Matching Grant Archives - Indian River Community Foundation

The Buggy Bunch. From left: Ashley Lombardo, Courtney DiPietro, Calista Milliman, Teresa Pastor, Jeff Pickering of IRCF, Jamie Miller, Sue Carter, Sue Bartl, Jennifer Graves, Christa Goldsmith, Leslie Bowen, Tara Wright, April Muller and Ryan Cobb.

Indian River Community Foundation continues to award multiple matching grants to local organizations from the Community Enrichment Fund.

Matching grants are funds conditional on the nonprofit’s ability to raise an equivalent amount of funds. This type of grant allows Indian River Community Foundation to double the impact of the grant awarded.

The following organizations were recently awarded matching grants:

$50,000 to The Buggy Bunch for their Family Education Center
$15,000 to Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee for the Sexton Excavation Site
$12,000 to Vero Beach Theatre Guild for their Facility Enhancement Project

To read more about our grants and current competitive grant opportunities, please visit our Grants Page. A Nonprofit Grantseeker Orientation is held virtually on the second Tuesday of every month for local nonprofit leaders to learn about our grantmaking process.

Photo Identifications in this Article

The Buggy Bunch: Ashley Lombardo, Courtney DiPietro, Calista Milliman, Teresa Pastor, Jeff Pickering of IRCF, Jamie Miller, Sue Carter, Sue Bartl, Jennifer Graves, Christa Goldsmith, Leslie Bowen, Tara Wright, April Muller and Ryan Cobb. (Photo Credit: Maureen Nicolace)

Vero Beach Theatre Guild: Jeff Hall, Jill Hargrave, Lisa McNamee of VB Theatre Guild with Jeff Pickering, CEO of Indian River Community Foundation. (Photo Credit: Maureen Nicolace)

Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee: Randy Old and Mary Singer of Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee with Jeff Pickering, Indian River Community Foundation CEO. (Photo Credit: Maureen Nicolace)

Community Foundation awards matching grant of $25,000 to the Mental Health Association — From left: Donors Joanne Quaile of Toyota of Vero Beach, Kathie and Michael Pierce, and Robin Williams; Indian River Community Foundation CEO Jeff Pickering; and representing Mental Health Association in IRC are Dr. Nick Coppola, Amy Wagner, Angela Guzenski, and Sheana Firth. (Photo: Maureen Nicolace)

An outright grant of $25,000 was made in October 2019 with a match challenge for MHA to raise an additional $25,000. The MHA reached 970 students in IRC schools through their School Violence & Suicide Prevention Program in 2019. The total $50,000 grant provided through the Community Enrichment Fund will help them meet their goal of reaching 2,337 students in 2020.

This article was first published in the March 2020 issue of Vero’s Voice Magazine.