SPRING 2025 GRANT RECIPIENTS
Project Name
Enhance 319 Empowerment
Operating Support
Operating Support
Youth Empowerment Program
Fair Intern & Operating Support
Trap House Equipment
Operating Support
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
2025-2026 Season and Operating Support
Transforming Lives through Dare to Dream & Love Box
Operating Support
Operating Support
Operating Support
Building Bright Futures
Camp Heart Connection
Safe Routes to School Network for Tama and Toledo
Polish Up Taylor Park Initiative
Operating Support
Seerley Park Improvements
Pickleball Courts
Water Well and Kitchen Floor
Leadership and Life Skills Program
Bump Out Brain Cancer
Operating Support
Hansen Elementary Playground Expansion
STEM Summer Camps
Make Music Day 2025
Empowering Men Program
Operating Support
Refrigerated Truck for Produce Delivery
Legal Services for Families with Children
Waterloo Housing Trust Fund
Fix the Brick Wall
ELC Playground Project
Dream, Believe, Achieve: Youth Educational Programs
Resettlement Services and Early Childhood Programming
Summer Camp at Camp Courageous
Services for People Affected by Mental Illness
Adult Day Care Programming Support
Operating Support
Waverly Community Volunteer Engagement for Good Paws
Oelwein Day Habitation Center Remodel
Operating Support
Operating Support
Fire Department Pumper
Together For Youth
Sunrise Petting Zoo
Women's Transition Recovery Housing Program
Operating Support
Kindhearted Kids Program
Kaleidoscope, Theatre for the Very Young, Educational Talent Search, TEDxUNI
Operating Support
Youth Read
Playground Addition
Organization Name
319 Empowerment Corp.
All in Mentoring
Americans for Independent Living
Back2Basics
Black Hawk County 4H & FFA Fair Foundation
Butler County Shooting Sports
Cedar Bend Humane Society
Cedar Falls Community Foundation
Cedar Falls Community Theatre
Cedar Valley Angels
Cedar Valley Arboretum & Botanic Gardens
Cedar Valley Bicycle Collective
Cedar Valley Gearheads Ministries Inc.
Cedar Valley Preschool & Childcare Center
Children's Cancer Connection
City of Tama
City of Traer
Clarksville Food Pantry
College Hill Partnership
Dysart Pickleball Organization
Friends of the Gilbertville Depot
Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois
Gray Warriors
Grout Museum
Hansen Elementary PTA
Hawkeye Community College Foundation
Hearst Center for the Arts
I Believe Leadership and Sports Academy
Iowa Chamber Music Collective
Iowa Gardening for Good
Iowa Legal Aid
Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments
Ira and Asenath Sturdevant Historical House
Jesup Elementary School
Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa
Lutheran Services of Iowa
Muscular Dystrophy Association
NAMI Black Hawk County
North Star Community Services, Inc.
PGC
Retrieving Freedom Inc.
RISE, Ltd.
Silos and Smokestacks
St Vincent de Paul, Waterloo
St. Lucas Firefighters Association, Inc.
SuccessLink
Sunrise Exchange Club
The Center of Attention
Try Pie
Two by Two Character Development
University of Northern Iowa Foundation
Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley
Waterloo Public Library
Waverly Child Care & Preschool
FALL 2024 GRANT RECIPIENTS
Project Name
Operating Support
ACE-SAP Free Clinic
2024-25 Season
K-9 Unit
Operating Support
Youth Enrichment Center
Albrecht Wing Roof
Operating Support
Capital Project
Operating Support
Operating Support
Operating Support
Operating Support
Books for Babies
Gates/Byrnes Parks
Operating Support
Sparking Success in two Waterloo Schools
Renovation of Community Hall
Iowa Victim Service Call Center
Program Discovery
Housing Stability
Child Care Gap Funding for Low-Income Families
Educational Programming
Shirley Kreger Memorial Scholarship
Hawkeye Celebrates the Arts!
Utilities
K-9 Unit
Working Towards an Inclusive Community
K-9 Unit
Equipping Future-Ready Students
K-9 Unit
Operating Support
Program Support
Operating Support
Employment Support Services
Operating Support
Operating Support
Operating Support
Expo & Competition
Red Sleigh
2024-2025 Concert Series
Operating Support
Parents as Teachers (PAT)
Safe Haven for All
Peace Meal Program
Community-Based Support for Refugee and Immigrant Youth
Crisis Intervention Program
Supporting Families With Sick Children
Operating Support
Building Northeast Iowa's Resilience Against Human Trafficking: Re-Engagement & Expansion Initiative
Simulations Advancing Frontline Emergency Education (SAFE) Program
Operating Support
Timeless Journeys Project
Increasing Vision Care Access to Students in Black Hawk County
Supporting Iowa’s Cultural Heritage and Celebrating Diversity in the Concert Hall
2025 Season of Searching
K-9 Unit
Camp Invention
Youth Concerts 2025
New Fire Station
Waverly Chamber Music Series
Operating Support
Domestic Violence/ Victim Services Program
Scouting for Success
Strategic Roadmap '24-27
Youth and Family Services
Organization Name
1st Kids Preschool & Child Care
Allen College
Bel Canto Cedar Valley
Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office
Boys & Girls Club of the Cedar Valley
Bremer County Fair Association
Bremer County Historical Society
Cedar Falls Community Foundation
Cedar Falls Community Theatre
Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers
Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity
Cedar Valley Hospice
Cedar Valley Preschool & Childcare Center
Cedar Valley United Way
City of Waterloo
Civil Air Patrol - Black Hawk County
Communities In Schools of Mid-America, Inc.
Dunkerton Community Hall
Family Crisis Centers
Friends of National Cattle Congress
Friends of the Family
Grin & Grow Child Care
Grout Museum
Hawkeye Comm. College Found.
Hawkeye Community College Foundation
House of Hope
Hudson Police Department
Inclusion Connection
Independence Police Department
Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates (iJAG)
Janesville Police Department
Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center
Job Foundation
Koats 4 Kids
Larrabee Center
Leader Valley
Little Iron Mom
Little Knights Learning Center
Marching Against the Darkness, Inc.
MercyOne Cedar Falls Foundation/ Friends of CF Medical Center
Metropolitan Chorale
Northeast Iowa Food Bank
Operation Threshold
Otter Creek Animal Shelter
Peace Community Meal
Refugee & Immigrant Youth Organization (RIYO)
Riverview Center
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Iowa & Western Illinois
Salvation Army
Set Me Free Project
Simulation in Motion - Iowa
Sumner Daycare & Learning Center
UNI Foundation
Vision To Learn
Wartburg Community Symphony Association (WCSA)
Waterloo Community Playhouse/Black Hawk Children's Theatre
Waterloo Police Department
Waterloo Schools Foundation
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony
Waucoma Fire Department
Waverly Chamber Music Series
Waverly-Shell Rock United Way
Waypoint
Winnebago Council
Youth Art Team
YWCA Black Hawk County