Grant Portfolio
LT Michael Murphy Navy Seal Museum
Grant Year: 2018
The project funded by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation is being used in conjunction with Museum construction funds to put in the foundation and enclose the Museum building which will house the Navy SEAL Museum and Sea Cadet Training Facility on County Parkland in West Sayville, New York. The foundation is going in as we speak and expect the building to be enclosed by March 2019.
The Gotham Center for New York City History
Grant Year: 2018
The Gotham Center is delighted to be partnering with the Gardiner Foundation on this new writing fellowship, supporting promising book manuscripts near completion. The awards, four one-year grants of $40,000 delivered in 2020 and 2021, will favor projects that explore the under-researched boroughs of New York, recognizing a natural but excessive fixation on Manhattan’s role in the history of the city. . . .
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Grant Year: 2018
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has been awarded a $500,000 grant over two years to support schools and teachers on Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens in their teaching of American history, thereby strengthening students’ academic performance. The grant will fund more than 200 new Gilder Lehrman Affiliate Schools in these areas; provide support to teachers from Brooklyn, Queens, and Lo . . .
Long Island University (Moses)
Grant Year: 2018
Long Island University will identify, preserve, and make accessible hundreds of thousands of hard copy New York State Parks-housed historical documents that showcase the legacy of celebrated urban planner Robert Moses who shaped Long Island’s parks, recreation facilities, bridges, and highways. LIU Post’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science will provide the professional expertise and technic . . .
Sagtikos Manor Historical Society
Grant Year: 2018
The Sagtikos Manor Historical Society has been awarded a $23,625 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for the conservation of historically significant artwork and furniture at the Suffolk County Parks historic house in West Bay Shore, NY. The grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation will provide for conservation of the 1834 William Sidney Mount portrait of Mrs. Mary How . . .
Oysterponds Historical Society, Inc.
Grant Year: 2018
The Oysterponds Historical Society is grateful to the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for its award of $53,330 to create a comprehensive collections care plan. OHS holds some of the most significant and deepest collections representing a single community on Long Island, with objects that exemplify life in Orient and East Marion from the seventeenth century through the present day. OHS is committed to . . .
Grant Year: 2018
The Cradle of Aviation Museum and Education Center is the proud recipient of a $100,000 grant from the Robert Lion Gardiner Foundation. The grant is being used to support a new traveling exhibit, “Space, A Journey to Our Future” along with supporting programs. The exhibit acknowledges the significant achievements of the past and looks to the future of space exploration. The exhibit will open to the pub . . .
Grant Year: 2018
Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810), an important Southampton silversmith and craftsman, created richly detailed, beautifully ornate, and shimmering eighteenth-century objects: teapots, pepper boxes, porringers, tankards and jewelry. This is the first museum exhibition devoted to exploring Pelletreau’s life and work since the Brooklyn Museum mounted one in 1959. Accompanied by a beautiful full-length catalo . . .
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association
Grant Year: 2018
Invigorate Whitman Exhibit Space for his 200th Birthday Year Celebration.
Walt Whitman Birthplace Association
Grant Year: 2018
On May 31, 2019, WWBA hosted a day full of revelries featuring music, performances, and a scholarly lecture. Later that day, Whitman enthusiasts for a “Happy Birthday Hour” toast in honor of his 200th Birthday. Compagnia de' Colombari, an international collective of performing artists founded and directed by Karin Coonrod, presents More Or Less I Am: a music-theater piece drawn entirely from Walt Whitman’ . . .
Grant Year: 2018
With support from the Gardiner Foundation, LI Traditions, in association with filmmakers Greg Blank and Barbara Weber will produce a feature length documentary about the south shore bay houses in the Town of Hempstead, dating back to the 1800s when baymen built shelters while they harvested clams, shellfish and wildfowl. The houses have been passed down from generation within the same families. Today there are approximately 30 bay houses in the Town.
Grant Year: 2018
The grant was used to fund the Meeting House’s new 1731 Concert Series and its Harvest Arts Festival. The 1731 Concert Series will feature three performances by professional New York-based ensembles and will include, but not be limited to music written around 1731. The Harvest Arts Festival began with a still life drawing class “Autumnal Light from 1731” with New York Times illustrator Rob Sheppe . . .
