Texas History Program
The next opportunity to apply will be our Fall 2026 grant cycle. The online application portal will open on July 6, 2026. Contact Jessica Hamlin at jhamlin@summerlee.org to discuss your project in May or June.
TEXAS HISTORY PROGRAM
Texas History Grant List
TEXAS HISTORY PROGRAM
Grants Awarded for the Fiscal Year 2024-2025
Archaeological Institute of America, Houston Society
Houston , TX
African American Gothic.
$7,500.00
Archer County Museum and Arts Center
Archer City , TX
Archer County Jail Restoration Phase 2
$10,000.00
Austin Parks Foundation
Austin , TX
Henry G. Madison Cabin Restoration
$5,000.00
Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation
Port Bolivar , TX
Restoration of the Historic Bolivar Point Lighthouse
$10,000.00
Bryan Museum
Galveston , TX
The Bryan Museum History Symposium: Texas Industry in the 20th and 21st Centuries
$20,000.00
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Dallas , TX
10th Street Neighborhood Models and OCC Mapping
$7,000.00
C 60 Inc.
Houston , TX
Preserving Latino Civil Rights Heritage: The LULAC Council 60 Clubhouse Restoration
$30,000.00
Cedar Hill Museum of History
Cedar Hill , TX
Early African American Experience
$10,000.00
Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute
Fort Davis , TX
Renovating CDRI’s Mining Heritage Exhibit
$5,000.00
Chinati Foundation
Marfa , TX
Preserving Texas History at The Chinati Foundation
$15,000.00
Community Music Center of Houston
Houston , TX
Preserving the Past, Building the Future: Community Music Center of Houston Renovation Project
$10,000.00
Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History
Corpus Christi , TX
Chapman Ranch Archive Processing
$5,000.00
Corpus Christi PATCH, Inc.
Corpus Christi , TX
The Ritz Theatre Exterior Building Preservation
$5,000.00
Cox Springs School Restoration Society
Lago Vista , TX
Cox Springs School (1885-1959) – Interpretive Signage
$8,000.00
Dabney Hill Missionary Baptist Church
Snook , TX
Planning for Ethiopian Star Lodge #308 in Dabney Hill Freedom Colony
$10,000.00
Dallas County Medical Society Alliance Foundation
DALLAS , TX
Carriage House of Aldredge House Museum
$10,000.00
Dallas Historical Society
Dallas , TX
Preserve, Present and Exhibit the Juneteenth Document (General Order Number 3)
$10,000.00
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
Dallas , TX
Crystal City Walkout public program
$5,000.00
Don Herrington Discovery Center
Amarillo , TX
Helium Monument Time Columns – New exhibit facility and education programs
$7,500.00
Encore Park Dallas
Dallas , TX
Encore Park Capital Campaign
$5,000.00
Fair Park First
Dallas , TX
Video Documentary of Dallas Museum of Natural History Wildlife Dioramas
$8,000.00
Falls on the Colorado Museum
Marble Falls , TX
Old Granite School Restoration
$5,000.00
Flower Hill Center
austin , TX
Floor/Foundation Restoration Drawings
$15,000.00
Fort Stockton Historical Society
Fort Stockton , TX
The Oldest House Camp Stockton Park
$15,000.00
Friends of Cibolo Wilderness
Boerne , TX
Historic Herff Farm – Icehouse Roof Replacement
$5,000.00
Friends of the Ruidosa Church
Alpine , TX
Ruidosa Church Restoration
$15,000.00
Friends of the Texas Historical Commission
Austin , TX
Caddo Mounds State Historic Site Education & Activity Center
$50,000.00
Friends of the Texas Historical Commission
Austin , TX
Confirming the location of the first Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga
$5,000.00
Future Front
Austin , TX
Before They’re Gone— Documenting local businesses impacted by the I-35 Capital Express expansion
$10,000.00
Gary High School – Loblolly
Gary , TX
Loblolly Looks at Panola County 2nd Edition: 50 Years of Collecting Stories
$5,000.00
Gillespie County Historical Society
Fredericksburg , TX
Founders Fund – Weber Sunday House
$5,000.00
Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas
San Antonio , TX
A Backyard for all Girls
$10,000.00
Headwaters at the Comal
New Braunfels , TX
“Communities of Comal Springs” Archaeology Exhibit
$12,500.00
Houston Christian University (History Museums)
Houston , TX
Support for the re-interpretation of Texas History exhibits at HCU museums
$10,000.00
Humanities Texas
Austin , TX
Expanding Access to Popular Traveling Exhibitions on Texas History
$15,000.00
Lamar County Genealogy Society
Paris , TX
Digitization and Storage Project
$7,500.00
Levelland Wallace Theater
Levelland , TX
Restoration of 1928 Historic Wallace Theater
$10,000.00
Lone Star Flight Museum
Houston , TX
Lone Star Flight Museum Living History Program
$5,000.00
Lumberton Historical Museum
Lumberton , TX
Initial Exhibit for the Lumberton Historical Museum
$2,500.00
Meetinghouse Revival
Corsicana , TX
Stabilization of Historic Wesley Chapel CME
$10,000.00
Midland Historical Society
Midland , TX
Restoration of Siding of Brown-Dorsey Historic Home
$10,000.00
Museum of North Texas History
Wichita Falls , TX
Living History of North Texas
$5,000.00
Museum of South Texas History
Edinburg , TX
Expanding the River Highway Exhibit: Building the Underground Railroad
$30,000.00
Museum of the Big Bend
Alpine , TX
Yana and Marty Davis Map Research Center
$55,000.00
Nacogdoches Arts Collaborative , Inc.
