Connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Starved Rock Country Community Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving and maintaining the quality of life for residents in and around LaSalle, Bureau and Putnam counties in Illinois. Through the generosity of our donors who support our mission to connect people who care with causes that matter, SRCCF has received more than $6.1 million in total contributions and has distributed $2.64 million through nearly 200 grants to charitable organizations, scholarships and disaster relief funds.
We hope your 2025 is off to a good start!
What a wonderful year-end to 2024, full of many opportunities to work with attorneys, CPAs, and financial advisors to help ensure that clients’ charitable giving goals and tax-planning goals were achieved. We are honored to be your first call when the topic of charitable giving pops up in a client meeting.
As we step into 2025, we want to extend our deepest gratitude to each and every one of you. Your unwavering support and generosity have been the cornerstone of our achievements over the past year. Together, we’ve made incredible strides towards our mission, and it’s all thanks to you.
Your contributions have touched countless lives, and we are excited to continue this journey with you. As we look ahead, we are filled with hope and determination to make this year even more impactful.
Wishing you a year filled with joy, health, and success. Let’s each make 2025 our most caring year ever. We will all be better for it!
Bob Cotner was a truly extraordinary man whose kindness, brilliance, compassion and creativity inspired those fortunate enough to know him.
Women Inspired Network, a component fund of the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation, recently awarded $9,100 in grants to local nonprofits including $3,000 for Braveheart Children’s Advocacy Center of Princeton.
The Village of Dana Police Department recently received $1,500 for police body cameras from the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation.
The Streator Family YMCA recently received a $1,000 community grant for its “Rock Steady Boxing to Fight Parkinson’s Disease” program from the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation.
Women Inspired Network, a component organization of the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation, hosted its 2024 Celebration of Giving Sunday by awarding $9,100 in grants to local nonprofits that empower women and benefit children and teens.
Since 2015, SRCCF has distributed over $2.6 million in community investments, grants and scholarships. We facilitate local giving, by local people, for local causes.
But we need your help to continue our good work. Please support our 2024 Year-End Appeal and know that every dollar helps us better serve the community.
All paid members for the 2024 WIN membership year are eligible to vote. We need your vote by Monday, November 18, 2024.
Please join us for our annual Celebration of Giving as we award the 2024 Women Inspired Network Grants to our very worthy recipients!
Check out our insights and tips for hurricane relief, how your clients define “wealthy” and why it matters for their philanthropy, and important year-end giving reminders about ways the community foundation can help.
The Voluntary Action Center of Northern Illinois is joining forces with the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation in its drive to secure a larger building for its Meals on Wheels services in La Salle, Bureau and Putnam counties.
Masks on, beads ready! Save the date for SRCCF’s Mardi Gras event – March 1st 2025.
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“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give” – Winston Churchill
Recipients of grants, scholarships, or disaster funds from the SRCCF to date
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Women Inspired Network, a component fund of the Starved Rock Country Community
Ranging from scholarships for the arts to community grants, SRCCF is a collection of resources given by generous donors to support education, health care, childcare, economic development, tourism, conservation, beautification and to meet the needs of our communities at large.
Starved Rock Country Community Foundation has awarded more than 132 scholarships and grants.
As a grant-making public charity, Starved Rock Country Community Foundation brings donors and community agencies of all backgrounds together to improve and maintain the quality of life in Bureau, LaSalle, and Putnam Counties – forever.
Whether you’re interested in making a donation, starting a fund or learning how to give back to the community, we’d love to hear from you!
The Starved Rock Country Community Foundation (SRCCF) is a 501(c)3 organization as designated by the IRS and the state of Illinois. We are a grant-making public charity dedicated to improving the lives of people in LaSalle, Bureau and Putnam Counties.
An unrestricted donation to the "Leadership Fund For Now is the best way to support Starved Rock Country Communication Foundation! These generous donations help support our daily operations and provide us with flexibility we need to further our mission with greater effectiveness.
Starved Rock County Community Foundation supports a variety of not-for-profit organizations in our area. Generally, we partner with community agencies that support the environment, conservation, education, arts, healthcare, childcare, tourism, economic development, and/or the needs and challenges of the community at-large.
Starved Rock Country Community Foundation (SRCCF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization as designated by the IRS and the state of Illinois. Financial contributions are tax-deductible in accordance with IRS guidelines.
To connect people who care with causes that matter.
