As the Shelby County Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Louisville, celebrates 33 years of service to Shelby County, we are pleased to announce the names of the 22 Shelby County organizations that have been awarded grants from the Shelby County Community Foundation Partnership Grants Fund for the year 2023.
Those organizations and the amount they have been awarded are included on the attached spreadsheet.
The total grants awarded this year through the Partnership Grants Fund is $203,500.00, which includes $15,000 distributed among 15 nonprofits in Shelby County who participated in the “Give For Good” fundraising campaign hosted by the Community Foundation of Louisville this past September 14.
The permanently endowed Shelby County Partnership Grants Fund presently includes several bequests to the Shelby County Community Foundation including gifts from the estates of Moses Ruben, Gus and Augustine Barnett, Mary Ellen Hackworth, Catherine & Carl Hail, Bill and Doris Hundley, and Elizabeth Jesse Moore. Additional donations have been received by Donald & Anne Armstrong, Leonard & Debbie Ballard, Neil & Sharon Hackworth, Dr. David & Carol Mooneyhan, and several other generous donors.
In addition, thanks to anonymous donations totaling $1,400,000.00, a special fund was set up in 2021 to augment the amount of the grants made to nonprofits in our community. In the past, the Foundation averaged about $65,000 for grantmaking each year. With the addition of this special fund, the Foundation is able to make grants totaling about $200,000 each year for the next several years.
The legacy of these individuals has already touched the lives of several thousand people in Shelby County. Because of their generosity and the work of the Shelby County Community Foundation, their love for this county will continue to be expressed for as long as there is a Shelby County.
In addition to the Partnership Grants Fund, several local individuals, families, and businesses have personal charitable funds at the Community Foundation for ease of simplifying and maximizing the impact of their philanthropy. The Foundation also manages seven Scholarship Funds that awarded 13 scholarships totaling $37,500 to graduating seniors from Martha Layne Collins and Shelby County High Schools this year!
If any individual, family, or business is interested in learning more about how they may create a legacy of generosity through the Shelby County Community Foundation, you may call Dr. J. Howard Griffith, Chair of the Foundation at 502-257-1460 or Kate Biagi-Rickert, Director of Stewardship at the Community Foundation of Louisville, at 502-855-6942.
Since the inception of the Moses Rubin Fund in January of 1990 and continuing through to the formation of the Shelby County Community Foundation in 1995, the Partnership Grants Fund has provided more than 500 grants to over 125 different organizations in Shelby County totaling over $2,300,000. In addition, since 1995, fundholders in the Foundation have channeled over $1,000,000 to nonprofits in our community.
Grant Applications are available online every Spring at www.cflouisville.org/shelby and we encourage local nonprofits to apply!
The Shelby County Community Foundation is an advisory board working as an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Louisville.
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