Historic Preservation Grants Division Federal Grants Program

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Historic Preservation GrantsDivisionFederal
Grants Program
National Park Service Heritage Preservation
Assistance Programs Historic Preservation Grants
Division
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National Park Service
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Historic Preservation Fund (HPF)Non-Competitive
Grant Programs

• HPF Grants to fund State Historic Preservation
  Offices
• Annual grants awarded to 50 states, the District
  of Columbia, and 8 Territories
• HPF Grants to fund Tribal Historic Preservation
  Offices
• Annual grants awarded to 58 Tribes

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Historic Preservation Fund (HPF)Competitive
Grant Programs

• Save Americas Treasures Grants
• Preserve America Grants
• Tribal Preservation Program Grants
• National Center for Preservation Technology
  Training Grants
• Civil War Battlefield Acquisition Grants
• American Battlefield Protection Program
• Historic Black Colleges Universities Grants

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Where the SAT Program came from?

• White House Millennium Council, National Park
  Service, National Trust (1998)
• Focus attention on the importance of our national
  heritage
• Save the nation's threatened treasures

Perimeter Fence, Manzanar National Historic Site
Independence, California
Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
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Federal Agency Partners

• National Park Service lead agency
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Institute of Museum Library Services
• Presidents Committee on the Arts the
  Humanities

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The SAT Program

• First grants awarded in 1999
• Average of 30 million appropriated annually
• Half the funds earmarked by Congress
• Approximately 8 million this year for
  competitive grants
• Competitively awarded to nationally significant
  historic properties and collections

Mission Concepcion San
Antonio Missions National Historical Park,
Texas
Fountain of Time Chicago, Illinois
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What is funded?
Preservation and/or conservation work on
nationally significant intellectual and cultural
artifacts and nationally significant historic
structures and sites.

• Intellectual and cultural artifacts
• Artifacts
• Collections
• Documents
• Sculpture
• Works of art

• Historic structures and sites
• Buildings
• Sites
• Historic districts
• Structures
• Objects

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What is NOT Funded?

• Acquisition of collections or
  historic properties
• Survey or inventory
• Long-term maintenance
• Interpretive/training programs
• Reconstruction
• Moving historic properties

Pollock-Krasner House studio floor East
Hampton, New York
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NOT funded

• New construction
• Historic structure reports and collection
  assessments unless part of a larger project
• Cash reserves, endowments, revolving funds
• Fundraising campaigns
• Work performed prior to the grant award

Louisville, Kentucky (top) Erie, Pennsylvania
(below) Keystone-Mast Stereographic Collection
University of California-Riverside
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Who Can Apply?

• Federal agencies
• Nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c) organizations
• Units of State or Local government
• Federally recognized Indian Tribes
• Historic properties and collections associated
  with active religious organizations may apply
  must be nationally significant

Eldridge Street Synagogue New York, New York
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Application Process

• Applications available on-line at
• www.cr.nps.gov/hps/treasures
• Deadline April 18, 2006
• Grants awarded in late fall of year
• By law, only one SAT award per project

Ten Chimneys, Genesee Depot, Wisconsin
Cliff Dwellings, Mesa Verde National Park,
Colorado
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www.cr.nps.gov/hps/treasures
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Grant Requirements

• All grants require a dollar-for-dollar match
• Cash or in-kind, non-Federal funds
• Minimum requests
• Historic Properties 125,000 grant (250,000
  project)
• Collections 25,000 grant (50,000 project)
• Maximum request
• 700,000 (1,400,000 project)
• Largest grant in 2005 550,000
• Average grant in 2005
• Historic properties 200,000
• Collections 179,000

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The SAT Story to date

• 1999 through 2004
• 2,038 applications received
• 930 million requested
• Nearly 100 million awarded competitively to over
  360 projects
• 70 to historic properties
• 30 to collections
• Grants awarded in all 50 states, the District of
  Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Midway Islands

Pipers Opera House Virginia City, Nevada
(top) Drayton Hall, Charleston, South Carolina
(bottom)
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Preserve America Grants

• Focus on heritage tourism and economic
  development of Communities
• Program of the Advisory Council on Historic
  Preservation, grants are managed by NPS
• Eligible to Apply
• Preserve America designated communities
• Certified Local Governments in the process of
  becoming Preserve America designated
• State Historic Preservation Offices
• Tribal Preservation Offices
• www.cr.nps.gov/hps/hpg/PreserveAmerica

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Preserve America Details

• 5 million in funding for FY 2006
• Applications available online
• Deadline May 19, 2006
• Minimum request 20,000 (40,000 project)
• Maximum request 150,000 (300,000 project)
• Grants must be matched dollar for dollar
• Do not perform bricks mortar-rehabilitation
  projects

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For More Information

National Park Service Heritage Preservation
Assistance Programs Historic Preservation Grants

• www.cr.nps.gov/hps/treasures
• Call NPS at 202-354-2020
• For collections contact partner agencies

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For More Information on other HPF Grant
programs

National Park Service Heritage Preservation
Assistance Programs Historic Preservation Grants

• www.cr.nps.gov/hps/hpg