2025 Historical Promotion Grant Cycle

The application period is now closed for the 2025 Historical Promotion Grant program. Please consider applying for the 2026 grants in the summer/fall of 2025. 

Those who submitted applications for the 2025 grant cycle can contact staff with questions at historicpreservation@clark.wa.gov.

Background

RCW 36.22.170 allows the county to impose a $1 surcharge on filing fees to be used, at the discretion of the council, to promote historical preservation or historical programs, including preservation of historical documents. To make grant annual recommendations, the Historical Promotion Grants Program was initiated in 2006.

The Historical Promotion Grants program is designed to increase awareness and education to better preserve, exhibit, and/or interpret local history and historic preservation.

The Historic Preservation Commission reviews applications in the fall and submits recommendations to the County Council in November. Final grant awards occur in December, and funding is available in January.

Eligibility

Applicants must be either a non-profit organization or public entity, tax exempt under the regulations of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, that either (1) operates or owns a museum or similar historical institution within the boundaries of Clark County which promotes our local history, or (2) performs educative, interpretive, or similar activities within the boundaries of Clark County which promotes our local history.