Historic Preservation Funding

National Fund for Sacred Spaces

“The National Fund for Sacred Places is a program of Partners for Sacred Places in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The National Fund is guided by an Advisory Committee, bringing together faith leaders, architects and philanthropists from across the country to inform the grant-making process.”

Historic Preservation Fund Grants

The Historic Preservation Fund is an annual grant program created under the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act. The program is sponsored by the National Park Service and in Missouri, is handled by the State Historic Preservation Office. A minimum of 10 percent of the monies must be granted to Certified Local Government Communities. Past projects and activities covered by the grant include the Missouri Preservation Conference as well as city-wide historic preservation plans and surveys.

Historic Tax Credits

Once a property is deemed ‘historic’ by being listed either on the NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES individually or contributing to a historic district or is part of a certified historic district, a project can receive tax credits, which lowers the taxes owed, on qualified rehabilitation expenses if their work conforms to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Building Rehabilitation.

National Trust for Historic Preservation

The National Trust has a variety of special grant programs.

National Trust Preservation Funds

These funds are “intended to encourage preservation at the local level by supporting on-going preservation work and by providing seed money for preservation projects.” These funds are not for brick & mortar preservation projects.

African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

Fund created by the National Trust for Historic Preservation specifically focused on the preservation of African American history and culture.

Jeffris Family Foundation

“The Jeffris Family Foundation assists the development of historic sites for non-profit organizations in small towns and cities in the eight states of the Midwest: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.

We do not fund advocacy, adaptive use, feasibility studies, or other preliminary studies seeking to define a preservation strategy for a property. Only projects where site control is assured and a commitment has been made to a viable preservation strategy will be considered.”

Daughters of the American Revolution

“Since our founding in 1890, the National Society of the DAR has supported historic preservation as one of our three main mission areas (along with patriotism and education). In tens of thousands of locations around the world, we have saved historic properties, erected historic markers, digitized documents and helped to preserve the American story in thousands of meaningful ways.”

HistoricFunding.com

Hosted by PreservationDirectory.com, this website is a comprehensive funding resource for historic preservation and cultural resource management. It includes many of the programs included on this page.

National Park Service

• African American Civil Rights Grants
• Disaster Recovery Grants
• Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)
• History of Equal Rights Grants
• Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants Program
• Save America’s Treasures
• Tribal Heritage Grants
• Underrepresented Community Grants
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grants
• American Battlefield Protection Program

Missouri Humanities

Missouri Humanities is currently offering mini-grants with deadlines of May 1 & November 1, 2021.
Major-grant fund project applications are due February 1 & August 1.

Local Records Grant Program

“The Local Records Grant Program offers local governments, or political subdivisions with taxing authority, grant funding for approved records management or preservation projects. Permanent, long-term, or historically significant records are eligible for imaging grant funds. Grants may be funded up to 70% of the total project cost. The grant period runs from July 1st to June 30th.”