Grant Portfolio
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
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
Grant Year: 2017
The grant provides funding to the Society to purchase materials, equipment and supplies to properly care for the Museum collections.
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.
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.
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.
Grant Year: 2017
The grant will be used to help recreate and restore the service wing portico and courtyard at Westbury House.
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.
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.
Grant Year: 2017
The grant was instrumental for the purpose of restoring the historic Epenetus Smith Tavern front porch.
Grant Year: 2017
The Foundation gave $120,000 to Stony Brook University’s Department of History to establish five undergraduate scholarships and a graduate student fellowship.
