The Morris Community Foundation seeks to provide vision for Morris and the surrounding area in order to preserve and enhance our quality of life. The Foundation will do this by providing leadership to identify important needs, concerns, and opportunities; by using our grantmaking to respond to those needs and effect change; by partnering with local not-for-profit organizations to strengthen their abilities to serve our citizens; and by partnering with donors to receive and manage funds that will support the community for generations to come.
It's pretty exciting when your husband comes home at 9 p.m. at night and hands you a $50,000 check. It was even more exciting to know that it's for a new fund at the Foundation: the John Martin...more
Members include such agencies as Grundy County P.A.D.S., We Care, Grundy County Habitat for Humanity, Community Nutrition, Veterans Assistance Commission, Community Foundation of Grundy County and...more
Community Foundation of Grundy County has announced it is now accepting grant applications for funding in 2018. Not-for-profit organizations providing services in Grundy County are welcome to submit...more
The museum is located in the Coleman Hardware Building, 510 W. Illinois Ave. in Morris in the same complex as the other not-for-profits, The Christian Youth Center, the Morris Theatre Guild, the...more
We are the only organization in Grundy County who offers Donor Advised Funds. We also specialize in endowments so that donor funds today are forever supporting favorite causes. Donor-designed funds...more
Grundy County Community Foundation was selected by Grundy County Executive Chris Balkema to benefit from his participation in the Route 66 Classic. The Community Foundation of Grundy County was...more
Philanthropy isn't about us, it's about improving the county ... Sure, it might not be a philanthropic endeavor, but it is someone using their assets...more