KHS Announces 2025 Kentucky Local History Trust Fund Grant Recipients
KHS ANNOUNCES 2025 KENTUCKY LOCAL HISTORY TRUST FUND GRANT RECIPIENTS
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 10, 2025) – The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) has named the 2025 recipients of the Kentucky Local History Trust Fund grants, which help local organizations protect and promote Kentucky history. This year, groups in eleven counties were awarded nearly $10,000 in total funding. Grants between $300 and $1,000 will support projects such as exhibit development, collections care, archiving, technology improvements, and new programming.
“Kentucky’s local history organizations are the heart of their communities,” said Scott Alvey, Executive Director of the Kentucky Historical Society. “These grants ensure that irreplaceable stories, artifacts, and traditions continue to be preserved and shared for generations to come.”
Below are the organizations and projects receiving grants:
Adair-Columbia Tourism Commission (Columbia, Adair County) – $978
Lighting the Way: Preserving Adair County's History Through Guided History Walks
Allen County Historical Society (Scottsville, Allen County) – $1,000
Revolutionary War Veterans, Allen County, Kentucky
Bardstown Historic Development Corporation (Bardstown, Nelson County) - $300
American Association of State and Local History STEPS (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations) Enrollment
Leslie County Betterment dba Mary Breckinridge’s Wendover (Hyden, Leslie County) - $1,000
Preserving Wendover’s Legacy and Building Capacity through StEps
The Lincoln Museum, Inc. (Hodgenville, LaRue County) - $916.95
Preserving Time: A Digital Storage Modernization Project
Marion County Historical Society (Lebanon, Marion County) - $1000
Marion County Distilling History Exhibit
Monroe County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. (Tompkinsville, Monroe County) - $1000
Collection Care at Monroe County Museum
National Society of the Colonial Dames/Liberty Hall Historic Site (Frankfort, Franklin County) – $700
Liberty Hall Historic Site Gallery Space
Oldham County History Center (LaGrange, Oldham County) - $300
American Association of State and Local History STEPS (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations) Enrollment
Powell County Public Library (Stanton, Powell County) - $700
Clay City Times Public Access
Simpson County Historical Society (Franklin, Simpson County) - $1000
Simpson County Historical Society Collections Preservation Project
The Sisters of Loretto (Nerinx, Marion County) - $963
Peace and Justice Room Update
Kentuckians can support local history by designating part of their state income tax refund to the Kentucky Local History Trust Fund through Line 38f. Administered by KHS, the fund has provided more than $162,000 in grants to 78 local history organizations across the state. Learn more at history.ky.gov/lhtf.
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The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is an agency in Kentucky’s Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet. The KHS campus has three sites in historic downtown Frankfort: The Old State Capitol; the Kentucky Military History Museum; and the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History serving as KHS headquarters with a signature museum, exhibits, library, research facilities, object & archival collections, museum store and more. KHS is a Smithsonian Affiliate and has full American Alliance of Museums accreditation.