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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


Amount Granted in FY 24-25: $2,186,400
Total amount granted since inception:  $26,687,205 

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