The grant wish list is a simple listing of any granting needs from area nonprofits that are served by the Community Foundation. Submissions to be included are accepted at any time and will be added to the list as we receive them. This list can be especially helpful for our donor advisors so that they can see what immediate needs there are in our community that align with their interests. Not only is this list available to the public here on our website, but we also directly share it with our donor advisors and with local media. Our goal is to help as many nonprofits secure the funding that they need to meet their mission and goals.
Grant Wishes will remain on our website for 6 months.
After 6 months, nonprofits must resubmit or inform us to extend for another 6 months.
Wishes will show 2 dates – the date they are entered and the expiration date.
Aiden Rupp Memorial Scholarship
Requesting: $5,000
The Aiden Rupp Memorial Scholarship Fund was established at the Richard G. Snyder YMCA in Kittanning, PA to help families who cannot afford swimming lessons for their child.
Aiden was a vibrant 3-year-old who loved the water. His life was cut short due to a drowning accident. His parents want to keep his memory alive through new swimmers that come out of the swim lesson program at the Richard G. Snyder YMCA, in Kittanning, PA. Our mission is to ensure that no other child drowns from not knowing how to swim. The goal for this year is to teach swim lessons and water safety to all Armstrong School District second graders along with any families who have the need for swim lessons.
wish updated 08/01/2024
wish expires 01/01/2025
ARIN IU28-School & Community Services
Requesting: Any amount
ELECT Program
Provides parent education, child development and academic supports to teen parents. Items and funds to support needs:
- Gas Cards
- Baby/Toddler Books
- Diapers
- Support to go to work and attend events
Amount requested: Any amount
Family Focus Program
Provides parent education, early childhood education, group activities and resources to families. Support to attend events:
- Paper Products
- Diapers
- Laundry Products
- Children’s Books
- Cleaning Supplies
- Hygiene Products
- Art Supplies
- Gas Cards
Amount requested: Any amount
Adult Education Program
Supports learners to earn their High School Diploma’s, academics, careers, and ESL classes. Needs:
- Gas Cards
- Hygiene Products
- School Supplies
- Books for reading (novels)
- Support to attend class
Amount requested: Any amount
Education for Children & Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Supports students and their families to provide the academic needs as well as personal needs to be productive. Need:
- · Gas Cards
- · School Supplies
- · Support to attend school and go to work
- · Laundry Products
- · Hygiene Products
wish updated 08/15/2024
Expires: 01/15/2025
Angels Journey Home Animal Rescue
Amount Requesting $25,000
We are in need of a vehicle to transport veterans to the hospital or doctor pick up groceries, donations for the homeless, and distributing donations to the homeless, plus take their pets to the vet.
Amount Requesting $40,000
We need fencing, building materials to finish kennels, finish rooms for veterans to stay, plumbing, and a small building to store donations that we give out to the homeless and community members.
Amount Requesting $30,000
Request for four tiny houses to be placed on our ten acre property to house homeless veterans, until they can get help to change their life journey, and where veterans waiting for a service dog can stay while their dog is being trained and help care for the animals.
Wish Updated: 03/01/2024
Wish Expires: 09/01/2024
Armstrong County Arts Council
Requesting: $2,000
Develop a more interactive and informative website that creates unparalleled access and awareness of the arts throughout Armstrong County. Website to include artists’ portal, calendar of events listing art-related education and workshops, and gallery of submitted local artists’ work.
Requesting: $3,000
Collaboration with Bodiography Contemporary Ballet Company (Maria Caruso) to create a free annual public ballet performance that includes local artists being recognized and honored. In November 2023, we partnered with Bodiography to provide a ballet performance and over 400 people attended
Requesting: $5,000 - $10,000
Armstrong County Arts Council, founded in July 2023, is at the forefront of catalyzing an art revolution across Armstrong County. Our mission aims to enrich our communities through the creation of public art displays. These installations are designed to beautify our county and also deepen the appreciation for the arts among both residents and visitors.
