Congratulations!

to our Fall 2025 Grant Recipients

Fall 2025

  • Mount Hope Prison Ministries

    Mount Hope Prison Ministries is based in Hagerstown, MD, and provides assistance to ex-offenders and their families through various programs and services.

  • New Day Intake Center

    New Day Intake Center’s mission is to provide dignified housing and support services to persons experiencing chronic homelessness and accompany guests as they transition to long-term, stable housing. They are based in South Bend, IN, and envision ending chronic homelessness in South Bend by ensuring those who have been on the streets the longest have access to permanent housing.

    https://www.newdaysouthbend.org

  • Shadowcliff Mountain Lodge

    Shadowcliff is a non-profit retreat center on the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park. It was founded as a place of retreat and renewal in a busy world, and continues that legacy with programs such as an artist residency, and partnerships with local organizations promoting health and creativity. This grant is to support the residency program in its early years.

    https://shadowcliff.org

  • Sunflower Seeds Ukraine

    Sunflower Seeds Ukraine is committed to providing supplies and other forms of support to Ukrainian civilians as well as their defenders. This is our second grant to the organization, to construct and distribute solar charging equipment to civilians affected by the ongoing war.

    https://www.sunflowerseedsukraine.org/

  • Emma Vanhoozer

    The Teazey Foundation likes to highlight and honor those who work tirelessly to benefit their communities. Emma is an excellent example of someone who strives to make the world a better place, using both her talents and education to determine her priorities.

  • Coco Schefmeyer - Homeless Cat Rescue

    Coco is a veterinary assistant and commits her time caring for ill and abandoned cats. She is building a community around her work. This grant will support the effort to get cats fixed, vaccinated, and microchipped.

Past Recipients

  • F21 - Individual - Majorie Hudson (PA)

    to support a legal defense against a hog CAFO developing in an ecologically sensitive area

  • F21 - Organization - Tear Caps Workshops (ME)

    to support crafts, arts, and practical education in their local community

  • F21 - Organization - Silver Spring/Takoma Park Mutual Aid Group (MD)

    to procure food for low income families

  • S22 - Organization - Central App (WV)

    to support technology career development for individuals in low income situations

  • S22 - Organization - Feed The Family Pantry (DC)

    to provide fresh produce and cleaning supplies for over 120 families

  • F22 - Organization - Rocky Mountain Folk School (CO)

    to upgrade facilities and offerings to help inspire the next generation of rural and mountain artists

  • F22 - Organization - Morgan County Homeless Coalition (WV)

    to serve those who are facing shelter insecurity in the Morgan County region

  • S23 - Organization - The REED Center

    to support the REED Center’s commitment to habitat research, sustainability, education, and the construction of a deer fence

  • S23 - Organization - Rocky Mountain Folk School

    to upgrade facilities and offerings to help inspire the next generation of rural and mountain artists

  • F23 - Individual - Education Research Funding

    to help provide an education pathway for those whom do not wish to seek military-backed grants

  • F23 - Organization - Zenith Community Arts Foundation (DC)

    to inspire the next generation of carpenters in the Washington, DC, area with a ‘Mobile Woodshop’ program

  • F23 - Organization - Our Lady of the Road (IN)

    to fund homeless shelters and humane services for those experiencing hardship in the South Bend region

  • W23 - Family - The Peck Family (WV)

    to purchase materials for the construction of a new roof

  • S24 - Individual - Sponsoring Fellow Outreach Worker (IN)

    to fund 6 month’s of student loan payments for a long-time volunteer for South Bend’s Catholic Worker community

  • S24 - Organization - Prairie Winds Nature Farm (IN)

    to provide opportunities to low income and urban children to experience nature in structured and unstructured ways

  • S24 - Family - Home Renovations (NY)

    to help a rural, low-income, elderly woman and her family remove a tree leaning dangerously close to their home

  • S24 - Organization - The Age of Transitions Podcast

    to support those brave enough to take a non-partisan yet critical stance on technology, warfare, and postmodern philosophy

  • F24 - Organization - Sunflower Seeds Ukraine

    to support converting and distributing solar charging equipment for use by civilians affected by the war in Ukraine

  • F24 - Individual - Graceann Beckett (MA)

    to help with Graceann’s transition to graduate school in support of her community service, including rural advocacy and nonviolence activism

  • F24 - Organization - 88.3 KFFR Radio (CO)

    to support the expansion of a local nonprofit radio service providing alternative and constructive voices in a rural region

  • F24 - Organization - Bloomington Catholic Worker (IN)

    to support necessary renovations to their homeless resources center

  • F24 - Individual - Samuel Sseggirinya (MI)

    to support his nursing education and his efforts providing for his communities in both Michigan and the Kampala region

  • S25 - Organization - Morgan County Public Library (WV)

    to support public genealogical research

  • S25 - Organization - New York Catholic Worker (NY)

    to support renovations on the building

  • S25 - Organization - Life or Drugs, Tri-State Support (WV)

    to support organizational, administrative and executive needs

  • S25 - Organizatio - Tear Cap Workshops (ME)

    to support crafts, arts, and practical education in their local community

  • S25 - Individual - Graceann Beckett (MA)

    to help with Graceann’s school expenses, in support of her ongoing rural advocacy and nonviolent activism

What Recipients Are Saying

  • Judith Ingram, Feed the Family Pantry (MD)

    “Your grant [will] allow us to offer as rich a selection of fresh fruits and vegetables to the 100 families we serve weekly during the farmers market season, and for that we are tremendously grateful.”

  • Sarah Banks, Tear Caps Workshops (ME)

    “This grant made such a big difference: we were able to move ahead on our new workshop project…renovating a building to turn it into our new luthier shop. Having underwriting support also made our ongoing programming so much easier. From the bottom of our hearts thank you for this tremendous opportunity.”

  • Barbara Ferris, On behalf of "Feed The Family Food Pantry"

    “Not only are we meeting a need to our neighbors in Ward 3, but the Capitol Area Food Bank has asked us to be a distribution center for the ward because we now have the highest rate of food insecruity in the city.

    Please know that your grant is greatly appreciated”

  • Morgan County Observation Foundation

    “This repair will enable us to continue our mission to improve and expand access to astronomy through education and viewing the skies.

    Thank you“

  • Zenith Community Arts Foundation

    “We appreciate your social responsibility and commitment to arts and vocational education for the community. You enable ZCAF to realize its mission of fostering collaboration amongst artists, business, and nonprofit groups and governments.“

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

— Mother Teresa