FOR ELIGIBLE HISTORIC STRUCTURES, ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES, ARCHEOLOGICAL CURATORIAL FACILITIES, AND HERITAGE EDUCATION PROJECTS
The Texas Historical Commission (THC) awards grants for preservation projects from the Texas Preservation Trust Fund (TPTF). Created by the Texas Legislature in 1989, the TPTF is an interest-earning pool of public and private monies. The earned interest and designated gifts are distributed yearly as matching grants to qualified applicants for the acquisition, survey, restoration, preservation or for the planning and educational activities leading to the preservation of historic properties, archeological sites and associated collections of the State of Texas. Competitive grants are awarded on a one-to-one match basis and are paid as reimbursement of eligible expenses incurred during the project.  Applications will be available early each year.

TPTF Program Information (PDF)

FISCAL YEAR 2010 GRANT CYCLE
The TPTF grant cycle is typically once a year. Information will be posted on this web site when funds become available.

FISCAL YEAR 2009 GRANT CYCLE
Applications are no longer being accepted for the TPTF Fiscal Year 2009 grant cycle. Furthermore, the economic downturn over the past several months has also taken its toll on the TPTF. The Trust Fund is managed by the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company and they have informed us that revenues for the current year will be substantially lower than they have been over the past several years. Due to market fluctuations, the actual amount that could be made available for grants will be difficult to determine. This gives the THC an opportunity to make a positive change in the way that we administer the TPTF grant program, but it will mean that we will not make grant awards again until the fall of 2009. The THC apologizes for any inconvenience this might create, but assure you that it will strengthen the grant program and that future rounds will benefit from this change in strategy.

For use as a sample only the Fiscal Year 2009 application and guidelines are available by selecting the links below. Although different, the Fiscal Year 2010 grant application will be very similar, so the forms below can be used as a guide to the program requirements.

Sample- Fiscal Year 2009 TPTF Grant Application Guidelines (PDF)
Sample- Fiscal Year 2009 TPTF Grant Application (PDF)
Sample- Fiscal Year 2009 TPTF Grant Application (Word)

TPTF PREVIOUS GRANT AWARDS
2008 TPTF Grant Awards with description (PDF)
2007 TPTF Grant Awards with description (PDF)
2006 TPTF Grant Award List (PDF)
2005 TPTF Grant Award List (PDF)
2004 TPTF Grant Award List (PDF)
2003 TPTF Grant Award List (PDF)
2002 TPTF Grant Award List (PDF)
2001 TPTF Grant Award List (PDF)
2000 TPTF Grant Award List (PDF)
1999 TPTF Grant Award List (PDF)
1998 TPTF Grant Award List (PDF)
1997 TPTF Grant Award List (PDF)

For questions contact:
THC Architecture Division at 512/463-6094. Questions relating to acquisition, development, planning or education grant applications or general program questions.
THC History Programs Division at 512/463-5853. Questions relating to survey planning applications or historical significance of architecture.
THC Archeology Division at 512/463-6096. Questions relating to acquisition, curatorial, archeology education, planning or development archeology or Texas Archeology Month grant applications.