IH: Historic Preservation Education Grant

The Historic Preservation Education Grant, offered by Indiana Humanities, aims to educate citizens about the importance of preserving historic places in their communities. The grant funds various educational formats, including workshops, presentations, and digital projects like webinars and online exhibits. In 2025, Indiana Humanities plans to award nine or ten grants, encouraging projects that foster community engagement and raise awareness of historic preservation's value.

We do this by providing grants, convening discussions, uplifting humanities scholars, spotlighting humanities organizations and activities, and creating our own programs that help Hoosiers think, read and talk.
As its name suggests, the Historic Preservation Education Grant funds programs that educate Indiana citizens about the historic places and properties in their communities—and particularly about the need to preserve and protect them. Programs may come in a variety of formats— workshops, presentations, booklets, brochures, reading/discussion programs, exhibitions, film documentaries, and more—and we’re increasingly interested in supporting digital projects, such as online exhibits, webinars , and podcasts, that expand the program’s reach and educate even more people about the value of historic preservation.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a Historic Preservation Education Grant, you must apply on behalf of a taxexempt organization that’s registered with the Internal Revenue Service;K-12 schools, colleges and universities, public libraries, churches, and government entities are also eligibleProjects must be completed within one year of notification.This grant requires at least a 100 percent cash/in-kind match.On the application form you’ll need to provide us with a project title, the name of the project director, contact information and your organization’s federal Employee Identification Number (EIN), Sponsoring Organization Official.

Ineligibility

Indiana Humanities and Indiana Landmarks will not award Historic Preservation Education Grants for any of the following purposes:
General operating expenses (i.e., our grants must support the development and implementation of specific public programs)Activities that promote a particular political, religious, or ideological point of viewAdvocacy of a particular program of social or political action
Archival acquisitions
Programming that falls outside of the humanities and preservation fieldsSocial services
Foreign travel
Alcoholic beveragesFood and beverages (unless it’s a key educational component of the program—for example, purchasing food for a program on Hoosier foodways); using grant funds to purchase alcohol is always prohibitedEntertainment (unless it’s a key educational component of the programm—for example, hiring musicians for a program on Indiana’s jazz heritage)