Grant Portfolio > 2018
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 . . .
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 . . .
