GCRCF approves more than $3 million in grants

GCRCF

The board of directors of the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation (GCRCF) have approved more than $3 million in grants to 269 nonprofit organizations.

According to a news release, the awards include competitive Organization Support Grants, Program Support Grants, Linn County Grants, and Endowment Challenge Grants from the grant cycle in the fall of 2024; as well as distributions from donor-advised, designated, scholarship and nonprofit funds.

GCRCF‘s competitive grant programs are supported by the Greater Good Fund and support efforts related to innovation, maintaining success, and building capacity through a competitive grantmaking process. During this grant cycle, GCRCF received over $2 million in requests for competitive grants and was able to fund $1,009,427 – 48% of the requested amount.

Nonprofit organizations who received grant awards:

Endowment Challenge Grants

  • NewBoCo

Linn County Grants

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar Rapids & East Central Iowa
  • Central Furniture Rescue
  • Families Helping Families of Iowa
  • Friends of the Lisbon Public Library
  • Hawkeye Area Council, Boy Scouts of America
  • Horizons – A Family Service Alliance
  • Iowa Legal Aid
  • Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa
  • Kids First Law Center
  • Lavender Legal Center
  • Linn County Fair Association
  • Lisbon-Mount Vernon Ambulance Service
  • Marion Public Library Foundation
  • Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Theatre
  • NewBo City Market
  • Red Cedar Chamber Music
  • Southeast Linn Community Center Corporation
  • The History Center

Organization Support Grants

  • African American Museum of Iowa
  • Catherine McAuley Center
  • Feed Iowa First
  • Fellowship Club Cedar Rapids
  • Foundation 2 Crisis Services
  • Horizons – A Family Service Alliance
  • Indian Creek Nature Center
  • Kids First Law Center
  • Linn County Trails Association
  • Miracles in Motion Therapeutic Equestrian Center
  • NewBo City Market
  • Red Cedar Chamber Music
  • Safe Place Foundation
  • Theatre Cedar Rapids
  • Together We Achieve
  • Wheelchair Ramp Accessibility Program Coalition
  • Willis Dady Homeless Services

Program Support Grants

  • African American Museum of Iowa
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar Rapids & East Central Iowa
  • Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Dubuque – Cedar Rapids office
  • Central Furniture Rescue
  • College Community School District
  • Community Health Free Clinic
  • Discovery Living
  • Feed Iowa First
  • Foundation 2 Crisis Services
  • Fuerzas Culturales Ballet Folklorico de Cedar Rapids
  • Growing Real Opportunities for Work at Kazimour Farm & Orchard
  • Hawkeye Area Community Action Program
  • Heritage Area Agency on Aging
  • Horizons – A Family Service Alliance
  • Indian Creek Nature Center
  • Kids First Law Center
  • Lavender Legal Center
  • NewBo City Market
  • Sleep in Heavenly Peace

Rapid Response Grants

  • African American Museum of Iowa
  • Ecumenical Community Center Foundation
  • Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio
  • Playtime Poppy Children’s Theatre

 

Other grant recipients include:

Girls with Goals Fund

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar Rapids & East Central Iowa
  • CAN PLAY
  • Eastern Iowa Arts Academy
  • Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa
  • Girls on the Run of Eastern Iowa
  • Junior League of Cedar Rapids
  • NewBoCo

Lil’ Drug Store Products Competitive Donor-Advised Fund

  • ChildServe Foundation Inc.
  • Eastern Iowa Arts Academy
  • Eastern Iowa Health Center
  • Feed Iowa First
  • Friends of the Family
  • Iowa College Foundation
  • Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa
  • Matthew 25
  • Mercy Medical Center
  • Paradox Transitional Home
  • The Arc of East Central Iowa
  • Willis Dady Emergency Shelter
  • YPN