Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum

Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation based in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a federal grant recipient specializing in historic preservation, collections management, and World War II Pacific aviation history education, with no federal contract prime footprint and no subcontractor role on federal awards.

The museum operates exclusively as a grant recipient across seven distinct federal grantor agencies, with the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office accounting for 4 of 9 visible awards (82% coverage of the active set). Recent grant work spans multiple preservation and interpretation mandates. The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the museum $1,030,264 under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) on September 1, 2026, to stabilize, catalog, and rehouse the Sidd Pratt Collection and associated World War II Pacific Theater Archives—over 22,000 items including rare flight suits, military uniforms, and oversized technical drawings—with project activities running through August 31, 2029. The work includes infrastructure improvements to enable simultaneous data entry and oversight for staff, interns, and volunteers; professional mold remediation and pest quarantine protocols; and relocation of vulnerable textiles and paper archives into archival-grade micro-environments. The museum's educational and research activities will serve hundreds of thousands of annual visitors through traveling exhibitions, scholarly research support, and digital outreach extending beyond Hawaii.

The Department of the Interior National Park Service funded two Save America's Treasures congressionally directed grants (CFDA 15.929), each awarded January 1, 2024, with completion by September 30, 2027—one for door, wall, and structural repairs to Hangar 37 and a second for roof repairs to Hangar 79, both on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor. An earlier $881,800 Save America's Treasures grant from the National Park Service (October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2025) supported window repairs, roof deck and stairway replacement, and structural work at the historic Ford Island Control Tower, with the museum providing $440,900 in matching funds. The Department of the Interior also granted funding under the American Battlefield Protection Program (CFDA 15.926, awarded October 31, 2023) for a project titled Interpreting America's WWII Aviation Battlefield, involving primary source research, oral history collection, and GIS survey of the Ford Island Naval Air Station to develop an interpretive plan documenting the impacts and aftermath of the December 7, 1941 attack.

The Department of the Navy provided a $408,450 block grant (CFDA 12.599) on November 15, 2021, to support projects commemorating the 75th anniversary of World War II. Combined obligated dollars across all eleven awards total $9.2 million, with the most recent award placed one month ago. Activity has been sparse but consistent—one award each in 2021, 2022, and 2023, two in 2024, and one in 2026—reflecting the project-grant cycle typical of museum preservation and interpretation work rather than a federal contractor's task-order volume. All grants operate as prime recipient awards with no sub-recipient or subcontractor relationships visible in the source data.