Mini grants are awared on a continual basis throughout the year. The following mini grants were awarded from June 2011 to June2012:
| NAACP Burlington Branch | Juneteenth Celabration | $2,000 |
| Opera House Players | Abdelkader Education Project | $2,500 |
| James Kennedy Public LIbrary | Memories of Iowa | $1,560 |
| Iowa Railroad Historical Society | Depots of Iowa | $3,000 |
| River Action | Explore the River Series: 2013 Riverine Walks | $1,000 |
| Western Iowa Tech Community College | Black History Month Observance Day | $1,500 |
| Henry County Conservation Dept. | Country School: One Room, One Nation, Kelly & Tammy Rundle | $300 |
| Edmundson Art Foundation | Artist Lecture: Fred Wilson "Opacities: The Unforgivable Beauty of Black Glass" | $1,500 |
| Iowa State University | The Big Thirst | $2,000 |
| Clarke University | Evolution Weekend | $2,500 |
| YWCA Clinton | 25th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration | $2,500 |
| Central College | Central College Writers Reading Series | $1,800 |
| Spencer Public LIbrary | All Spencer Reads 201 | $720 |
| Madison County Historical Society | Covered Bridge Festival 2012 | $500 |
| Whiting Public Library | Five Small Communityy Libraries: A Recitation and Discussion Tour | $1,400 |
| Iowa State University | Early Irish Settlers in Iowa Through Performances & Discussions with Hob Nailed Boots and Mary Swander | $2,605 |
| Northeast Iowa Community College | Literature into Film | $1,135 |
| Western Iowa Tech Community College | The Culture of Blues: Poetry of the Soul, Diunna Greenleaf | $1,000 |
| Friends of Lakeside Lab | Voicing the Absent Narrative | $446 |
| Repertory Theater of Iowa | Sense & Sensibility | $1,000 |
| Dubuque County Fines Arts Society | Spoken Word and Gender Theory with Andrea Gibson | $3,000 |
| Society of Fairfield Italian Americans | Italian Culture Master Series |
$1500 |
Chariton Chamber & Development Corp. |
Lucas County Hay Bale Art Project |
$150 |
Mississippi Valley Blues Society |
Educating Adults About American History and Culture through the Blues |
$1000 |
Sudanese American Community Services |
From Sudan to the Heartland: A Lecture and Concert by the Sudanese Americans in Iowa City |
$300 |
Dubuque Museum of Art |
Thomas Moran Lecture by Peter Bacon Hales |
$500 |
City of Chariton |
History of Local Aviation |
$800 |
American Gothic House Center |
Creating an interactive outdoor exhibit space |
$1560 |
James Kennedy Public Library |
Tickled to Death: Laughter Makes the Best Mystery |
$500 |
Edmundson Art Foundation |
John and Mary Poppajohn Sculpture Park Education Guide |
$2220 |
Benton County Women’s Oral History Committee |
Sharing Her Own Story: Oral Histories of Ten Benton County Women |
$550 |
University of Iowa Digital Studio for the Public Humanities |
David Plowden’s Iowa Online |
$3000 |
Julien International Film Festival |
Sixteen Forty-Nine Film Screening |
$950 |
Fairfield Convention and Visitors Bureau |
Remembering Our Fallen Exhibit |
$3,000 |
Cedar County Historical Society and Museum |
A Day on the Prairie at Prairie Village |
$750 |
University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium |
Iowa and Invisible Man: Making Blackness Visible |
$500 |
Siouxland Human Investment Partnership |
The Great Hurt: Boarding Schools and the American Indian |
$2,500 |
Dubuque Museum of Art |
Three Programs to Support Edward S. Curtiss Exhibition |
$750 |
Sioux City Public Museum |
Three Tribes, Many Stories |
$2000 |
Bettendorf Public Library Foundation |
A Valentine for Faye Clow |
$250 |
League of Women Voters of Johnson County |
The U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court: How They Impact Your Life |
$1800 |
Preservation Iowa |
12th Annual Iowa One Room School House Conference: Preserving Country Schools DVDs |
$500 |
Green Hollow Center |
Iowa Hills & Heritage Festival |
$1000 |
Dallas County Conservation Board |
Prairie Awakening—A Journey into Indigenous Learning |
$1000 |
Linn County Conservation Department |
Meskwaki Cultural Day: Bringing Traditions Back |
$1000 |
Edmundson Art Foundation |
2011 Fall Lecture Series |
$2000 |
Dubuque Museum of Art |
Three Lectures in Celebration of Grant Wood’s 120th Birthday |
$1000 |