Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation Approves Over $3.3 Million in Grants

Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation | January 25th, 2023

The Board of Directors of the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation recently approved over $3.31 million in grants to more than 130 nonprofit organizations. The awards include competitive Organization Support Grants, Program Support Grants, Linn County Grants, and grants from the Creating Safe, Equitable and Thriving Communities (SET) Fund; as well as distributions from signature, donor-advised, designated, scholarship and agency funds.

The Community Foundation brings together private philanthropy with impactful nonprofits to support a healthy and vibrant Linn County. In 2022, the Community Foundation distributed over $17.1 million in grants.

The Community Foundation’s competitive grant programs are supported by the Greater Good Fund. Donors who make gifts to the Greater Good Fund have entrusted the Community Foundation to make grants that address ever-changing community needs and opportunities. These grant programs support efforts related to innovation, maintaining success, and building capacity through a competitive grantmaking process. During this grant cycle, the Community Foundation received over $1.2 million in requests for competitive grants and was able to fund $667,990 (or 53% of the requested amount).

A complete list of the nonprofit organizations who received grant awards is included below. More information about these awards, including the project, purpose and amount of funding, can be found here.

 

Program Support Grants

Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity

Eastern Iowa Arts Academy

Feed Iowa First

Four Oaks Family and Children’s Services

Kids First Law Center

Matthew 25

NewBo City Market

Orchestra Iowa

The Friends of the Marion Public Library

Theatre Cedar Rapids

Willis Dady Homeless Services

YPN

 

Organization Support Grants

Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival

Discovery Living Inc.

Eastern Iowa Health Center

Heritage Area Agency on Aging

Horizons – A Family Service Alliance

Indian Creek Nature Center

NewBo City Market

Waypoint Services for Women, Children and Families

Willis Dady Homeless Services

 

Linn County Grants

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar Rapids & East Central Iowa, Inc.

Families Helping Families of Iowa

Friends of the Family

Horizons – A Family Service Alliance

Iowa College Access Network

Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa

Kids First Law Center

Linn County Trails Association

NewBo City Market

Old Opera House Community Arts Council

Riverview Center Inc.

Tanager

The History Center

Waypoint Services for Women, Children and Families

Willis Dady Homeless Services

YMCA of the Cedar Rapids Metro Area

 

Creating Safe, Equitable and Thriving Communities Fund

Catherine McAuley Center Inc.

Foundation 2

Kids First Law Center

Waypoint Services for Women, Children and Families

 

Other grant recipients include:

 

Cedar Grove Signature Fund

African American Museum of Iowa

Brucemore Inc.

Feed Iowa First

Indian Creek Nature Center

NewBo City Market

NewBoCo

Tanager

Theatre Cedar Rapids

Willis Dady Homeless Services

 

CRST International Donor-Advised Fund

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre

Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Inc.

His Hands Free Clinic

Iowa College Foundation

Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa

Matthew 25

Northwest Neighbors Neighborhood Association

Orchestra Iowa

Refugee and Immigrant Association

Tanager Place

Theatre Cedar Rapids

 

Girls with Goals Fund

CAN PLAY

YMCA of Greater Des Moines

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Cedar Valley

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mississippi Valley

Marion Independent School Foundation & Alumni Association

Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa

 

McGrath Automotive Group Donor-Advised Fund

American Cancer Society – Cedar Rapids

Catherine McAuley Center Inc.

Children’s Cancer Connection

Community Health Free Clinic

Eastern Iowa Arts Academy

Feed Iowa First

Foundation 2

Horizons – A Family Service Alliance

Iowa JAG Inc.

Kids First Law Center

Lavender Legal Center

Linn County Trails Association

Matthew 25

Refugee and Immigrant Association

Waypoint Services for Women, Children and Families

YMCA of the Cedar Rapids Metro Area

 

The next grant deadline at the Community Foundation is on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. CST.  For more details about funding opportunities, click here.

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