2025 Grant Recipients
INSPIRATION GRANTS
Inspiration Grants do not have a specific focus, thereby inspiring nonprofits to identify and address our community’s most pressing needs.
El Dorado Peace & Justice Community Program $26,000
- La proMesa familial-addresses food insecurities in our Spanish-speaking community through growing and distributing culturally informed foods.
Housing El Dorado $26,000
- Critical Mobile Home Repair Fund -Preventing homelesness by repairing critical needs for seniors to allow them to stay in their home.
Acorn Grants
Acorn Grants (3 total awarded in 2024): for any new western slope nonprofit or a nonprofit that has never received a grant from the Women’s Fund.
El Dorado County Ag in the Classroom $8,000
- Farm Day- to host third graders to Farm Day at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds to learn about how we can interact with agriculture
Project Green $8,000
- This grant will allow the revitalization of the Boys and Girls Club School Gardens.
Shingle Springs Community Center $8,000
- ADA Compliant Upgrade-this grant will allow for construction needed to make the restrooms ADA compliant for their guests.
Impact Grants
Impact Grants (3 total awarded in 2024): for nonprofit organizations offering direct impacts on the western slope of El Dorado County. This includes but is not limited to human services, such as those pertaining to mental or physical health, education, youth development, or services to children, families or seniors, arts, community beautification, animal welfare, or community development.
El Dorado County Search & Rescue Council, Inc $8,000
- This grant will help to purchase a drone to protect the community's most vunerable using drones with AI & thermal detection to enhance search and rescue.
Mother Lode Rehabilitation Enterprises, Inc (MORE) $8,000
- To begin a Culinary training program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equipping them with essential kitchen skills, food handling knowledge and workforce readiness.
NAMI El Dorado County Western Slope and South Lake Tahoe $8,000
- Combating Isolation through Social Programming. Funding will help establish Clubhouse El Dorado.