Japanese American Museum of San Jose | San Jose, California

$5,000 to hire a professional fundraising consultant to develop a capital campaign strategy for the rehabilitation of the Kawakami House, a key Japantown landmark that celebrates resilience and generational continuity.

Evergreen Missionary Baptist Church | Oakland, California

$5,000 to support the preservation of the historic Evergreen Missionary Baptist Church by hiring a qualified preservation architect to assess the building and develop a preservation plan. The church, a vital center for Oakland’s African American religious and cultural history, is in need of professional evaluation and planning to ensure its long-term integrity and use.

The Gamble House Conservancy | Pasadena, California

$5,000 to support spring break programming for youth who were displaced or lost homes and/or schools in the Eaton Fire. This would provide hands-on woodworking activities, utilization of the Gamble House as a teaching tool for the different crafts and trades that went into its construction, and touch on regional history.

Bombshelltoe | Los Angeles, California

$10,000 for a series of programs across Diné Bikeyah (Navajoland) in October/November 2025 to screen the Ways of Knowing VR project, along with lectures, performances, and dialogues by Indigenous and local leaders. Ways of Knowing invites audiences to think about historic preservation through Indigenous storytelling and traditional ecological knowledge.

Little Tokyo Community Council | Los Angeles, California

$5,000 for documenting and uplifting some of Little Tokyo’s oldest and most cherished businesses and the people behind them by creating videos for five legacy businesses, educating on their history and contributions to Little Tokyo.

Preservation Action Council of San Jose | San Jose, California

$4,965 for an online platform to collect and share knowledge about the diversity of historic architectural and cultural resources in San Jose, California.

Sierra County Historical Society | Sierra City, California

$5,000 for a review of opportunities and collaborative preservation goals for Sierra City, including funding and economics. The economic viability of Sierra City, a gold mining town in established in 1850, depends on the preservation and adaptive reuse of its historic resources.

Colorado Preservation, Inc. Denver, Colorado

$5,000 for the CPI's Saving Places Conference, an educational 3-4 day event that offers critical training and networking opportunities for individuals advancing the work of historic preservation and its associated fields statewide.

Mancos Creative District Inc.| Mancos, Colorado

$5,000 to support architectural fees, theatre assessment fees, and material printing for the development of a conceptual design for the historic Mancos Opera House, located in downtown Mancos, Colorado. This historic landmark will host performances, events, and educational programs, reconnecting past and present to inspire future generations.

Tabor Opera House Preservation Foundation | Leadville, Colorado

$5,000 to support contracted capacity-building and development services to restore the nationally significant Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado. Built in 1879 by mining magnate Horace Tabor, the Tabor Opera House is a cornerstone of Leadville’s history, cultural identity, and economic future.

Museum of Western Colorado | Grand Junction, Colorado

$5,000 to enhance education and community engagement at Cross Orchards to demonstrate how agriculture and transportation shaped the region, while highlighting preservation's role in building a sustainable future. A former fruit farm established in the early 20th Century, Cross Orchards serves as MWC’s primary agricultural and transportation learning center.

Bethel AME Church | Smyrna, Delaware

$5,000 to conduct a land survey and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) study to support ongoing preservation efforts, honor the legacy of those buried on the grounds, and inform future conservation and educational initiatives.

Delaware Preservation Fund | Rockland, Delaware

$5,750 to conduct a two-day in-person workshop to conduct training on how to rehabilitate the upper floors of small mixed-use buildings in Delaware's historic downtowns.

Forward DeFuniak, Inc | Defuniak Springs, Florida

$4,500 for ten historic preservation educational/experiential workshops held for area residents enabling their ownership of and participation in local historic preservation efforts such as application of approved design review standards

Mt. Olive, Jacksonville | Jacksonville, Florida

$5,000 for the repair of a roof of a 103-year-old church that is an essential component of the larger history of the City of Jacksonville.

Hastings Main Street Inc. | St. Augustine, Florida

$4,500 for the development of formal Design Guidelines for the Historic Main Street District in Hastings, Florida. The guidelines will be crafted to align with the architectural integrity, cultural history, and rural character of Hastings, which faces growing development pressure from national chain retailers and inappropriate infill.

