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Historic Preservation Fund — Certified Local Government (CLG)
Formula-based pass-through to State Historic Preservation Offices, which sub-grant at least 10% to Certified Local Governments for survey, planning, and rehabilitation activities.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $5K – $500K
- Non-federal match
- 40% (verify basis)
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- State pass-through cycles.
- Typical prep time
- 4–10 weeks
- Statutory authority
- National Historic Preservation Act §101 (54 U.S.C. §302301 et seq.)
Who is eligible for Historic Preservation Fund — Certified Local Government (CLG)?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
City must be a Certified Local Government (CLG) approved by SHPO and NPS. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
Related programs
- Brownfields Assessment, Cleanup, and Revolving Loan Fund Grants (EPA)$200K – $5M
- Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (EPA)$500K – $15M
- Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement (HUD)$500K – $30M
- Section 108 Loan Guarantee (HUD)$1M – $100M
- Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program (USDA Rural Development)$50K – $50M
- EDA Public Works Program (EDA)$600K – $30M
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.