Grant Portfolio > 2025
Grant Year: 2025
About the Landmarks Conservancy: The New York Landmarks Conservancy, a private non-profit organization, has loaned and granted more than $62 million, which has leveraged almost $1 billion in restoration projects throughout New York, revitalizing communities, providing economic stimulus, and supporting local jobs. The Conservancy has also offered countless hours of pro bono technical advice to building . . .
Grant Year: 2025
On Monday, July 28th, Celebrate St. James will take its first exciting step toward transforming a dream into reality; the creation of a vibrant community Cultural Arts Center, theatre, and plaza. This milestone marks the beginning of a new chapter in our mission to preserve and celebrate the rich history and creative spirit of St. James. Thanks to a generous $211,300 matching grant from the Gardiner Foundation, . . .
The Northport Historical Society
Grant Year: 2025
The Northport Historical Society was founded in 1962 by a group of citizens concerned about preserving our shared history. In 1974, the Society found its permanent home in the old Northport Library building, an original Carnegie Library built in 1914. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The mission of the Northport Historical Society and Museum is to preserve and . . .
Grant Year: 2025
The New York Historical is dedicated to increasing worldwide understanding of American history through exhibitions, public programs, online outreach, and research that reveal the dynamism of history and its influence on the world today. New York’s first museum, we are a leading cultural institution documenting over 400 years of American history through a peerless collection of art, documents, and artifacts. . . .
Alice Austen House & Historic Richmond Town | Staten Island, NY
Grant Year: 2025
The AAH will begin work in 2026 to bring the Austen collection fully online from repatriation of a near-complete archive of photographs by seminal American photographer Alice Austen (1866–1952). This landmark acquisition, transferred from Historic Richmond Town, includes more than 2,600 cellulose nitrate negatives, over 2,000 glass plate negatives and 1,500 photographic prints, along with more than 300 . . .
The Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame
Grant Year: 2025
About The Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Established in 2004, the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating the rich music and entertainment heritage of Long Island—from Brooklyn to Montauk—and supporting music and arts education for future generations. The organization honors artists across all genres, including classical, . . .
Grant Year: 2025
Historic Richmond Town interprets and restores a living history village, operates a historical museum, and collects and preserves material culture to inspire engagement with and understanding of Staten Island's diverse histories. The organization maintains and preserves 38 historic structures, including the largest collection of the oldest houses in New York State, and oversees over 112 acres of preserved . . .
East Hampton Historical Society
Grant Year: 2025
Funding from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation enabled the East Hampton Historical Society to purchase compact mobile and static collections storage equipment for its new 5,760 sq. ft. Collections Center, which is the final component of a $1.5 million project to advance collections stewardship and access. After the construction of the new building was completed in early April, technicians from Delta . . .
Long Island History Day | Long Island History Day
Grant Year: 2025
Long Island History Day is the regional contest for the National History Day Competition. Students across Long Island spend months preparing projects that showcase their historical research related to an annual theme set by National History Day (NHD). For 2025, the theme was: “Rights and Responsibilities in History.” There are two divisions: Junior (grades 6-8) and Senior (grades . . .
MONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OPENS RUMRUNNING EXHIBITION | Montauk, Ny
Grant Year: 2025
MONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OPENS RUMRUNNING EXHIBITION WITH SUPPORT OF R. D. L. GARDINER FOUNDATION MONTAUK, NY, June 28, 2025 — The Montauk Historical Society proudly announces the opening of HOW DRY WE WEREN’T: RUMRUNNING & MOONSHINE IN MONTAUK, an immersive, interactive exhibition that tells stories about local people and how they coped — and even thrived — during Prohibition. . . .
The Association of Public Historians of NYS Conference
Grant Year: 2025
The Association of Public Historians of NYS held a very successful conference in Port Jefferson, gathering together municipal historians from all over New York for several days. The conference which is an annual event that travels to a different section of the state every year. It had been ten years since the last conference held on Long Island, and with the rising prices we would have not been able to afford having the conference here without the help of the RDLG Foundation grant.
Center for Research within The Green-Wood Cemetery | Brooklyn, NY
Grant Year: 2025
A grant of $500,000 from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation will support the creation of a Center for Research within The Green-Wood Cemetery’s upcoming Welcome Center, set to open to the public in spring 2026. An integral part of the new building, the Center for Research will provide ways for the public to engage with Green-Wood’s rich history and 187+ years of archival records. It will . . .