County of Maui | Wailuku, Hawaii

$10,000 to support the master planning process for the Lahaina Royal Complex, a wahi pana (sacred site) deeply connected to the rulers of the Kingdom of Hawai’i. The devastating August 2023 Lahaina wildfires marked a defining moment for Maui, destroying not only homes and livelihoods but also irreplaceable historic and cultural sites. The master planning process will involve extensive community engagement and compiling previous study data and new technical studies to document the area’s archeological findings, cultural and natural resources, and existing infrastructure, drainage and hydrology.

Preservation Chicago | Chicago, Illinois

$4,750 towards the designation of Chicago’s Chinatown as a historic district via stakeholder outreach, historic resource survey, and logistic planning. This project will lay the groundwork for local and/or national recognition.

The Building Community | Fredonia, Kansas

$5,000 to create educational signage and window exhibits on Fredonia’s historic square, produce a preservation lookbook to guide revitalization, and hold four DIY restoration workshops to equip property owners with accessible preservation knowledge. Notable structures include the Italianate Gold Dust Hotel (1885) and the 1939 Classical Revival U.S. Post Office, both on the National Register. The square remains Fredonia’s civic and commercial heart.

Harrodsburg Historical Society | Harrodsburg, Kentucky

$5,000 to refurbish, reinstall and paint the original upstairs windows of the Morgan Row House, one of the oldest row houses in Kentucky. The four units were built between 1817 and 1839. The importance of this project is to preserve the structural integrity of the historic building, alleviate water leakage and seal the building for HVAC efficiency.

Men 2 Be Inc | Hopkinsville, Kentucky

$5,000 to host three public visioning workshops at the historic Crispus Attucks School. These sessions will gather community input, build buy-in, and prep for a capital campaign.

Community Ventures Corporation, Inc. | Lexington, Kentucky

$5,000 to support architectural design services for the restoration of 511 Main Street, a contributing structure to the City’s downtown historic district, for occupancy by the U.S. Postal Service.

Prestonsburg First UMC | Prestonsburg, Kentucky

$6,500 to fundraise for a roof replacement of a historic church with multiple leaks. The building is over 100 years old and is a historical landmark and a resource for the community.

Historic New England | Boston, Massachussetts

$4,000 to expand public programming at Cooper-Frost-Austin House. An architect will develop a schematic design for site improvements supporting accessibility goals and plans for future use.

Beverly Main Streets | Beverly, Massachussetts

$4,000 to publish a report and community conversation on Downtown 2030, which aims to form a collective vision of the future of downtown Beverly, in partnership with City officials, business leaders, and residents.

Historic East Towson | Towson, Maryland

$4,600 towards the Road to Freedom Trail, which originates in the Baltimore area and will trace the route of formerly enslaved folks from the Hampton Plantation to East Towson. The project aims to commemorate places of Black resilience with a public pedestrian route.

Preservation Maryland | Baltimore, Maryland

$10,000 to purchase a Matterport Pro3 Acceleration kit to scan historic civilian resources of the Antietam National Battlefield to expand the documentation of the cultural landscape of this pivotal Civil War battle.

Heart of Ellsworth | Ellsworth, Maine

$5,000 to create a report that inventories all floors of mixed-use and commercial properties in historic downtown Ellsworth using the Main Street America BOOMS Tracker to identify current uses and spaces that could support additional housing.

Friends of the Felt Estate | Holland, Michigan

$5,000 for a structural assessment of the Felt Mansion’s main portico. This critical first step will identify repair needs and guide restoration, ensuring safe public access and preserving this historic entryway for future generations.

Missouri Main Street Connection, Inc. | Branson, Missouri

$5,000 to host a hands-on workshop in one of their network communities for historic property owners to learn strategies to preserve their structures. This will include an open training providing tips on preservation of buildings.

Preserve Montana | Helena, Montana

$5,000 to produce the first-ever study and report on the economic impacts of historic preservation in Montana.

Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County | Asheville, North Carolina

$5,000 to support the sharing of a volunteer-led photo survey of 1,200 historic properties following Hurricane Helene with affected communities and local non-profits.

Celo Community, Inc. | Burnsville, North Carolina

$5,000 to assist the restoration of the historic Celo Inn, damaged by Hurricane Helene. The goal is to create Celo Commons—a resilient, multi-use space that meets evolving needs of the South Toe community in Yancey County, NC.

Barber-Scotia College | Concord, North Carolina

$5,000 to complete a Historic Structure Report and preservation plan for Graves Hall and Faith Hall—historic campus buildings in urgent need of repair. Work begins August 2025 and will guide future restoration efforts.

