Applicants are invited to apply for the 2024 National Maritime Heritage Grant Program – Preservation Grants.
Donor Name: National Park Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/04/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This funding opportunity is open to State Historic Preservation Offices and other organizations as described in the National Maritime Heritage Act. There are 59 State Historic Preservation Offices; one in each of the 50 states, the 5 territories, the District of Columbia, and the 3 Freely Associated States of Micronesia. One nonprofit organization, Ohio History Connection, is eligible to apply serving as the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office.
Preservation Grant funded activities must advance maritime heritage through public education for a wide and diverse audience on America’s maritime heritage in addition to at least one of the following ways:
- identification of historic marine resources, including archeological sites
- acquisition of historic marine resources for the purposes of preservation. Acquisition of historic maritime resources (i.e. real property that is NR-listed or determined eligible contributing resources) is allowed for the purpose of preservation. Prime grantees may put conditions on what types of historic resource acquisitions to allow, or even to disallow acquisitions entirely, for the subgrantees within their specific program.
- repair, rehabilitation, stabilization, maintenance, limited reconstruction, or other capital improvements to historic maritime resources in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Archeology and Historic Preservation (for the purposes of this grant program, the Standards for Historic Vessel Preservation Projects may be especially relevant)
- research, recording (through drawings, photographs, or otherwise), planning (through feasibility studies, architectural and engineering services, or otherwise); and other services carried out as part of a preservation program for historic maritime resources.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 3,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $750,000
- Award Floor: $100,000
Eligible Projects
Examples of eligible preservation projects could include, but are not limited to:
- Subgrant program: A State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) could apply for a preservation grant to administer a subgrant program that supports the preservation of historic maritime heritage sites related to lower class fishermen, women, Indigenous Peoples and/or People of Color. The application to NPS would describe why the SHPO has selected the focus of the subgrant program, the broad educational value of such resource types, the maximum amount of each subgrant, how they intend to publicize the subgrant opportunity, and how they intend to select projects for funding. Individual subgrantee projects could fulfill the education requirement of the Award by producing online content for the public related to the specific project. This is an example of a preservation subgrant program for a preservation grant project.
- Subgrant program: A SHPO could apply for a preservation grant to administer a subgrant program that supports HABS/HAER/HALS documentation of historic vessels which may include National Historic Landmarks. The application would describe why the SHPO has determined vessel documentation as the focus of the subgrant program, outline the management plan for the subgrant program, the broad education value, the maximum and minimum amount of each subgrant, how they intend to publicize the subgrant opportunity, and how the projects are selected and a plan to submit documentation to HABS/HAER/HALS. SHPO could fulfill the education requirement of the Award by conducting public programming highlighting the individual projects and their scopes of work. This is an example of a preservation subgrant program for a preservation grant project.
- In-house project: A SHPO could apply for a preservation grant to support the conservation of 8 historic canoes or underwater archaeology collection items held by a SHPO owned/operated collecting institution. SHPO could fulfill the education requirement by producing and publishing a conservation guide for public consumption and use. This is an example of an in-house preservation project for a preservation grant.
Eligibility Criteria
State governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
