BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Community Endowment Board has awarded $160,815 to 35 local organizations. These grant funds are anticipated to leverage another $6,898,506 in total project spending.
The 35 grant recipients were announced on April 21. “We received 43 grant applications requesting $284,762. Our wishes are to grow the endowment resources as there are so many needy and worthwhile projects throughout the county,” said Nick Lentz, Chair of the Community Foundation Board.
This was the seventeenth time that the Boone County Community Foundation has engaged in grantmaking. The first awards were made in 2006 where 10 grants were awarded totaling $42,883. To date, $1,754,903 has been distributed in Boone County from the BCCF utilizing our granting process. The Endowment receives funds annually from the County Endowment Fund legislation. Starting in 2016, Boone County is also the recipient of funds from Grow Greene County, a philanthropic associate of the Wild Rose Casino in Jefferson.
The Boone County Community Foundation Board was organized by representatives from throughout Boone County. “Our mission involves helping the communities and non-profit organizations of the county,” said Lentz. “We want to partner with communities and non-profit organizations to help them with programs and projects that might otherwise not be available to the individuals, families and visitors to our county.”
As an affiliate Foundation, the Boone County Community Foundation can assist donors who wish to make outright and testamentary gifts of support to our Foundation or other charitable organizations in the county. “It is possible for local charitable organizations to establish their own funds and benefit from special tax credits and the professional expertise and investment management we help provide,” said Lentz. There are currently 33 funds established.
| Assault Care Center | Safe Housing | 5,000 |
| Boone Greene Co Probation | youth service delivery/exp | 4,000 |
| Boone Area Humane Society | remodel room at shelter | 3,112 |
| Boone Co Convention Bureau | info depot at welcome train | 4,000 |
| Boone Community Theatre | Theatre Audio Project | 3,000 |
| Boone Co 4-H | Educational Kitchen | 5,000 |
| Boone Co Ag Association | Outdoor Surface Revitalization | 9,700 |
| Boone Co Hospital Found | Patient Safe Room | 10,000 |
| Boone Fire Department | EZ-IO Education kits | 1,030 |
| Boone High Booster Club | Scoreboards | 6,000 |
| Camp Fire | Septic Repairs | 8,000 |
| Children Families of IA | Family Support | 4,000 |
| Children’s Cancer Connection | 22 camp heart connection | 3,000 |
| City of Ogden | Recyclables upgrade | 5,000 |
| Des Moines Y Camp | Equestrian program | 4,000 |
| Families Helping Familes | Support foster care progrm | 1,900 |
| Friends of Ledges | Ledges Park Shelter upgrade | 3,200 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Rohde Home #31 | 4,847 |
| IMPACT | Delivery ramp and entrance repairs | 5,000 |
| IA Arboretum | Design family engagement project | 4,000 |
| IA Gardening for Good | Produce washing equipment | 5,000 |
| IA Legal Aid | Family stabilization for low income families | 5,000 |
| IA Railroad Historical Society | Depot Roof replacement | 10,000 |
| Leonard Good Community Library | replace public computers | 3,894 |
| Lutheran Services IA | Crisis Child Care | 1,000 |
| Madrid Fire & Rescue | outfit 2 fire fighters with PPE | 2,132 |
| Madrid Historical Society | Digitize Madrid Register News | 4,000 |
| Madrid Parks & Rec | Toddler play area | 4,000 |
| Mamie Eisenhower Birthplace | Student tours of Birthplace | 1,000 |
| Ogden Athletic Boosters | Scoreboard | 6,000 |
| Ogden Music Boosters | Choral Risers | 4,000 |
| Rotary Club of Boone | Welcome Train Ph 2 | 8,000 |
| Sacred Heart School | Window Replacement | 4,000 |
| Shelter Housing Corp | Homeless to Housed | 5,000 |
| Trinity Lutheran School | Efficient windows | 4,000 |
| 160,815 |
