Gifts to the Monroe County 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 Monroe County.

The 2024 grant application closed on Sept. 10.

A growing impact, year after year

More than $26,000 awarded in 2023!

In 2023, the Monroe County Community Foundation awarded 12 grants, totaling $26,240, to support initiatives benefiting our residents and communities. This includes three grants for projects developed and implemented by Monroe 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

  • Broken Timber Outdoor Education Center to run electricity to its educational pavilion, supported by the Baker Education and Economic Development Fund
  • Crossed Paws Animal Shelter to build an outdoor seating area, supported by the Baker Education and Economic Development Fund
  • Monroe Central High School FFA program to support its programming and activities in the community
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio to help cover overnight stays for Monroe County families
  • Sardis CARES to help restore the kitchen floor at the Sardis Community Center
  • Tri-County Help Center for community education and youth outreach efforts and to purchase supplies and fund outings for Safe Spaces, a support group for youth
  • Village of Lewisville to support Project Snowflake, which will bring lighted decorations to the village for the holiday season
  • Village of Woodsfield to add a StoryWalk to the walking trail in Woodsfield
  • Woodsfield Kiwanis Club to support its Coats for Kids project, which provides clothing-only gift cards to K-8 students in Switzerland of Ohio Local School District to purchase coats, hats, boots, gloves and scarves

  • The iBELIEVE Foundation to fund the participation of Monroe County youth in the 2024 iBELIEVE Youth Leadership Workshops
  • Monroe Arts Council to help expand the youth-led “Nightmare at the Haunted Monroe Theatre” event to the fairgrounds
  • Woodsfield Girl Scout Troop 31410 to provide supplies for art workshops for Monroe County youth in grades 4-8, spearheaded by a Woodsfield High School student with assistance from local Girl Scouts

  • Broken Timber Outdoor Education Center to complete construction on a pavilion that will be used for classes that encourage youth and their families to engage in more outdoor activity
  • Hilltop Swiss Lads and Lassies 4-H Club to purchase sports balls and a storage bin for the Sardis Community Center
  • Kiwanis Club of Woodsfield to support its Coats for Kids program, which provides gift cards for students in the Switzerland of Ohio Local School District to purchase coats, boots, hats and gloves
  • Lewisville Community Center to purchase a stage curtain that will absorb sound while beautifying the gymnasium
  • Lewisville Community Volunteer Fire Department to purchase storage racks
  • Midway Community and Senior Citizens Center to purchase a sound system and tablecloths for its dinner theater and other events and activities
  • Monroe County Arts Council received two grants to construct an ADA-accessible entryway for the Monroe Arts Center, Tourism and Visitors Center office and Creative Expressions Gift Shop and to purchase new windows for the Monroe Theatre’s remodeled concession area

  • Crossed Paws Animal Shelter to support the cat overpopulation spay and neuter program
  • Lewisville Community Center to support the center’s Story Hour
  • Lewisville Community Volunteer Fire Department to purchase tables and chairs for the new firehouse
  • Midway Community and Senior Center to purchase dinner theater tables
  • Woodfield Kiwanis Club to provide kids winter coats
  • Covenant Christian Academy to purchase laptops