Core & Emergency Grant Awards
2025 Grant Recipients
Helps the kids most in need to become successful adults through a program of year-round basketball training and one-to-one academic mentoring.
$42,321 to purchase a surveillance safety system for the Crossover Center and hardware for visitor management plus six bleachers and a portable stage
Educates, inspires, and empowers all people to be active stewards of the environment and their own well-being.
$42,000 to renovate the Lagoon Room, ELC's main classroom for educational programming
Creates educational, cultural and social opportunities that enhance the lives of the youth and families we serve.
$100,124 to purchase a 35 passenger shuttle van to facilitate transportation of children participating in the Youth Employability Program
Provides education, experience and training in various cultural and performing arts, including music, drama, dance, and the vocal arts, for the youth of Gifford, (and neighboring Indian River County Communities), with a core focus on mastering stringed instruments.
$100,000 to purchase and install two soundproof practice rooms at the new GYO musical education facility
Provide safe haven, mental health, preventative care and life skills for at-risk children and families.
$50,000 to renovate bathrooms at the children's shelter in Vero Beach
Opens doors to opportunities through quality child care and education from crib to high school and beyond.
$21,506 to replace playground equipment at RCMA Whispering Pines Child Development Center
Empowers individuals and communities to achieve safety and freedom from domestic violence.
$35,834 to enhance security features that ensure safety of domestic violence victims living at the Vero Beach Shelter
To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs without discrimination.
$75,000 to purchase a refrigerated food truck for the food and feeding program
Promotes independence and dignity in our community by providing services to older adults and transportation for all.
$58,000 to purchase two vehicles to enable emergency visits to vulnerable seniors in crisis by SRA's Public Guardian Team
Provides affordable, independent apartments to senior citizens on a limited income in an attractive, safe, and socially supportive environment.
$50,000 to make safety updates to locks on resident units and to upgrade plumbing in one of the buildings
Provides high level therapeutic services from caring and qualified professionals regardless of our patients' ability to pay.
$45,810 to replace non-hurricane impact windows and doors and the lobby flooring at the physical therapy clinic
The Arc supports and empowers individuals with special needs to achieve their life goals.
$69,850 to replace failing roof at the main office and day facility building
Reduces the impact of substance misuse and behavioral health disorders in Indian River County, through prevention, education, treatment, and recovery support.
$59,860 to purchase new A/C units for recovery assistance group homes and to repair A/C and ductwork in new facility
Alleviates hunger by obtaining and distributing food and other essentials in Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie counties.
$52,551 to purchase storage equipment for central warehouse, increasing worker safety and decreasing food loss and damage
Prioritizes children’s mental health in our families, schools and communities through prevention, education and treatment.
$51,339 to renovate newly aquired clinical space
Provides support to veterans and their families.
$60,000 funding for Veterans Helping Veterans, providing capital repairs to veterans' homes
Provides compassionate, innovative care of the highest quality, setting the standard for patients and caregivers needing home health, hospice, and community health services.
$44,218 to replace exterior doors at the VNA Hospice House
Provides high-quality, caring, accessible healthcare services; adult and child, medical, mental, and oral health, to everyone.
$47,315 to purchase a patient transport vehicle
2025 Emergency & Accelerated Grant Recipients
To develop housing solutions guided by the needs of its family partners and the community.
$175,000 to repair and replace roofs of 25 low-to-middle income residents whose homes were damaged during Hurricane Milton
Provides support to veterans and their families.
$50,000 to provide critical home repair for veterans' homes damaged by Hurricane Milton
Provides high level therapeutic services from caring and qualified professionals regardless of our patients' ability to pay.
$21,200 to replace damaged ductwork over pediatric department
Provides space for recovering alcoholics.
$36,000 for repairs and carpentry work to soffits, lighting, and sidewalks to fix damage caused by Hurricane Milton
Serving families and individuals by providing crisis care, case management, transformative education, food and household subsidy, employment training and placement, personal empowerment training and active referrals to other collaborative social service providers.