Grant programs for preservation and conservation are managed by various agencies, including state libraries, archives, Departments of Education, and Departments of Cultural Resources. In addition, regional organizations, such as local heritage networks, and national foundations may also offer funding for these initiatives.
At NEDCC, we specialize in helping organizations plan and execute grant-funded activities, including but not limited to:
- Audio reformatting
- Book, paper, and photograph conservation
- Collection-level and item-level assessments
- Creating and updating a disaster plan
- Digital imaging
- Digital preservation assessments
- Policy writing
- Preservation assessments and consultations
- Wallpaper conservation
- and more.
Whether you need assistance with proposal development or project implementation, our team is here to guide you every step of the way.
Interested in working with NEDCC on a grant project? Contact us at:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 978-470-1010
Or visit our staff pages for direct contact information.
America250
With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence approaching, opportunities will be highly competitive. We encourage organizations to start planning as soon as possible to ensure projects are completed before July 2026.
Alabama
- Historic Sites Grant
Alabama Historical Commission: The State Historic Preservation Office
> Supports facility improvements to historic sites in Alabama, including keeping moisture out of the building; repairing or replacing the roof; correcting conditions that pose a safety hazard to the building occupants or to the building itself; repairing or upgrading mechanical systems, and more.
Previous deadline: March 2025
NEDCC provides several types of preservation needs assessments, which are often the first step in an institution’s long-term preservation initiative. A preservation needs assessment identifies overall risks to your collections and helps better preserve your materials by recommending achievable strategies for today and tomorrow. Many granting agencies require such assessments before funding storage improvements, conservation treatment, and digitization projects.
Arizona
- Arizona Preservation Foundation (APF)
> Explore APF's list of funding opportunities that exist for historic preservation-related projects.
- Jumpstart
Arizona Preservation Foundation
> Provides small grants to Arizona non-profit organizations to initiate historic preservation projects in their communities. Grants of up to $2,000 are available, particularly for threatened historic resources.
Application can be submitted at any time and will be reviewed by the APF Grants Committee until the fund is depleted. Each organization may submit up to two applications per calendar year.
- Museum Association of Arizona (MAA)
> Explore MAA's list of conservation and preservation grant opportunities.
California
- California Museum Grant Program
California Natural Resources Agency
Anticipated FY27/28
- Digitization and Preservation Assistance
California Revealed
> Supports the audio reformatting and digital images of collections that are significant to California history.
Previous deadline: August 2025
- Emergency Management Performance Grant Program
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
> Supports developing emergency management capabilities and all-hazards preparedness activities.
Previous deadline: August 2025
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Groundwork Grants
California State Library
> Supports emergency preparedness advancements.
Rolling submission.
Colorado
- Historical Records Reg-Grant Program
National Historical Publications and Records Commission
> Supports digitization, preservation needs, disaster planning, improving accessibility to collections and purchasing supplies.
Previous deadline: June 2024
Connecticut
- Historic Documents Preservation Grant Program
Connecticut State Library
> Supports preservation assessments, reformatting, or conservation.
Previous deadline: September 2025
Georgia
- Georgia Historical Advisory Council Records Preservation Grant
Georgia Archives
> Supports local historical repositories in Georgia to develop and/or implement projects to identify, preserve, and provide access to historical records. This may be a local government, historical society, library, museum, or similar organization.
Previous deadline: June 2025
Idaho
- State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB)
Idaho State Historical Society
> Provides grants to support projects that preserve and increase online access to Idaho’s historical records, training, and facility assessments that develop and promote archival and records management best practices.
Previous deadline: March 2025
Illinois
- Historical Records Grant Program
Illinois State Archives
> Supports Illinois archival repositories and government agencies with preserving and making accessible records of historical importance.
Previous deadline: March 2025
Iowa
- Emergency Historical Resource Development Program
State Historical Society of Iowa
> Grants are for when an Iowa historical resource requires timely action to prevent immediate loss of the resource.
Application deadline: Emergency grant applications have a rolling grant deadline until funds are gone or the fiscal year ends. If funds remain, you can apply until June 1, 2026.
- Historical Resource Development Grant
State Historical Society of Iowa
> Supports preservation and conservation of historical resources and professional training.
Previous deadline: May 2024
Kentucky
- In these Mountains: Infrastructure Grants for Nonprofits in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee
South Arts
> Supports professional development and emergency readiness planning via NEDCC's Preservation Consultations.
Previous deadline: September 2025
- KY Local History Trust Fund
Kentucky Historical Society
> Supports activities designed to build organizational capacity or strengthen the organization, and collections care.
Application deadline: 10/15/2025
- Local Records Program Grants
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
> Supports local government agencies in records management, which includes digitization and records conservation.
Application deadline: 12/31/2025, 3/15/2026, 6/15/2026, 9/15/2026, 12/31/2026
Louisiana
- Emergency Readiness Grants
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
> Supports emergency preparedness assessments and training.
