Gifts to the Gallia County Foundation’s endowment fund are invested, with earnings from those dollars returned to our communities through grants to nonprofits, schools and public organizations serving our neighbors.
With the support of our donors and in partnership with FAO, our grants fund projects and programs that advance opportunities across five areas, known as our Pillars of Prosperity: arts and culture, community and economic development, education, environmental stewardship, and health and human services. Emphasis is on supporting individuals of all ages who are spearheading projects and programs that create opportunities, meet pressing needs and unleash the potential within Gallia County.
2025 grant application
Our 2025 grant application closed on June 10.
A growing impact, year after year
Nearly $24,000 awarded in 2025!
In 2025, the Gallia County Foundation, with the support of its donors and in partnership with the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio, awarded 10 grants, totaling $23,750, to support projects and programs benefiting the county’s residents and communities.
Grant Recipients
- Court Street Ministries to fund monthly food delivery fees for a year
- Easterseals Central and Southeast Ohio to increase local enrollment in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio and to provide books to Gallia County children in the program
- Gallia Academy High School to cover the cost of transporting AP English students to the Auschwitz exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center
- Gallia County Board of Developmental Disabilities received two grants: (1) to purchase sensory items that will be integrated into classrooms, community programs and therapy sessions and (2) to repair the walk-in freezer at Guiding Hand School
- Gallia County Council on Aging to provide beginner and next-level iPad/tablet training to seniors to increase their digital literacy and connectivity, supported by the AT&T Foundation
- Gallia County Local Schools to purchase art supplies, STEM kits and physical education equipment for students residing at the Children’s Center of Ohio
- John Gee Black Historical Center to purchase audio and visual equipment to expand its programming, educational services and community events
- Square One GJM to help purchase a reliable used vehicle to transport clients, including individuals experiencing homelessness and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking
- Vinton Volunteer Fire Department to purchase automated external defibrillators for emergency response vehicles
- Samuel L. Bossard Memorial Library to purchase an early literacy station for children ages 2-8
- Court Street Ministries to purchase food for unsheltered, at-risk and financially disadvantaged community members
- E3THREE to support the development of a financial literacy program for Boy and Girl Scout troops in Gallia County
- Easterseals Central and Southeast Ohio to enroll additional Gallia County children in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio
- Economic and Community Development Institute to support the Women’s Business Center of Central Appalachia’s eight-week entrepreneurship bootcamp in Gallia County
- Gallipolis First Church of the Nazarene Food Pantry to purchase food for its monthly distributions
- Gallia County Council on Aging to provide iPad/tablet training to senior citizens to increase their digital literacy and connectivity, supported by the AT&T Foundation
- God’s Hands At Work to purchase new freezers for its food pantry
- John Gee Black Historical Center to purchase audio and visual equipment for programming and presentations at the center
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio to help cover the cost of overnight stays for Gallia County families
- Appalachian Breastfeeding Network to fund Gallia County residents’ participation in a training program designed to increase lactation education in the community
- Court Street Ministries to fund children’s holiday stockings, community dinners and other items for unsheltered and at-risk individuals in Gallia County
- Easterseals Central and Southeast Ohio to enroll additional Gallia County children in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio
- Ohio University Foundation to fund Gallia County youth’s participation in the Ohio University Diabetes Institute’s CAT Camp, a day camp for youth with Type 1 diabetes
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio to help cover the cost of overnight stays for Gallia County families
- Square One GJM to purchase groceries for the shelter
- University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College to support the Center for Entrepreneurship’s inaugural student pitch competition
- inspiHER Girls Leadership Foundation to support the inspiHER Girls Leadership Retreat for Gallia County fifth- through eighth-grade girls at the University of Rio Grande
- The iBELIEVE Foundation to fund the participation of Gallia County youth in the 2024 iBELIEVE Youth Leadership Workshops
- Easterseals Central and Southeast Ohio to help enroll additional Gallia County children in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio
- Economic and Community Development Institute to support the Women’s Business Center of Central Appalachia’s Lunch-and-Learn series and its forthcoming Dinner-and-Development series
- Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland Council for its Girl Scout Leadership Experience
- God’s Hands At Work for its mobile food pantry
- John Gee Black Historical Center to initiate a bathroom remodel project
- Economic and Community Development Institute Inc. for the Women’s Business Center of Central Appalachia- Gallia Entrepreneurship
- Gallia County Agricultural Society Inc. for the Gallia County Fair relocation project
Explore other grant opportunities available through the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio.
