2025 HPRP Grants Announced
GRANTS AWARDED TO HISTORIC PROPERTIES REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Nineteen Nonprofit Organizations Receive $850,000 in Funding
The 1772 Foundation, in cooperation with the National Preservation Partners Network, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, has awarded nineteen grants to historic properties redevelopment programs (HPRPs). Grant funding totals $850,000. Individual grants range in amount from $16,000 to conduct a feasibility study to $75,000, an amount received by three grantees.
Also known as revolving funds, HPRPs are enterprising programs that proactively use real estate techniques (options, purchase/resale, easements, tax credits, etc.) to protect and rehabilitate endangered properties. When a property is sold, any proceeds realized are “revolved” to save another building. Since 2006, The 1772 Foundation has been a leading proponent of HPRPs, recognizing their positive impact on community economic development and neighborhood revitalization.
Ethiel Garlington, executive director of The 1772 Foundation says, “We continue to be impressed by the entrepreneurial spirit of preservation practitioners across the country, who are putting market-based solutions to work in order to save more historic places.”
Adds Kim Trent, executive director of the National Preservation Partners Network (NPPN), “We are thrilled to partner with The 1772 Foundation to recognize and support the innovative work being carried out across the country by historic preservation organizations. Their investments in their communities will preserve and expand housing options and spur economic development while preserving the historic places that are the foundation of successful communities.”
This year’s grantees are Cincinnati Preservation in Cincinnati, OH ($50,000); Florida Trust for Historic Preservation in Tallahassee, FL ($20,000); Freedmen’s Town in Houston, TX ($75,000); Historic Augusta Incorporated in Augusta, GA ($35,260); Irish American Partnership and Americans for An Taisce in Boston, MA ($50,000); The Landmark Trust USA in Dummerston, VT ($50,000); Landmarks Community Capital Corporation, a subsidiary of Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA ($50,000); The L’Enfant Trust in Washington, DC ($75,000); Madison-Morgan Conservancy in Madison, GA ($75,000); Maine Preservation in Yarmouth, ME ($25,000); Preservation Alliance of Baltimore County in Towson, MD ($16,000); Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA ($23,740); Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans in New Orleans, LA ($50,000); Preservation Texas in San Marcos, TX ($50,000); Restore Mobile in Mobile, AL ($25,000); Revolution Workshop in Chicago, IL ($65,000); Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation in Sarasota, FL ($25,000); Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation in Saratoga Springs, NY ($40,000); and Selma-Dallas County Historic Preservation Society in Selma, AL ($50,000).
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The 1772 Foundation was named in honor of its first restoration project, Liberty Hall in Union, NJ, which was built in 1772 and is the ancestral home of the Livingston and Kean families. The late Stewart B. Kean was the original benefactor of The 1772 Foundation. The 1772 Foundation works to ensure the safe passage of our historic buildings and farmland to future generations. More information about The 1772 Foundation may be found at 1772foundation.org.
MEDIA CONTACT Ethiel Garlington, The 1772 Foundation, ethiel@1772foundation.org