Wish Updated: 3/8/24
Wish expiires: 9/1/24
Armstrong County Libraries
Requesting: $6,300
The Armstrong County Libraries are working together to offer a new digital platform for checking out hoping to offer Armstrong County library patrons this new digital platform, Hoopla. This digital app provides to all library patrons the ability to borrow audiobooks, ebooks, comics, movies, TV, magazines, or music everywhere, whether it is their computer, phone, TV or even their car. With over 1,755,000 titles on demand, and no holds, library patrons will raise their reading, listening, and viewing experiences to a new level.
As each of the six libraries within Armstrong County is independent and has different budgetary constraints, funding toward this service will allow equal access across the county to any patron with an active library card, no matter which library they are a patron.
Wish updated 9/10/2024
Wish Expires 3/31/2024
Armstrong Jr. Sr. High School Culture Club
Requesting: $5,000
Seeking funding to establish a culture club to provide opportunities for students to attend cultural events in Pittsburgh, such as CLO Broadway Series, Museums, Art Shows, Festivals, etc.
Funds will be used to organize and to supplement first year events.
wish updated 04/23/2024
wish expires: 10/31/2024
Books in Homes USA Inc.
Requesting: $6,000
We wish to bring the joy of reading to two schools in Armstrong County through a free book giveaway program. This initiative aims to provide each student with the opportunity to choose and own two books, fostering a love of reading and supporting literacy development. With your support, our nonprofit will facilitate this program, partnering with local schools to ensure that every child receives books that inspire and educate. By granting this wish, you’ll help us ignite a passion for reading in the hearts of students across Armstrong County. Partner schools will be selected upon the wish's approval to best serve the needs of the community.
Wish updated 08/01/2024
Wish expires: 12/01/2025
Connections of Armstrong County
Requesting: $2,500
We offer a monthly free community meal. this amount would fund those for the next year and help us finish stocking our kitchen (cookie sheets, utensils, etc.).
Requesting: $2,500
Utilities being turned off is a major problem in our community. Most places won't help people until they've been shut off, we'd like to help before that to save on fees, stress and time with no hear or water, (etc.)
Requesting: $2,500
Our building acts as a drop in enter when we are open. We try to keep food, water, coffee, hygiene supplies on hand to give to people in need. We are all donation funded so this would help us purchase toilet paper, paper towels, soap, cleaning supplies for our building.
Requesting: Any amount
"In the last six months we have seen the population of homeless people increase exponentially in our community. We had known this was a problem, but until now most of these people had somewhere to stay, even if it wasn’t their own place.
Now we are seeing many more people with nowhere to go at all, they are sleeping on the streets. There is only one local motel that agencies send these people (if they have funding) and this place is not safe.
For this reason, we have decided to pursue creating a homeless shelter. There isn’t one in our entire county. We would like to see a combination of a homeless shelter and affordable housing that people could transition into or just start out in.
We would also like to offer a variety of life skills classes to help prepare people to be on their own.
There is not a lot of public transportation in our area, so we would also like to be able to purchase a couple of large vans to transport people, to our facility if it is not in a location that is easy to access, but also into town so they can get to the public transportation to get to work and appointments."
wish updated 03/01/2024
expires: 09/01/2024
Folds of Honor Western PA
Requesting: $5,000
Folds of Honor is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization with the mission of providing educational scholarships to the spouses and children of America's service-members and first responders who were fallen or disabled during active duty. These scholarships support private educational tuition and tutoring for children in grades K-12, as well as higher education tuition assistance for families in Western, PA. Your $5,000.00 grant would provide one scholarship for a deserving and qualified applicant in Armstrong County.
Wish Updated: 07/01/2024
Wish expires: 12/31/2024
Foundation for Christian Counseling
Requesting: $5,000
Foundation for Christian Counseling (FFCC) provides mental health and/or addiction counseling grants to economically disadvantaged people in Armstrong County, those who cannot afford needed treatment otherwise. Without financial support, many individuals will remain under-treated or will forego treatment altogether. FFCC grants help subsidize treatment for these individuals who are seeking care for all types of mental health and substance abuse issues.
wish updated 07/09/2024
Wish expires: 12/09/2024
Haiti H2O: Hope to Opportunity
Amount Requesting: $1,250
Haiti H2O partners with Haitian doctors and nurses and leaders in three remote villages to host quarterly medical clinics where there are no doctors. Each 1-day clinic sees an average of one hundred patients from the community and surrounding areas. Many people walk miles to attend our clinics. Regular mobile clinics can better treat long-term diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure which are common in Haiti. Left untreated, these conditions often lead to heart attack or stroke. $1,250 provides the medications prescribed during each of Haiti H2O’s mobile medical clinics.
