Grant Portfolio > 2022

New York Transit Museum

New York Transit Museum | Brooklyn, New York

Grant Year: 2022

Thanks to a generous grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, Friends of the New York Transit Museum will catalog and digitize the extensive and historically significant archival material in the New York Transit Museum collection that inextricably links the role of transportation to the history and development of Long Island – including documents, photographs, maps, postcards, timetables, epheme . . .

Hofstra University

Hofstra University

Grant Year: 2022

The Hart Nichols Collection (1730-1930) is curated by the Long Island Studies Institute at Hofstra University with the support of the Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation. The collection spans the years 1730 to 1930 and covers the lives of two families who lived on Long Island that started out as farmers and clergy. The extensive collection of documents and artifacts ranges from personal letters to family artwork and everything in bet . . .

Planting Fields Foundation

Planting Fields Foundation

Grant Year: 2022

Founded in 1952 by William R. Coe, the Planting Fields Foundation strives to preserve and make relevant to all audiences the heritage of Planting Fields, an early 20th century 409-acre estate, designed as an integrated composition of the built and natural world.  The four applications that were awarded by the Robert David Gardiner Foundation will enable Planting Fields Foundation to present a series of in . . .