Year |
Recipient |
Project Title |
Type |
Award |
2024 |
1838 Black Metropolis |
ICY Homecoming |
Implementation |
$35,000 |
2023 |
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture |
Philadelphia Arab History Project |
Planning |
$15,000 |
2024 |
America250PA |
A National Convening of States |
Implementation |
$50,000 |
2023 |
American Swedish Historical Museum |
2026 Anniversary Exhibitions Planning |
Planning |
$35,000 |
2023 |
Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust |
Revolutionary Congregations: Arch Street Meeting House |
Planning |
$15,000 |
2023 |
Art Philly 2026 |
Art Philly 2026 |
Implementation |
$350,000 |
2024 |
Art Philly |
ArtPhilly 2026: What Now Festival |
Implementation |
$400,000 |
2024 |
Association for Public Art |
Let Freedom Ring |
Implementation |
$175,000 |
2024 |
Astral Artists |
Activating Philadelphia's Historic Sites through New Music Commissions |
Planning |
$23,000 |
2024 |
Beyond Literacy |
Stories of the Semiquincentennial |
Planning |
$35,000 |
2024 |
Beyond Literacy |
Stories of the Semiquincentennial |
Implementation |
$60,000 |
2024 |
Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra |
Musical Composition about Rebecca Cox Jackson |
Implementation |
$75,000 |
2024 |
Bucks County America250PA Commision |
The Bucks County 250th Experience |
Implementation |
$46,300 |
2024 |
Bucks County Historical Society |
The Doan Gang: Outlaws of the Revolution |
Implementation |
$60,000 |
2024 |
Campus Philly |
Campus 250: Higher Ed Celebrates the Semiquincentennial |
Planning |
$50,000 |
2023 |
Carpenters' Company |
Young Peoples' Continental Congress |
Implementation |
$450,000 |
2024 |
Carpenters' Company |
Our City, Our Stories: The Philadelphia Digital Histories Museum and Portal |
Planning |
$35,000 |
2023 |
Ceiba Inc. |
Ceiba: Latino Equitable Development Collaborative Semiquincentennial Planning Project |
Planning |
$40,000 |
2024 |
Chester County Community Foundation |
ChesCo Community Conversations |
Implementation |
$60,000 |
2024 |
Christ Church Preservation Trust |
Revolutionary Congregations |
Planning |
$28,000 |
2024 |
Clay Studio |
Craft Renaissance 250 |
Planning |
$35,000 |
2024 |
Cliveden of the National Trust |
Revealing Revolutionary Germantown |
Planning |
$35,000 |
2023 |
Committee of Seventy |
The USA at 250: A Summit on the Future of American Democracy |
Planning |
$65,000 |
2024 |
CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia |
American Experiment: The Struggle for Philadelphia |
Implementation |
$250,000 |
2024 |
Drexel University, Lanfest Center |
Sharing Philadelphia's History for the Semiquincentennial |
Implementation |
$90,000 |
2024 |
East Coast Greenway Alliance |
Celebrating 250 Years of History by Bike |
Planning |
$25,000 |
2024 |
Eastern State Penitentiary |
Eastern State Penitentiary Semiquincentennial Planning Grant |
Planning |
$30,000 |
2024 |
First Person Arts |
Blanket Philadelphia in Story |
Planning |
$30,000 |
2023 |
Foundation for Delaware County |
America250PADelco Community Engagement Planning Grant |
Planning |
$40,000 |
2024 |
Fresh Artists |
Fresh Artists Community College |
Planning |
$35,000 |
2024 |
Friends of Washington Crossing Park |
Bringing Revolutionary History to Life at Washington Crossing Historic Park |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2023 |
Friends of Washington Park Crossing |
1776-2026: Commemorating 250 Years of American History at Washington Crossing Park |
Planning |
$51,000 |
2024 |
Garces Foundation |
Flavors of Freedom: A Celebration of History and Diversity through Food |
Planning |
$25,000 |
2023 |
Germantown Historical Society |
Historic Germantown Consortium: Planning for the Semiquincentennial |
Planning |
$65,000 |
2024 |
Girls Inc. of Greater Philadelphia |
Girls Inc. Advocacy Summit and She Votes |
Implementation |
$65,110 |
2024 |
Gladwyne Free Library |
Literacy and Liberty |
Implementation |
$25,000 |
2024 |
Historic Gloria Dei Preservation |
Revolutionary Congregations |
Implementation |
$18,995 |
2023 |
Historic Philadelphia Inc. |
52 Weeks of Firsts |
Implementation |
$200,000 |
2023 |
Historic Trappe |
Declaring Independence: Philadelphia's Germans and the America 250 |
Planning |
$40,000 |
2024 |
Historic Trappe |
Window to the Revolution: Pennsylvania Germans and the War for Independence |
Implementation |
$60,000 |
2023 |
Homecoming 250 |
Planning for the Navy & Marine Corps 250th Celebration in Philadelphia in 2025 |
Planning |
$50,000 |
2024 |
Independence Historical Trust |
Relocation of Chief Tamamend |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2024 |
Independence Historical Trust |
Beautifying Independence National Historical Park |
Implementation |
$168,238 |
2023 |
Independence Seaport Museum |
Looking to the East: America, the Revolution, and the China Trade |
Planning |
$25,000 |
2024 |
Independence Visitor Center Corporation |
Philly Ambassadors |
Planning |
$59,000 |
2024 |
Interfaith Philadelphia |
Pathways to Religious Freedom |
Implementation |
$50,000 |
2024 |
Jack Miller Center |
America250 National Civic Summit |
Implementation |