Timber Framers Guild | Alstead, New Hampshire

$4,000 towards refining conservation curriculum, ensuring apprentices gain critical skills and ethics for assessing and preserving historic timber structures, as well as advancing preservation education and practice.

Saving Historic Moorestown | Moorestown, New Jersey

$3,300 to support a strategic planning exercise with the goal to increase organizational capacity. Saving Historic Moorestown began as a group of concerned citizens who quickly recognized the need to advocate for and support the preservation of Moorestown's historic legacy.

Boscobel House and Gardens | Garrison, New York

$5,000 for a structural assessment of Boscobel’s Visitor Center, which was discovered to have the same construction flaw that caused a catastrophic collapse in its Historic House Museum in 2024. The report will guide urgent stabilization work.

Community Preservation Committee, INC. | Auburn, New York

$5,000 for a building condition report for the Willard Memorial Chapel (1892-1894) located in Auburn, NY. The interior was designed by Louis Tiffany of Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co and is one of the rarest examples of Tiffany's work left.

Adirondack Architectural Heritage | Keeseville, New York

$5,000 for workshops on masonry repointing, restoring wood windows, and introduction to woodworking. These workshops will delve into the importance of the decorative arts in preservation trades.

Community UMC of Copake | Copake, New York

$2,500 to restore a historic church built in 1854, hiring a consultant, and beginning a capital campaign. The Methodist Church has stood at the heart of the Hamlet of Copake for 171 years, not only as a place of worship, but as a symbol of resilience, fellowship, and shared history.

Overfield Tavern Museum | Troy, Ohio

$4,750 towards recovering from a recent fire. Activities for Phase 2 will include completion of a Historic Structure Report, archival research, dendrochronology, historic paint analysis, and salvage archaeology.

Pennsylvania Chautauqua Foundation | Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania

$13,826 to restore the current porch, stairs and access ramp of the historic Hall of Philosophy in the PA Chautauqua of Mount Gretna, circa 1910.

Historical Society of Dauphin County | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

$5,000 to restore a historic stone retaining wall, topped with an iron fence, surrounding the John Harris-Simon Cameron Mansion. A drunk driver damaged the stone wall and fencing in the front corner, causing a large section of the wall to crumble and shift.

First Congregational Church in Bristol | Bristol, Rhode Island

$5,000 to restore a historic 1856 sanctuary for community use and to revitalize outreach to the local community.

Willow Dell Historical Association | Wakefield, Rhode Island

$4,540 to support a thematic building survey of the known extant Modernist work of awarded-winning mid-20th century architect Rockwell King DuMoulin (1906-1983) in coastal Rhode Island.

Preserve Rhode Island | Providence, Rhode Island

$2,000 to retain the services of an attorney with expertise in municipal law to assist Preserve RI with analyzing and proposing a clearer pathway for RI municipalities to adopt comprehensive demolition delay ordinances. Eighty-five percent of RI cities and towns lack this basic historic preservation protection, and there have been a rash of demolitions across the state where there was no strong legal protection or review process.

Saint Teresa Community Outreach and Empowerment | Lake City, South Carolina

$2,500 to assist University faculty and students clearing and mapping the Hanna African American Cemetery alongside descendants. With the cemetery fully cleared and mapped, descendants can visit, reflect, and honor their ancestors. This cemetery is representative of many others lost through neglect and overgrowth, and its preservation can help the residents in the county and state understand a shared history.

Upstate Preservation Trust | Greenville, South Carolina

$5,000 to hire a consultant to create a fundraising plan for restoring Oakland Plantation. The project boosts UPT’s capacity, involves community partners, and aims to ensure long-term financial sustainability.

Bears Ears Partnership | Bluff, Utah

$3,771 in support of the 2025 Pecos Conference in San Juan County, uniting archaeologists and students to share new information and ideas about Southwestern archaeological topics to promote collaboration, research, and Tribal co-management in the field.

Christiansburg Institute Incorporated | Christiansburg, Virginia

$5,000 to strengthen preservation efforts of the Caretakers Cottage by securing a Conditions Survey. The cottage, built in 1837, is located in what later became Booker T. Washington Park, Roanoke’s first racially segregated park.

Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation | Gloucester, Virginia

$2,500 to fund the design and production of easily transportable materials for presentations to elementary and middle school students in their schools and at other community venues in Gloucester County and the surrounding region.

