Recent Grantees
| Arizona | A New Leaf | Provide housing support services for 360 vulnerable households who are at risk of homelessness or other unsafe living conditions. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | A Stepping Stone Foundation | Continued support for a two-generation, tuition-free program that provides early literacy intervention, preschool, weekly adult education and parenting classes. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | About Care | Support to hire a volunteer manager to oversee and recruit volunteers to allow elderly, low-income individuals to remain in their homes. | $80,000 |
| Arizona | Alliance for Companion Animals | Provide no-cost spay/neuter and wellness services to approximately 6,000 animals through veterinary clinics, including mobile veterinary units, across Maricopa County. | $1,100,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Community Foundation – Summer Youth Program Fund | Support for the Summer Youth Program Fund for organizations that provide academic enrichment, arts and recreational summer programs for children of low-income families. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Food Bank Network | Support to deliver fresh, healthy produce from vendors in Nogales, Arizona, to residents in Maricopa County who need it most. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona Housing Inc. | Support to addresses the nutritional needs of extremely low-income older adults who experience food insecurity while also managing chronic and complex medical conditions. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Continued support for the Bridging Success program to help former foster care youth and youth who experienced homelessness successfully transition to college. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Aster Aging | Expand resource navigation services for East Valley seniors to access food, housing and eligible benefits helping them remain independent in their homes. | $195,000 |
| Indiana | Catholic Charities Indianapolis – Holy Family Shelter | Provide general operating support to the Holy Family Shelter to serve families experiencing homelessness and to help offset impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | $75,000 |
| Indiana | Center for Leadership Development | Capital support to expand current building, including adding eight classrooms, expanding the College Prep Institute lab, and adding new workspaces for staff and volunteers and a new auditorium. | $300,000 |
| Arizona | Central Arizona Shelter Services | Support to implement an electronics health record system to improve outcomes for clients experiencing homelessness. | $150,000 |
| Indiana | Central Indiana Land Trust | Support to steward and maintain Oliver’s Woods and White River Bluffs, two properties open to the public along the White River. | $50,000 |
| Indiana | Child Advocates | Support to hire a full-time staff attorney who will provide legal counsel to children in the child welfare and foster care systems. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Child Crisis Arizona | General operating support to provide children and youth in Arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families. | $200,000 |
| Indiana | College Mentors for Kids | General operating support so that college students can mentor at-risk, low-income Marion County elementary students. | $50,000 |
| Indiana | Community Assets | Support to hire a program manager/volunteer coordinator to help guide local youth, teens, and young adults in planning for and pursuing their future careers. | $75,000 |
| Indiana | Conservation Law Center | Support to continue implementing the Indiana Water Report's recommendations, including advocating for water-quality improvements. | $180,000 |
| Indiana | Dress for Success Indianapolis | Expand career coaching and other employment services to allow un- and under-employed women the opportunity to overcome barriers to gainful employment. | $82,500 |
| Arizona | Earn to Learn | Support for a college access program that places current college students and recent college graduates in high schools to serve as college advisors to underrepresented students. | $190,000 |
| Indiana | Eastern Star Jewel Human Services | Support for youth programming focused on children of color around community, economic, educational and workforce development opportunities. | $165,000 |
| Indiana | EmployIndy | Support to create a regional apprenticeship hub that will expand the use of apprenticeships as a pathway into promising careers. | $300,000 |
| Indiana | FACE Low-Cost Animal Clinic | Support over three years to provide spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations and wellness services for 3,000 dogs and cats per year. | $525,000 |
| Indiana | FIDO, Inc. | General operating support to improve the quality of life of outside dogs. | $100,000 |
| Indiana | Firefly Children and Family Alliance | Support to implement the teaching-family model, a short-term therapeutic intervention program, for families whose children are at risk of becoming foster children. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona | Support to offer trauma-informed training for foster parents and provide artistic tools to help the parent and child bond. | $125,000 |
| Indiana | Friends of Indianapolis Animal Care Services Foundation | Capital support to construct a modern facility for Indianapolis Animal Care Services to provide safe and humane shelter for approximately 15,000 animals per year. | $3,000,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Children – Phoenix | General operating support to impact generational change through relationships with professional mentors that empower youth who are facing the greatest obstacles. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Verde River | Support to update the Verde Watershed Report Card, an assessment tool designed to track trends in the health of the Verde River watershed and surrounding communities. | $275,000 |
| Arizona | Friends of the Verde River | Launch the Verde Forever campaign to raise awareness of the Verde River, motivate greater river stewardship and increase support by people and institutions. | $200,000 |
