Our Chilton Area Community Foundation partner recently awarded $49,400 in grants from its Chilton Area Community Foundation Fund to 12 nonprofit organizations to improve the quality of life in the greater Chilton area.

The purpose of the Chilton Area Community Foundation Fund is to meet ongoing community needs and improve the quality of life for residents of the Chilton Area School District. Grants are awarded annually in spring through an application and evaluation process involving Chilton volunteers and Fox Valley region community foundation staff.

2024 Grant recipients include:

• Bay-Lakes Council Boy Scouts of America: $1,000 for its annual Scouting for Food Drive. The funds help raise awareness about the food drive through door hangers on homes and posters in local businesses.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Central Wisconsin: $1,500 for its Big Futures program.
• Calumet County Agricultural Association: $5,000 to make repairs to the Historic Educational Calumet County Dairy Arena.
• Chilton Area School District libraries: $3,500 for its Literacy Through Art murals initiative. The grant will fund the creation of two murals at Chilton High School.
• Chilton Public Library: $5,000 for its Enriching Lives Through Literacy project. The November program helps students, and their families celebrate the love and importance of reading.
• Community Clothes Closet: $5,000 to help bring its Traveling Closet to Chilton.
• Exceptional Equestrians: $3,000 to support hippotherapy and its mental health programs for youth, teens and adults receiving therapy.
• Friends of Women in Recovery dba The Beacon House: $5,000 to support services for Chilton area residents participating in their transitional living experience.
• Lakeshore Natural Resource Program: $5,000 for its Stony Brook Collaborative Restoration Project. Stony Brook is the only clear, cold-water stream in Calumet County. The project builds on an existing partnership with the Chilton Area School District’s Trout in the Classroom project.
• LEAVEN: $5,500 to provide limited financial assistance to Chilton area residents facing barriers to economic stability.
• New Hope Center, Inc.: $5,000 for its InnerAct Summer Camp for school-age children with developmental disabilities.
• Potter Fire Department: $4,900 to purchase a thermal imaging camera to help fight fires and locate victims.

The Chilton Area Community Foundation is one of five geographic affiliates we partner with in the Fox Valley. Our other partners include Brillion Area Family of Funds, Clintonville Area Foundation, Shawano Area Community Foundation and Waupaca Area Community Foundation.