Grant Portfolio

Caroline Church of Brookhaven

Caroline Church of Brookhaven

Grant Year: 2017

The grant is to be used for the Shed Stabilization of the Caroline Church of Brookhaven.

Cutchogue New Suffolk Historical Council

Cutchogue New Suffolk Historical Council

Grant Year: 2017

The Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council, founded in 1960 and now administering six historic buildings on the local Village Green, is funded to inventory its artifacts and digitize the data to facilitate the efficient management, exhibition and security of its varied collections.

Eastville Comunity Historical Society

Eastville Comunity Historical Society

Grant Year: 2017

The grant supports the exhition "Native American Life on the East End" which looks at the Eastville community through a collection of photographs, selected artifacts and research, providing a full narrative about the early Native American presence in Eastville with sub-themes that include: kinship, labor, geography, Whaling families, Women’s roles and relationships, and the development of Sag Harbor community.

Fire Island Lightouse Preservation Society

Fire Island Lightouse Preservation Society

Grant Year: 2017

The grant will arrange for research, writing, photography and publishing of the book Fire Island Lighthouse; Long Island’s Welcoming Beacon and develop a display of photographs in the Fresnel Lens Building.

Historical Society of Port Jefferson

Historical Society of Port Jefferson

Grant Year: 2017

The grant provides funding to the Society to purchase materials, equipment and supplies to properly care for the Museum collections.

Jamesport Meeting House

Jamesport Meeting House

Grant Year: 2017

The generous grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation has been used to install an air conditioning system and to restore an early twentieth century kitchen.

Long Island Maritime Museum

Long Island Maritime Museum

Grant Year: 2017

Maintainance of the sailing vessel "Priscilla".

Miller Place - Mt. Sinai Historical Society

Miller Place - Mt. Sinai Historical Society

Grant Year: 2017

The grant will be used to upgrade and enhance the format and capabilities of its current website and social media platforms.

Northport Historical Society

Northport Historical Society

Grant Year: 2017

The funding will be used to strengthen and enhance the stewardship of the Society’s historic collection and resources and provide for greater outreach to the communities it serves, namely: Northport, East Northport, Asharoken, Eaton’s Neck, Crab Meadow, and Fort Salonga.

Old Westbury Gardens

Old Westbury Gardens

Grant Year: 2017

The grant will be used to help recreate and restore the service wing portico and courtyard at Westbury House.

Parrish Art Museum

Parrish Art Museum

Grant Year: 2017

The grant will support Parrish Gateway - an initiative that will enable the Museum to share a trove of important, and in some cases exclusive, information about the region’s rich artistic legacy with scholars, historians, curators, teachers, students, and the general public.

Museum of Democracy

Museum of Democracy

Grant Year: 2017

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation approved a $100,000 grant to the Museum of Democracy to catalog, preserve, and manage a collection of approximately one million historical American art, artifacts and memorabilia.