Power House Theatre Walla Walla | Walla Walla, Washington

$5,000 for significant physical updates and to improve safety & accessibility of the theatre balcony area for better public access for all.

Historic King Drive Business Improvement District No. 8 Inc | Milwaukee, Wisconsin

$5,000 to support planning and hosting forums, hiring a storytelling consultant to advise on architectural integrity, and engaging a storytelling/documentary consultant to guide oral history best practices. This will result in a multimedia exhibit of oral histories, archival photographs, and neighborhood context, housed in a historic property on King Drive.

The Church Hill Theatre, Inc. | Centreville , Maryland

$19,000 to preserve the interior of the theater by rebuilding the concession area and improving the lobby. Improvements will build on existing interior and exterior Art Deco elements inside and outside of the building.

Cambridge Woman's Club | Cambridge, Maryland

$6,000 to develop an Interpretive Plan for Sycamore Cottage, a structure significant both historically and architecturally. Built circa 1765, the Cottage exemplifies early American vernacular architecture on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Mt. Pleasant Heritage Preservation Inc. | Preston, Maryland

$12,000 to restore the Summer Kitchen a rare surviving outbuilding with deep ties to the history of African American agricultural labor on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Though many such spaces were not owned or controlled by Black families, they often served as the backdrop for labor, expertise, and sustenance provided by Black hands. Today, this structure offers an opportunity to transform a space once defined by exclusion into one of cultural autonomy and education.

Preservation Maryland | Baltimore, Maryland

$25,000 to rehabilitate Knock’s Folly, an 18th c. house in Kent County. Funds will support front porch, interior flooring, and floor system restoration, enabling site activation.

Queen Anne's County Historical Society | Centreville, Maryland

$14,000 to restore the roof and chimney of Wright’s Chance, a late 1700s structure with a cedar shake roof installed in 1964. This museum house sits near the center of the National Historic District, beside the library, serving as a vital link to Queen Anne’s County’s rich past.

Applegarth Tubman Medicine Hill Preservation and Education Foundation, Inc. | Church Creek , Maryland

$14,000 to build essential flood protection at Medicine Hill. This work follows three successful previous Bartus Trew grants: for emergency repairs; flood protection analysis and engineering (2002), and first phase flood construction (2023-24).

The Cooch’s Bridge Historic Site | Montchanin, Delaware

$5,000 to create the Cooch's Bridge Traveling Educational Program, a K–12 initiative focused on youth education, audience outreach, historical research, and preservation of this key landmark.

Valley Forge Park Alliance | King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

$5,000 to train volunteers to steward the Grand Parade Meadow's trails and habitat, promoting conversation, community engagement, and long-term care of this ecologically and historically significant landscape.

Historic Sugartown, Inc. | Malvern, Pennsylvania

$7,500 to develop a strategic plan for the future preservation concerns of the Sugartown Historic District, a historic district on the National Register containing fourteen contributing buildings, including the Spread Eagle tavern (c. 1790), the Sugartown Store (1820) and Worrall Mansion (1860), the Willistown Township Building (1909), "Coxefield" (c. 1790), a shoemaker's shop (c. 1790), the Sugartown School (1866), the Friends school (1783), and a schoolmaster's house (1785).

Chestnut Hill Conservancy | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

$7,500 to create a community engagement model for local historic districts in collaboration with Northwest Philadelphia nonprofits. The model will engage broader audiences than typical for local register nominations.

Annapolis Maritime Museum | Annapolis, Maryland

$5,000 to create an exhibit on the threat of sea-level rise to Maryland’s shorelines, using panels and an interactive touchscreen to inform visitors and spark dialogue about resilience on the Chesapeake Bay.

New Beginnings Behavioral Health | Camden, New Jersey

$4,000 to encourage the support of the Camden community, New Jersey State officials, and national officials for the listing of MLK House-Camden, along with six other sites in the City of Camden.

Fayette County Commission | Fayetteville, West Virginia

$7,500 to hire a preservation architect to produce a historic structure report and redevelopment master plan for their County Jail (1907) to identify and guide the commission on appropriate reuses.

Empower DC-244-9119 | Washington, DC

$7,500 to identify properties eligible for historic landmark designation and explore community perspectives on the balance between preservation and new development in Ivy City, a residential Black community of DC founded in 1872.