Grant Funding Supports Field Schools, Case Studies, and Strategic Planning
National Trust awards $179,250 in grant funding to 27 organizations nationwide.
The National Trust Preservation Fund, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s small-dollar grant program, has been providing catalytic funding to organizations across the country for over 50 years. In the February 2025 round, the National Trust received 38 eligible applications and awarded $179,250 in grants to 27 organizations in 16 states and the District of Columbia. Learn how you can apply to our upcoming grant rounds and sign up for email reminders about our grant programs.
February 2025 National Trust Preservation Fund Grant Recipients
Priest Lake Museum in Coolin, Idaho will use $5,000 to restore the rapidly deteriorating Bismark Barn in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service. The Barn was built in 1919 to house the mule and horses used by the Forest Service at the Bismark Ranger Station until the mid-1970s. The Barn serves as one of the last visual reminders of the critical role mules and horses played in the early history of the Forest Service in northern Idaho.
photo by: Tom Holman
The Bismark Barn prior to the collapse of the roof and hayloft.
Ketchikan Pioneer Way Association | Ketchikan, Alaska
$5,000 for “Pioneer Alley Design Development”
Temple Beth El | Birmingham, Alabama
$5,000 for “Building Conditions Assessment for Historic Synagogue”
Oak Grove School Heritage Center | Gallion, Alabama
$5,000 for “Hardwood Floor Repairs and Replacement for Oak Grove Rosenwald School”
GirlTREK | Montgomery, Alabama
$2,500 for “Bricklayers Hall Planning”
Preserve Arkansas | Little Rock, Arkansas
$30,000 for “Preservation Track at Destination Downtown Conference in El Dorado, Arkansas”
Founders Community Outreach Corporation | Los Angeles, California
$5,000 for “Founders Church Preservation”
High Line Canal Conservancy | Centennial, Colorado
$15,000 for “High Line Canal Historic Context & Community History”
University of Colorado Denver | Aurora, Colorado
$10,000 for “Field School: Adobe Origins in Colorado – Mesa Verde to the San Luis Valley”
Scenic America | Washington, District of Columbia
$5,000 for “Placemaking in America: Case Studies for Communities with Character”
DC Preservation League | Washington, District of Columbia
$5,000 for “Measuring the Economic, Social, and Equity Impact of Historic Preservation in Washington, DC”
Ford DuPont Redevelopment & Preservation Corp. | Delaware City, Delaware
$5,000 for “Fort DuPont War Department Theater Conceptual Study”
Keokuk Historic Preservation Commission | Keokuk, Iowa
$5,000 for “Preservation Consultants for Puckeshetuck/Half-Breed Tract Heritage Garden Design”
Western University Association | Kansas City, Kansas
$5,000 for “Staff Support for Quindaro and Western University Site”
Dry Stone Conservancy | Lexington, Kentucky
$5,000 for “2025 Dry Stone Walling Competition”
Kentucky Organization of Professional Archaeologists | Morgantown, Kentucky
$5,000 for “Living Archaeology Weekend (LAW) 2025”
Marblehead Museum in Marblehead, Massachusetts will use $5,000 to support a targeted 5-week archaeological investigation to uncover evidence about the lives, experiences, and relationships between and among the Jeremiah Lee family and the enslaved people who lived and worked on the estate. Built in 1768, the Jeremiah Lee Mansion is only one of three historic sites with extant detached slave quarters in New England.
photo by: Marblehead Museum
The Lee Mansion (l) and Brick Kitchen and Slave Quarters (r), circa 1870.
The Dance Complex | Cambridge, Massachusetts
$5,000 for “Education and Communication for The Dance Complex Capital Project”
Town of Swampscott | Swampscott, Massachusetts
$5,000 for “Andrews Chapel, Swampscott Cemetery; Report on Chapel Exterior, Proposed Repairs and Restoration"
Hope in The Ville | St. Louis, Missouri
$5,000 for “Engaging the Antioch Baptist Church and The Ville Neighborhood in Their Shared History”
Main Street Joplin | Joplin, Missouri
$5,000 for “Memorial Hall Feasibility Plan”
Vanport Placemarking Project | Portland, Oregon
$5,000 for “Nomination of the Vanport Site to the National Register of Historic Places”
Cheyenne River Youth Project | Eagle Butte, South Dakota
$5,000 for “Preservation Planning for Wakanyeja Kin Wana Ku Pi”
Friends of the Texas Historical Commission | Austin, Texas
$5,000 for “Preservation Scholars Program 2025”
Preservation Austin | Austin, Texas
$3,750 for “Three-Year Strategic Plan Development”
The Chinati Foundation | Marfa, Texas
$15,000 for “Artillery Sheds: Construction Documents Phase”
The Historic Trust | Vancouver, Washington
$5,000 for “Capital Campaign Plan for Providence Academy Rehabilitation”
