Alternating with the NJ Historic Trust and the NJ 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 has authorized the NJ Historical Commission to accept applications from history and humanities organizations for institutional and financial stabilization projects to recommend to the Cultural Trust for funding. Grant guidelines for this program will be available in Spring 2025. For more information, please contact New Jersey Cultural Trust staff.

In order to be eligible for the FY 2026 IFS History/Humanities opportunity, organizations must first be designated qualified by the New Jersey Cultural Trust. For more information on qualification, go to the Qualification page.

Alternating every other year with the NJ Historic Trust and the NJ Historical Commission, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts accepts applications and recommends grants to the Cultural Trust for funding. For FY 2025, the Arts Council accepted applications from arts organizations for institutional and financial stabilization projects to recommend to the Cultural Trust for funding. Grant applications were due in SAGE on August 15, 2024 at 12 p.m. (noon).

Technical assistance mini-webinars:
Recorded technical assistance mini-webinars are available on topics including:

• Organization eligibility
• Project eligibility
• Deciding what project category is right for your organization
• Evaluation criteria
• Application components
• Grantwriting tips
• Navigating SAGE

View the full playlist on YouTube.

Important dates: The FY25 application is now closed. The Cultural Trust expects to announce awards in January 2025.

Important documents:

FY 2025 New Jersey Cultural Trust Grant Guidelines — English
FY 2025 New Jersey Cultural Trust Grant Guidelines — Spanish
FY 2025 IFS Arts Evaluation Criteria Rubric — English
FY 2025 IFS Arts Evaluation Criteria Rubric — Spanish

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

• Watch a recording of the workshop about the Cultural Trust qualification process

Grant Application and SAGE

• Watch a recording of the workshop about the FY24 grant application components and process
• Click here for the slide deck from the application workshop.
• Click here for useful links and resources to help with your application.

Important Dates: The FY 2024 application is now closed.

Important Documents:

FY2024 New Jersey Cultural Trust Capital Preservation Grant Guidelines