$50,000 |
2024 |
James A. Michener Art Museum |
The Crossing: Picturing the American Revolution |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2023 |
Mann Center for the Performing Arts |
Celebrating American Milestones through Music: The Mann’s 50th Anniversary Artistic Planning |
Planning |
$25,000 |
2024 |
Mann Center for the Performing Arts |
Celebrating American Milestones through Music: 2026 Signature Projects at the Mann Center |
Implementation |
$150,000 |
2024 |
Monument Lab |
We Belong Here |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2024 |
Mummers Museum |
Mummer & Caribbean Carnival |
Implementation |
$24,200 |
2023 |
Mural Arts Philadelphia |
One Nation. Diverse Voices. |
Implementation |
$225,000 |
2024 |
Mural Arts Philadelphia |
Printmaking by the People |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2024 |
Museum of the American Revolution |
Revolutionary City Collaborative |
Implementation |
$500,000 |
2024 |
National Constitution Center |
America’s Founding: A New Permanent Exhibit at the National Constitution Center |
Implementation |
$250,000 |
2024 |
National Liberty Museum |
(Re)Declare: Life, Liberty, Legacy |
Implementation |
$150,000 |
2024 |
National Liberty Museum |
Year of Assembly: The Power of the People Together |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2024 |
National Society of Colonial Dames |
For the Common Good: the Women Who Shaped Our Nation |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2024 |
Old Pine Conservancy |
Revolutionary Congregations |
Planning |
$25,000 |
2024 |
Orchestra 2001 Inc. |
A More Perfect Union: Musical Reflections on Six Amendments to the Constitution |
Planning |
$30,000 |
2024 |
Pennsylvania Hospital |
Celebrating 250 Years at the Nation's First Hospital |
Planning |
$37,500 |
2024 |
Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation |
This Is, Was, and Will Be Chinatown |
Planning |
$35,000 |
2024 |
Philadelphia Citizen |
Citizen: Then and Now |
Planning |
$37,500 |
2024 |
Philadelphia Freedom Band |
Band Things Happen in Philadelphia: 2026 Pride Bands Alliance Conference and Performance |
Implementation |
$15,000 |
2024 |
Philadelphia Visitor Center |
Phambassador Program |
Implementation |
$450,000 |
2023 |
Philadelphia250 |
The Philadelphia 250th Experience |
Implementation |
$425,000 |
2024 |
Pig Iron Theater Company |
Franklin's Key 2026 |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2023 |
Please Touch Museum |
Children's World Fair |
Implementation |
$400,000 |
2023 |
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia |
Poquessing Creek Trail of History |
Planning |
$50,000 |
2024 |
SAADA |
Our Immigrant City: Philadelphia's Hidden Histories |
Planning |
$30,000 |
2024 |
Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center |
Demographic Study on 18th Century Northwestern Montgomery County |
Planning |
$40,000 |
2024 |
Smith Memorial Playground |
Revolutionary Action Figures Project |
Planning |
$20,000 |
2024 |
Technical.ly |
Envisioning Philadelphia in 250 Years |
Planning |
$35,000 |
2024 |
Tempesta di Mare |
Soundtrack of Independence |
Implementation |
$150,000 |
2024 |
Temple University, Dialogue Institute |
Religious Diversity and Dialogue Public History Tours and Engagement |
Planning |
$40,000 |
2024 |
The Big Picture Alliance |
Founding Further: Reclaimed Stories of American Independence |
Planning |
$35,000 |
2024 |
The Big Picture Alliance |
Founding Further: Reclaiming Stories of American Promise |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2024 |
The Free Library of Philadelphia |
Hyperlocal Heritage |
Implementation |
$125,000 |
2024 |
The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia |
Invisible Architects of Freedom |
Planning |
$65,000 |
2023 |
The Pennsbury Society |
A Lenape/Delaware Homecoming |
Planning |
$60,000 |
2023 |
The Welcoming Center |
Breaking Bread, Breaking Barriers of Citizenship |
Planning |
$50,000 |
2024 |
Univ of Pennsylvania, Penn Museum |
Expanding Native Ways of Knowing in the Penn Museum: Art, "Artifacts," and Native Representatives in U.S. History |
Implementation |
$88,000 |
2024 |
University of Pennsylvania Press |
Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia |
Implementation |
$83,470 |
2023 |
Visit Philadelphia |
TED Democracy |
Implementation |
$475,000 |
2023 |
Visit Philadelphia |
Marketing Campaign |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2024 |
Walnut Street Theater |
Semiquincentennial 1776 Production |
Implementation |
$250,000 |
2024 |
We Love Philly |
Digital Media and Marketing Pre-Apprenticeship Planning Course |
Planning |
$35,000 |
2023 |
Welcome America |
A Very Philly Celebration |
Implementation |
$200,000 |
2024 |
Widener University |
Revolutionary Reads |
Implementation |
$13,000 |
2023 |
Wilma Theater |
A Wilma Mainstage Production: The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington |
Implementation |
$100,000 |
2024 |
Woodmere Art Museum |
Arc of Promise |
Implementation |
$72,000 |
2023 |
World Affairs Council |
2026 International Visitors Experience |
Implementation |
$175,000 |