Texas History Grant List

TEXAS HISTORY PROGRAM

Grants Awarded for the Fiscal Year – July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026

African American Education Archives and History Program
Dallas, TX
Oral History Project Chronicling the African American Education Experience in Dallas County
$10,000.00

American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions
San Antonio, TX
Demonstrating the Perseverance & Continuity of the Coahuiltecan People
$10,000.00

Austin Community Foundation
Austin, TX
New Comprehensive Interpretation of Elisabet Ney’s Story, Art, and Permanent Collection
$17,500.00

Austin PBS
Austin, TX
Austin Revealed: Carrascolendas
$10,000.00

Austin Theatre Alliance
Austin, TX
Paramount Theatre Restoration
$15,000.00

Austin Woman’s Club
Austin, TX
Historic Wood Doors and Transom Repairs and Preservation of Chateau Bellevue
$10,000.00

Beasley Brown Community Development Corporation
San Antonio, TX
Port Chicago 320 Memorial Tribute
$5,000.00

Bryan Museum
Galveston, TX
The Bryan Museum Fall 2026 Lecture Series “Hard-Won Freedoms”
$25,000.00

Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
Houston, TX
BSNM: Field Trips for Underserved Youth
$20,000.00

Carnegie Library Board
Stamford, TX
Stamford Carnegie Library Renovation
$25,000.00

CASETA-Center for the Advancement of Study of Early Texas Art
San Angelo, TX
2026 CASETA Annual Symposium and Texas Art Fair and Outreach Programs
$10,000.00

Castro Colonies Heritage Association
Castroville, TX
Castro Colonies Heritage Association (CCHA) Museum Displays
$15,000.00

Center for New American Media
Brooklyn, NY
The Stars in Their Eyes
$10,000.00

Center for the Healing of Racism
Houston, TX
Rosenwald Schools Documentary Pilot Program
$15,000.00

City of Port Lavaca
City of Port Lavaca, TX
Port Lavaca Photos of the Past: Then and Now
$5,000.00

Conservation History Association of Texas
Austin, TX
Texas Marker Project
$10,000.00

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Dallas, TX
Collections Storage Assessment and Planning at The Sixth Floor Museum
$10,000.00

Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
Dallas, TX
Public Program – Slavery on the Texas Frontier
$5,000.00

Dallas Jewish Historical Society
Dallas, TX
Museum Without Walls – Bringing DJHS Into the 21st Century
$15,000.00

Denton Black Film Festival Institute
Denton, TX
Quakertown USA Documentary Film Project
$15,000.00

Dickerson Center for Civic Responsibility, Inc.
DeSoto, TX
Roots of Change: Youth History and Civic Learning Project
$20,000.00

Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute
Waco, TX
Artesian Manufacturing & Bottling Company Building Façade Restoration Project
$15,000.00

Ellis County Rural Heritage Farm Inc
Waxahachie, TX
Educational Outreach Coordinator for Ellis County Rural Heritage Farm Inc
$12,000.00

Falls County Colored Cemetery
Marlin, TX
Journey of Faith
$12,000.00

Flower Hill Center
Austin, TX
Collections Storage Project
$15,000.00

Fort Bend History Association
Richmond, TX
Portrait Conservation: Etta Mae Moore & Clem Bassett
$10,000.00

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Fort Worth, TX
Iconic Fort Worth
$5,000.00

Friends of the Texas Historical Commission
Austin, TX
Caddo Mounds State Historic Site Education & Activity Center
$30,000.00

Frontiers of Flight Museum
Dallas, TX
Frontiers of Flight Museum New Exhibit Signage
$25,000.00

Gault School of Archaeological Research
Fredericksburg, TX
Gault School Educational Outreach Project
$50,000.00

Genealogical Society of Kendall County
Boerne, TX
GSKC Digitization First Families Project
$4,500.00

Gillespie County Historical Society
Fredericksburg, TX
Campus Improvement for Museum Care – Parts 2 & 3
$5,000.00

Glenwood Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation
Houston, TX
Heritage and Memorial Educational Program
$10,000.00

Heart of the Hills Heritage Center
Kerrville, TX
Making Music Multisensory Exhibit
$20,000.00

Historic Denton, Inc
Denton, TX
Historic Preservation and Documentation in Denton, TX
$12,500.00

Humanities Texas
Austin, TX
New and Expanded Traveling Exhibitions in Texas History
$35,000.00

Judd Foundation
Marfa, TX
Preserving and Making Accessible Donald Judd’s Digital Photographic Legacy
$10,000.00

Keystone Heritage Park, Inc.
El Paso, TX
Development of an Interpretive Conceptual Plan for Keystone Heritage Park
$15,000.00

La Santa Cruz de la Concepcion Tejano (SCCT)
Concepcion, TX
Los Tejanos: A 500-year History
$5,000.00

Land Use Atlas, Inc.
Washington, DC
National Preservation Atlas – Texas State
$25,000.00

Las Casas Foundation
San Antonio, TX
Majestic Theatre Upper Balcony Historic Elevator Rehabilitation
$10,000.00

Lockhart Initiative for Tourism
Lockhart, TX
Lockhart City Cemetery Historic Tour- Public History/Education Program: Voices from the Past
$5,000.00

Longview Museum of Fine Arts
Longview, TX
America 250: The Caddo Nation and Native Perspectives
$10,000.00

Main Plaza Conservancy
San Antonio, TX
Telling the Story of Acequias: A History Project about San Antonio’s Earliest Water Infrastructure
$5,000.00

