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FY2025 Historic Preservation Fund- African American Civil Rights- Preservation Grants

Federal funding opportunity P25AS00495 from National Park Service (Department of the Interior).

Posted: June 11, 2026
Closed: July 14, 2026
Award ceiling: $750,000
Award floor: $15,000
Program funding: $24,000,000
Expected awards: 45
Cost sharing: No
Instrument: Grant
Assistance listing: 15.966
Category: Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)
Archives: December 31, 2026

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 15.966 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated: $4.7M
FY2025 obligated: $60.9M
FY2026 (to date) obligated: $0
Awards in window: 142

Top recipients: Historic Tabernacle Baptist Church-selma, Al Legacy Foundation, Inc, Historic Campbell Chapel Restoration Project Inc., Koinonia Farm, Inc., Michigan Strategic Fund, Historic Commission Alabama

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed September 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →

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Synopsis

The National Park Service’s (NPS) African American Civil Rights Grant Program (AACR) will document and preserve the sites and stories of the full history of the African American struggle to gain equal rights, from transatlantic slave trade forward. The program funds history and preservation projects using the NPS report, Civil Rights in America, A Framework for Identifying Significant Sites, as a guide in determining the appropriateness of proposed projects and properties. AACR grants are funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), administered by the NPS, and will fund a broad range of preservation projects for historic sites including: architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation to structures. Properties must be listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places to be eligible for grant funding. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and do not require non-Federal match. There are separate funding announcements for physical preservation projects and for history research/documentation projects. Funding announcement P25AS00495 is for physical preservation of historic sites only; P25AS00496 is for history/research/documentation/survey/nomination projects. Please ensure you apply under the correct opportunity number for your project.FY2025 Public Law 119-4 provides $24 million total for the AACR Grant Program.

Who can apply

City or township governments
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
County governments
State governments
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

Eligible applicants are State governments, local governments, nonprofits, educational institutions, and Federally Recognized Indian Tribes, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian Organizations, as defined by 54 U.S.C. § 300309, 54 U.S.C. § 300313 and 54 U.S.C. § 300314.Grants are not available for sites or collections owned or leased by the NPS, or in which the NPS holds a property interest.

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