The League's FY2024-2025 Annual Report
Preservation League FY24-25 By The Numbers
Our most recent Annual Report will be hitting mailboxes any day — but it’s already available online! This Report covers the League’s last fiscal year, July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. In it you’ll find highlights of our statewide work, including updates on our advocacy, Seven to Save, a grant report, a look at our Trade Stories project; a map showing where our team has popped up around the state, our financial statements and more. Keep reading for the opening letter from our Board Chair and President, or click here to dive right into the full report.
A Letter From Our Board Chair & President
Our last fiscal year was a turning point – marking the transition from our first 50 years to our next. In 2024, the League celebrated our 50th anniversary, looking back at our past achievements and strategizing how to continue pushing ourselves – and the field – forward.
With that in mind, we revisited our stated mission and vision, spelling out five key goals to direct our work:
Protect our heritage from loss.
Make the preservation and reuse of our heritage essential to addressing climate change.
Facilitate reinvestment in historic buildings, neighborhoods, downtowns, and landscapes.
Advance equity, diversity, and inclusion in all our work.
Build the capacity and effectiveness of New York preservationists.
In support of these goals, we launched our first capital grant program, the Preservation Opportunity Fund, to fill a funding gap for much-needed hands-on preservation work.
In 2025, the League is well positioned to be stronger and bolder over the years to come. But right now, the League’s mission, and those of our colleagues across the state, is imperiled by actions taken by the federal government, whether because of aggressive executive orders or through countless cancelled grants.
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However, if we have learned anything during our 50-year history, it’s that our work transcends time – and administrations. And though it is rooted in the past, it is constantly moving forward. The work we do today lays a foundation for the work we will do tomorrow. And we remain committed to supporting a preservation movement that is welcoming, inclusive, accessible, and meaningful for communities now and into the future.
We look to the past to build a more resilient future. For the Preservation League, that means collaborating with our longtime colleagues and continuing to build relationships with new ones; providing financial assistance through our grant programs for projects just getting started and others that are further along; advocating for historic places that are at risk of being lost and celebrating the incredible transformations of places brought back to life.
Preservation matters because our communities matter. The League will continue working to support places across the state and the people who care about them.
We hope you will join us.
Patrick W. Ciccone
Chair, Board of Trustees
Jay DiLorenzo
President