Grant Portfolio
Grant Year: 2017
Raynham Hall Museum in Oyster Bay, NY, home of Robert Townsend, a spy for George Washington, has just been awarded a crucial grant of over $400,000 from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, propelling the Museum across the finish line on fundraising for its capital campaign restoration and adaptive re-use project.
Grant Year: 2017
RDLG supports the Yaphank Historical Society with a grant for Historic Yaphank - “where the past meets the present”. Yaphank was the heart of Long Island’s milling industry in the mid-19th century, and its scenic lakes and wood shingled houses still tell the story of this period.
Grant Year: 2017
The Quogue Wildlife Refuge has been awarded a grant in the amount of $142,778.00 to support the restoration and rebuilding of the Fairy Dell Boardwalk.
Grant Year: 2017
Sag Harbor Partnership’s grant award supports the SANS (Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, Ninevah Subdivisions) Cultural Resource Survey (CRS), which will document SANS' 65+ year historic, architectural, and cultural significance evolving from the mid-century, pre-Civil Rights era through current times.
Grant Year: 2017
The RDLG Foundation awarded the Brooklyn Historical Society a $1.2 million grant to support a project that will exponentially increase public access to the institution’s vast collection of Long Island materials through processing, cataloging, conservation, digitization, and the creation of a web-based Long Island History Portal. This initiative will also extend the useful life of these materials, as the . . .
Grant Year: 2017
Iona College has been awarded a total of $1 million in grant money from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to enhance the College’s Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (ITPS). An additional $750,000 grant was recently awarded following the first $250,000 in late 2016.
Grant Year: 2017
$70,000 from two grants awarded by The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Fund Fenimore Art Museum’s New Publication and Programs based on their Hamilton-Burr Letter Collection.
The Whaling Museum & Education Center of Cold Spring Harbor
Grant Year: 2017
The Whaling Museum & Education Center has received a grant of $11,900 for a new HVAC system to aid in the preservation of artifacts in its climate-controlled collection storage. The funding will replace an outdated HVAC unit and ensure that school groups, visitors, and scholars will be able to continue to appreciate in the artifacts that remain from the region’s maritime history.
Grant Year: 2017
The $25K match grant funds will be used to create a Prohibition exhibit using items from the Museum of Democracy (MoD) collection for display at the Bridgehampton Museum in Long Island, NY. The exhibit showcases Long Island's prominent and prosperous role in smuggling, as well as items depicting the rest of America's varied opinions during that Era.
Grant Year: 2017
The RDLG Foundation provided New York University with a $1 million grant to expand its Community College Transfer Opportunity Program (CCTOP). The grant will provide financial aid and supportive programming to enable a total of 20 high-need students from New York and Long Island community colleges to transfer into NYU’s College of Arts and Science where they will major in the humanities, devoting a port . . .
Smithtown Historical Society Going Forward
Grant Year: 2017
The Smithtown Historical Society received a $10,568.00 grant from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for the purpose to develop a new website with a walking tour mobile app and new technology equipment.
