In alternating years, the New Jersey Historical Commission, New Jersey Historic Trust, and New Jersey Historic Trust accept applications and recommend grants to the New Jersey Cultural Trust for funding. For more information about the Cultural Trust’s grant programs and the typical grant program rotation, go to the About Cultural Trust Grants page.
For FY 2028, the New Jersey Historic Trust will accept applications from qualified arts, history, and humanities organizations with stewardship responsibility for historic resources for capital construction and planning projects to recommend to the Cultural Trust for funding. The maximum award amount will be $80,000 for capital construction projects and $25,000 for planning projects.
Additional information about this grant opportunity will be available later in 2026, with applications accepted in calendar year 2027.
In order to be eligible for any Cultural Trust grant program, an organization must first be designated qualified by the Cultural Trust Board. To check your organization’s qualification status, learn about qualification requirements, and apply for qualification, go to the Qualification page.
Alternating every other year with the New Jersey Historic Trust and the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts accepts applications and recommends grants to the New Jersey Cultural Trust for funding. For FY 2027, the Arts Council accepted applications from arts organizations for institutional and financial stabilization projects to recommend to the Cultural Trust for funding.
Applications for this grant opportunity closed on July 30, 2026.
Important Documents
Important Dates
Resources for Applicants
Recorded Mini-Webinars: Recorded technical assistance mini-webinars are available now on YouTube. This five-part series addresses the following topics:
Self-Assessment Workshop: IFS applicants must clearly identify a major stabilization or capacity challenge and propose an appropriate and specific strategy to address it. Identifying the organization’s major stability or capacity challenge is key to an eligible and successful application. The Cultural Trust has developed a recorded webinar that provides a framework for organizations to conduct a basic self-assessment to identify stability and capacity challenges that might be addressed through the Trust’s IFS grant programs. The webinar and an accompanying handout are available on the About Cultural Trust Grants page.
Alternating with the New Jersey History Trust and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the New Jersey Historical Commission accepts applications and recommends grants to the Cultural Trust for funding.
For FY 2026, the New Jersey Cultural Trust Board authorized the New Jersey Historical Commission to accept applications from history and humanities organizations for institutional and financial stabilization projects to recommend to the Cultural Trust for funding.
Applications for this grant opportunity closed on July 17, 2025.
Application assistance:Recorded Mini-Webinars: Recorded technical assistance mini-webinars are available on YouTube. They address the following topics:
All of the FY26 mini-webinars are also available in a YouTube playlist.
Important dates:
Important documents:
The New Jersey Cultural Trust Capital Historic Preservation Grants Program is collaboratively administered by the New Jersey Historic Trust for and with the New Jersey Cultural Trust. All history, arts and humanities organizations with stewardship responsibility for historic resources that are listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, and qualified by the New Jersey Cultural Trust, are eligible to apply for 2023 (FY24) capital historic preservation funding.
Priority: In 2023 (FY24), the New Jersey Historic Trust’s priority will be projects that can be completed for $100,000 or less. These projects will be carefully considered in relation to other criteria for funding.
Technical Assistance:
Qualification
Grant Application and SAGE
Important Dates: The FY 2024 application is now closed.
Important Documents:
FY2024 New Jersey Cultural Trust Capital Preservation Grant Guidelines
Page Last Updated: 03/18/25
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