TBD.
Maine
- Maine Historical Records Advisory Board
National Historical Publications & Records Commission
> Supports records collections in Maine and provides needed resources for archival collection supplies or preservation.
TBD.
- Maine Humanities Council
> Various grants support projects that are collaborative, that stimulate meaningful community dialogue, attract diverse audiences, are participatory and engaging, and invite discovery of the humanities in interesting and exciting ways.
Application deadline: 10/21/2025
- Maine Semiquincentennial Commission
Maine State Archives and Maine State Cultural Affairs Council
> Supports digitization and historic preservation projects.
Application deadline: 10/31/2025
Massachusetts
- Community Preservation Act (CPA)
Community Preservation Coalition
> CPA allows communities to create a local Community Preservation Fund for historic preservation. NEDCC has treated many CPA-funded projects, including the Great Deed of Billerica, Massachusetts.
- Mass Cultural Council
> The Mass Cultural Council funds and manages a network of 329 Local Cultural Councils (LCCs) across the state, representing every city and town in the Commonwealth. Each LCC awards money based on individual community cultural needs, assessed and set by LCC members. Applicants apply directly to local councils.
Application deadline: 10/16/2025
- Mass Humanities
> Various grants support nonprofits, organizations and communities across Massachusetts who are enriching lives and strengthening our society through the humanities.
- Partnership Grant Program
Essex National Heritage Area
> Supports the preservation of cultural resources of the Essex National Heritage Area (Essex County).
Paused until further notice.
- Preservation Assessment
Massachusetts Libraries Board of Library Commissioners
> Supports preservation planning goals and the identification of digital collections stewardship. Preservation assessment types include physical preservation assessments, digital curation readiness assessments, and fine and decorative art and object condition reports.
Previous deadline: January 2025
- SHRAB Veteran's Heritage Grant
MA State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB)
> Supports Massachusetts municipalities and non-profit organizations, such as libraries, historical societies and commissions, museums, schools, and universities in the preservation or digitization of historic documents and photographs and improving access to archival collection.
Application deadline: 11/11/2025
Minnesota
- Legacy Grants
Minnesota Historical Society
> Supports general conservation assessments, long-range preservation plans, and surveys of historic properties. Learn more.
Application deadline: 10/10/2025
Montana
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
MT State Library
> The Montana State Library has $10,000 in Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds available for adding special collections to the Montana Memory Project (MMP) - now the Montana History Portal. The Montana History Portal works with libraries and museums to digitize and preserve Montana’s memories.
New Hampshire
- Conservation License Plate Grant Program (Mooseplate Grants)
NH Department of Cultural Resources; NH State Library
> Supports conservation.
Previous deadline: June 2025
New Jersey
- Project Grants
New Jersey Historical Commission
> Supports conservation (manuscripts, books).
Previous deadline: July 2025
New York
- Conservation Treatment Grant Program
NY State Arts Council/ Greater Hudson Heritage Network
> Supports conservation treatment of paintings, works on paper (including individual drawings, watercolors, prints or photographs), and frames. Frames are an integral part of a painting and applicants must address frame condition and treatment when applying for painting conservation.
Previous deadline: October 2025
- Continuing Education Grant
Metropolitan New York Library Council
> Support to attend conferences, classes, or courses of their choosing.
Please check back later for information about the next round of funding, which will cover events taking place during the period of January 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026.
- Digitization Project Grants
Metropolitan New York Library Council
> Supports digitization projects for METRO members, in order to enhance the quality and accessibility of library and information resources in the metropolitan New York region.
Previous deadline: May 2025
- Disaster Recovery Grants
NY State Archives
> The New York State Archives provides grants to local governments to assist them in recovering from disasters that have damaged certain types of records. For the purposes of disaster recovery projects, a disaster is defined as: Damage caused by a sudden, unexpected event involving fire, water, man-made or natural phenomena where a timely response is necessary to prevent the irretrievable loss of vital or archival records, or to ensure reasonable, timely access to vital records.
- Documentary Heritage Program (DHP)
NY State Archives
> Supports preservation assessments for not-for-profit archives, libraries, historical societies, and similar institutions within New York State, and from consortia or cooperating groups of such agencies.
Previous deadline: June 2025
- Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program
NY State Archives
> Supports doctoral candidates, those at the postdoctoral level, and other scholars/researchers with awards for advanced research in New York State history, government, or public policy. The Residency Program is made possible by and administered by the Archives Partnership Trust.
Previous deadline: January 2025
- The New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials Discretionary Grant Program
NY State Library
> Supports libraries and other organizations engaged in efforts to preserve deteriorating library research material.
Previous deadline: March 2025
North Carolina
- In these Mountains: Infrastructure Grants for Nonprofits in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee
South Arts
> Supports professional development and emergency readiness planning via NEDCC's Preservation Consultations.
