FY2022 Historic Preservation Fund- Save America's Treasures Preservation Grants | P22AS00432

Opportunity Information: Apply for P22AS00432

The FY2022 Historic Preservation Fund Save America's Treasures (SAT) Preservation Grants opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number P22AS00432) is a competitive federal grant program run by the National Park Service (NPS) to support preservation and conservation work on nationally significant historic resources. The core purpose is to help safeguard important historic properties and, through a separate companion solicitation, nationally significant collections. While this particular listing is for preservation projects, the program is structured as two parallel opportunities: one focused on historic properties (P22AS00432) and another focused on collections projects (P22AS00433). NPS administers the program in partnership with three national cultural agencies: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Funding under SAT comes from the Historic Preservation Fund and, for FY2022, Public Law 117-103 provided a total of $26.5 million for the SAT grant program overall. Individual awards under the preservation opportunity can be as large as $750,000 (the listed award ceiling). Awards are made through a competitive process, meaning proposals are evaluated against other applications rather than being funded automatically if they meet minimum requirements.

A key financial requirement is the cost-share: SAT grants require a dollar-for-dollar, non-federal match. In practice, applicants must provide matching support equal to the federal amount requested, and that match can be made up of cash and/or documented in-kind contributions (for example, eligible donated professional services, materials, or other verifiable non-federal support, as allowed by the program rules). This matching requirement is central to project planning because it effectively doubles the total project budget that must be assembled and documented.

Eligible applicants are broad and include many types of public and nonprofit entities. Specifically, the opportunity lists eligibility for state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, and independent school districts, as well as public and state-controlled institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education. It also includes nonprofit organizations, both those with 501(c)(3) status and those without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education). In addition, federally recognized Native American tribal governments are eligible, along with other Native American tribal organizations, and the description also references eligibility for federally recognized Indian Tribes, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiian Organizations as defined in federal statute (54 USC 300300). The funding instrument type is a grant, and it is categorized as discretionary funding, with CFDA number 15.929.

There are also clear restrictions related to federal ownership. Federal agencies may be involved, with one major exception: the National Park Service itself is excluded in the sense that grants are not available for work on sites or collections owned by NPS. More broadly, the notice emphasizes that SAT funds will not support work on sites or collections owned by NPS. However, if another federal agency owns the historic property or collection and is collaborating with a nonprofit partner, the application may be submitted through that nonprofit partner to support preservation of the federal agency-owned resource, consistent with the program rules.

From an administrative standpoint, the agency listed for this opportunity is the National Park Service. The opportunity was created on September 21, 2022, and the original closing date was December 20, 2022. In short, this grant opportunity is designed to leverage federal funding and non-federal matching support to carry out preservation work on nationally significant historic properties, administered by NPS with major cultural agency partners, open to a wide range of governmental, tribal, educational, and nonprofit applicants, and explicitly excluding projects on NPS-owned sites or collections.

• The National Park Service in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY2022 Historic Preservation Fund- Save America's Treasures Preservation Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.929.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2022-09-21.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2022-12-20. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, 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 having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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