Grant Portfolio
Longwood Alliance | MIDDLE ISLAND, NY
Grant Year: 2023
Longwood Alliance Receives Gardiner Foundation Grant for Two New Books that Map Local History, Offer Strolls Down Memory Lane in Coram and Middle Island MIDDLE ISLAND, NY, April 19, 2023 - Long Island history lovers have two new literary treats this spring, thanks to a generous grant from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation of New York. They are CORAM: Farms, Families & . . .
Historic Tavern House at the Humes Preserve | Mill Neck, NY.
Grant Year: 2023
The North Shore Land Alliance is honored to have been awarded a grant through the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for the adaptive reuse of the historic Tavern House located within the Humes Preserve. This historic structure in Mill Neck can be traced back to the mid-1700s with the wood-framed Tavern House, serving as a tavern, farmhand quarters, and a guest cottage and summer home for Ambassador . . .
Museum Association of New York | Troy, NY
Grant Year: 2023
This three-year, $150,000 grant to support MANY’s virtual programs and provide professional development opportunities for Long Island Museum professionals. It will provide instrumental support for three years of MANY’s free virtual programming and will feature museum professionals from across the country to share their experiences and case studies of program activities in order to help museum professionals . . .
New York Archives Magazine Reimagined | Albany, NY
Grant Year: 2023
Celebrating over 20 years, the New York Archives Magazine is the only education publication in circulation on New York State history written for a general audience as told through historical documents from around the state. Thanks to the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, our New York Archives Magazine Reimagined initiative will expand readership to be more inclusive of the diversity of New York State’s . . .
Preservation League of New York State | Albany, NY
Grant Year: 2023
The Preservation League of New York State received $135,000 from the Gardiner Foundation to allow the League to bring grant opportunities and extended outreach for the next 3 years to local historical societies and historic sites on Long Island. The Preservation League's partnership with the Gardiner Foundation first began in 2017, and in the five years since, $120,000 of Gardiner funds have supported 18 . . .
New York Transit Museum | Brooklyn, New York
Grant Year: 2022
Thanks to a generous grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, Friends of the New York Transit Museum will catalog and digitize the extensive and historically significant archival material in the New York Transit Museum collection that inextricably links the role of transportation to the history and development of Long Island – including documents, photographs, maps, postcards, timetables, ephemera, . . .
Grant Year: 2022
The Hart Nichols Collection (1730-1930) is curated by the Long Island Studies Institute at Hofstra University with the support of the Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation. The collection spans the years 1730 to 1930 and covers the lives of two families who lived on Long Island that started out as farmers and clergy. The extensive collection of documents and artifacts ranges from personal letters to family artwork . . .
Grant Year: 2022
Founded in 1952 by William R. Coe, the Planting Fields Foundation strives to preserve and make relevant to all audiences the heritage of Planting Fields, an early 20th century 409-acre estate, designed as an integrated composition of the built and natural world. The four applications that were awarded by the Robert David Gardiner Foundation will enable Planting Fields Foundation to present a series of . . .
Grant Year: 2021
The Tenement Museum has been awarded a $100,000 grant by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. The funds will support the redevelopment of the Museum’s Your Story, Our Story digital personal storytelling initiative, bringing new educational resources to museums and historic sites throughout Long Island and New York City addressing the role of race and American identity. The Tenement Museum teaches . . .
Grant Year: 2021
The Montauk Historical Society (MHS) has announced receipt of a grant of $390,700 from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for the restoration of the iconic 225-year-old sandstone and brick Montauk Point Lighthouse. The lighthouse, commissioned in 1792 by President George Washington, was built in 1796 and has served as an aid to navigation ever since. Citing high maintenance costs, the U. S. Coast . . .
Grant Year: 2021
The Robert D. L. Gardiner Foundation is partnering with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Library and Archives in a novel STEM history program to raise public awareness of Long Island’s rich history of fostering advances in science and technology. The program incorporates a History of Science Scholar, a dedicated website, annual lectures and exhibits. The goal of the two-year $250,000 grant is . . .
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Grant Year: 2021
Mapping Historical New Your - Phase II: Columbia University has been awarded a major grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to create an online, interactive atlas of historic New York City spanning the years 1820 to 1940. The project is a collaboration of Columbia’s History Department and the Center for Spatial Research in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). The . . .
