Competitive Grants

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The State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division manages several grant programs to assist with a variety of historic preservation and community projects focused on heritage preservation. The funding for all of the below grants, regardless of program, comes from the Historic Preservation Fund.

More information about all of our currently funded project grant programs may be found below. Competitive grant programs provide financial assistance to support historic preservation projects to States, Tribes, local governments, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Each grant program has its own eligiblity requirements as well as program objectives.

More Information

• Apply for a Grant
• Manage Your Grant
• State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division
• Historic Preservation Fund Grant Manual

Competitive Grant Programs

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  AACR

  African American Civil Rights Grants

  Grants to document, interpret, and preserve the sites and stories related to the African American struggle to gain equal rights

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  SAT

  Save America's Treasures Grants

  Funding for bricks and mortar work and/or conservation work on nationally significant artifacts and historic sites

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  Rural

  Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant

  A subgrant program to support the rehabilitation of historic properties in rural communities

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  HER

  History of Equal Rights Grants

  Grants that aim to preserve sites related to the struggle of all people to achieve equal rights in America

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  Semiquincentennial Grants

  Supporting state-owned resources related to the founding of the nation

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  HBCU

  HBCU Grants

  Grants to restore structures on Historically Black Colleges & Universities campuses considered to be the most historically significant

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  URC

  Underrepresented Communities Grants

  Grants to increase the number of listings in the National Register of Historic Places associated with underrepresented communities

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  THG

  Tribal Heritage Grants

  Grants to assist Indian Tribes in protecting and promoting their unique cultural heritage and traditions

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  ESHPF

  Disaster Recovery Grants

  Emergency Funding for the Historic Preservation Fund to assist communities with preservation and repair work at historic sites

Other National Park Service Grant Programs

In addition to Historic Preservation Fund grants, the National Park Service also operates more than 50 grant and community assistance programs not managed by the State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division. Some of these programs are:

• Japanese American Confinement Sites Grants (JACS) - a competitive matching grant program to fund the preservation and interpretation of confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grants - grants for musuem, Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiin organizations to assist in consultation, documentation, and repatriation under NAGPRA
• American Battlefield Protection Program - Battlefield Land Acquisition, Battlefield Preservation Planning, Battlefield Interpretation and Battlefield Restoration grants support community-driven stewardship of battlefields and sites of armed conflict at the state, local and tribal levels.