Funding Guidelines

All grants will now require proof of a percentage of a match in place at the time of the request.

Institutional Budgets Required Match:

• Under $250,000 required ¼ match
• Over $250,000 to $500,000 ½ match
• Over $500,000 to $1m ¾ match
• Over $1m full match

Funding Limits and Categories

Up to $300,000

• Cataloguing & Digitalization
• Conservation of Objects
• Collections Care

Up to $100,000

• Exhibitions
• Education

Up to $50,000

• Public Programs
• Publications
• Events and Community Activities

Full Match up to $500,000 from all applicants:

• Structural Stabilization
• Adaptive Reuse

The Structural Stabilization & Restoration and Adaptive Reuse grants require:

• The applicant has raised funds needed at the time of the application deadline. No promised or projected funding are considered.
• The applicants must apply to the RDLGF partners prior to applying to RDLGF in order to have their project properly assessed: New York Preservation League and the NY Landmarks Conservancy: Sacred Sites for house of worship.
• All permits and bids must be in place at the time of the application submission

In-Kind

RDLGF permits all intuitions an in-kind percentage as a portion of their Match.

• No more than 20% of the Matching funds may be in-kind (e.g. if you are requesting $20,000 and matching $20,000 you in-kind limit would be $4000) Examples of in-kind matches include volunteer hours, donated materials and donated professional services. Institutional staff hours do not qualify for in-kind.
• In-kind matching is dedicated to the project proposed and not for overall operations of the organization to any other project (e.g. general volunteer hours in office administration for the organization, fundraising, etc. could not count toward the match)
• A construction and renovation grant recipients must allocate a percentage, approximately $1500 of their own funds, for periodic inspections. Approval of inspectors must come from the RDLGF.

These quality control reports will include:

• a site visit before the project,
• a written report to the Foundation on the work while is it is being done,
• final report on the completion of the project.