Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program

The Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program provides financial assistance to organizations and entities working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history. The program aims to identify, research, evaluate, interpret, protect, restore, repair, and acquire historic confinement sites. Eligible projects include capital projects, documentation, oral history interviews, interpretation and education, preservation of confinement sites, and planning projects. The program requires a 2:1 Federal to non-Federal match, and the minimum grant request is $5,000 Federal share. The program supports the Department of the Interior's priorities, including restoring trust with local communities, modernizing infrastructure, and creating jobs in the American economy. * Eligible applicants include private nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, state, local, and tribal governments, and other public entities. * Eligible sites include the ten War Relocation Authority sites, as well as other historically significant locations, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. * The program does not provide funding for projects that have already been completed, establishment of Friends groups, fundraising, lobbying, long-term maintenance, operations, or curatorial work beyond the grant period, or organizational operations/permanent staff positions.