Amount Requesting: $475
Haiti H2O partners with Haitian doctors and nurses and leaders in three remote villages to host quarterly medical clinics where there are no doctors. The medical team sees an average of one hundred patients at each clinic. $475 will pay 1 doctor and 3 nurses for their time during one quarterly medical clinic.
Amount Requesting: $200
Haiti H2O partners with Haitian doctors and nurses and leaders in three remote villages to host quarterly medical clinics where there are no doctors. The medical team has to travel to these remote villages to serve the communities. $200 will cover the transportation cost for the medical team for one quarterly medical clinic.
Wish Updated: 07/03/20/24
Wish Expires: 12/31/2024
Life Choices
Requested amount: $40
2024 is our 40th Anniversary! We are seeking new monthly donors for $40/month. The first 40 donors receive a Life Choices t-shirt, the book Until Unity by Francis Chan, a sticker, and a keychain.
Requested amount: $1,000
Smart TVs for our 4 medical clinics so that our clients can access our app directly on the TVs during their appointment.
Requested amount: $5,000
We purchased a building in downtown Kittanning next to Dunkin Donuts in June 2023. The building needs the gutters replaced as they are backed up with leaves and debris beyond repairability.
Wish updated 02/15/2024
Wish expires: 08/31/2024
Orphans of the Storm
Requesting: $10,000
Orphans’ kennel is a 1,500 SF shelter, built in 1971. It is too small for the current and future pet needs. Recent highway work has caused frequent flooding from a nearby pond and stream, necessitating immediate evacuation of the animals, putting employees and volunteers at risk, and damaging the facility and records.
wish updated 06/30/2024
wish expires: 12/31/2024
Sugarcreek Township Volunteer Fire Department
We have three main projects that we are attempting to accomplish this year.
1) Requesting: $10,000
We need to upgrade our portable hand held radios to allow us to communicate between our Armstrong County and our Butler County radio frequencies. We are planning to buy 2 radios at approximately $5,000 each.
2) Requesting: Pending
Our second project for this year is to tar and chip our parking lot for which we will need to buy the oil which cost is pending.
3) Requesting: Pending
Erecting an electronic sign along the highway to inform people of what is happening.
Wish updated 02/12/2024
Wish expires: 08/31/2024
The Center Midland
Requesting: $5,000
We are requesting funding to help provide transportation for 30-50 students to attend off-site educational trips. Each month we provide these experiences for students in K4-3rd grade and 4th-12th grade at no cost to the families. Such trips include the Science Center, Pittsburgh Zoo, museums, and plays. These experiences allow students to learn, encounter new possibilities, and increase their view of the world that would otherwise not be possible.
Requesting: $5,000
This wish is to continue to provide enrichment classes for our students. We serve 85-100 students daily through our year-round youth development programs. Our enrichment classes in cooking, hiking, gardening, boxing/fitness, dance, literary arts, visual arts, podcasting, short film making, photography, STEM, and music provides students with opportunities to discover their passions, learn new skills and healthy ways to express themselves, and create and explore in safe spaces.
Wish updated 07/01/2024
Wish expires: 12/01/2024
The Kittanning Cemetery.
Requesting: $15,000
Funds are requested to complete repaving of the cemetery roads. Paving costs are extremely high and we can only complete one section at a time.
Requesting: $20,000
Funds are requested to begin construction of a columbarium. Initial quote for construction is $110,000. the requested funds would help immensely in the preliminary planning and construction phase.
Wish Updated: 07/09/2024
Wish Expires: 12/09/2024
If you are a nonprofit interested in submitting information for the grant wish list, please complete the Grant Wish List Request Form and email to jodi@servingtheheart.org or call 724-548-5897 for more information.
