Texarkana Area Community Foundation
An Arkansas Community Foundation Local Affiliate Office

GRANTS

Charitable grants for the most part are “Helping Hands.”  A grant to a charitable organization helps them to deliver much needed services or sponsor an activity that helps people in need.  Here is one example:

In the photo below Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts in the Caddo Area Council collect food that goes to fill the pantries of local agencies the feed hungry and needy people.  The food drive covers ten counties in Southwest Arkansas and Northeast Texas.  TACF’s grant was one of the “helping hands” that joined with ten other sponsoring businesses and organizations to provide the resources necessary for the Boy Scouts to have a successful drive.  The scouts collected over 50,000 pounds of food.
 

The Texarkana Area Community Foundation (TACF) makes grants from charitable funds established by individuals, families, businesses, and organizations. These grants support a variety of areas of interest and community needs such as:

1.      Animal Welfare

2.      Arts and Humanities

3.      Community Development

4.      Education

5.      Health Care

6.      Handicapped

7.      Human Relief

8.      Religion

In FY 2007 221 grants totaling $168,000.00 were made from TACF’s thirty-four charitable endowments and scholarship funds.  During our twenty year history TACF has granted approximately $1.3 million.