Grant Portfolio
Preservation League of New York State
Grant Year: 2019
Preservation Long Island is pleased to announce its selection as one of this year’s Preserve New York (PNY) grantees. The grant of $7,900will allow Preservation Long Island (PLI) to hire CTA Architects and Collado Engineers of New York City to complete a building condition report that focuses on Joseph Lloyd Manor’s structural and environmental control needs. By studying these important aspects of the . . .
Grant Year: 2019
The Fireboat Fire Fighter Museum has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Robert David Lion Gardinerto support restoration work to the 134 foot vessel. The Fireboat Fire Fighter Museum was founded in 2012, and is essentially the Fireboat “Fire Fighter”, a National Historic Landmark vessel, Gallant Ship Award winner (1974), 9/11 Hero Ship, and Queen of the FDNY Fleet. She also is the longest serving fir . . .
Grant Year: 2019
The Oyster Bay Railroad Museum has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to support the restoration of the historic landmark station. This project brings another venue to the period circa 1902 when Theodore Roosevelt was president. It was a time when he travelled to and from his home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, to New York City, Washington D.C. and beyond, b . . .
Grant Year: 2019
Guild Hall, one of the first multidisciplinary centers in the country to combine a museum, theater, and education space under one roof, was established in 1931 as a gathering place for the community where an appreciation for the arts would serve to encourage greater civic participation. For nearly nine decades, Guild Hall has embraced this open-minded vision and provided a welcoming environment for the pu . . .
Order of the Ancient and Honorable Huntington Militia
Grant Year: 2019
Oyster Bay, New York…..The Ancient and Honorable Huntington Militia presents a demonstration and sale of handmade colonial crafts and trades in a free exhibition at Raynham Hall Museum on Saturday, December 14, from 11 AM to 4 PM. Artisans will demonstrate silver working, weaving, horn and leather work, basket making, embroidery and other crafts of the 18th century. Finished work by the craftspeople will be ava . . .
Long Island Radio & Television Historical Society
Grant Year: 2019
LIRTVHS DESCRIPTION: The Long Island Radio & Television Historical Society seeks to reflect a broader interest in the rich and diverse history of communications on Long Island from early wireless through the beginnings of radio and television. Through the years the society has exhibited in libraries, the Long Island Maritime Museum, schools and the Fire Island Lighthouse. The mission of LIRTVHS is to co . . .
Grant Year: 2018
The Caroline Church of Brookhaven in Setauket has received a second matching grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. The grant will cover the cost of replacing a cedar roof on the church’s 1887 Carriage Shed. Constructed by seven parishioners, and still standing in its original location on church property, it is one of the four contributing structures on the New York State and National . . .
Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation
Grant Year: 2018
The new interactive software display will highlight the displays in the First Order Fresnel Lens Building that is alongside the Fire Island Lighthouse. The display will consist of three touch screen monitors explaining and visualizing how the Fresnel Lens functions. The Light works display will include a set of movable lens that can be tuned and positioned to bend and focus the lens light. The displa . . .
Ward Melville Heritage Organization
Grant Year: 2018
The Ward Melville Heritage Organization is honored to enter into a partnership with the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for $18,000 to support The Courageous Women of the Revolutionary War, a series of living history performances about local women who played pivotal roles in American History. The performances will be showcased at The Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s (WMHO) historic properties, . . .
Grant Year: 2018
GHHN (Greater Hudson Heritage Network) is honored to enter into a partnership with the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for $50,000 for dedicated funding through the Conservation Treatment Grant Program to provide treatment procedures by professional conservators to aid in stabilizing, preserving, and making accessible to the public an array of unique objects ‘at risk’ in collections of Na . . .
Museum Association of New York
Grant Year: 2018
MANY (Museum Association of New York) is honored to enter into a partnership with the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for a $10,000 Capacity Building Grant to fund technology improvements that support MANY’s mission to serve New York’s 1,400 museums and 30,000 museum professionals. This funding provides new equipment and software that allows MANY to amplify member resources, exhibitions, and progra . . .
