In pursuing its mandate to preserve recorded sound heritage, the Foundation awards grants to digitally preserve audio collections that are stored on at-risk or obsolete physical media. Since 2016, the Foundation has distributed over a quarter of a million dollars to promote and preserve recorded sound history.
Grants Awarded (since 2016)
| Year | Recipient | Amount | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | WYSO Radio | $8,500.00 | Yellow Springs, OH | Preserving HBCU Radio Archives at Elizabeth City State University |
| 2023 | University of California, Santa Barbara | $8,500.00 | Santa Barbara, CA | Digitizing Bernard Herrmann's Recordings with the CBS Symphony |
| 2023 | Appalshop | $11,350.00 | Whitesburg, KY | Preserving Unique and Historical Appalachian Recordings |
| 2021 | Friends of Thomas Edison National Historical Park | $8,653.00 | West Orange, NJ | Extracting High-Quality Sound from Sealed Master Molds |
| 2020 | University of Alaska Fairbanks | $8,050.00 | Fairbanks, AK | Digitizing Recordings of the Unangax̂ (Alaska Aleut) Peoples |
| 2020 | Museum of Russian Culture | $3,500.00 | San Francisco, CA | Preserving Unique Recordings from the Soviet and Tsarist Eras |
| 2020 | Iowa State University Foundation | $14,999.00 | Ames, IA | Digitizing Lectures from Iowa State University |
| 2020 | American Folk Art Museum | $14,830.00 | New York, NY | Digitization of Rare Interviews with ‘Outsider’ Artists |
| 2019 | World Music Productions | $15,000.00 | Brooklyn, NY | Digitizing Recordings of Afropop Worldwide |
| 2019 | National Public Radio | $10,000.00 | Washington, DC | Digitizing Voices in the Wind |
| 2019 | KUT Radio (University of Texas at Austin) | $10,000.00 | Austin, TX | Digitizing KUT Radio Collections |
| 2019 | East Tennesee State University Foundation | $10,000.00 | Johnson City, TN | Digitizing Appalachian Bluegrass Field Recordings |
| 2019 | Atlanta Historical Society | $5,000.00 | Atlanta, GA | Digitizing Georgia Oral Histories, 1966–1968 |
| 2018 | WYSO Radio | $15,000.00 | Yellow Springs, OH | Surveying Radio Recording Archives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
| 2018 | Other Minds | $10,000.00 | San Francisco, CA | Digitizing the Composer to Composer Recordings |
| 2018 | New York Public Radio | $10,000.00 | New York, NY | Digitizing WNYC's On the Media |
| 2018 | Arhoolie Foundation | $15,000.00 | El Cerrito, CA | Digitizing the Harry Oster Collection of field recordings |
| 2016 | University of North Carolina | $25,000.00 | Chapel Hill, NC | Preserving the Field Recordings of Mike Seeger |
| 2016 | Radio Preservation Task Force (Library of Congress) | $25,000.00 | Washington, DC | Expanding Awareness of the History of U.S. Public Broadcasting |
| 2016 | Indiana University | $25,000.00 | Bloomington, IN | Preserving Orson Welles on the Air |
