Grants & Funding Opportunities – DHR

DHR Grants & Funding

DHR administers several grant opportunities that provide financial and technical assistance to support the preservation and protection of historic resources in Virginia.

DHR uses a web-based grant management portal called WebGrants. To register for WebGrants and apply for any current funding opportunities, please click this link. Registrants in WebGrants will also be notified when there are new or reoccurring grant opportunities.

DHR currently does not have any grant programs available for rehabilitation or construction on private property.

grants@dhr.virginia.gov

Grants

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African American Cemetery & Graves Fund

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ESHPF Helene Grant Program

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Virginia 250 Preservation Fund

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Virginia's Maritime Heritage Subgrant Program

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Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants Program- Appalachian Southwest Virginia

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Virginia Battlefield Preservation Fund

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Threatened Sites Grant Program

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Cost Share Grants

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Certified Local Government Grants (CLG)

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Revolutionary War Graves and Cemeteries Fund

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Virginia’s Black, Indigenous, And People of Color Historic Preservation Grant Program

Contact Us

Caitlin Sylvester

Grant Coordinator

grants@dhr.virginia.gov

MORE DHR PROGRAMS

Certified Local Government

Communities strengthen and expand their local preservation programs through Certified Local Government (CLG) designation. The CLG program was created by the National Historic Preservation Act of 19...

Federal & State Review

DHR's Review and Compliance Division reviews federal and state projects that may impact historic and cultural resources, and provides recommendations for protecting and preserving these resources.

Preservation Easements

DHR's Preservation Easement program allows property owners to voluntarily protect the historical, architectural and archaeological integrity of their property by placing a permanent preservation ea...

Historic Registers

DHR manages the Virginia Landmarks Register and National Register programs in Virginia. Both Registers are lists of historically and culturally significant properties in Virginia, including buildin...

VCRIS

The Virginia Cultural Resources Information System (VCRIS) is an online database that contains the inventory of buildings, districts, archaeological sites, and other types of properties. VCRIS allo...

Community Outreach

DHR Community Outreach seeks to meaningfully engage communities throughout the state to enrich Virginia Cultural Resource Information System documentation on historic architecture, archaeological s...