Tax credits for State Historic Sites
Decrease your state tax bill while preserving Kansas history!
The Kansas Historical Foundation is looking for Kansas taxpayers who wish to 
donate to a State Historic Site and receive a 50 percent tax credit in return.
- Gifts will be used to help restore, preserve, and operate the State Historic Sites.
- The law establishes a contribution range of $1,000 – $5,000 to receive the 50 percent tax credit. For example, a $5,000 gift would result in a $2,500 Kansas tax credit.
- This is a tax credit, which are subtracted from the final amount of tax you owe the state of Kansas.
- Tax credit donations may also be eligible for federal tax deductions.
Tax credit donations make a difference to the school children of Kansas. Standards-based school curriculum tours are in the works to increase vital K-12 visitation at the state-owned sites. Tax credit funds will be used for much-needed repairs at important Kansas sites and to develop interpretative tools.
Remember, tax credit donations can be earmarked for a specific state-owned site, or can be designated to help where needed most.
In 2010, tax credit contributions helped kick start a $300,000 project to reinterpret a nationally significant fort site in Hays, Kansas. Thanks to this support, new exhibits and a renovated visitors center opened in September to tell the real stories of the real people – General George A. Custer, US military officers and soldiers, American Indians – who made history at Fort Hays.
Private contributions also helped restore elements of the Grinter Place State Historic 
Site in Kansas City, Kansas, so that hundreds of visitors now may experience a taste of frontier life along the Kansas and Missouri border.
For more information contact Vicky Henley at 785.272.8681, ext. 201, or by email at vhenley@kshs.org.
Kansas Historical Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization.
