The mission of the Cultural Trust is to ensure a stable and healthy cultural industry in New Jersey that is sustainable under fluctuating economic conditions through the establishment of permanent, interest-generating funds to be an additional source of revenue to nonprofit arts, history and humanities organizations.

Bette C. Daniele, Chair
Carol Cronheim, Vice Chair
John Paul Nicolaides, Vice Chair for Finance
Jill Morton, Secretary
Deborah R. Bozarth, Board Member
Tom Carroll, Board Member
S. Nadia Hussain, Board Member
Rabiya S. Kader Esq., Board Member
Claire Knopf, Board Member


ex officio members
Tahesha Way, Secretary of State
Elizabeth Maher Muoio, State Treasurer
Elizabeth Mattson, Chair, NJ State Council on the Arts
Peter Lindsay, Chair, NJ Historic Trust
Maxine Lurie, Chair, NJ Historical Commission

Isabel (Izzy) Kasdin, Executive Director
609-633-0522
isabel.kasdin@sos.nj.gov

Capital Preservation Grant Program:

All history, arts and humanities organizations with stewardship responsibility for historic resources that are listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, and qualified by the New Jersey Cultural Trust, are eligible to apply for FY24 capital historic preservation funding. See the grant guidelines for details.

Funding to Strengthen Organizational Capacity of 16 Diverse Arts Organizations Statewide

2020 marked the 20th anniversary of the New Jersey Cultural Trust, a public/private partnership that works in harmony with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the New Jersey Historical Commission, and the New Jersey Historic Trust. The Trust is the only state agency with a mission that encompasses the entire non-profit cultural community: the arts, history, and humanities. In the past two decades, $14,464,711 have been given out to more than 196 organizations to ensure that our cultural community continues to thrive so New Jersey can continue to flourish. Read more about the history of the NJ Cultural Trust in this special anniversary article by Dr. Carol Cronheim, NJ Cultural Trust Board Member and Former NJ Secretary of State.