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Summer Grant Award Announcement 2020

August 25, 2020

Jamie Schloegel, Chief Executive OfficerBy Jamie Schloegel, Chief Executive Officer

Our third quarter grant competition was the first ever to host the new Emergency Survival Grant program. This grant program was created to provide nonprofits at risk of not surviving the pandemic with unrestricted funding to help cover their fixed expenses.

Many local nonprofits have lost a significant amount of expected revenue because of the pandemic, yet their fixed costs remain. In response, we pivoted our competitive grant program to ensure we are helping nonprofits in the way they need help the most.

We saw a total of $698,103 dollars requested and had $255,226 to spend. Fortunately, our incredible donor advisors contributed another  $48,400 to help get nonprofits the funding they asked for. The fund names in bold below are donor advised funds. A total of $287,118 was awarded in grants! 

Some donor advisors made gifts from their funds to the general granting pool rather than to a specific request. Those funds are: Warren and Denise Loveland Family Fund, Susan M Quillin Fund, and the Kerbaugh Family Fund. Thank you!

The list below includes all of the grants awarded in this quarter. We will award a second round of Emergency Survival Grants during our fourth quarter competition, too.

Organization Name Amount Awarded and Purpose Fund Name
WisCorps, Inc. $10,725 unrestricted Warren and Denise Loveland Family Fund, Myrick Hixon Ecopark Fund, Maureen L. Kinney Fund
The Good Fight Community Center $8,000 unrestricted Community Giving Fund, Guentner-Froegel Family Fund, Richard H. Masrud Memorial Fund
AVCAP, Inc. $1,000 unrestricted Community Giving Fund
La Crosse County 4-H $4,000 unrestricted Warren and Denise Loveland Family Fund
La Crosse Community Theatre $30,000 unrestricted Community Giving Fund
La Crosse Performing Arts Center DBA Weber Center for the Performing Arts $30,000 unrestricted Community Giving Fund
Friends of the Refuge – Mississippi River Pools 7 & 8 $4,000 unrestricted Warren and Denise Loveland Family Fund
Mid West Music Fest $7,500 unrestricted Community Giving Fund
Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc. Coulee Region $4,000 unrestricted Warren and Denise Loveland Family Fund
HorseSense, Inc $27,350 unrestricted Richard H. Masrud Memorial Fund, Bramschreiber Family Fund in Memory of Karl Bramschreiber, Community Giving Fund
The Warehouse Alliance $2,000 unrestricted Community Giving Fund
JDRF $4,400 for Type 1 diabetes research Howard Dahl Fund
The Children’s Clothes Closet $4,000 for new undergarments, shoes, boots and jackets Guentner-Froegel Family Fund, Community Giving Fund
La Crosse Symphony Orchestra $5,000 for a new website Community Giving Fund
Cia Siab, Inc. $7,500 for trauma treatment scholarships Community Giving Fund
Coulee Council on Addictions $21,400 to support the Recovery Coach Coordinator position Cindy and Cheryl Vieth Fund, Dr. Frank Furlano Family Fund, Normal L. Gillette, Sr. Family Fund
theExchange/Shelter Development Inc $30,000 to support the hire of an executive director Robert & Eleanor Franke Charitable Fund, Normal L. Gillette, Sr. Family Fund
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of La Crosse $66,143 to support the Coulee Collaborative to End Homelessness Robert & Eleanor Franke Charitable Fund
Causeway OASIS Respite Program $20,000 to support a staff person to run the OASIS respite program for people with dementia Cindy and Cheryl Vieth Fund, Community Giving Fund