Grants to South Carolina Nonprofits, Local Governments, and Institutions for Historic Preservation

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04/28/22 5:00 PM Receipt

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Geographic Focus

USA: South Carolina

Federal Historic Preservation Grants

South Carolina Department of Archives and History - State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)

Agency: State

GrantWatch ID #167372

Grant Description

Grants of up to $35,000 to South Carolina nonprofit organizations, local governments, and institutions for the preservation of historic resources. Applicants must contact the funding source prior to applying. Funding is intended for a range of survey and planning projects, as well as the stabilization of historically significant buildings.

Survey and Planning Projects

Priority project areas

Publications and reports will be produced in digital format only. Grants are encouraged for a variety of historic preservation projects under the following categories:

Identifying, Recording, and Recognizing Historic Properties
Planning for Historic Districts and Multiple Historic Properties
Strengthening Local Government Historic Preservation Programs
Preservation Education
Planning for Individual Historic Properties

For more details on the above categories, see the URL for Full Text link below.

Stabilization Projects

CLG grant funds may be used to help pay for stabilization repairs to National Register-listed buildings. Examples of eligible projects include replacing a leaking roof, repairing the structural framework of a building, and repairing deteriorated doors and windows to make a building watertight. Projects that are not eligible include routine building maintenance, climate control systems, plumbing or electrical, repairs to cemetery grave markers, and routine cemetery maintenance. Interior work is not eligible unless it is structural. All work must meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation (https://www.nps.gov/tps/standards/rehabilitation.htm). Stabilization projects require a preservation covenant agreement of up to 20 years be recorded with the property deed.

Eligible Activities and Products

Eligible products include, but are not limited to, historic property survey forms and reports, National Register nominations, preservation plans, design guidelines, and educational activities. For information about eligible activities and products, see the Guide to Federal Grant Projects in Supporting Documents below.

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Eligibility:

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)

Additional Eligibility Criteria:

Any local government, non-profit, or institution in South Carolina may apply for a Federal Historic Preservation Grant.

The SHPO’s first priority will be to fund projects in South Carolina’s Certified Local Governments (CLGs). If funding is available after the required CLG minimum is met, then non-CLG projects may also be selected for funding to help support local historic preservation activities. CLG grants are awarded to the local government, or its designated third-party (which can be a non-profit organization).

South Carolina's CLGs are: Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Beaufort, Bennettsville, Bluffton, Blythewood, Charleston, Cheraw, Chester, Chesterfield, Clinton, Columbia, Conway, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Fort Mill, Georgetown, Greenville, Greenwood, Greer, Hartsville, Horry County, Laurens, Lexington, McClellanville, McCormick, Mount Pleasant, Rock Hill, Seneca, Spartanburg, Sullivan’s Island, Summerville, Sumter, and York.

Archaeologists, architectural historians, historians, and architects that work with grant-assisted projects must meet minimum qualifications required by the National Park Service.

Applications involving projects where the applicant has already selected consultants prior to submittal of the grant application will not be selected for funding.

For educational activities, grant funds will not be awarded for websites, exhibits, interpretive signage, oral history projects, or archival research projects.

For building stabilization projects, projects that are not eligible include routine maintenance, climate control, plumbing and electrical, repairs to cemetery grave markers, and routine cemetery maintenance. Interior work is not eligible unless it is structural.

Pre-Application Information:

The deadline for submittal of 2022 Applications is 5:00 PM on April 28, 2022.

Contact Brad Sauls, Grants Manager, before you apply to discuss your potential project.

Applications must be submitted in hard copy. Faxed applications and applications submitted electronically will not be accepted.

This grant program requires a 50% match from the grantee.

Because these are 50/50 reimbursable matching grants, each grant applicant must demonstrate a dollar-for-dollar match and pay for the project costs up front. Matching funds must be from any non-federal source, except in the case of Community Development Block Grant funds and certain tribal funds. The SHPO will reimburse grantees after it approves the project work and receives appropriate documentation of expenditures.

Additional Funding Information:

Estimated Total Program Funding:

$200,000

Estimated Size of Grant:

Grant awards usually range from $2,500 to $25,000. The maximum amount awarded is $35,000.

Term of Contract:

All 2022 grant-funded work must be approved and completed not later than September 30, 2023. No extensions will be granted beyond this date.

Contact Information:

Submit applications to:

Brad Sauls
2022 Federal Historic Preservation Grants
State Historic Preservation Office
SC Dept. of Archives and History
8301 Parklane Road
Columbia, SC 29223-4905

Brad Sauls, Supervisor of Survey, Registration, and Grants
803-896-6172
bsauls@scdah.sc.gov