| Indiana | Friends of the White River | Expand an education and advocacy program to encourage landowners along the White River to implement habitat enhancement practices and to target illegal dumping at select sites. | $30,000 |
| Arizona | Generation Justice | Continued support for the Children's Rights Education and Training Series to train foster parents, kinship families, advocates and court personnel about the legal rights of children in the foster care system. | $200,000 |
| Indiana | Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana | Capital support for physical upgrades and program enhancements to more effectively provide hunger relief to food-insecure families. | $700,000 |
| Arizona | Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation | Support to bring targeted career and college readiness programs to underserved populations. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Greater Phoenix Leadership | Support for start-up costs for Rio Reimagined, which will foster river restoration and urban redevelopment along the Rio Salado. | $150,000 |
| Indiana | Hamilton County Tourism | Support to create a governance structure that can implement the White River Vision Plan and additional marketing support to continue to raise awareness of the White River. | $100,000 |
| Indiana | Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County | Support for the Reach Out and Read program, providing culturally and developmentally appropriate books to nearly 30,000 underserved children and their families. | $160,000 |
| Arizona | Heard Museum | Support to redesign and rebuild a website and to make it more accessible. | $125,000 |
| Arizona | Hospice of the Valley | Support to expand the Supportive Care for Dementia program to provide education and clinical support to caregivers and to help people affected by dementia remain home and maintain their independence. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Human Services Campus | Support to expand street outreach and navigation services to reduce the length of time people experience homelessness. | $200,000 |
| Indiana | Humane Society of Indianapolis | General operating support for a veterinary clinic located in a neighborhood with high poverty rates. | $150,000 |
| Indiana | Indiana Blind Children’s Foundation | Capital support for the purchase and integration of 15 Promethean Boards in the elementary, middle and high school classrooms. | $75,000 |
| Indiana | Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence | Support to provide attorneys to represent domestic violence survivors in civil court hearings, including protective orders and family law matters. | $165,000 |
| Indiana | Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking | Support to create a fund to ensure that survivors of sexual assault and/or human trafficking receive direct financial assistance for their immediate needs on their path to recovery. | $30,000 |
| Indiana | Indiana Land Protection Alliance | General operating support to increase the pace and quality of land protection in Indiana. | $100,000 |
| Indiana | Indiana Wildlife Federation | Develop two new trails along the White River and continue habitat education programming. | $50,000 |
| Indiana | Indy Neighborhood Cats | Support for spay/neuter surgeries for 300 cats and 50 dogs. | $45,000 |
| Indiana | IU Health Foundation | Support for the Mosaic Center for Work, Life and Learning, which will help participants create clear, defined career pathways into jobs at IU Health and other area health care providers. | $192,000 |
| Indiana | Ivy Tech Foundation | Ivy Tech Foundation Continued support for the IGNITE program to help former foster care youth and youth who experienced homelessness successfully transition to college. | $200,000 |
| Indiana | Julian Center Inc. | Provide general operating support to empower survivors of domestic and sexual violence and end the generational cycle of violence. | $85,000 |
| Indiana | Keep Indianapolis Beautiful | Remove invasive plants and create high-value native landscapes in Riverside Park and Ravenswood Overlook Park. | $50,000 |
| Indiana | La Plaza | Support to implement an economic development program that focuses on the workforce development needs of Latinx families. | $100,000 |
| Indiana | Land Trust Alliance | Support to provide training, mentoring, peer networking, leadership development, and other direct services to Indiana’s 16 land trusts. | $150,000 |
| Indiana | Latinas Welding Guild | Support for a fabrication program to allow women and transgender and nonbinary people to develop welding and related skills so that they can start their own custom fabrication small business and/or work for a custom fabrication shop. | $165,000 |
| Arizona | Local First Arizona | Offer a sustainability program to Verde Valley independent businesses and nonprofits, enabling them to experience cost savings associated with reducing water and energy use, and minimizing waste and transportation emissions. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Lost Our Home Pet Foundation | General operating support for animal respite services to pet owners in crisis. | $50,000 |
| Indiana | Low Cost Spay-Neuter Clinic | Capital support for equipment needs to spay and neuter thousands of central Indiana dogs and cats. | $100,000 |
| Indiana | Lucky Dog Retreat Rescue | General operating support to rescue dogs that are most at-risk for euthanasia. | $10,000 |
| Arizona | Make Way for Books | Support for a bilingual, two-generation early literacy program that fosters skills of young children and empowers parents. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Maricopa Community Colleges Bridging Success | Continued support for the Bridging Success program to help former foster care youth and youth who experienced homelessness successfully transition to college. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Meals of Joy | Support to provide no-cost, hot meals to older adults, people with disabilities or those who are homebound in the West Valley. | $20,000 |
