Veterans Heritage Grants

The Veterans’ Heritage Grant program for fiscal year 2022 is closed. For information about the previous grant cycle, please see below:

Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin and the Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) are pleased to announce a new round of funding for matching grants to preserve objects, sites, and document collections that are significant to the history and experiences of military veterans in the Commonwealth.

The program is open to Massachusetts municipalities and non-profit organizations, such as libraries, historical societies and commissions, museums, schools, and universities. Grants provide state matching funds of up to 50 percent of a project's total cost. Applicants can apply for up to $15,000 per project for this funding cycle.

Eligible projects must be relevant to veterans and their military encounters, and may include:

preservation or digitization of historic documents and photographs;
increased access to archival collections;
oral history projects;
renovation, rehabilitation, restoration, or enhancement of existing monuments or memorials;
proposals to construct new markers for historically significant sites;
planning projects will also be considered

Please note that general civic enhancement projects, such as flag poles or public green spaces, will not be accepted.

To apply:

Review the Grant guidelines (PDF)
The submission period for Letters of Intent is now closed. Final grant applications were due on January 9, 2022 by 11:59pm.