Opportunity Information: Apply for P24AS00548
The FY2024 Historic Preservation Fund - Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Subgrant Program (Funding Opportunity Number P24AS00548) is a National Park Service discretionary grant that supports historic preservation as an economic development tool in rural communities. Instead of funding individual building projects directly, the program funds organizations that will run a local or regional subgrant program. In practice, the NPS award goes to an eligible applicant (the grantee), and that grantee then designs and administers a competitive subgrant process to select, fund, and manage multiple preservation projects within its jurisdiction. The overall aim is to rehabilitate historic properties in rural areas in ways that strengthen local economies, such as revitalizing downtowns, returning vacant buildings to use, or stabilizing and improving historic assets that can support small businesses, tourism, housing, or community services.
A key feature of this opportunity is that the money is intended to cover both planning and construction-related preservation needs tied to rehabilitation. Subgrant-funded work can include architectural and engineering services as well as physical preservation activities. That means a subgrant program can be structured to help communities pay for the professional design work and assessments needed to do projects correctly, and also support the hands-on rehabilitation work that preserves and restores historic buildings. The emphasis is on preservation outcomes that are credible, well-managed, and connected to broader rural revitalization goals.
Eligible applicants for the main NPS grant are entities capable of administering a subgrant program and overseeing compliance and project delivery. The opportunity lists the following as eligible applicants: State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs), Tribal Historic Preservation Offices (THPOs), Certified Local Governments (CLGs), special district governments (except school districts) located within a CLG, and nonprofit, tax-exempt U.S. organizations (with or without 501(c)(3) designation). The program also indicates broad applicant categories consistent with government-wide listings, including state, county, city/township governments, special district governments, federally recognized tribal governments, certain public/state institutions of higher education, and nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher education institutions under the nonprofit category). Regardless of the entity type, the applicant is expected to function as a pass-through administrator that can select subgrants, monitor performance, and manage funds responsibly.
Subgrant recipients and the properties they work on must meet specific eligibility rules. The historic properties must be listed in the National Register of Historic Places or be determined eligible for listing, and they must be located in rural areas and within the grantee's jurisdiction. A major limitation is that neither grants nor subgrants can be used for sites or collections that are owned or leased by the federal government, or where the federal government has a property interest. This restriction is important for applicants to screen early, since it affects eligibility even if the building is historically significant and in a rural area.
The program uses the U.S. Department of Agriculture definition of "rural" that applies to USDA Rural Business Programs. USDA generally defines rural America as nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas, based on counties. Nonmetro counties can include open countryside; rural towns (places with fewer than 5,000 people and 2,000 housing units); and smaller urban areas with populations up to 50,000, so long as they are not part of larger metropolitan areas. The notice points applicants to USDA's online mapping and address-lookup tool to confirm whether a specific location falls within an eligible rural/nonmetro area: https://eligibility.sc.egov.usda.gov/eligibility/welcomeAction.do?pageAction=irp. This eligibility check matters because a project can be historically eligible yet still be excluded if it is in a metropolitan county.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a grant (Funding Instrument Type: Grant) under CFDA 15.966 and is offered by the National Park Service. The stated award ceiling is $750,000. The opportunity is listed with an original closing date of 2025-08-21. The program description focuses on building a pipeline of preservation projects by investing in the local capacity to run a subgrant program, rather than only funding one-off standalone rehabilitations. Applicants should therefore expect that a competitive application will clearly describe how the proposed subgrant program will be designed, how projects will be solicited and selected, how funds and preservation standards will be managed, and how the effort will translate into real rural economic development outcomes through the rehabilitation of qualifying historic properties.Apply for P24AS00548
- The National Park Service in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY2024 Historic Preservation Fund - Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Subgrant Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.966.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-22.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-08-21. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others.
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