Grant Portfolio
Grant Year: 2020
The RDLGF awarded the Jazz Loft a $40,000 grant to support a project that will create a modern, functioning space for the Loft’s archiving project to inventory and digitalize the more than 10,000 historical Jazz artifacts in the possession of the museum and renovate the building’s basement, which dates to the 1770’s, to serve as the archive project’s center of operation. This project will extend the useful . . .
Grant Year: 2020
The Gardiner Foundation is supporting the development of a series of heritage tours by Long Island Traditions that will be part of the TravelStorys app (https://www.travelstorys.com/). The tours will explore Long Island’s maritime culture and ethnic heritage, through stories collected by Long Island Traditions. Stops will include the Scopinich boat yard in Freeport, south shore bay houses, the site of . . .
Historical Society of Greater Port Jefferson
Grant Year: 2019
The Historical Society of Greater Port Jefferson is pleased to announce that a grant request to the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation has been awarded. The Historical Society has received a 50% matching grant to support the Historical Society’s project to replace the cedar shingle roof on the Mather Museum complex’s Marine Barn and Tool Shed, both historic and significant buildings. The Historical . . .
Grant Year: 2019
The Islip Arts Council is a 42-year-old 501c3 that is dedicated to presenting and promoting programs that achieve excellence in all of the arts. IAC is the managing agency of the Islip Art Museum which is owned by the Town of Islip. IAC/IAM are located in historic Brookwood Hall on the South Shore of Suffolk County in a Georgian Revival mansion build in 1903 for the Knapp family. The Islip Arts Council office is located in the Islip Art Museum in Brookwood Hall .
Grant Year: 2019
With a $100,000 matching grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, The New York State Archives Partnership Trust is proud to announce the launching of our Consider the Source Online education project. This transformative statewide project brings together teachers, cultural institutions, and content specialists to develop an online network of learning communities and access to new resources and . . .
Grant Year: 2019
The Freeport Historical Society is honored to enter into a partnership with the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for a $3,000 grant to purchase new hardware and collection management software which will support the Society’s mission to promote and encourage historical research and to gather and disseminate information concerning the history of the Village of Freeport. The historical society was . . .
Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyfffe
Grant Year: 2019
Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (TSCW) is a non-profit with a mission to establish a global center on the site of inventor Nikola Tesla's last remaining laboratory that will preserve, restore, and advance his legacy of invention and perseverance through education and innovation. Nikola Tesla was one of history's most influential inventors and his laboratory at Wardenclyffe is an international landmark . . .
Grant Year: 2019
The Yaphank Historical Society is pleased to announce they will receive a grant of $20,000 from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation as partial funding to build capacity in the organization by improving technology access to its historic houses and collections. The grant will be used to create an interactive software program to enhance the visitor experience at the recently restored Homan Gerard House . . .
Grant Year: 2019
The Roslyn Landmark Society is honored to enter into a partnership with The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation for a $100,000 grant for the Roslyn Grist Mill Project. This grant will help fund the construction of a new concrete foundation with stone veneer utilizing the existing foundation stones. Since the grant award in October 2019 the preparations for the new foundation began in November 2019 with . . .
Preservation League of New York State
Grant Year: 2019
Preservation Long Island is pleased to announce its selection as one of this year’s Preserve New York (PNY) grantees. The grant of $7,900will allow Preservation Long Island (PLI) to hire CTA Architects and Collado Engineers of New York City to complete a building condition report that focuses on Joseph Lloyd Manor’s structural and environmental control needs. By studying these important aspects of the building’s . . .
Grant Year: 2019
The Fireboat Fire Fighter Museum has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Robert David Lion Gardinerto support restoration work to the 134 foot vessel. The Fireboat Fire Fighter Museum was founded in 2012, and is essentially the Fireboat “Fire Fighter”, a National Historic Landmark vessel, Gallant Ship Award winner (1974), 9/11 Hero Ship, and Queen of the FDNY Fleet. She also is the longest serving fireboat . . .
Grant Year: 2019
The Oyster Bay Railroad Museum has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to support the restoration of the historic landmark station. This project brings another venue to the period circa 1902 when Theodore Roosevelt was president. It was a time when he travelled to and from his home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, to New York City, Washington D.C. and beyond, by . . .