| Arizona | Midwestern University | Continued support to provide no-cost, quality vision care to families experiencing homelessness and historically underserved populations. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Midwestern University | Support to provide free veterinary care and surgical services through weekly onsite, mobile and pop-up clinics. | $80,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support for the Yavapai-Apache Nation’s efforts to build a critically needed wastewater treatment plant near Camp Verde. | $400,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to develop and implement stormwater projects to improve water retention and groundwater recharge. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Support to pipe a portion of the Eureka Ditch above and through the Yavapai-Apache Nation reservation and to implement an irrigation diversion dam redesign. | $400,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Develop an Upper Verde stormwater management plan that will identify a pipeline of projects to improve recharge of local water levels and water quality in the watershed. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Continue stakeholder engagement of groups from the Upper Verde and Verde Valley for connectivity and cohesion in planning, community support and reaching conservation and related goals. | $150,000 |
| Arizona | Nature Conservancy – Arizona | Identify and implement agricultural projects that protect water flow in the Verde River watershed. | $400,000 |
| Indiana | Near East Area Renewal | Continued support to provide assistance to existing and new small businesses on the near eastside. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Northwest Valley Connect | Expand volunteer transportation services to older adults, individuals with disabilities and veterans so that they can access health and community supports. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | PACC 911 – Phoenix Animal Care Coalition 911 | Support to provide medical treatment for abused, neglected and injured animals. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Per Scholas – Phoenix | Support for the Women in Tech Initiative to provide tuition-free training, certifications and connect women of color to careers in technology. | $100,000 |
| Indiana | Purdue Research Foundation | Expand the Purdue College of Veterinary Medicine Priority 4 Paws program to provide primary medical care to Marion County shelter animals, including vaccinations and basic diagnostics and treatment. | $75,000 |
| Indiana | Reach for Youth | Support to create a pathway for continuing education/credentialing, workforce development, career planning and employment for youth. | $55,000 |
| Arizona | Rebuilding Together – Valley of the Sun | Support to provide home modifications and safety improvements for 50 homes owned by economically disadvantaged older adults. | $50,000 |
| Indiana | Reconnecting to Our Waterways | Continued funding for community-wide education and advocacy to promote Marion County waterways. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Rosie’s House: A Music Academy for Children | Support to serve 150 additional students with quality after-school and college readiness programs. | $165,000 |
| Indiana | Rosie’s Southside Animal Shelter | General operating support to rescue dogs and cats at risk of euthanasia and place them in loving homes. | $75,000 |
| Arizona | Save the Family Foundation of Arizona | Support for a transitional housing program that provides working poor, homeless families with up to 24 months of housing and case management and supportive services. | $150,000 |
| Indiana | Second Helpings | General operating support to help food-insecure families receive freshly-prepared, nutritious meals. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Sojourner Center | General operating support to help survivors overcome the impact of domestic violence. | $125,000 |
| Arizona | Springs Stewardship Institute | Support for a project to document and increase awareness of the headwater springs of the Verde River's tributaries. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | Tempe Community Action Agency | Provide general operating support to help individuals and families experiencing financial hardship and housing insecurity meet basic needs. | $75,000 |
| Indiana | The daVinci Pursuit | Support to utilize the arts to engage people with Marion County waterways, including creating a weekly public radio show, podcasts and waterway signage. | $20,000 |
| Arizona | The Zion Institute | Support to expand a foster care prevention and placement program for children and families in south Phoenix. | $200,000 |
| Indiana | Trustees of Indiana University | Continued support for the THRIVE program to help former foster care youth and youth who experienced homelessness successfully transition to college. | $115,000 |
| Arizona | Valley Leadership Corporation | Expand the Impact Maker program to allow Valley Leadership alumni to take meaningful action in solving community challenges. | $100,000 |
| Arizona | Valley of the Sun YMCA | Expand YMCA's Outreach Program for All Seniors to two additional YMCA locations to help seniors remain safely at home. | $200,000 |
| Arizona | Valleywise Health Foundation | Support to expand a program that includes family early literacy courses, kindergarten readiness, STEM activities and reading support for caregivers. | $125,000 |
| Indiana | Villages of Indiana | Support for 70 new foster parents to support the temporary care of foster children in their home. | $150,000 |
| Indiana | Visually Impaired Preschool Services | Support to hire additional teachers who will provide high-quality early intervention services to Marion County's youngest children who are blind or visually impaired. | $180,000 |
| Indiana | White River Alliance | Support to create the first White River Report Card to measure community progress, align partners and activities and inspire change that improves the White River and its watershed. | $50,000 |
| Arizona | White Tank Mountains Conservancy | Support informed decision-making that aligns with regional open space planning goals, including sustainable growth around a designated system of linked natural desert and wildlife corridors. | $120,000 |