Virginia's Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Historic Preservation Grant Program

About this grant

The BIPOC Historic Preservation Fund provides grants to protect and support historically underserved and underrepresented communities and the cultural and historical sites associated with them. Funds support acquisition, rehabilitation, stabilization, and data recovery of historic and archaeological sites of significance associated with Virginia's Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. Eligible properties must be listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register or National Register of Historic Places, designated a National Historic Landmark, or determined eligible by DHR.

Eligibility details

• Notes: Eligible applicants: state-recognized or federally recognized Indian tribes, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, and Virginia localities. Eligible projects include purchase of fee simple or protective interest in real property, rehabilitation, stabilization, and data recovery (e.g., archaeological excavation) of cultural or historical property associated with Black, Indigenous, or people of color communities. Properties must be listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register, National Register of Historic Places, designated a National Historic Landmark, or determined eligible for such listing by DHR. Ineligible: reconstruction, moving historic properties, collections work, endowments/revolving funds, lobbying, projects already completed or funded by other state/federal programs, and stand-alone architectural survey for listing purposes.

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