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The Community Foundation of Central Missouri (CFCM) is pleased to offer Community Support Grants from its Community Granting Fund in 2023. Support Grants help fund new or existing programs where modest financial support can make a positive impact. Grants are $500, $1000, and $1,500. Not all applications can (or will) will be funded.

The 2023 granting process for Community Support Grants is found HERE. The online application link for a Community Support Grants is live and is found HERE. The application deadline is August 25.

CFCM is also offering our Community Impact Grants to two organizations, each receiving a $5,000 award. Impact Grants are program/project based.

The 2023 information document for Community Impact Grants is found HERE. Impact Grants allow CFCM to have a greater effect in the mid-Missouri area with a more significant allocation. The online application form for an Impact Grant is found HERE.



2022 Community Impact Grants
The following two organizations received Impact Grants for their exemplary and creative programming in 2022:
$5,000 to Mary Lee Johnston Community Learning Center to provide milk and formula for 88 children for four weeks
$5,000 to The Missouri Symphony to allow all third graders in CPS to attend a Young People Concert

2022 Community Support Grants
The following organizations received grants to help them with their service delivery and operations as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect the nonprofit sector:

Agencies in alpha order; each grant was $1,000

  • Callaway Cares: Five months of hot meals through mobile soup kitchen
  • Columbia Art League: Student artist/mentor pairing program
  • Coyote Hill: Meals, gifts and sensory kits for foster children
  • Day Dreams Foundation: Folders for health fairs and other events
  • Do Something Right Now: General operations for resourcing underprivileged neighborhoods (Hogan House)
  • Job Point: Color Printer for diplomas and certificates and more
  • Missouri Girls Town: trauma informed improvements to quiet rooms
  • Playing 4 Hope: winter clothing and school supplies for young student players
  • Ragtag: support free programming during True/False
  • The Help Center: Food pantry+ in Mexico
  • True North: Server for database tracking outcomes/provisions, etc.
  • Voluntary Action Center: gasoline vouchers for 50 clients