The Girard Area Community Foundation (GACF) is proud to announce the recipients of their 2025 GACF Grant cycle! In 2025, grants totalled $60,923. Since 2014, GACF has granted over $500,000 during its grant cycles, with over 150 grants to the Girard area.
“Our community is so fortunate to have the Girard Area Community Foundation,” said GACF President Danielle Randall. “This is my 9th, and final, year as a GACF board trustee. It has truly been fascinating to have watched our granting dollars go from $18,000 a year to $61,000 a year. This year, we had a record amount of grant money requested, and we really had to dig deep into our mission to decide which projects truly fit our mission and goals. Projects that would have a lasting impact on our community and continue to call Girard and our surrounding communities A GREAT PLACE TO CALL HOME.”
The 2025 GACF Grant recipients and projects are:
- Angels Among Us – “Angels Among Us, Inc.” Angel Cafe
- City of Girard – Community Gym Upgrades
- Community Food Pantry Fund – Milk Money
- Crawford County Fair Association – Pavilion Upgrades
- Friends of Crawford State Park (via Kansas Wildscape Foundation)- Rocky Cove Playground
- Friends of Historic Girard – Archival Materials for Proper Preservation
- Girard Fire Department – Water Intake Project
- Girard Youth Activities, Inc – Fee Reduction
- Hepler Public Library – Hepler City Library Digital Sign Upgrade
- Hospital District 1 Crawford County Foundation – Advanced Imaging for Community Care
- Learning Tree Institute at Greenbush – Interactive Exploration Hub: VIP+ Microscope
- Special Olympics Kansas – Girard Unified Program
The Herman & Aileen and Terry & Marian Parsons Family Legacy Fund helped support the Angels Among Us project.
A full history of these grants, as well as a full list of recipients, is available at GirardAreaFoundation.org/Granting.
“Our goal each year is to ensure that these funds are directed toward projects that provide the greatest long-term benefit,” said Louie Weimer, GACF Grant Committee Chairman. “We take great pride in stewarding these resources responsibly and in supporting organizations whose work will have a measurable, lasting impact on Girard and our surrounding communities. These grants are about more than funding – they’re about investing in people who care deeply about this community’s future.”
