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

buildingcommunityWORKSHOP
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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