Baltimore National Heritage Area
Deadline: October 25, 2018.
Award Range: Maximum amount is $15,000. Typical range is $2,000-$10,000.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
Small Cap Grants provide small and strategic grants to support acquisition, development, preservation and restoration projects within the Baltimore National Heritage Area. All projects must align with the 2013 Baltimore National Heritage Area Comprehensive Management Plan.
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Risk Assessment and Emergency Preparedness Program
Deadline: Annually in March. Exact 2019 date TBA.
Award Range: Services values at more than $5,000.
Match Required: $350 per institution.
Through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), CCAHA is able to offer a limited number of subsidized risk assessments. Institutions selected to participate will receive a site visit from a CCAHA preservation expert. The assessor will spend one full day on-site at the institution. The institution will first receive a written Risk Assessment report. Then, CCAHA staff will work with staff at the institutions to develop a full Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan for the collections.
Preservation Needs Assessment Program
Deadline: Annually in March. Exact 2019 date TBA.
Award Range: Services values at more than $5,000.
Match Required: $350 per institution.
Through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), CCAHA is able to offer a limited number of subsidized preservation needs assessments. Institutions selected to participate will receive a site visit from a CCAHA preservation expert consisting of a review of the site, an examination of the collections, and interviews with relevant staff. The CCAHA assessor will spend one full day on-site at the institution. The institution will also receive a written report providing observations, recommendations, and resources to serve as a guide in the development of a comprehensive preservation plan for the collections. The report can become a valuable tool for institutional strategic planning and fundraising.
Maryland Historical Trust
African American Heritage Preservation Program Grants (for Capital Projects)
Deadline: July 1, 2018.
Award Range: $10,000 to $100,000.
Match Required: 1:1 (may include in-kind).
The African American Heritage Preservation Program (AAHPP) was established by the General Assembly in 2010 to provide capital grants to assist in the preservation of buildings, sites, or communities of historical and cultural importance to the African American experience in Maryland. The AAHPP is administered as a partnership between the Maryland Historical Trust and the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture (MCAAHC).
Historic Preservation Capital Grants
Deadline: Annually in February/March. Exact 2019 dates TBA.
Award Range: Up to $100,000.
Match Required: 1:1 (may include in-kind).
The Historic Preservation Capital Grant Program promotes the acquisition, restoration, and rehabilitation of historic properties in Maryland. Eligible properties are limited to those which are listed in or eligible for the Maryland Register, either individually or as a contributing structure within a district.
Non-Capital Historic Preservation Grants
Deadline: July 9 (Intent to Apply); September 10 (completed applications).
Award Range: Up to $75,000.
Match Required: None.
Non-Capital grants provide support for a wide variety of research, survey, planning, and educational activities involving architectural, archaeological, or cultural resources.
Maryland Heritage Areas Authority
Deadline: Annually in February. Exact 2019 date TBA.
Award Range: Up to $50,000 for non-capital and programming projects and up to $100,000 for capital projects (two-year period).
Match Required: 1:1 (may include in-kind support).
Capital and Non-Capital Project grants support heritage tourism-related projects involving historical, cultural, or natural resources, events, or properties. Non-capital projects can include planning and design as well as interpretive projects, such as exhibits, signage, and other materials. Capital projects include acquisition, development, new construction, rehabilitation, restoration, and pre-development costs (such as architectural designs). Grants can also fund programming, such as seminars, conferences, performances, reenactments, commemorations, and festivals (must be a pilot program or new programming).
National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: December 12, 2018.
Award Range: Planning grants (up to $40,000); Implementation grants (up to $350,000).
Match Required: None.
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to natural and man-made disasters.
National Park Service
Deadline: Annually in February. Exact 2019 date TBA.
Award range: $25,000 – $500,000.
Match Required: 1:1.
SAT grants provide preservation and/or conservation assistance to nationally significant historic properties and collections. Grants will be administered by the National Park Service in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Cultural Heritage Action Fund Grants
Deadline: Annually in January. Exact 2019 date TBA.
Award Range: $50,000 – $150,000.
Match Required: None; however, projects that leverage additional investments are strongly preferred.
Grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund are designed to advance ongoing preservation activities for historic places such as sites, museums, and landscapes representing African American cultural heritage. The fund supports Capital Projects, Organizational Capacity Building, Project Planning, and Programming and Interpretation.
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund for Historic Interiors
Deadline: Annually in March. Exact 2019 date TBA.
Award Range: $2,500-$10,000 for 1 year.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund for Historic Interiors is intended to assist in the preservation, restoration, and interpretation of historic interiors. Eligible activities include: obtaining professional expertise in areas such as architecture, planning, paint analysis, archaeology, or graphic design; hiring a preservation architect to create an interior restoration plan; hiring a consultant to develop a conservation plan for an interior’s textiles; producing a historic furnishings plan; and sponsoring a workshop on the preservation of historic interiors.
Johanna Favrot Fund for Historic Preservation
Deadline: Annually in March. Exact 2019 date TBA.
Award Range: $2,500-$10,000 for 1 year.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
Johanna Favrot Fund for Historic Preservation is intended to save historic environments in order to foster an appreciation of our nation’s diverse cultural heritage and to preserve and revitalize the livability of the nation’s communities. Eligible activities include: obtaining the services of consultants with expertise in areas such as architecture, planning, economics, archaeology, fundraising, media relations, education or graphic design; obtaining professional advice to strengthen management capabilities; designing, producing and marketing print and video communications materials; sponsoring preservation conferences and workshops; and designing and implementing innovative preservation and education programs.
National Trust Preservation Funds
Deadline: Three annual deadlines – February 1, June 1, and October 1.
Award Range: $2,500-$5,000 for 1 year.
Match Required: 1:1 (cash only).
National Trust Preservation Funds are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by providing seed money for preservation projects. These grants help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for particular projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector. Preservation priorities include building sustainable communities; reimagining historic sites; promoting diversity and place; and protecting historic places on public lands.
Preservation Maryland
Deadline: September 14, 2018.
Award Range: $1,000-$10,000.
Match Required: 10% (cash or in-kind).
Heritage Fund supports projects that protect Maryland’s historic and cultural resources, and that promote innovative demonstration projects that can be successfully replicated to meet Maryland’s historic preservation needs. Successful projects include stabilization or acquisition of endangered historic properties; feasibility studies, architectural plans, structural assessments and historic structure reports; projects benefiting archaeological resources including curatorial services; “bricks and mortar” repairs and restorations; educational, research, and planning efforts related to resource preservation; and organizational development for local preservation organizations (e.g., membership development, marketing plans, etc.).