GRANT COUNTY — The Community Foundation of Grant County Indiana has released their 2024 end of the year grant making reports, and shared how much money has gone into certain aspects in the community.
The Community Foundation of Grant County Indiana has three main objectives, according to their website. They focus on endowment building, local grant making and community leadership.
The Community Foundation celebrated its 40th birthday in August and gifted 40 free little libraries throughout the county to mark the event.
Recently, the Community Foundation put their 2024 grant making summary book online for everyone to see how many individuals and businesses were impacted by receiving a grant.
According to the report, the Community Foundation was able to distribute $4,283,078 in grant money that distributed throughout the arts and culture, community development, education, health, human services and scholarships.
In 2024, $612,122 was awarded to 64 nonprofits throughout Designated and Agency Funds. The grants ranged from $70 to over $87,000.
“The Community Foundation’s endowment assists are conservatively invested in the market. The Foundation’s operations are 100 percent sustained by an operations endowment and philanthropic fees, which means we don’t fundraise for operation ourselves,” the 2022-2023 report stated.
In the ‘Ways to Give’ section of the 2022-2023 report, the Community Foundation said that some of the ways that donors can contribute to grant making is by donating in cash, appreciated securities, real estate, transfers from charitable entities, qualified IRA charitable distributions, cryptocurrency and gifts of grain (ordinary income property).
Since being in business, the Community Foundation as awarded $28,648,848 in grants to agency and designated funds, donor-advised funds, field of interest funds, scholarship funds, unrestricted funds and other grant making.
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