2026-27 Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund (LGRMIF) Grants
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2026-27 Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund (LGRMIF) Grants support New York local governments’ records management projects to build lasting programs and shared records solutions.
Funder: New York State Education Department
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (NOI) | April 2027 (Application)
Funding Amounts: Up to $75,000 (Individual) or $150,000 (Shared Services); separate Disaster Recovery grants up to $20,000
Summary: Supports New York local governments in establishing or improving records management programs and developing lasting shared records solutions.
Key Information: Most local governments must appoint a Records Management Officer and adopt LGS-1 before applying.
Description
The Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund (LGRMIF) is a competitive program administered by the New York State Archives within the New York State Education Department. It helps local governments establish records management programs or develop new program components. Supported work includes disaster preparedness, records inventories and storage improvements, historical records preservation and educational use, paper files management, and document conversion and access.
Individual grants address one applicant’s records management issue. Shared Services grants support two or more local governments in creating an ongoing cooperative arrangement with sustainable programmatic benefits. The fund was created in 1989 and receives revenue from document-recording and court-index fees. It is intended to build programs, not sustain their operating costs indefinitely; recipients are expected to provide continuing local support.
