This is paragraph text. Click it or hit the Manage Text button to change the font, color, size, format, and more. To set up site-wide paragraph and title styles, go to Site Theme.

 2025 Grant Recipients



Inspiration Grants


In 2022, WFED anticipates awarding a total of $119,000. Funding is broken down into the following categories:


Inspiration Grants

$60,000 total will be awarded. Applicants may apply for up to $30,000. Two grants will be awarded in this category. 


Impact Grants

$30,000 total will be awarded. Applicants may apply for up to $10,000. Three grants will be awarded in this category.


Acorn Grants

$29,000 total will be awarded. Applicants may apply for up to $10,000. Three grants will be awarded in this category. 


2022 Inspiration Grants

Acorn Grants (3 total awarded in 2025):  for any new western slope nonprofit or a nonprofit that has never received a grant from the Women’s Fund.

Ag in the Classroom $8,000

  • To help fund Farm day for third graders at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds in the spring of 2026. .

Project Green $8,000

  • Revitalization of the Boys and Girls Club School Gardens

Shingle Spring Community Center $8,000

  • ADA Compliant Upgrade to make the facility more user friendly.


2022 Impact Grants


Impact Grants (3 total awarded in 2025): 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.