FY2025 Historic Preservation Fund- African American Civil Rights- History Grants
Competitive grants fund history, research/documentation, survey/nomination, education, and collection conservation projects on African American civil rights sites and stories for eligible public and nonprofit applicants.
RESTRICTED TO: STATE LOCAL GOV · TRIBAL ENTITIES · NONPROFITS
⚑ Separate NOFO for physical preservation projects; this announcement is for history/research/documentation/survey/nomination projects. · No non-Federal match required. · Sites or collections owned or leased by NPS, or in which NPS holds a property interest, are ineligible.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 62 good | outside portfolio topics; social/behavioral work is substantial; funds applied research |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 55 good | technical depth: minor; funds applied research |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 20 weak | funds applied research |
Description
The National Park Service"s (NPS) African American Civil Rights Grant Program (AACR) will document and preserve the sites and stories of the full history of the African American struggle to gain equal rights, from transatlantic slave trade forward. The program funds history and preservation projects using the NPS report, Civil Rights in America, A Framework for Identifying Significant Sites, as a guide in determining the appropriateness of proposed projects and properties. AACR grants are funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), administered by the NPS, and will fund a broad range of history projects including: survey and planning, research and documentation, education, and collection conservation. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and do not require non-Federal match.There are separate funding announcements for physical preservation projects and for historical research/documentation projects. Funding announcement P25AS00495 is for physical preservation of historic sites only; P25AS00496 is for history/research/documentation/survey/nomination projects. Please ensure you apply under the correct opportunity number for your project.FY2025 Public Law 119-4 provides $24,000,000 total for the AACR Grant Program.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants are State governments, local governments, nonprofits, educational institutions, and Federally Recognized Indian Tribes, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian Organizations, as defined by 54 U.S.C. § 300309, 54 U.S.C. § 300313 and 54 U.S.C. § 300314.Grants are not available for sites or collections owned or leased by the NPS, or in which the NPS holds a property interest.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: National Park Service <STLPG@nps.gov>
Proposal brief
Proposal shell · Federal (generic) conventions
Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
18/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is a historic preservation and civil rights history program, not a research opportunity aligned with IPPRA’s core weather, energy, national security, or public-health/resilience portfolio. While the history/research/documentation track may involve scholarly work, it does not focus on a technical-social system intersection that IPPRA typically leads. Public universities are eligible, but the topical fit for IPPRA is only tangential.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a historic preservation and civil rights history program, not a research opportunity aligned with IPPRA’s core weather, energy, national security, or public-health/resilience portfolio. While the history/research/documentation track may involve scholarly work, it does not focus on a technical-social system intersection that IPPRA typically leads. Public universities are eligible, but the topical fit for IPPRA is only tangential. |
| 2026-07-06 | 15 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a history/preservation grant centered on African American civil rights sites and documentation, with no direct connection to IPPRA’s core weather, energy, health, or environmental-policy portfolios. The only potential overlap is very loose social-science research on historical public memory or civic attitudes, but that is not a stated focus here. Public universities are eligible, but the opportunity is still a poor fit for IPPRA. |