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Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid

Program Information

Popular name

(HPF)

Program Number

15.904

Program objective

To provide congressionally mandated grants to States, Tribes, Territories, the Freely Associated States, the District of Columbia, Certified Local Governments, and other applicants as defined by Congress, to assist in the identification, evaluation, and protection of historic properties by such means as education, survey, planning, technical assistance, preservation, documentation, and financial incentives like grants and tax credits available for historic properties. Congressionally mandated grants may be in the form of formula grants or congressionally directed spending in the form of community-project funding.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2017

    Same. FORMULA grants to 59 States and Territories, 169 Tribes; PROJECT grants to 115 State, Tribe, Local Government and nonprofit grantees. Over 450 project grant applications received.

  2. 2018

    No information available.

  3. 2019

    Grants were administered to State and Tribal governments, along with US territories. These governments make sub-grants based on approved plans.

  4. 2020

    Grants were administered to State and Tribal governments, along with US territories. These governments make sub-grants based on approved plans.

  5. 2021

    Grants were administered to State and Tribal governments, along with US territories. These governments make sub-grants based on approved plans.

  6. 2022

    In FY2022, NPS administered $104,708,882 in funding from the Historic Preservation Fund. This included formula grants to 59 states and territories and 212 Federally recognized Tribes. Nearly 200 pre-preservation and preservation projects also received funding from one of 6 competitive grant programs established by Congress in the annual appropriations bill.

  7. 2024

    This listing funded a broad range of activities to implement the National Historic Preservation Act through supporting the physical preservation, rehabilitation, documentation, and recordation of historic resources by states, territorial, tribal, and local governments as well as nonprofits and other eligible organizations. Grants awarded under this Assistance Listing included two annual formula grant programs to State Historic Preservation Offices and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices, 6 competitive project grant programs (African American Civil Rights, History of Equal Rights, Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization, Semiquincentennial, Tribal Heritage, and Underrepresented Communities), as well as Congressionally Directed Spending. Beginning in FY25, this Assistance Listing number will only be used for the two formula grant programs, Tribal Heritage, and Congressionally directed Spending. Funding for this Assistance Listing comes from the Historic Preservation Fund.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

2CFR200; Historic Preservation Fund Grant Manual; National Historic Preservation Act PL 301 et seq.; NPS Preservation Briefs series; NPS Preservation Tech Note Series; and NPS National Register Bulletin series. Program regulations are specified in Volume 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Program standards are found in "The Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Archeology and Historic Preservation."