Funding Guidelines
Funding Limits and Categories
Up to $300,000.00 | Non-Matching Grants
- Cataloging & Digital Imaging
- Conservation of Objects
- Collections Care
Up to $100,000.00 | 50% Matching Grants
The following grants require that the applicant has raised half of the funds needed to complete the project:
- Exhibitions
- Education
Up to $50,000.00 | Non-Matching Grants
- Public Programs
- Publications
- Events/Community Activities
Up to $500,000.00 | 50% Matching Grants
The following grants require that the applicant has raised half of the funds needed to complete the project:
- Structural Stabilization & Restoration
- Adaptive Reuse & New Construction
Matching
- No more than 20% of the matching funds may be in-kind (e.g. if you are requesting $20,000.00 and matching $20,000.00, then your in-kind limit would be $4,000.00). Examples of in-kind matching include volunteer hours, donated materials, and donated services.
- In-kind matching must be dedicated to the project proposed and not for the overall operations of the organization or to any other project (e.g. general volunteer hours in office administration for the organization could not count toward the match for a restoration project).
- All construction and renovation grant recipients must allocate a percentage of their funds for periodic inspections including a written report to the Foundation of the work completed. Inspectors must be approved by the Foundation.
Spring & Fall Grant Cycles
Applications Deadline | Funding Decision By | Notifications |
March 8, 2024 by 5:00pm | May 17, 2024 | May 31, 2024 |
August 9, 2024 by 5:00pm | November 8, 2024 | November 22, 2024 |
Application Guidelines
Requests for the following will not be awarded:
- Tuition remission for student employees.
- Salaries/wages and applicable fringe benefits for current, permanent staff who will work on the project. This program is not intended to provide salary relief for existing staff at institutions. We do not fund existing staff salaries.
- Property purchase
- Lobbying
- Fund-raising
- Indirect costs (overhead)
- Research
- Expenses incurred prior to award date
- Insurance costs
- Debt or interest