Gifts to the Gallia Community 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.

The 2024 grant application closed on Sept. 10.

A growing impact, year after year

Nearly $21,000 awarded in 2023!

In 2023, the Gallia Community Foundation, in partnership with FAO, awarded nine grants, totaling $20,996, to support initiatives benefiting our residents and communities. This includes two grants for projects developed and implemented by Gallia County youth under age 18, empowering our young people’s good work today and inspiring them to embrace future roles as community builders.

Grant Recipients

  • 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