2024 |
Motherland Gardens Community Project |
$10,000 |
Expansion of "From Seeds to Table" to a year-round program, helping to empower Springfield's underserved youth with continuous education in gardening, cooking, and entrepreneurship. |
2023 |
Springfield & Central Illinois African American History Museum |
$12,500 |
To support a week-long history summer day camp for less advantaged children in grades 4 - 6, focusing on African American history and culture. The theme of the camp will be "Learn from the Past - Create Your Future." |
2022 |
St. Patrick Catholic School |
$12,500 |
Establishment of a new Student Culture Coordinator position that will serve as a behavior interventionist, social-emotional educator and parent educator to enable the school to expand in scope and function of the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports framework. |
2021 |
Compass for Kids |
$12,500 |
Club Compass, an after-school program that serves approximately 125 low-income elementary students in Springfield Public Schools - District #186 through academic and social-emotional supports to help them perform at or above grade level and close achievement gaps. |
2020 |
Previous Grant Recipients |
$24,000 |
Young Philanthropists awarded unrestricted grants to all of its past grant recipients to help support their operations through the COVID-19 pandemic. A generous matching gift from the Hanson Family Fund at the Community Foundation doubled grant funds available this year. |
2019 |
Kidzeum of Health & Science |
$11,000 |
Young Engineers Club, a new eight-week after-school program, designed to introduce second and third graders to concepts surrounding engineering. The grant covered costs for students with limited means to participate in the program. Curriculum for the two-hour courses was co-created with local engineers and addressed how engineers approach design, circuits, coding, and more. |
2018 |
Matheny-Withrow Elementary School |
$10,000 |
Camp Kindergarten: Ready, Set, Go!, a three-week class held in the summer to improve school readiness among incoming kindergarten students. The program introduces children to four key concepts that underpin successful learning outcomes: academic goals, school expectations, social/emotional development, and fine and gross motor skills development. |
2017 |
The Outlet |
$10,000 |
College Ready, a program that guides young men looking to become the first of their generation to attend college through a year-by-year process to prepare them for post-secondary education. |
2016 |
Compass for Kids |
$10,000 |
The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project, a high-impact, evidence-based program designed to effectively engage less advantaged parents in supporting the educational development of their children. |
2015 |
Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Illinois |
$10,000 |
The LEGO League Program, designed to introduce real-world engineering challenges to students in grades K-8 by building LEGO-based robots to complete tasks. |
2014 |
Girls on the Run of Central Illinois |
$8,000 |
Life-skills program teaching girls to take charge of their lives and define the future on their terms. |
2013 |
Mini O'Beirne Crisis Nursery |
$7,000 |
Formula, diapers and offsetting transportation costs for families that utilize the nursery's emergency services. |
2012 |
Family Service Center |
$6,000 |
Camp Compass summer program that provided 100 homeless and low-income Springfield Public Schools elementary students with math and reading instruction by certified teachers for 3.5 hours a day, five days a week for four weeks leading up to the beginning of the school year. |
2011 |
Camp Care-A-Lot |
$6,000 |
Residential camp program that serves children ages 6-10 in the Sangamon County area where volunteer counselors are dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty through a balance of social, educational, recreational, and emotional activities. |
2010 |
Asbury's Children's Supper Hour |
$5,000 |
Asbury's became the first organization to be a two-time recipient of a Young Philanthropists grant. The grant-funded program provides hot, nutritious meals and well-supervised activities, including homework help, for local children. |
2009 |
Elizabeth Ann Seton Program |
$5,000 |
Moments Make Memories educational project to assist women in creating closer bonds with their children. |
2008 |
Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault |
$5,000 |
The Hug Away the Hurt program, a therapy program that offers abused children an opportunity to create their own personalized teddy bear for consolation. |
2007 |
Asbury's Children's Supper Hour |
$4,000 |
Expand the program from three days a week to four days a week to serve nutritious meals to disadvantaged children and supervise after-school activities, including help with homework. |
2006 |
The Parent Place |
$3,000 |
The first grant award from Young Philanthropists was awarded to The Parent Place to provide diapers for its Diaper Pantry, as a way to tangibly help families in need. |