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2025 Grant Recipients

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Grants Awarded During 2025

Santa Clarita Valley

 
AAUW Santa Clarita Branch
To sponsor seventh grade girls at Tech Trek Science Camp
$8,400
Agape Village
To grow the capacity of a day program for young adults with special needs in the Santa Clarita Valley
$20,000
ARTree Community Center
To provide a free monthly art program for families in the Santa Clarita Valley
$10,000
Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clara Valley
To provide an art program to low-income youth
$30,000
Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley
To offer a range of programs that cultivate workforce readiness
$50,000
Child and Family Center
To provide a range of services to survivors and children escaping domestic violence in the Santa Clarita Valley
$50,000
College of the Canyons Foundation
For faculty innovation grants, scholarships to students from the Santa Clarita Valley, and for the purchase of equipment for medical lab students
$50,000
Fillmore Unified School District
For scholarships to college-bound students
$24,000
Gibbon Conservation Center
To offer under-resourced schools in the Santa Clarita Valley free field trips to learn about endangered gibbons and the environment
$25,000
Hart Union School District
For scholarships to college-bound students
$173,000
One Step a la Vez
To support a new Culinary Arts Program at the teen center in the Santa Claria Valley
$20,000
Samuel Dixon Family Health Center
To provide critical health services to low-income individuals in the Santa Clarita Valley
$60,000
San Cayetano Elementary School
To fund a weekly art program for all students at the school
$20,000
Santa Clarita Valley Education Foundation
For the Teacher Innovation Grant Program
$20,000
Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry
To provide general operating support
$30,000
Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra
To support a children’s concert series that combines a youth orchestra with dance and animation
$20,000
Single Mothers Outreach of Santa Clarita
To support single mothers in achieving mental and financial stability
$80,000
   

Santa Maria Valley

 
Boxtales Theater Company
To offer myth and folktale assemblies in elementary schools in North Santa Barbara County
$7,500
Boys and Girls Clubs of Mid Central Coast
For academic support for low-income children in Santa Maria
$50,000
California Rangeland Trust
To conserve Elgorriaga Ranch, a 5,000 acre working ranch near Firebaugh
$30,000
C.A.R.E.4Paws
To operate a mobile clinic and to provide free spay/neuter surgeries and veterinary care to pet owners in Santa Maria
$20,000
Central Coast Rescue Mission
To provide food, clothing & support services to 3,500 homeless and low-income individuals in the Santa Maria Valley
$25,000
Children’s Resource Network
To provide free clothing and other necessities to families in Santa Maria and the Santa Clarita Valley
$40,000
Firebaugh High School
For scholarships to college-bound students
$24,000
Firebaugh High School FFA
To upgrade the swine barn
$28,000
Food Bank of Santa Barbara County
To provide healthy food & nutrition education programs in the Santa Maria Valley
$45,000
Future Leaders of America
To prepare 150 Santa Maria youth for college
$25,000
Good Samaritan Shelter
For an afterschool program for homeless children
$15,000
Healing Heroes through Horsemanship
To train and certify at-risk veterans from the Santa Maria Valley for careers in horsemanship
$25,000
Leading from Within
For professional and leadership development for individuals working in the social sector in the Santa Maria Valley
$35,000
Mark Richardson CTE Center & Agricultural Farm, Santa Maria Joint Union High School District
To carry out upgrades to the center’s cattle area to ensure a safe and functional environment for hands-on agriculture education
$20,000
NatureTrack Foundation
To provide nature field trips to students and wheelchair users in North Santa Barbara County
$25,000
New Beginnings Counseling Center
For housing assistance and support services for 275 low-income veterans and their families in the Santa Maria Valley
$25,000
OASIS
For food, services, and activities for 6,000 seniors in the Santa Maria Valley
$30,000
Planned Parenthood Central Coast
To provide sexual health education services in the Santa Maria Valley
$50,000
Santa Barbara Humane Society
To provide free veterinary care to pets in low-income families and to stabilize the feral cat population in Santa Maria
$40,000
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
To provide 375 students in Santa Maria with access to experiential outdoor education programs
$20,000
Santa Maria FFA
To provide general support for the FFA chapter at Santa Maria High School
$15,000
Santa Maria Joint Union High School District
For scholarships to college-bound students
$72,000
Santa Maria Philharmonic
To provide classical music education to elementary students
$20,000
Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum
To support the museum’s educational programs and enrichment camps
$30,000
Santa Maria Valley YMCA
To rebuild the facility’s swimming pool
$60,000
SEEAG
To offer third graders in Santa Maria experiential field trips to a farm
$20,000
Transitions Mental Health Association
To provide vocational training for adults with mental illness
$20,000
Veggie Rescue
To provide residents of North County Santa Barbara County with fresh produce that would otherwise be composted or wasted
$20,000
   

San Francisco

 
Access Institute
To provide support for an In-School Mental Health Program operating at seven high-need elementary schools in San Francisco
$20,000
Call of the Sea
To provide free field trips for San Francisco students to sail on a tall ship and learn about marine science
$20,000
Community Music Center
For music lessons for 1,500 low-income students ages 4 to 18
$20,000
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
To restore and repurpose the Guardhouse to provide visitors enhanced wayfinding and information about Fort Mason’s history and current events
$50,000
Gardens of Golden Gate Park
To support youth environmental education programs
$15,000
Gateway Public Schools
To operate Boys & Girls Clubs that are fully integrated into the schools
$30,000
ICA Cristo Rey Academy
For the work study program’s summer orientation
$20,000
Life Learning Academy
To provide on-site mental health services at a residential public school serving high-risk students in San Francisco
$25,000
Literacy for Environmental Justice
To provide paid internships to low-income youth in "green collar" jobs
$20,000
National AIDS Memorial
To preserve the AIDS Memorial Quilt at a series of repair workshops held at the main San Francisco public library
$25,000
Outward Bound of California
To provide San Francisco teens access to the outdoors and social-emotional learning through a ropes challenge course
$20,000
San Francisco Opera Guild
For a film festival and awards ceremony for students engaged in composing and performing their own operas
$21,000
SCRAP
To provide environmentally sustainable arts education programs to underserved youth in San Francisco
$20,000
Special Operations Finding Kids
To provide assistance to law enforcement in locating exploited children and to the recovered children during their healing journey
$25,000
Sprouts Chef Training
To provide underserved young adults in San Francisco with paid internships in restaurants that lead to full-time jobs
$20,000
Swords to Plowshares
To provide case management and other services to low-income and homeless veterans in San Francisco
$30,000
   

Other

 
California 4-H Foundation
To support the Merced County 4-H in engaging more youth in ag education
$20,000
Dana Adobe Nipomo Amigos, Inc.
To design and install interpretive and directional signs along a 5-mile trail in a historic rancho
$25,000
Point Blue Conservation Science
For conservation of agricultural lands in Merced County
$40,000
University of California, Merced
To offer college students and middle school students a program that teaches field research and laboratory science in support of sustainable agriculture
$43,000
   

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