Grant Portfolio > 2017

Miller Place - Mt. Sinai Historical Society

Miller Place - Mt. Sinai Historical Society

Grant Year: 2017

The grant will be used to upgrade and enhance the format and capabilities of its current website and social media platforms.

Northport Historical Society

Northport Historical Society

Grant Year: 2017

The funding will be used to strengthen and enhance the stewardship of the Society’s historic collection and resources and provide for greater outreach to the communities it serves, namely: Northport, East Northport, Asharoken, Eaton’s Neck, Crab Meadow, and Fort Salonga.

Old Westbury Gardens

Old Westbury Gardens

Grant Year: 2017

The grant will be used to help recreate and restore the service wing portico and courtyard at Westbury House.

Parrish Art Museum

Parrish Art Museum

Grant Year: 2017

The grant will support Parrish Gateway - an initiative that will enable the Museum to share a trove of important, and in some cases exclusive, information about the region’s rich artistic legacy with scholars, historians, curators, teachers, students, and the general public.

Museum of Democracy

Museum of Democracy

Grant Year: 2017

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation approved a $100,000 grant to the Museum of Democracy to catalog, preserve, and manage a collection of approximately one million historical American art, artifacts and memorabilia.   

Smithtown Historical Society

Smithtown Historical Society

Grant Year: 2017

The grant was instrumental for the purpose of restoring the historic Epenetus Smith Tavern front porch.

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University

Grant Year: 2017

The Foundation gave $120,000 to Stony Brook University’s Department of History to establish five undergraduate scholarships and a graduate student fellowship.

The Thomas Moran Trust, Inc.

The Thomas Moran Trust, Inc.

Grant Year: 2017

Exterior renovation of house, renovation of interior galleries and educational rooms.