Previous deadline: September 2025
- Preservation Grants
North Carolina Preservation Consortium
> Supports preservation assessments, collection assessments, preservation consultations, conservation, reformatting, and preservation training.
Previous deadline: March 2025
Ohio
- Conservation and Preservation Grant
State Library of Ohio
> Supports the conservation of one single item or preserve a small, discrete group of items within their collections.
Previous deadline: August 2025
- Ohio Archives Grant Program
Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board
> The Ohio Archives Grants are funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), an arm of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) through their State Board Programming Grants. Grants of $500 to $5,000 are available to archival institutions to fund projects to preserve and/or provide access to Ohio’s historical records.
Previous deadline: March 2025
- Ohio History Fund
Ohio History Connection
> Supports digital imaging, preservation assessments training, and potentially audio reformatting.
Application deadline: 09/08/2026, 09/07/2027, 09/05/2028
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program
OK Historical Society
> Supports preservation assessments, digitization, and environmental assessments.
Application deadline: 10/31/2025
Oregon
- Oregon Heritage Grant
State Historic Preservation Office
> Supports collections preservation, organizational archives projects, and organizational planning.
Previous deadline: October 2025
Pennsylvania
- Cultural and Historical Support Grant
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
> Supports professional development, among many activities.
Previous deadline: August 2025
- Historical & Archival Records Care Grant (HARC)
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
> Supports non-profits and local governments with the preservation of historically valuable original documents.
Previous deadline: August 2025
Rhode Island
- Joseph O’Neill Ott Fund
RI Foundation
> Supports conservation efforts for paper-based documents, photographs, and other two-dimensional historical evidence (excluding artwork).
Previous deadline: May 2025
South Carolina
- SHRAB Regrant Program: Historical Records Regrant Program
South Carolina Department of Archives & History
> Supports preservation assessments and digitization (IF the applicant plans to make the collection accessible online).
Previous deadline: August 2025
Tennessee
- In these Mountains: Infrastructure Grants for Nonprofits in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee
South Arts
> Supports professional development and emergency readiness planning via NEDCC's Preservation Consultations.
Previous deadline: September 2025
Texas
- Quarterly Micro Grants Program
Texas Historical Foundation
> Supports historic preservation projects including historic property restoration and the preservation of artifacts, archival materials, or legal documents.
Application deadline: 10/15/2025; 1/15/2026; 04/15/2026
- Disaster Relief Fund
Texas Library Association
> Grants range from $1,500 to $5,000 and can be used for technology, facility repair, collections, furnishings, or other needs related to storm damage.
Previous deadline: September 2025
Utah
- Archival Project Grant
Utah Division of Archives and Records Services
> Supports conservation, audio preservation, digitization, and the implementation of solutions that ensure the preservation of electronic records.
Application deadline: 10/15/2025
VERMONT
- Vermont Federal Foundation Charitable Giving Requests
> "The Vermont Federal Foundation manages and awards all charitable giving requests. We recognize that many requests for charitable giving are valid and merit our attention. Our Vermont Federal Foundation Committee reviews requests for charitable contributions on a monthly basis. This process ensures that our dollars are being used in harmony with the Foundation's overall mission and core areas of focus."
Applications are reviewed on a monthly basis.
Virginia
- Circuit Court Records Grant Program
Library of Virginia
> Supports conservation and reformatting.
Previous deadline: September 2024
- Virginia Top 10 Endangered Artifacts
Virginia Association of Museums
> Museums, archives, libraries, historical societies, and other collecting organizations in Virginia and Washington, DC are invited to submit endangered artifacts that share the stories, accomplishments, and struggles of the Commonwealth’s history and culture. The award supports conservation.
Previous deadline: September 2025
Washington
- Historic Preservation Grant Program
Benton County Commissioners
> Supports preservation.
Closed until further notice.
West Virginia
- Historic Preservation Grants
West Virginia Culture Center
> State Development Grant Program
Previous deadline: March 2025
> Survey & Planning Grant Program
Application deadline: 10/31/2025
Wyoming
- State Historical Records Advisory Board Grants (SHRAB)
Wyoming State Archives
> Supports preservation training, digitization, audio preservation, and preservation assessments. The SHRAB will prioritize applications that show commitment to developing and/or implementing projects that will enhance online access to historical records.
Check back in April 2026.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Fundraising and Grant Writing Tips
Browse free on-demand webinars on creative fundraising for preservation and writing your preservation assistance grant. Visit NEDCC's Crowdfunding for Preservation page to learn how to create a successful fundraising campaign using social media and crowdfunding.
Helpful webinars include:
Getting Ready for Preservation Grant Season
Writing Grants for Audio Preservation and Reformatting
Writing Your Preservation Assistant Grant
Starting a Conservation Project: How to Get the Most Out of Your Money
Creative Fundraising for Preservation