Texas History Program

The next opportunity to apply will be our September 2027 grant cycle. Project interviews will begin in April 2027.

TEXAS HISTORY PROGRAM

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

 

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