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2025 Annual Dinner
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Details to follow!

 

 

 

2024 Annual Dinner 
was held at the 
Pittsburgh Brewing Company in Creighton, PA. 

What an amazing night!!!

2024 winners were:
 

LifeSteps of Armstrong County

Granting Fund:

Bocinec & King Family Donor Advised Fund: $363.33

West Hills Emergency Services

Granting Fund:

Anonymous Donor:  $800.00

Armstrong County Arts Council

Project: Armstrong County Public Art Plan: Armstrong Trail

Granting Fund:

Founders’ Fund:  $1,000

Connections of Armstrong County

Project: To provide free food and hygiene supplies

Granting Fund:

Harry C. Brenneman Memorial Fund:  $1,000

Salvation Army

Granting Fund:

William H. and Dorothy S. Toy General Charitable Donor Advised Fund:  $1,000

The Arc of Armstrong County

Project: Event Improvements

Granting Fund:

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $1,000

Leechburg Public Library

Project: Library Reorganization

Granting Fund:

Founders’ Fund:  $1,859

Fort Armstrong Folk Festival

Project: Keep the beef tent slicing for the Folk Festival

Granting Fund:

Founders’ Fund: $2,198

Orphans of the Storm

Project: To provide a microchip and vaccination clinic

Granting Fund:

Richard G. & Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $2,200

FamilyLife Network, Inc. – Origins Family & Pregnancy Services

(formerly Tri-City Life Center)

Project: To engage fathers in parenting

Granting Fund:

Harry C. Brenneman Memorial Fund:  $2,323

Don’t Stop Dreamin’

Project: To be used for the 2024-2025 dream program

Granting Fund:

Founders’ Fund:  $2,500

Ford City Renaissance Community Partnership, Inc.

Project: To rebuild essential fundraising efforts

Granting Fund:

Founders’ Fund:  $3,000

Armstrong Center for Community Learning

Project: To provide an Earth Day event

Granting Funds:

Baker Family Charitable Fund:  $2,905

Bocinec & King Family Funds: $363.34

Grants Totaling:  $3,268.34

 Kittanning Public Library

Project: To provide community health and wellness

Granting Fund:

Mission Fund in memory of Charles and Pearl Snyder:  $4,100

Armstrong Jr. Sr. High School Culture Club

Project: AHS Culture Club activities

Granting Fund:

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund: $5,000

Armstrong Trails, Inc.

Project: Armstrong Trails is Growing

Granting Funds:

Baker Family Charitable Fund: $2,905

Founders’ Fund:  $2,095

Grants Totaling: $5,000

Ford City Public Library

Project: To revitalize spaces to meet community needs

Granting Fund:

Mission Fund in memory of Charles and Pearl Snyder:   $5,000

Grace Christian School

Project: Office equipment update

Granting Fund:

Founders’ Fund:  $5,000

HAVIN – Helping All Victims in Need

Project: The intersection between traumatic brain injuries and domestic violence or sexual assault

Granting Fund:

Richard G. & Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $6,500

Family ACTS, Inc.

Project: Rehabilitation supplies

Granting Fund:

Harry C. Brenneman Memorial Fund:  $7,500

Downtown Kittanning Revitalization Committee

Project: Bloom on Market

Granting Funds:

Founders Fund:  $3,000

Richard G. & Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund: $5,000

Grants totaling:  $8,000

Progressive Workshop of Armstrong County

Project: To purchase new furnaces for PWAC’s workshop

Granting Fund:

Richard G. & Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $8,895

Kay’s Cottage

Project: Soundproofing improvements

Granting Fund:

Richard G. & Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $9,358

Fort Armstrong Horsemen’s Association Foundation

Project: Raise the Room Capital Campaign

Granting Fund:

Richard G. & Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $10,000

Humane Animal Allies

Project: Mercy Fund

Granting Fund:

Richard G. & Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $10,000

Armstrong Habitat for Humanity

Project: Rock the Block 2025

Granting Funds:

Ben Franklin Trust:  $860.00

Give 365:  $3,390.00

James A. Frederick Fund:  $360.00

Founders’ Fund:  1,390.00

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $7,500

Bocinec & King Family Fund:  363.34

Grants totaling:  $13,863.34

Ramps of Hope

Project: Ramps of Hope

Granting Funds:

Harry C. Brenneman Memorial Fund:  $10,000

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $5,000

Grants totaling:  $15,000

Sugarcreek Township Volunteer Fire Department

Project: Communications and other upgrades

Granting Fund:

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $15,000

Grants totaling: $15,000

Worthington/West Franklin Volunteer Fire Department

Project: Communications and other upgrades

Granting Fund:

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $15,000

Hose Company 6 Kittanning

Project: Communication equipment

Granting Fund:

Harry C. Brenneman Memorial Fund:  $19,895.00

Eye and Ear Foundation

Project: Care Fund for Armstrong County Patients

Granting Fund:

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $25,000

Richard G. Snyder YMCA

Project #1: Other children and young adult programs

Granting Fund:

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $15,000

Project #2: Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder Scholarship Fund

Granting Fund:

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $10,000

Grants totaling:  $25,000

Armstrong County Historical Museum and Genealogical Society, Inc.

Project #1: Museum Archival Preservation and Storage Items

Granting Fund:

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $2,000.

Project#2: Upgrades to the Train Station

Granting Funds:

William H. and Dorothy S. Toy General Charitable Fund:  $1,000

Richard G. and Barabara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $24,046

Grants totaling:  $27,046.00

Children's Grant Category

Apollo Memorial Library

Project: Library Lego Lab

Granting Fund:

John Rohrer K-12 Fund:  $1,500

Foundation for Free Enterprise

Project: Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week 2025 & speaker series

Granting Fund:

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $2,780

HAVIN, Inc. (Helping All Victims in Need)

Project: Bringing a sense of home to children displaced by domestic violence

Granting Fund:

John Rohrer K-12 Fund:  $3,500

Richard G. Snyder YMCA

Project: For Youth Speed and Agility Program

Granting Fund:

Richard G. & Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund: $4,141

Armstrong County Community Action Agency

Project: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Granting Fund:

Mission Fund in Memory of Charles and Pearl Snyder: $5,000

For the Children Armstrong

Project: Bus Transportation

Granting Funds:

Nancy Brody Fund for Children:  $2,630

Ralph & Susan Knepshield Fund for Children:  $2,980

Grants Totaling:  $5,610

Vision To Learn

Project: To expand vision care access to students in Armstrong County

Granting Funds:

Richard G. and Barbara A. Snyder General Charitable Fund:  $5,000

Harry C. Brenneman Memorial Fund:  10,000

Grants totaling:  $15,000