Nacogdoches , TX
“Raise Your Head Up” documentary film
$10,000.00
National Park Foundation
Washington , DC
The Blackwell School National Historic Site
$20,000.00
National Western Art Foundation dba Briscoe Western Art Museum
San Antonio , TX
Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps
$10,000.00
Old Jail Art Center
Albany , TX
OJAC Traveling History Trunks
$5,000.00
Outreach Productions
Pflugerville , TX
All Aboard: Historic Preservation of Austin’s Black Freedom Communities
$10,000.00
Panhandle Plains Historical Society
Canyon , TX
Remembering Adobe Walls at 150 and Symbols of Courage
$15,000.00
Partnership for the National Trails System
New Braunfels , TX
Our Voices Remain – Indigenous Voices Along Our National Trails
$6,000.00
Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy
San Antonio , TX
Voelcker Dairy Barn Restoration: Preserving San Antonio’s Agrarian Legacy
$10,000.00
Preservation Austin
Austin , TX
Preservation Austin 2024 Capital Campaign
$25,000.00
Preservation Dallas
Dallas , TX
Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas
$5,000.00
Preservation Texas, Inc.
San Marcos , TX
Preservation Texas Institute Operations and Business Plan – Phase 1
$7,500.00
Rutherford B H Yates Museum, Inc.
Houston , TX
Rehabilitate the Historic Simms/Gray-Lewis Cottage as a Gift Shop, Gallery, and Tour Office
$12,500.00
San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum
San Antonio , TX
Allee Wallace Digital Photograph Collection
$5,000.00
San Antonio Museum of Art
San Antonio , TX
Still Brewing Art: Inside the San Antonio Museum of Art
$5,000.00
San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association
La Porte , TX
2025 San Jacinto School Day
$5,000.00
Silsbee Ice House Museum and Cultural Center
Silsbee , TX
The Texas Revolution; The People, Places and Events in Southeast Texas
$8,000.00
South Texas Institue for the Arts DBA Art Museum of South Texas
Corpus Christi , TX
National Register of Historic Places Application-Philip Johnson Designed Art Museum of South Texas
$15,000.00
St. Mary’s University
San Antonio , TX
Summerlee Foundation Public History Internships
$10,000.00
Sugarloaf Pictures LLC
Austin , TX
Tonkawa Documentary
$20,000.00
Taylor Museum of Waco and McLennan County History
Waco , TX
Collections Storage Upgrade
$5,000.00
Texas A&M Foundation
College Station , TX
Documenting and Digitizing David Woodcock’s Archive at Texas A&M Center for Heritage Conservation.
$10,000.00
Texas A&M University
College Station , TX
Legacy of a Good Name: The Life and Work of Texas Architect Wesley Clark Dodson
$8,000.00
Texas Maritime Museum
Rockport , TX
Texas Maritime Legacy
$5,000.00
Texas Plains Trail Region
Lubbock , TX
Addressing Leadership and Governance Among Small Rural History Museums
$30,000.00
Texas State Historical Association
Austin , TX
Handbook of Dallas Fort Worth – University of Texas Graduate Research Assistants
$30,000.00
The Dallas Opera
Dallas , TX
The Dallas Opera: Early Recordings Archive
$10,000.00
The Heritage Society
Houston , TX
Voices of Texas: The Heritage Society Lecture Series and Community Exhibitions
$15,000.00
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation
Austin , TX
Permanent Exhibit Refresh
$30,000.00
The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation
Arlington , TX
Honoring Texas Medal of Honor Recipients at the National Medal of Honor Museum
$10,000.00
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Foundation
McAllen , TX
Archaeology of Laguna Atascosa Project (ALAP) Year 2
$15,000.00
University of Houston
Houston , TX
Houston History Magazine and Sharing Stories Project
$15,000.00
University of North Texas, Foundation
Denton , TX
The Texas Yawp: A Collaboratively Built, Open-Source Texas History Textbook Project
$35,000.00
University of Texas at Austin School Voces Oral History Center
Austin , TX
Voces of the Vietnam War
$25,000.00
Witte Museum
San Antonio , TX
Texas Preservation: From the Alamo to the Astrodome
$35,000.00
Grand Total $997,500.00
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