Marathon Public Library
Marathon, TX
Embracing A Community’s Cultural Heritage: Celebrating a New Bilingual Marathon History Museum
$15,000.00

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive (HTAAA)
$15,000.00

Museum of the American Railroad
Frisco, TX
Restoring 1900 Houston & Texas Central Depot Exterior
$20,000.00

National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Texas – Neill-Cochran House
Austin, TX
Slave Quarters Project: Toni Morrison Society “Bench by the Road” Initiative
$6,000.00

National WASP WWII Museum
Sweetwater, TX
WASP in Every Texas Classroom
$19,000.00

Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum
Nocona, TX
Phase 1: East Agriculture Exhibit Hall 2026
$15,000.00

Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts
Dallas, TX
North, South, East, and West Capital Campaign
$10,000.00

Preservation Dallas
Dallas, TX
Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas
$5,000.00

Ranching Heritage Association
Lubbock, TX
Red Steagall Institute for Traditional Western Arts: Collections Infrastructure
$15,000.00

Ranger College Library
Ranger, TX
Centennial Digitization Project
$15,000.00

Red River Valley Museum
Vernon, TX
Summer 2026 Collections Care Update
$3,000.00

Rosenberg Railroad Museum Incorporated
Rosenberg, TX
Restoration of ATSF 1938 RPO – Baggage Car #3401
$15,000.00

San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association
La Porte, TX
2026 San Jacinto School Day
$10,000.00

Santa Fe Area Historical Foundation
Santa Fe, TX
Old School Museum Renovation Project
$15,000.00

Shelbys Bridge
Sudan, TX
Saving the Stories of Sudan, Texas at 210 Main Street
$10,000.00

Shoal Creek Conservancy
Austin, TX
3rd Street Trestle Rehabilitation and Plaza over Shoal Creek
$15,000.00

South Padre Island Historical Foundation 501
South Padre Island, TX
Tides of Time- Cultures of South Padre Island
$10,000.00

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX
Funding to Assist in Collections-Management Software
$10,000.00

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX
Assessing Long-term Production of Indigenous Ceramics in Texas
$11,000.00

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX
Texas History Fellowships at Southern Methodist University
$50,000.00

Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, TX
San Augustine County, Texas Enlistment Records Preservation
$4,670.00

Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum
Temple, TX
Passenger Car Testing
$5,000.00

Texas Archeological Society
San Marcos, TX
Stewardship for Texas Archeological Sites
$8,000.00

Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Austin, TX
Before It’s Too Late: Preserving and Sharing the KSAT Collection
$25,000.00

Texas Energy Museum, Inc.
Beaumont, TX
Unlocking Texas Energy History: Inventory and Digitization Project
$13,500.00

Texas Folklife Resources, Inc.
Austin, TX
Conjunto: Sustainability and Cultural Heritage in Texas 2026
$10,000.00

Texas General Land Office
Austin, TX
2026 Save Texas History Symposium
$15,000.00

Texas Public Broadcasting Association (Texas PBS)
San Antonio, TX
Texas History Collection
$22,500.00

Texas Southern University
Houston, TX
Voicing the Past: Transcribing the Texas Slave Trade Papers (1816-1886)
$7,000.00

Texas Southmost College
Brownsville, TX
Fort Brown Heritage Walk at Texas Southmost College
$17,500.00

Texas State Historical Association
Austin, TX
Handbook of Texas DFW and Graduate Research Assistants
$68,000.00

Texas State Library and Archives Foundation
Austin, TX
Texas America 250
$15,000.00

Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
The Lost Barranca: Finding Coronado’s Campsites on the Llano Estacado
$14,000.00

Texas State University Development Foundation
San Marcos, TX
From The Wittliff to the World: A PBS Television Series
$10,000.00

Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
The Search for the First Location of Mission Espiritu Santo, Jackson County, Texas
$70,000.00

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country – Community Arts Program Fund
Kerrville, TX
Celebrating Community: Honoring our Hispanic Heritage in Kerrville
$2,500.00

The Grace Museum
Abilene, TX
Grace History Traveling Trunks
$3,000.00

The Historic George Ranch Association
Richmond, TX
Frontier Days Student Education Days
$7,500.00

The Houston Public Library Foundation
Houston, TX
Digitization of HPL’s Houston Press Microfilm Collection (1911-1962)
$25,000.00

The Mexican American Museum of Texas
Dallas, TX
Exhibit: “Spanish Texas During the American Revolution: Life and Legacy, 1775-1783”
$5,000.00

The Painted Rocks Historical Site, Inc.
Paint Rock, TX
Outreach and Visitor Center
$1,940.00

The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
ITC History of Music in San Antonio Banner Exhibit and Educational Programming
$25,000.00

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Foundation
McAllen, TX
Pathways to Freedom: Walking Southern Road to Freedom Public Heritage Education
$10,000.00

Thurber Historical Association
Strawn, TX
St. Barbara’s Church, Thurber
$10,000.00

Turtle Creek Association
Dallas, TX
Preservation of the Historic Turtle Creek Bridges
$5,000.00

Tyler Public Library
Tyler, TX
Local History Technology update
$10,000.00

United Way of Smith County
Tyler, TX
Tyler Woman’s Building Restoration
$10,000.00

University of North Texas, Lab for Engaged, Applied, and Public Humanities and Department of History
Denton, TX
Texas Animal Humanities Oral History Project
$10,000.00

University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX
Teacher Workshop, “Using the Texas in Turmoil Website”
$5,000.00

Van Alstyne Public Library
Van Alstyne, TX
Proud Past, Bright Future: The Van Alstyne Archive Project
$12,500.00