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Heritage Awareness Grants

Government of Alberta

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The official page says: “This grant has been discontinued and is no longer accepting applications.”

Read from the official page on October 14, 2026. Confirm the deadline on the official page before you apply.

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Amount
Up to $25K
Cost share
Up to 50% of eligible costs
Who can apply
Universities and colleges; Businesses; Indigenous organizations and businesses; Individuals; Municipalities; Non-profits and charities
Where
Alberta

What it is

This grant supports delivery of interpretive and public engagement projects that preserve, interpret and promote appreciation of Alberta’s history.

Deadline: First working day of February. Eligible organizations: Business, First Nation, Individual, Municipality, Metis Settlement, Non-profit organization, School K-12, Post-secondary institution. Cycle: Annual

Description from Alberta arts, culture and sport grants, the funder’s own list of programs. The Government of Canada’s Business Benefits Finder (list of July 17, 2025) doesn’t include it.

What applicants actually got

From Alberta’s grant payments disclosure: every payment the province filed under this program. Advertised: up to $25K.

Awards, fiscal 2025-26
25
recipients paid that year
Typical award
$6,414–$13K
the middle half, fiscal 2023-24 to 2025-26
Median award
$8,755
69 awards, fiscal 2023-24 to 2025-26
All years
$4.3M
448 awards, fiscal 2014-15 to 2025-26

Alberta grant payments disclosure, fiscal years 2014-15 to 2025-26 (April to March). An award is one recipient’s total from the program in one fiscal year; amounts of $0 or less count as $0. Medians use complete fiscal years. Source: Government of Alberta, open.alberta.ca, Open Government Licence – Alberta.

Who got it

Organizations paid the most under this program, fiscal 2014-15 to 2025-26.

RecipientAwardsTotal
University Of Calgary9$253K
City Of Lethbridge7$117K
Societe Historique Francophone De L'alberta4$102K
Stoney Tribal Administration1$90K
Willmore Wilderness Preservation And Historical Foundation5$88K
Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation4$79K
Taiga Heritage Consulting Ltd.4$71K
Alberta Labour History Institute4$57K
Legal Archives Society Of Alberta7$49K
Mcdougall Stoney Mission Society3$47K
City Of Edmonton Finance Branch Treasury Section2$46K
St. Albert Historical Society4$44K
Edmonton Heritage Council Society5$43K
Dene Tha' First Nation2$41K
Town Of Sylvan Lake2$38K
Municipality Of Crowsnest Pass2$38K
University Of Alberta Financial Services4$35K
Town Of Fort Macleod2$33K
Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation4$32K
Fort Edmonton Foundation2$31K
Ninastako Cultural Centre3$30K
Ermineskin Cree Nation1$30K
Louis Bull Tribe1$30K
Metis Nation Of Alberta Association1$30K
Montana First Nation1$30K
Paul First Nation Industry Relations Corporation1$30K
Saddle Lake Cree Nation1$30K
Samson Cree Nation1$30K
Whitefish Lake Band #1281$30K
Veterans Voices Of Canada Association3$30K

Plus 213 payments ($1.1M) to individuals, sole proprietors and recipients this site does not name. They count in every total above. Why

Latest payments

The latest payments to named organizations, to March 5, 2026.

PaidRecipientAmount
Mar 2026Alberta Chinese Cultural Education Society$1,929
Oct 2025Municipality Of Crowsnest Pass$21,428
Aug 2025Town Of Sylvan Lake$13,285
Aug 2025The Cosmopolitan Music Society$7,671
Aug 2025University Of Alberta Financial Services$7,024
Jul 2025Town Of Nanton$21,428
Jul 2025Edmonton Heritage Council Society$14,657
Jul 2025The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation$8,571
Jul 2025The Parks Foundation, Calgary$7,450
Jul 2025Pine Creek Cemetery Society$5,893
Jul 2025Atlas Coal Mine Historical Society$3,198
Jul 2025City Of Edmonton Finance Branch Treasury Section$21,428
Jul 2025City Of Lethbridge$20,100
Jul 2025Calgary Civic Trust Society$11,819
Jul 2025Indigenous Edmonton Entertainment Group Association$9,428
Jul 2025Waskasoo Environmental Education Society$8,800
Jul 2025Acfn Dene Lands & Resource Management Corporation$8,571
Jul 2025Lethbridge Symphony Association$8,571
Jul 2025Alberta Thai Association$7,215
Jul 2025Jewish Historical Society Of Southern Alberta$4,532
Jul 2025Spruce Grove And District Agricultural Society$2,571
Oct 2024Chipewyan Prairie Industry Relations Lp 1027511 Alberta Ltd.$5,000
Aug 2024Acfn Dene Lands & Resource Management Corporation$6,700
Aug 2024Municipal District Of Bighorn No 8$13,250
Aug 2024Medicine Hat Cowboy Poetry Foundation$10,389

By fiscal year

Awards by the fiscal year (April to March) they were paid in; the median is over awards above $0.

Fiscal yearAwardsMedian awardTotal
2025-2625$8,571$241K
2024-2520$10K$200K
2023-2428$12K$286K
2022-2333$8,405$419K
2021-2262$7,740$618K
2020-2128$6,835$238K
2019-2041$5,845$571K
2018-1936$6,596$279K
2017-1850$8,625$518K
2016-1754$5,890$427K
2015-1638$5,000$307K
2014-1533$4,880$207K

Matched to 7 program names in Alberta’s disclosure (by Claude, checked against who was paid):

  • “HERITAGE AWARENESS/RESEARCH/PUBLICATION” (Arts, Culture and Status of Women, 2023-24 to 2025-26, 76 payments)
  • “HERITAGE AWARENESS/RESEARCH/PUBLICATION” (Culture, 2022-23 to 2023-24, 7 payments)
  • “HERITAGE AWARENESS/RESEARCH/PUBLICATION” (Culture and Status of Women, 2021-22 to 2022-23, 79 payments)
  • “HERITAGE AWARENESS/RESEARCH/PUBLICATION” (Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women, 2020-21 to 2021-22, 35 payments)
  • “HERITAGE AWARE RES PUBL GRANTS” (Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women, 2019-20 to 2020-21, 121 payments)
  • “HERITAGE AWARE RES PUBL GRANTS” (Culture and Tourism, 2014-15 to 2019-20, 256 payments)
  • “HERITAGE AWARE RES PUBL GRANTS” (Culture, 2014-15, 32 payments)

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