The Abraham Lincoln Association has a long tradition of providing financial support to Lincoln sites and Lincoln research projects:

1985 to present
Annual solicitation campaign to support the research and publication of the Lincoln Legal Papers and the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a documentary editing project sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.

1998
Began efforts to place the first eight volumes of the The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln on the World Wide Web.

1997
Successfully secured a TAP grant for the matching funds necessary to gild the ceiling at the Lincoln Tomb with palladium. The project cost $16,000.

1995
The first Abraham Lincoln Association/Southern Illinois University Press Manuscript Prize was awarded to Michael Burlingame, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay’s Interviews and Essays. Difficulty in securing appropriate manuscripts prompted Southern Illinois University Press to cancel the prize.

1995
Awarded $5,000 to the University of Illinois Press towards the publication costs of Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln.