August 8, 2025

The New York Preservation Archive Project is pleased to announce that the application for the 2025 Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Assistance Initiative Grants is now open.   

In keeping with our mission to document, preserve, and celebrate the history of historic preservation in New York City, the New York Preservation Archive Project established the Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Assistance Grants Initiative to help historic preservation-related not-for-profit organizations and similar institutions identify and maintain their archival resources related to stories of historic preservation. Generous assistance from the Leon Levy Foundation in 2022 allowed the Initiative to be reinvigorated for three additional rounds of grants. In 2025, the Archive Project received additional support from the Leon Levy Foundation to continue the grant through 2027. 

The Archive Project and the Leon Levy Foundation hope to promote the importance of safeguarding archival records and support those working in New York City’s civic preservation sector. Applicants must demonstrate their project or collection’s significance to the story of historic preservation in New York City. Applications from all five boroughs are welcome. Archives that document New York City history but do not tell a historic preservation story do not fall within the qualifications of this grant program. 

Learn more and apply here.

Please contact info@nypap.org if you have questions about eligibility.