HM Mini Grants
The Heritage Montgomery Mini-Grant Program supports non-profit organizations and local government entities that contribute to preserving, promoting, and interpreting the unique history, culture, and natural areas of the county.
Grants of $500 to $2,500 are awarded annually for programs consistent with Heritage Montgomery’s mission:
– Enhancing Montgomery County’s appeal to travelers who love history and culture
– Encouraging residents and visitors to understand and appreciate the history, culture, and natural areas of the county
– Promoting tourism and economic activity
– Fostering preservation and stewardship of historic buildings and sites
– Providing and encouraging others to provide interpretive and educational programs and services about local heritage
– Implementing, within Montgomery County, the provisions of the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority
FY 2024 Heritage Montgomery Mini-Grants
Materials for FY24 Mini-Grants are now available; applications will be due in September.
- FY24 Mini-Grant Guidelines
- FY24 Mini-Grant Application Narrative
- FY24 Mini-Grant Application Budget
- FY24 Mini-Grant Agreement
- FY24 Mini-Grant Final Report Template
Please contact HM Executive Director Sarah Rogers (director@heritagemontgomery.org) to discuss your project prior to beginning your application.
FY23 Mini-Grant Awards
HM is pleased to announce our FY 2023 Mini-Grant awards. This year 12 projects were funded for a total of $26,040.
- Amazing Theater – $2,500 for their Josiah Henson Project
- Button Farm – $2,500 for Events and Programming improvements
- Docs in Progress – $2,500 for the Villages Voices project
- Germantown Bank – $850 for landscape design
- Glen Echo Park – $1,690 for Spanish translated rack cards
- Montgomery Preservation, Inc. – $2,500 for the 150th anniversary of the Met
- MOOseum – $1,000 for rack cards
- National Capital Trolley Museum – $2,500 for the adaptive repurposing of CTCo trolley 1053
- Peerless Rockville – $2,500 Singage development and improved entryway to Peerless headquarters
- Sandy Spring Museum – $2,500 for phase two of the crowd sources transcription project
- Sandy Spring Slave Museum – $2,500 for an immersive experience project about African Americans in historic Sandy Spring
- Sugarland Ethno History Project – $2,500 for bench installment and signage replacement
- FY 2022 Mini Grants
- FY 2021 Mini Grants
- FY 2020 Mini Grants
- FY 2019 Mini Grants
- FY 2018 Mini Grants
- FY 2017 Mini Grants
- FY 2016 Mini Grants
- FY 2015 Mini Grants
- FY 2014 Mini Grants
- FY 2013 Mini Grants
- FY 2012 Mini Grants, 2nd round
- FY 2012 Mini Grants
- FY 2011 Mini Grants
- FY 2011 Mini Grants, 2nd round
- FY 2010 Mini Grants
- FY 2010 Mini Grants, 2nd round
- FY 2009 Mini Grants
- FY 2008 Mini Grants
- FY 2007-2006 Mini Grants
- FY 2005 Mini Grants