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting the National Park Service (NPS) as it enhances interpretations of Judaism in NPS cultural sites and develops a traveling exhibition featuring the contributions of Jewish religious teaching and practice to American history and culture.

National Women’s History Center, Washington, DC:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting a collaboration with local organizations in three U.S. cities chosen for historical connections to women’s history and the creation of a traveling exhibition on the role of faith in women’s movements for social justice.

The Newberry, Chicago, IL:  A $2,156,078 grant is helping the organization to assess its religious collection, focusing especially on how the collection highlights the lived religious experiences of Chicago residents; to develop new public programs; and to make the collection more accessible to varied audiences.

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Raleigh, NC:  A $2.5 million grant will fund an endowment for its Judaic collection so staff can develop and implement an interpretive strategy for future exhibitions, a public programs and engagement with local religious communities.

Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA:  A $2,499,510 grant is supporting the development of exhibitions featuring religious rites of passage – birth, initiation into adulthood, marriage and death – from a variety of religious traditions.

Presbyterian Church (USA), Louisville, KY:  A $2,431,641 million grant is supporting a project of the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) as it develops a series of exhibitions about the Religion News Service (RNS) and other organizations and topics reflected in its collections.

San Antonio African American Community Archive & Museum, San Antonio, TX:  A $2,497,809 grant is supporting efforts to incorporate religion more fully into the museum’s exhibitions and to help local religious communities collect, curate and preserve their histories and archives.

Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting the construction of a new center for Native American art and developing exhibitions and public programs on Native American spirituality.

Sing Sing Prison Museum, Ossining, NY:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting the development of an exhibition about how religious organizations and religious leaders of various faiths have influenced the criminal justice system and approaches to the reform and rehabilitation of incarcerated individuals.

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting the interactive exhibitions for a new visitors and education center, the development of religious programing, and the enhancement of guided tours of the historic church.

Smithsonian Institution American Art Museum, Washington, DC:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting conservation, research and planning to mount an exhibition of James Hampton’s work, Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly.

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting enhancements to the J.S. Bridwell Library’s gallery space and development of exhibitions and other programs featuring the library’s religion collections, which include the World Methodist Museum collection and the A.V. Lane Antiquities Museum collection.

Tenement Museum, New York, NY:  A $2.5 million grant is supporting efforts to incorporate into public programs and publications more content about how religious beliefs and practices shaped the attitudes and experiences of the individuals and families who migrated to the city and lived in tenements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL:  A $2,446,682 grant is supporting a collaboration between the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art in collaboration with the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. They will assess the origins of religious objects within the museum collection, engage in conversation with scholars and local religious leaders about the meaning of these objects for religious communities, and mount exhibitions and public programs that draw on best practices for presenting and interpreting these religious objects in respectful ways.

The Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA:  A $2,488,152 grant is supporting, in collaboration with the American Library Association, expansion of a program that organizes reading groups on Yiddish literature in public libraries nationwide.

International African American Museum, Charleston, SC:  A $10 million grant in 2017 helped establish the museum, which tells a multifaceted story about Americans of African descent and their contributions to history and culture. The grant also helped the museum build its capacity to incorporate religion into its programs and collaborate with faith-based communities.

National WWII Memorial Washington DC:  A $2 million grant supported the installation of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “D-Day Prayer” to the World War II Memorial, upgrade the Circle of Remembrance area and develop interpretative programming related to D-Day.

National World War II Museum, New Orleans, LA:  A $500,000 grant in 2012 supported the museum’s permanent attraction that will portray the importance of faith in the lives of military personnel serving abroad and of individuals and families on the home front.

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Harrodsburg, KY:  A $275,000 grant in 2021 is supporting a permanent exhibition about Shaker religious beliefs. A $5,149,800 grant in 2015 supported restoration of two buildings that were central to religious life; an interpretative plan that guides programs about religious life; and improved accessibility to collections and archives.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC:  A $10 million grant in 2015 helped the Museum establish the Center for the Study of African American Religion. A $10 million grant in 2010 supported the Smithsonian’s campaign to build the museum.

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino, Washington DC:  A $10 million grant in 2022 is supporting the Smithsonian’s campaign to build the museum and planning activities to help develop the museum’s strategy for highlighting the role of religion in Latino history and culture.