The deadline for FY2009 competitive grant awards is anticipated for Spring 2009 dependent on funding. Applications will be submitted through an on-line process.

The 2008 Save America's Treasures grant awards have been announced. Please click on "funded projects" to view the complete list. Click here for the Press Release and 2008 Awards List.

The Federal Save America’s Treasures program is one of the largest and most successful grant programs for the protection of our nation’s endangered and irreplaceable and endangered cultural heritage. Grants are available for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and historic structures and sites. Intellectual and cultural artifacts include artifacts, collections, documents, sculpture, and works of art. Historic structures and sites include historic districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects.

Grants are awarded to Federal, state, local, and tribal government entities, and non-profit organizations through a competitive matching-grant program, administered by the National Park Service in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

The Save America's Treasures program received the 2007 Keystone Award, the highest award given to organizations outside the architectural field for outstanding contributions to society, from the American Institute of Architects and the American Architectural Foundation.

Presented at the 18th Annual Accent on Architecture Gala held in February 2007 in Washington, DC, the award recognizes the program's public-private partnership role in protecting and preserving the architectural, artistic and cultural legacy of the United States. The Keystone Award recognizes outstanding leadership in the field of architecture and design by organizations or individuals outside of the architectural profession that enriches and transforms communities.