The Morris County Historic Preservation Trust Fund is now accepting grant applications for 2025 funding.
Donor Name: Morris County
State: New Jersey
County: Morris County (NJ)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/28/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Morris County Historic Preservation Trust Fund will consider grants for the acquisition, stabilization, rehabilitation, restoration or preservation of historic resources by the County, municipalities and qualified charitable conservancies whose purpose includes historic preservation.
Goals of Program
- Foster comprehensive preservation planning to ensure the continued preservation of historic resources.
- Stimulate preservation activity by providing funding for technical assistance and restoration projects.
- Encourage long-term facilities planning and capital budget planning of historic resources.
- Further the stewardship of the built and natural environment by helping preserve historic structures on open space tracts.
- Heighten the public’s awareness of Morris County’s irreplaceable historic character.
- Increase opportunities for heritage tourism in the County.
- Help ensure that preservation planning is an integral part of community development.
Funding Information
For 2025, about $4.5 million will be available for the Historic Preservation Trust Fund.
Eligible Activities
- Plans and reports associated with the implementation of a historic preservation project (Preservation Planning form, Construction Documents form)
- Register Nominations (Preservation Planning form)
- Acquisition (Preservation Planning form)
- Stabilization, Rehabilitation, Restoration and Preservation (Construction form)
Eligibility Criteria
- Municipal governments within Morris County
- Morris County Government
- Charitable conservancy that is a corporation or trust exempt from federal income taxation under paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of section 501 of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. s.501(c)(3)), whose purposes include historic preservation of historic properties, structures, facilities, sites, areas or objects, or the acquisition of such properties, structures, facilities, sites, areas or objects for historic preservation purposes.
For more information, visit Morris County.
