2023 Grants and Partnership Funding

Awarded by the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust (now the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation)

Grants

American College of the Building Arts    $100,000
Support of the Student Externship Program for summer 2024

Clemson Grad. Program in Historic Preservation     $54,000
Support of the 2024 Jenrette Interns and Fellow for 2024

White House Historical Association     $35,000
Support for internship program for White House Curator and senior historian

Association for Preservation Technology     $30,000
Educational partner and support of student participation at the 2024 conference

University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Historic Preservation      $30,000
Support of Summer 2024 Field Study and Internship Program

Columbia University, Preservation Technology Lab     $30,000
Support of Graduate Research Assistants at the Preservation Technology Lab and a convening to advance the lab’s research

University of SC Library (Digitization Project)     $25,000
Student support for Digitization (Phase 1) of the Manning Papers

Tulane University Dept. of Historic Preservation     $25,000
Support of a new initiative to provide students hands-on experiences with historic crafts

Decorative Arts Trust     $20,000
Support of Emerging Scholars Colloquium

Institute for Classical Art & Architecture     $15,000
Support of 2023 Annual Conference

Partnership Funding

Historic New England     $6,000
Support of annual awards event for 2024

Architects Foundation—Octagon House     $5,000
Support of house museum, Washington, DC

Municipal Arts Society Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal     $5,000
Support of the event

Design Trust for Public Space     $5,000
Support of a high school level summer historic preservation internship program in NYC

Arts Ignite     $5,000
General Operating Support for Arts Education

University of South Carolina History Department      $5,000
Sponsorship of the History of Forestry Conference, which visited Millford

NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project     $5,000
Support of general activities; notation of Baker House in website guide

Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum     $4,000
Annual Meeting of the American Country House Foundation

Prestwould     $2,500
Support of an 18th Century Virginia House Museum

Preservation North Carolina     $2,500
To the Myrick Howard Internship Endowment

The Cultural Landscape Foundation     $2,500
Support of 2023 tour + Mid-Hudson Valley guide booklet

Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest     $1,000
Sponsorship of a program held in Raleigh, NC

Thomas Day House/Union Tavern Association     $1,000
Support of historic site associated with a free Black craftsman

Thompson Fellowship Partner Funding

In honor of the student, a percentage of the funding goes to each graduate program or institution where the student is matriculated or is employed.

Bard Graduate Center     $1,000 

University of Southern California     $1,000
Department of Art History

Middle Tennessee State University     $1,000
Center for Historic Preservation

Boston University     $1,000
American & New England Studies Program

TOTAL Grants and Partnership Funding Awarded in 2023: $417,500

Currently, the Jenrette Foundation does not accept unsolicited grant requests.