Grant Portfolio
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 . . .
Grant Year: 2021
Ketcham Inn Foundation, Inc. interprets over 330 years of history on Long Island's South Shore. Established in 1989, the Foundation developed a mission to restore the Terry-Ketcham Inn, a settlement site, resident blacksmith, social center, meeting house, former stagecoach stop between Manhattan and Sag Harbor during the 18th and 19th century. Today a well established living History Museum and Cultural . . .
Hudson Archival - New Amsterdam History Center
Grant Year: 2021
An encyclopedia of Dutch Colonial History linked to maps of the Castello Plan (the earliest map of New Amsterdam) the Mapping Early New York project provides dynamic historic context to the geography of New York State in the form of an interactive digital map. Layers of the map include accessible graphic representations and original documents that relate people and places. The Timeline feature is a window . . .
Grant Year: 2021
The Gardiner-Shenker Student Scholars Program encourages students not only to learn about history of their communities, but also to see themselves as a part of the history of New York City. The program provides close mentorship between students, professors, and staff while introducing students to primary research methods using different collections from the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives. (Past projects . . .
Grant Year: 2021
Hallockville Museum Farm has been awarded a $9,788 grant by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to be used to create a high-tech, virtual Sustainability Trail at Hallockville. The trail will make use of some 30 informational guide signs that already dot the Hallockville grounds. Each sign will be fitted with a QR code. When scanned by a tour taker with a camera app on a smartphone, an audio narration . . .
