^ NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND Save America’s Treasures The Save America’s Treasures (SAT) competitive grant program preserves nationally significant historic and cultural resources. Grants are available for preservation and conservation work on historic districts, buildings, sites, and objects as well as collections, including artifacts, museum collections, documents, and works of Located within the Acoma Pueblo Reservation in New Mexico, art. Through funded projects and community the San Estévan del Rey Mission Church was built in 1629 by Spanish colonizers as part of their campaign to impose Christian engagement, SAT grants enable a richer and beliefs and European culture on the native peoples in the region. Acoma Pueblo received a $400,000 SAT grant in FY more diverse American history to be told. 2001 to preserve the National Historic Landmark. PHOTO BY THROGERS (FLICKR) Background In 1998, President Clinton issued an FY 2022 Appropriations Request Executive Order creating the Save America’s Treasures Program, providing Please support $20 million for the Save America’s Treasures funding both for preservation projects program in the FY 2022 Interior Appropriations bill. and collections work. The National Park Service administers the program in APPROPRIATIONS BILL: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies partnership with the Institute of Museum National Park Service and Library Services, the National AGENCY: Endowment for the Humanities, and the ACCOUNT: Historic Preservation Fund National Endowment for the Arts. Unlike ACTIVITY: Save America’s Treasures grants many other federal competitive grant programs, the SAT program requires Recent Funding History: dollar-for-dollar private matching funds. FY 2019 Enacted Funding: $13 million After lapsing in FY 2011, Congress FY 2020 Enacted Funding: $16 million renewed its commitment to the SAT FY 2021 Enacted Funding: $25 million program in FY 2017. Between FY 2017 FY 2022 President’s Budget Request: TBD and FY 2019, Congress appropriated $31 FY 2022 NTHP Recommendation: $20 million million, supporting a total of 99 grants, including approximately 80 grants for JUSTIFICATION: Over the life of the program, application requests have far preservation projects. More than $21 outpaced available federal support. Significant funding is needed to help restore and conserve our nationally significant structures, collections, and million, or roughly 70% of the recently artifacts. The Save America’s Treasure program helps to tell a more inclusive awarded funding, has gone to bricks and American story and creates well-paying, preservation-related jobs and invests in local communities. mortar, job-creating projects. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE^ HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND Save America’s Treasures Grant Awards by State and Territory, FY 1999–FY 2019 The SAT grant program’s completed restoration and preservation projects include Martin Luther King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church and the iconic Star-Spangled Banner that flew above Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 and that now hangs in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Many diverse sites and stories have also benefited from the funding opportunities provided by the SAT grant program, including the poems carved by Chinese immigrants into the walls of Angel Island; Mesa Verde’s cliff dwellings and associated collections of Native American artifacts; the complex at Fort Snelling; and the Harriet Tubman House in Auburn, NY. Alabama: $10,806,202 Missouri: $5,176,362 Alaska: $3,917,532 Montana: $3,581,544 Arizona: $4,760,186 Nebraska: $1,814,000 Arkansas: $4,005,032 Nevada: $4,479,102 California: $18,345,568 New Hampshire: $2,562,543 Colorado: $5,269,435 New Jersey: $4,743,130 Connecticut: $7,255,764 New Mexico: $8,535,654 Delaware: $2,743,305 New York: $34,627,308 District of Columbia: North Carolina: $4,414,032 $14,470,333 North Dakota: $1,072,973 Florida: $6,828,614 Ohio: $14,514,689 Georgia: $5,528,019 Oklahoma: $2,091,361 Hawaii: $1,542,713 Oregon: $2,852,696 Idaho: $1,380,103 Pennsylvania: $26,667,128 Illinois: $7,086,155 Puerto Rico: $1,700,546 Frances Perkins made history as the first woman to serve in Indiana: $4,729,662 a presidential cabinet. As the U.S. Secretary of Labor under Rhode Island: $6,881,519 Iowa: $5,758,149 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Perkins was greatly involved in South Carolina: $6,251,050 the creation of the New Deal and Social Security program. She Kansas: $2,346,599 was a life-long advocate for social justice and economic security. South Dakota: $2,054,079 The Frances Perkins Center received a $500,000 SAT grant in Kentucky: $6,937,547 FY 2019 to restore the Frances Perkins Homestead National Tennessee: $2,273,359 Louisiana: $3,244,017 Landmark in Newcastle, Maine. Texas: $11,875,859 PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Maine: $2,702,198 Utah: $1,918,464 Maryland: $7,423,525 Vermont: $5,849,905 Massachusetts: $18,567,569 Virginia: $9,564,176 Michigan: $4,050,383 Washington: $7,416,493 Midway Islands: $308,681 West Virginia: $5,402,062 Minnesota: $3,584,712 Wisconsin: $6,895,060 Mississippi: $8,179,500 Wyoming: $1,903,433 For additional information, contact Shaw Sprague, Vice President of Government Relations and Policy, SSprague@ ^ savingplaces.org, (202) 588-6339 or Tom Cassidy, Senior Advisor, [email protected], (202) 588-6078..