Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) was awarded funds for their ambitious restoration and digitization of their KPRC-Houston collection, a collection that includes the sole extant footage of many significant historical events as well as the beloved and long running Eyes of Texas series.
Funds will support the preservation of the Armsted Taylor House (Taylor Inn), located on Chestnut Street near the historic “Jockey Lot.” The project will address water drainage issues, stabilize the foundation, and repair interior damage.
Grant funds went towards the Historic Marker Program to introduce the concept, identify buildings, map locations, invite community excitement and participation; while drawing attention to historic buildings and the role they have played in the story of Palacios over time.
The grant is for the development of educational and interpretive programming to illuminate Latino civil rights history centered at the Historic LULAC Council 60 Clubhouse in Houston. These programs will engage students, educators, and the public through inclusive, standards-aligned content and community-driven interpretation. Although rooted in Houston, this history influenced civil rights progress across Texas and the nation.
KVLU produced the Bayoulands docuseries, exploring the people and places of Southeast Texas and highlighting the history and culture of the region through interviews as well as on-site visits to historic places. The stories and conversations featured on Bayoulands will be preserved in audio form and broadcasted to the Southeast Texas listening audience and beyond via the radio at 91.3 FM, online streaming at kvlu.org and the Bayoulands podcast.
The Yates Museum was recognized for their outstanding interdisciplinary work preserving the Freedmen's Town Historic District in Houston's Fourth Ward, among the largest extant Freedmen's Towns in the country. They applied their winnings to the restoration of the Isabella Simms Cottage.
The Save Texas History Symposium seeks to increase public engagement with Texas' past and support new historical research in its archival collections by hosting a two-day event featuring distinguished historians and postsecondary students.
The grant was awarded to help purchase materials and supplies to repair the wooden windows of the historic dancehall.
The grant supports Phase 1 of the Preservation Texas Institute Operations and Business Plan, laying the groundwork for a world-class preservation field school in Central Texas. The Institute will serve as a statewide hub for preservation education and training, based at the former Trinity University/Westminster College Campus in Tehuacana.
Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum received funding for its Cowboy Camp, an annual summer youth program. The museum also earned 3rd place at the 2024 Duda Preservation Awards in Dallas for its preservation work in Cuero and South Texas. The funds will go towards renovations to their building.
The Flower Hill Center earned second place in the 2024 Duda Preservation Awards for its work at the Smoot Homestead, a significant site in Austin's history. The award funds will support stabilization efforts for the main house, which will become a historic house museum.
Sugarloaf Productions was awarded funds for “Tonkawa: They All Stay Together”, a documentary film exploring the tribe's past and present cultural traditions as they return to their ancestral Red Mountain home in Central Texas.
The Texas Fluted Point Survey is the recipient of THF's 2025 Annual Grant. The project documents and maps Clovis and Folsom projectile points found in Texas to expand our understanding of our state's earliest inhabitants.
Gonzales Main Street received funding for its "Legacy In Lights" film, an immersive retelling of the 1835 Battle of Gonzales. Held regularly, the facade of the Gonzales Memorial Museum is transformed into the story of the famous battle, with narrations based on historical records.
The San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation received a grant in support of restorations to the 1870 Anton Wulff House, an Italianate-style mansion in the King William Historic District south of downtown San Antonio.
"The Stones Are Speaking" documentary film, with the help of the Williamson Museum, received funding to bring the film to a broader audience, including college anthropology and archeology students, professional and avocational groups, and museums.
he grant assists with funding to restore the historically designated 1910 Archer County Jail, future home of the Archer County Museum and Arts Center. This phase of work will include restoring the roof, windows, and doors to ensure the building is weather-tight.
Funding is for an exhibit and public history event to tell the story of Colegio Jacinto Trevino, the first Chicano college in the United States, founded in South Texas in 1970.
THF's grant funds state-of-the-art archival storage equipment for the Dr Pepper Museum's expansive collections.
buildingcommunityWORKSHOP's grant was awarded to create a series of 3-D models depicting Dallas' historically black 10th Street Historic District at critical junctures in its history.
Funds were allocated for cleaning, replacing damaged wood, and repainting the original shiplap siding of the Folk Victorian home built in 1899.
Funding is for the museum's "History Alive" program, which has grown significantly in the last two years, and is used by many area schools as a resource for teachers from Pre-K to 12th grade.
The Tom Lea Institute will use its grant to digitize curriculum based on its collection of Texas artist Tom Lea. See photos from the presentation below.
THF presented Friends of the THC with a grant to support scholarships at Real Places 2025, the state’s premier interdisciplinary preservation conference.
The Texas Heritage Project of American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions (AITSM) will use grant funds to continue building interactive digital maps illuminating the cumulative history of First Peoples from the 1600s onward in present-day South Texas and Northern Mexico.
