Gifts to the Hocking County Community Fund’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 Hocking County.

The 2024 grant application closed on Sept. 10.

A growing impact, year after year

More than $22,000 awarded in 2023!

In 2023, the Hocking County Community Fund awarded 12 grants, totaling $22,415, to support initiatives benefiting our residents and communities. This includes four grants for projects developed and implemented by Hocking 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

  • Easterseals Central and Southeast Ohio to enroll an additional 105 Hocking County children in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio
  • FosterHub to purchase items for Hocking County youth aging out of the foster care system
  • Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland to help fund the 2024 Beckoning Trails Day Camp for Hocking County youth
  • Hocking County Diaper and Formula Bank to purchase diapers and formula
  • Logan-Hocking Local School District Athletic Department to support the Student Sponsorship Program, which allows all of the district’s students free admission to all sporting events, band concerts, and music and theatre performances
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio to help cover overnight stays for Hocking County families
  • Southern Ohio Fishers of Men Association/Out of the Boat Ministries to purchase playhouses that will be built by members of the Logan community for families in need
  • The Bowen House to fund promotional materials for its 2024 Arts Festival

  • inspiHER Girls Leadership Foundation to support the inspiHER Girls Leadership Retreat for Hocking County fifth- through eighth-grade girls at Logan-Hocking Middle School
  • Logan High School to support four community bloodmobile drives the students organize in partnership with the American Red Cross
  • Logan High School Student Leadership Team to support its “Staffisity” days, through which different categories of staff will be recognized each month for their hard work and dedication within the district and the community
  • Logan High School Technology Student Association to purchase materials for welding students to design and fabricate donation receptacles for local nonprofits

  • Easterseals Central and Southeast Ohio to help enroll additional Hocking County children in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio
  • Hocking Athens Perry Community Action (HAPCAP) to establish pollinator gardens and a certified monarch butterfly waystation on HAPCAP property
  • Hocking County Board of Developmental Disabilities to help stock the Hocking County Diaper and Formula Bank
  • Hocking Hills Children’s Museum to assist with final construction costs
  • Hocking Hills Inspire Shelter to help provide feminine hygiene products for clients, community members in need, Logan High School’s Chieftain Closets and Logan-Hocking Middle School
  • LifeWise Academy for character education materials
  • Logan Theater received two grants to help equip event space and to support opportunities in movement and dance offered through the Community Arts Center
  • Project SAFE at Logan-Hocking Schools to help stock its food and clothing pantry
  • Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center to support its driver’s education program, which assists 16- to 21-year-olds who want and need to work but who lack access to reliable transportation

  • Project SAFE – Logan Hocking School District to support its food and clothing pantry
  • American Red Cross Central and Southern Ohio Region to support the Home Fire Campaign in Hocking County
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fairfield County to help fund youth mentoring in Hocking County
  • Habitat for Humanity of Southeast Ohio to support the 2022 Hocking County Build
  • Southern Ohio Fishers of Men Association to support the Kinship Community Help program
  • The Bowen House to support the Spring Parlor Concert Series